Avgufit 8, 1867. ] 



JOUKNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



106 



VEGETABLES, 



ArtlcbokeB each 



AsparofHiB biwdle 



Beans, Kidney, A sieva 



ScurletRuD.^ sieve 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli buudle 



Bms. Sprouts ^ sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery buudle 



Cucumbore each 



pickling .... doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish . . bundle 



8. d. 6. d 

 StoO 6 



u 





 , 



Leeka bunch 



Lettuce .... per score 



Mushrooms pottle 



]IInstd.i& Cress, punnet 

 Onions, .perdoz. bchs. 



Parsley per tleve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes doz. bunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes. . . . per doz. 



Tumipfl bunch 



Vfh'utable Marrows . . 



TRADE CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 

 W. B. Jefferies, Arboretum Nurseries, Ipswich. — Descriptive 

 Catalogue of Plants, Seeds, Bulbs, dc. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*.• We request that no one will write privately to the depart- 

 mental writers of the "Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing tbey 

 are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and expense. All 

 communications ebould therefore be addressed solely to 

 The Editors of the Journal of Horticulture, dc, 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.G. 

 We also request that correspondents will not mix up on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those on 

 Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get them an- 

 swered promptly and conveniently, but write them on 

 separate commimications. Also never to send more than 

 two or three questions at once. 

 N.B. — Many questions must remain unanswered until next 

 week. 

 Variegated Bramble {A. B. X. 5'.). — The variegation in the Bramble, 

 of which you have sent Bpecimens, is not unusual, and tiiia season it 

 seems less so. as we have met with several instances of it. 

 Seedling Pelargonium (W. T. S.).— Not of sufficient merit. 

 Strawberries for Market {J. Batty). — Rifleman is a good bearer! 

 but we should not prow either that or any of the others you mention for 

 market. "VVe should prefer for early produce Keens' Seedling/, Sir J. Pax- 

 ton, and Itivers's Eliza; for later production. Wonderful, Dr. Hogg, and 

 Frogmore Late Pine. 



Araucaria imbricata Decaying [An Irish Subicriber). — The fact of 

 its roots being confined in a bLisin of clay is quite sufficient to account 

 for the decay. The soil for some distance' all round should be loosened 

 and rendered more fertile, and well drained. 



Variegated Phlox (E. H.). — .4s you have had a border of it for four 

 years it is evidently permanent in your soil, and as it is perfectly hardy 

 in rather an exposed situation, it would be useful for some purposes. 

 We presume that it is very dwarf. The leaves have very broad edgings, 

 some of deep yellow, and some of straw colour. 



Seedltno Calckolakia iH. IT'uifon).— Presuming that your Calceolaria 

 is one of the herbaceous kinds, it is a very fine variety, having the largest 

 flowers we have seen, very circular, and very showy by reason of their 

 bright yet dark brown and scarlet colour. 



Weeds on Macuine-mowed Lawks (S. L.). — There arc no good grounds 

 for the assertion that lami-mowers cause the grass to deteriorate ; but as 

 they cut it much more closely and evenly than the scythe, the weeds are 

 more visible. If you will allow the lawn that used to produce nothing 

 but fine, soft grass to grow as long as when it was uuder the scythe, you 

 will find the grass as fine and soft as ever. 



Rose Leaves Spotted ttt'. JI. J.).— The leaves are severely attacked 

 with the black mildew. Your remedy is to manure liberally and to water 

 copiously, both overhead and at the root, during dry weatlier. Dust the 

 leaves on both sides, and especially on the under side, with flowers of 

 sulphur, making sure that every part afl'ected, whether on the stems or 

 leaves, is covered with sulphur. The sulphur may remain on a few diiys, 

 and then be washed ofl* with a solution of soft soap at the rate of 2 ozs 

 to the gallon of water. It may be necessary to repeat the dusting of the 

 leaves and branches with sulphur. 



Rbd Spider on Vines iS. S.).— Your Vines that have the Grapes 

 •olouring will be injured more or less by the red spider attacking them 

 at this critical pei-iod. We advise you to brush the leaves with a soft, new, 

 and unused paint brash. This will destroy numbers of the insects. You 

 should have the hot-water pipes made as hot as it is pos.siblo to make 

 them, and on the evening of a hot, calm day the house should be shut up 

 quite closf ly, and the pipes painted with sulphur brought to the consis- 

 tency of thin paint by mixing it with 4 ozs. of soft soap to a gallon of 

 Water. Every part of the pipes should be painted with the sulphur com- 

 position, and'two coats should be given. The fumes of the sulphur will 

 kill the red spider, and the better you coat the pipes and the moistcr vou 

 keep them the more destructive will the fumes be to the insect. The 

 house should be opened in the moruing before the sun shines powerfully. 



The sulphur should not bo applied to a red-hot flue, but it may be applied 

 to any surface that is not hotter than the hand can bear (or a few seconds. 



Cyclamen persiccm Seedlings (Calcaria).— We advise you to pot off 

 the seedlings singly in small pots at the end of this nii>nth, and after 

 potting place them in a cold frame. You may, instead, prick them off 2 or 

 3 inches apart in pans. This ought to have been done twelve months ago. 



Covering a Sloping Bank (CoMmm).—The bank may be planted with 

 common Laurels, which, if pegged down, will have a very good eflTect ; or 

 you may, providing there is a tolerable depth of soil, sow now during 

 moist weather a mixture of Avena flavescens, 4 lbs. per acre ; Cynosurus 

 cristatus, G lbs. ; Festuca duriuscula, (i lbs. ; Festucu ovina, 4 lbs. ; i es- 

 tuca rubra, 4 lbs. ; festuca tenuilolia, 4 lbs. ; Poa nemorahs, 2 lbs. ; Tn- 

 folium repeus and minus, of each 4 lbs. ; Lotus corniculatus minor, 

 2 lbs., and 24 lbs. of Lolium percnne. The surface should be made qmta 

 level or even, and very fine. .\Iter sowing, the ground should be patted 

 with the back of a spade, if rolling is impracticable. 



Privet Roots Occupying a ISoudek (.•(. B.).— You cannot grow any- 

 thing within a few feet of the Privet hedge, nor do wo know what wiU 

 enable you to do so. You may remove the hedge and plant one of Uolly, 

 which may be kept very low and close, and its roots are not so trouble- 

 some as those of the Privet. 



PE0PAG4TING LlTHOSPERMUM FRtJTICOSDM (T. H. X).).— Cuttings of 



the half-ripened wood, or the points of the shoots of the current year, 

 having their bases rather firm, trimmed of their lower leaves, and the 

 base of the shoot cut with a sharp knife below a joint, should be inserted 

 half or two-thirds their length in a compost of sandy peat one-third and 

 two-thirds silver sand, the surface of the soil in the cutting-pot being 

 covered with an inch of the last. The pot or pan containing the cuttings 

 should be placed in a cold frame or pit. and kept close, moist, and shaded 

 from the sun until the cuttings are rooted. The sand hhould not be kept 

 very wet or the cuttings will damp off. The cuttings will strike macU 

 sooner if placed in a mild bottom heat. 



Scarlet Pelargoniums not Flowering— Mrs. Pollock Pelahoo- 

 NIUJI Turning Green (J Despairing Gardener).— There are few flower 

 gardens, except in poor, sandy, open soils, where Scarlet Pelargonium* 

 have done very well this season. lu a damp atmosphere and in cold soils, 

 with such cold rains, there has been less bloom than usua , so much so, 

 that gardeners speak of depending chiefly on ornamental-Ioliaged plants. 

 We can give no other advice as respects the Pelargoniums than to hmit 

 crowth, if by nothing else than rcmoviug a number of the larger leaves. 

 We have done so, and the effect in relieving and giving more strength to 

 the flower-buds has been good. In most cases of Mrs. Pollock returning 

 to the green state, it may be easily traced to rich nourishment and ex- 

 cess of moisture. We would cut off every greeu part as it appeared, and 

 this ^vill lessen growth and throw more strength into the coloured part. 

 Wo have only seen one plant as yet throwing up a green zonal leal and 

 the shoot was removed at once. If the plant came all that way there 

 would be little chance of the tricolor marking returning. 



Vines in a Greenhouse {Rector. Kcnt).—\Se presume that the Vinos 

 in your greenhouse are intended to interfere as little as possible with the 

 plants, and that therefore the temperature wiU not often be more than 

 that required for the greenhouse. In that cise we would advise your 

 planting the Black Humburfh and the Koyal Muscadine in pre-ference to 

 the Chasselas Musqu,- ; but it the plant of the latter is a favounte transfer 

 it to a large pot, and keep it in the house, and you may expect it to bear 

 i the second season. If resolved to add the two % lues the sooner they 

 are planted the better, as they would make fresh roots before ""^'er. If 

 the tour-feet border is verv full of roots it would be as well to defer 

 planting until the fruit was cut. but plant a- early in autumn as that was 

 done. The best way of planting would be to take out a space a yard wide 

 as far from the present plants as possible ff l?«,1""!.^n,h t 2 feet wi?h 

 established plants, and fill the space, at least to the depth of 2 feet, with 

 fresh soil, and in that pack the roots of the new Vines, from b to 9 mches 

 from the surface, and protect from frost and heavT rains during the 

 winter. We are presuming that you alio* the four- eet border to remam 

 as it is. Such a border for so narrow a house w.U grow good Grapes, 

 provided you ent ce the roots near the surface with rich dressmgs every 

 ?ear or even mulchings all the summer. Such a border even now would 

 be the better of a hundred weight of s operpho>.phate of lime, to be follow^ 

 with some good dung; and as the border though deep, is weU drained, 

 we would be disposed to try such a mode tor a f a^"",'"^,'"''- "• ^O" 

 ever, you are sure that the bulk of the roots are 3 or 4 feet deep, and re- 

 solve on raising the roots and increasing the border to at le; st double its 

 width, Then we would defer planting until ''"'"""•, --^'^tn h/» fromThe 

 fully, plant in fre.h material not more than from 6 to 9 inches from the 

 surface, and mulch and protect in winter. 



MUSHROOMS IN A CELLAR ;£.iJ.).-We 'r""!* Dot wish to have a pi^a 

 more suitable for the purpose than your cellar, .^-'.-der ordinary OTCum^ 

 stances six weeks after spawning is lime enough for the Muf^""^ {» 

 show. We have known them do so in halt that time as yours seem to 

 have done, at least in four weeks; ^-f t''" ^^''^'^''^'y """Ji"° '"^^ 

 so long when they are pushed on so fast at first— in fact, the spavm iff 

 made to push through the soU at once, instead ■" '»>"" f » 8°od ho^^b, 

 running through the bed. Your having in six weeks eight or ten Mnsn- 

 ™oms ^the size of a five-shiUing piece, shows 'here ■» nothing m^h 

 wrong. That the others do not grow on may, as you mler, be tromOiy. 

 ness.^and more especially as in 'he^xijoining cellar with an "Pen door- 

 wav between there is a fire kept burning. This fire would De ol greai 

 r^sislanceta th" winter months, but we would rather be w-">o<jt " 

 Tn summer ; and if a temporary door could not easily be put up "» would 



w thout mueO^ waten"g. -SX e often advise this, because wateimg in such a 

 ^ase is so frequently o^rdouo as to injure, if -"-''i"? \'';».rjTkdv^« 

 reioices in tue happy medium between wet and dry. W e w ould advise, 

 therefore as follows: -Examine the bed, and if it is dry merely on the 

 ur a e damp ^several mornings running by pouring » ""'^^ »«'" '"» 

 the spout of a small pot over the places where there are iio small Ml^sh- 

 rooms. Syringe also the walls ol the cellar, and keep the floor moist, 

 attention to these points will generally be sufficient. Turn up howe«^ 

 several bits oi the bed. at n distance from each other, with the finger ot 

 a pointed slick, doing this wilhout much disturbing the surface. If you find 

 thi7»o dry as to be crumbly, and Ihat it wiU not permit of being squeezed 

 together into a ball, then it is overdry, and your best mode of proceeding 



