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JOURNAL OF HOETICULTXTEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [ November 17, iscs. 



not Muscat of Alexandria. The buncli and berry certainly 

 have the appearance of Muscat of Alexandria ; but the Com- 

 mittee unanimously decided that it was not that variety 

 nor any other form of Muscat — in fact that it was not a 

 Muscat at all. 



Mr. B. S. Williams, of Paradise Nursery, Holloway, again 

 sliowed a bunch of Royal Vineyard Grape, which appears to 

 hang well, being perfectly firm and plump. Mi'. McDonald, 

 of Woodstock Park, Inistioge, sent a bunch of true White 

 Tokay, which he anticipated would be the same as the 

 bunch sent by Mr. Denham, but they were not at all similar 

 to each other. 



A fine fruit of the true Smooth-leaved Cayenne Pine 

 Apple was sent by Mr. David Thomson, Archerfield, N.B. 

 It was remarkably handsome and fii-m, and, having been 

 cut for a month, refuted the opinion that is held by many 

 — that it will not keep. 



George Wilson, Esq., of Gishiu-st Cottage, sent some 

 magnificent specimens of his orchard-house-grown Apples 

 and Pears. The Melon Apple, Northern Spy, and Yellow 

 Newtown Pippin were very beautiful ; and the Pears, which 

 consisted of Beurre Defais, Triomphe de Jodoigne, Chau- 

 montel, Josephine de Malines, and Doyenne Goubault were 

 really wonderful. The fruit grown by Mr. Wilson are cer- 

 tainly the most successful examples of orchard-house culture 

 we have ever seen. 



Mr. Lidgard, of Hammersmith, exhibited immense stalks 

 ■of Celery of the following varieties: — Kimberley's Hero, 

 Williams' Red, Wall's Invincible White, Manchester Red, 

 Coles' Red, and Coles' 'WMte. The latter were bj far the 

 best flavom'ed. 



WINTEEING PLA>^TS in a COLD GREENHOUSE 

 —VINE MILDEW. 



I HAVE a small glass house fitted into a nook of the house 

 where it gets all the east and south sun, and I am very 

 anxious to keep my plants there all the winter without fire. 

 One end and half the length are against the house, painted 

 white. The front has a division and makes two windows 

 which open. The door opposite one is to the west. There 

 are two shelves in fi-ont, two shelves against the house, 3 feet 

 apart, on two sides, and a table one-third of the length. It 

 is built on an arch turned over a dry area which goes partly 

 round the house, which may make it cold but not damp. 

 My jjlants are chieily young Geraniums of last autumn and 

 this summer, some fine Fuchsias, all raised by myself, and 

 three small Orange trees. Would frigi domo along the 

 sides keep out the frost? Must I have it over the roof? 

 Must I have a lamp biu-ning at night when frosty ? Would 

 any possible contrivance do instead of fire ? I should be 

 much obliged for any practical directions. 



I could by a piece of iron pipe make it communicate 

 with a glazed verandah into which a di-awing-room window 

 opens, and to which a small greenhouse is attached, where 

 there is a fii-e and a brick flue. 



We have a small Grape-house with a border, in which we 

 have Peach and Nectarine trees in pots : they bore very well 

 this year, but one hundred bunches of Grapes were lost from 

 mildew, or whatever the disease is called. What can I do 

 to the Vine to avoid a repetition of the misfortune? and how 

 can I keep out the frost without letting my new little house 

 out of my own hands, as I do all the work of it myself, and 

 it gives me great pleasm-e and interest ? — E. M. W. 



[We really wish we could help you effectually, but fear we 

 must merely condole with you. the fingi domo on the sides 

 would be help, but would not hinder a severe ft-ost killing aU 

 your plants. That, too, would involve some trouble in taking 

 off and putting it on. We would prefer calico or something 

 of that kind for the roof; and if your front windows are 

 high the calico might be put up in pieces inside, and re- 

 main there the most of the winter. Unless the glass-covered 

 verandah were very warm, we do not see what benefit you 

 would derive by bringing an iron pipe from the verandah. 

 We do not know where the position of the ftirnace for the 

 greenhouse is, but if at all handy you might have a small 

 flat boiler placed over it, and pipes taken from it to your 

 little house, with a tap, a valve, or a plug to turn on heat 

 when you like. The same thing might be done if the fire- 



place in the room adjoining is suitable, or if ttiere is a 

 room with a fireplace beneath the arch that forms the floor. 

 That, hovrever, would make you, as respects the fii-e, depen- 

 dant on others perh.aps, but still leave the giving of heat 

 enth-ely in your own hands. If the place is at all lofty, a 

 single lamp would not be suificient unless of a good size, 

 even with the assistance of the frigi domo. A spirit lamp 

 would be best, as if the wick were kept short there would be 

 no smoke. We think that one or two paraffin lamps would 

 be the cheapest and might suit your purjjose ; but we are 

 not sure whether the products of combustion might not 

 injure your plants — we rather think they would unless there 

 were funnel-shaped vessels of tin suspended over the lamps 

 a few inches above them, and a small pipe from that ftmnel 

 communicating with the external atmosphere. We would 

 advise you to try one or two of these lamps without any 

 covering of a funnel at first, and notice how much it will 

 raise the temperature. The funnel over the lamp would 

 take off the deleterious matter, and if the pipe were three- 

 quarters of an inch in diameter that would give out the 

 heat that rose through it. 



We are now writing with the help of a composite candle 

 that needs no snuffing, with a wii-e-frame fixed on the candle 

 supporting a shade of paper, green outside and white 

 inside, with a hole of about 2 inches in diameter at the top. 

 The other night we boiled a small saucepan very shortly 

 suspended over that hole. In our bachelor days we have 

 with a similar simple contrivance boiled a small tin tea- 

 kettle, when we wished for a cheering cup and could not be 

 bothered lighting a fire. With a good-sized lamp we believe 

 we could heat a small tin 'ooiler like a teakettle, and heat the 

 house with two-inch tin pipes taken all round it. Try the 

 lamp first. From experiments with stoves we are well con- 

 vinced that for small places there is no mode of heating so 

 economical as having the whole of the heating material inside 

 the place to be heated, but then the products of combustion 

 must be allowed to escape. 



We may state here for the benefit of young gardeners 

 that myriads of such wii-e-guards are sold in London for 

 2ci. each and the shades for Id. each, and may be used until 

 the caudle is nearly done. Candles that need no snuffing 

 are a great luxury, and composites about llcJ. or Is. per 

 pound are cheaper and give far more light than tallow 

 candles, but they do not stand candying. We found, also, 

 recently a valuable hint for getting all the light possible at 

 night from a candle — viz., to use a white or light -coloured 

 cover for the table. We never thought of such a thing 

 before, though we ought to have done so ; but just try 

 and see t'ae difference either for reading or writing, and 

 especially if the candle or lamp is shaded. The reflection 

 of light from the light colour of the table, even if the cover 

 be a newspaper, is like the addition of another candle when 

 contrasted with the dark colom-. The light colour of the 

 walls will be no particular point in the favour of our corre- 

 spondent, as it will reflect heat during the day, and in a hot 

 day wiU be apt to make the place too hot, and in cold nights 

 from not being much heated during the day it will not have 

 so much to radiate back again at night as a dai'ker-ooloured 

 wall woidd have ; but then in using a lamp at night little of 

 the heat wo'ild be absorbed by the white wall from the 

 atmosphere of the "house. As said above we would simply 

 try a paraffin lamp or two first and note how much they 

 raise the temperatui-e. 



As to the mildew on the Grapes, very particular directions 

 were given in a late Number, and we can only say. Wash the 

 house thoroughly. Vines and all, and then wash the latter 

 with a paint made of clay, lime, and sulphur; and next 

 season, even if you should use a little fire heat, give plenty 

 of air, leaving even a little on at night from the time the 

 Vines break until the 6-uit is gathered, and apply flowers of 

 sulphur to the first spot of mildew. — R. F.] 



GAEDENEES' NAMES FOE ELOWEES. 

 "G." has misunderstood my meaning, and taken my 

 words in a sense in which I never intended them to be 

 taken. When I said, " I feel sure that well-educated gar- 

 denei-s will say Amen to my remarks," it was not the anec- 

 dotes I alluded to, but the position I took on these words. 



