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JOUKNAL OF UORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAKDENER, 



[ October 8, ISffl. 



places lately, but in each case it had ceased blooming towards 

 the end of August. I trust we shall hear that it has behaved 

 better generally. Perhaps Mr. Findlay, of the Botanic Garden, 

 Manchester, will kindly let your readers know how it has fared 

 with him. I noticed when there at the National Horticultural 

 Show in June, that he had planted it out extensively. I, for 

 one, would be glad to know if it has proved a continuous 

 bloomer with him. 



If, with the very Hberal treatment recommended by Mr. 

 Wills, this plant should prove to continue flowering freely 

 throughout the season (and we have his authority that it will 

 do so), then, if used in conjunction with plants that will also 

 bear that liberal treatment, it will, indeed, be a useful plant 

 for general flower-gardening purposes; but if it is to cease 

 blooming by the middle or end of August, then, I say, for 

 general purposes it will be comparatively useless. If I am 

 spared for another year, and should be here, I will see what it 

 will do under the treatment recommended, and hope to be 

 better satisfied with it than I have been this season. — John H. 

 Mason, Princess Park, Liverpool. 



P.S. — I took a stroll on the 22nd of September through the 

 Liverpool Botanic Garden, and noticed that Viola moutaua 

 was looking as well as it has done throughout the season. This 

 plant is worthy of general cultivation, and will be very useful 

 for ribboning and for beds. 



PLANTS IN FLOWEPt DUPING SEPTEMBER. 



ACKLAM HALL, MiDDLESBOROUGH-ON-TeES. 

 Sept. 2. Lilinm tifji-iuum 

 Tigridia pavonia 

 Dahlia variabilis 

 Jasione montaua 

 Solnnum dulcamara 

 Knautia arvensis 

 Alchemilla vulgai-is 

 Sencbiera coronopus 

 „ 3. Atriplex rubra 



Sisymbrium Sophia 

 Poljfrouum convolvulus 



bistorta 

 „ 7. Orobus niger 



Mentha arvensis 



rot undi folia 



piperita 

 „ 9. Hydrangea hortensis 

 Convolvulus major 

 Cyclamen hederjefoliuni 



europseum 

 Spira?a Standisbii 

 Pemettya mucronata 

 Koniga maritima 

 Viscaria oculatit 



Burridgi 

 Lupinus albus 

 Kemopbila atumaria 



maculiita 

 „ 12. Circjea alpina 



Cytisus capitatus 

 Ctntranthus macrosipbou 

 Iiiula dysenterica 

 CEnothera Drummondii 



luacrocarpa 

 Tamarix tallica 

 Alchemilla conjuucta 



alpina 

 Tritoma uvaria 

 — M. H. 



Sept. 16. Escallonia rubra 



Lonicera peryclymenum 

 Fuchsia fulgeus 

 mierophvlla 

 Ileliantbus uiultiflorus 

 Aristolocliia sipho 

 Cleuiatis vitalba 

 Lupinus roseus 



„ 20. Cobiea scaudens 



Lophospermum scnndens 

 Maurauilya Barclayana 

 Lobelia St. Clair 

 Anemone japonica 

 Sium angustifolium 

 Turritis glabra 

 Scorzonera hispanica 

 Tragopopon porrifolius 

 Mentha pulegium 

 Helichrysum bracteatum 



„ 24. Lycopus europa-us 

 Hyoscyamus niger 

 Amaranthus caudatus 

 bypochondriacus 

 Catanaucbe cwrulea 

 Astelma lanatus 

 Senecio elegans 

 Ageratum mexicanum 



„ 23. Eceremocarpus scabor 



Impatiens noli-me-tangere 

 Solanum lycopersicum 

 Lobelia propinqua 

 Lantaua aculeata 

 Galega moutana 

 Hieracium aurantiacum 

 Meutha piperita variegata 

 Scabiosa eolumbnria 

 Pyrethrum C'lusii 



SUMMER CUTTINGS OF ROSES. 

 In consequence of a suggestion made in your columns, I put 

 in a number of cuttings of General Jacqueminot, Senateur 

 Vaisse, Ijlairii, and others, about the middle of July last, under- 

 neath some Black Currant trees. The greater part have done 

 well, and are now, at the end of September, promising young 

 plants. Some of your readers may possibly be glad to be 

 assured of this easy way of striking in summer as well aa in 

 the autumn, and without hand-glasses. — A. C. 



POLYSTICHUM LONCHITIS. 



" FiLix-FCEMixA " gives an account of a proliferous plant 

 she has of the above Fern. I never remember seeing or hear- 

 ing of P. lonchitis being proliferous before. I have Poly- 

 stichum lineare proliferum, and also a plant of Polystichum 

 aculeatum eristatum, which this year has become proliferous. 

 I have eight or nine established plants of the same already. 



If " FiLix-Fa'.5iiN.\ " has no objection, I .shall be pleased to 

 exchange one of my proliferous Ferns for a P. lonchitis. 



A plant of Polystichum grandidens which I purchased a few 

 months since, has thrown out one or two bulbs, from which 

 I am raising plants. 



If " FiLix-FiEjiiNA " wishes, I can tell her (for I conclude 

 the person I now mention is a lady), how I produce young Ferns 

 without sowing seed. My address can be had from the Editor 

 of this paper. — J. E. M. 



SCALE KILLING. 



" Bless me ! " — I quote from your columns — who would em- 

 ploy that odious linseed oil, or train oil, or even sweet oil (not 

 always sweet), or that still more abominably offensive soft soap, 

 when scale, be it black, white, or brown, and mealy bug or 

 aphides, and nearly all other plant evils, can be so easily de- 

 stroyed by a cheap, inodorous, and innocuous preparation ? 



It must be some one, or two, or three years since my eye 

 rested on a few words of advice from one of our most agree- 

 able and wise instructors, Mr. Wilson Saunders. He said, as 

 far as I remember, that spirits of wine was one of the best 

 remedies for scale. I tried and found it so, but its price, some 

 ;w. or G.V. a-quart, was a barrier to its being used extensively. 

 I therefore waited patiently, and took advantage of the art by 

 which spirits of wine were made into methylated spirits, and 

 sold at 5.V. a-gallou. This has proved a great boon to gardeners, 

 it is so deadly to all insects ; even that woolly fellow that is 

 so great a pest to our Apple trees succumbs to its effect, and 

 then there is no smell of oil, of sulphur, or of soft soap. What 

 a real comfort ! — T. h. 



TRANSPLANTING— INFLUENCE OF SOIL AND 

 DRAINING. 



Theee is a typographical error in my communication (page 

 192), in reply to " Beta," which if not corrected may puzzle 

 the lovers of horticulture; instead of the "tap" roots being 

 almost visible, it should be " top or surface roots." 



I beg to suggest to " Beta," that the right time for trans- 

 planting fruit trees is autumn, and about the end of September, 

 or beginning of October ; they may then be permitted to bear in 

 the following year. If transplanted in spring they should not 

 be permitted to bear the same year, as the tree will not be 

 suOicieutly established. Planting in the end of September 

 gives a clear month, and is in fact a gain of a year. Abandon 

 the question of leaves, and trees planted about the time I sug- 

 gest, with care and attention, will do well. I have made trees 

 my study, but confess the more I know the more I feel my 

 own inadequacy to master the subject. It does not, however, 

 follow, because you cannot know all you should not be glad to 

 know part. Knowledge is only to be obtained by delving; the 

 definition of wisdom I consider to be the right application of 

 knowledge. 



One thing has attracted my attention more particularly with 

 regard to trees, and that is soil and subsoil. I lived for some 

 years in Somersetshire, and I was struck with the diilerent 

 strength and flavour of cider produced in those parts I was accus- 

 tomed to visit, though from the same description of fruit, and 

 I found the quality of the subsoil had the same effect on the 

 flavour of the fruit as the character of the pasture has on the 

 quality of the cheese. In the villages of Banwell, Lacking, and 

 Hutton, at the base of a range of limestone hills near Weston- 

 super-Mare, ce^ntaining a large amount of carbon, the cider 

 made from fruit grown in those localities is remarkable for its 

 strength ; whereas, I have known instances of Apple trees 

 growing in stiff loam, devoid of stones of any kind, never bear- 

 ing fruit at all. 



I have tried the following plan with favourable results — dig 

 a trench round a tree about 2 feet from the stem — that is, of a 

 tree five to ten years of age, and about 18 inches deep and 

 wide. Fill it in with macadamised stones or bricks ; the good 

 effects will soon be visible, the woody roots will throw out nu- 

 merous rootlets or fibres. A top-dressing of sifted lime rubbish 

 is good for all fruit trees. 



I lived some years at Melksham, a few miles from Seend. 

 The subsoil at one part is a stiff clay, almost impervious; here 

 both Vines and Peach tiers luxuriate, owing, I think, to the 

 retention of moisture in the loam. It was not favourable for 

 Apples ; but in another part where the subsoil was gravel, the 

 Eibston Pippins were splendid. 



I lived at Devizes for some years, where I had a garden on a 



