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JOURNAL OP HOETICULTDEB AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ November 21, 1867. 



ferent kinds of Cedo NuUi, Duruflet, La Vogue, Andromeda, 

 and White Trevenna, which last is especially remarkable for 

 its free blooming ; Priuce Kenna is also pretty. Some of the 

 best of the Pompous, however, are not yet in bloom. These 

 are chiefly in a spau-roofed range 300 feet in length. lu the 

 same range there is also a large stock cf Mrs. Pollock and other 

 Variegated Zonal Pelargoniums, together with numerous varie- 

 ties grown for their flowers; likewise Fuchsias, Cinerarias, 

 Genistas, and other spring-flowering plants. 



THE TEMPLE GAEDEKS. 



This year Mr. Eioome's long border is even better than usuah 

 and he has been successful in bringing his plants into good 

 bloom sooner than most people, notwithstanding tho cold dull 

 weather which has prevailed for some time in London. He 

 has about two thousand 16-sized pots plunged in his main 

 border, the bottom of each pot resting on a thumb-pot inverted, 

 so as to prevent the drainage becoming choked ; and to this he 

 attributes a great measure of his success in the present year. 

 The plants were also potted very tightly in sound loam mixed 

 with one-third part of manure, and further supplied with 

 manure waterings. Prince of Wales, Mrs. George Bundle, 

 Venus, Little Harry, White Globe, Jardin des Plautes, and 

 Hereward, are the most conspicuous for their size and beauty, 

 and next to them come Cherub, Beverley, Antonelli, Alfred 

 Salter, Virgin Queen, Dupont de I'Eure, Mrs. Halliburton, 

 Hercules, Golden Beverley, Bernard Palissy, Mr. Gladstone, 

 Rifleman, Mrs. Cunningham, St. Patrick, Garibaldi, Astrolabe, 

 Cardinal Wiseman, Anaxo, Sam Slick, and Lady Harding. 



Mr. Broome has also neat beds of Pompous on the lawn, 

 containing the different kinds of Cedo Nulli, HulC'ne, and Sala- 

 mon. Madame Eugene Domage and White Trevenna are also 

 very good. 



Mr. Dale, of the Middle Temple Gardens, has also a good 

 display of some of the large-flowering yarieties, and several 

 showy beds of Pompons. 



SWINDLING. 

 Will you caution nurserymen against a rascal who is going 

 about the country victimising them under various pretences ? 

 He came here on Wednesday last, giving the name of W. H. 

 Young, describing himself as gardener to F. G. Harris, Esq., 

 Harrow Park, and ordered between £200 and £300-worth of 

 nursery stock, and borrowed a sovereign of our Mr. Ingram, as 

 " he had been out longer than he expected, and had run short." 

 He also got from our clerk a dozen of our catalogues to distri- 

 bute, as ho said, amongst brother gardeners in his neighbour- 

 hood who were planting ; but, unfortunately, we fear he has 

 used them to dupe Mr. J. Cole, of Aston Lane Nursery, Bir- 

 mingham, to whom he had the unpai-allelled audacity to pass 

 himself off as the son of our Mr. Ingram, and to buy in the 

 name of our firm £161-worth of plants, and had the cool impu- 

 dence to write to Mr. Ingram as his " dear father," asking him 

 to send a draft for £163 instead of £101, as he " has laid out 

 ms cash." Doubtless the marginal £2 he would get of Mr. 

 Cole. 



His great point is that he wants nothing to be sent off, nor 

 even taken up, till the cheque is received, and then he obtains 

 a pound or two in the ways we have named, when he is imme- 

 diately off to some other place. Of course, if he can only 

 manage two or three of us per day it keeps him very joUily. 

 He IS about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, of dark complexion and 

 whiskers, and has lost his front teeth.— Wood & Ingkam, Iliuit- 

 hiijdon Nurseries. 



WORK FOE THE WEEK. 



KITCHEN GAr.DEN. 



Cahbagcs, let all plants still remaining in the seed-beds be 

 pricked-out forthwith. Now that winter is near, it is of 

 importance to have a stock of keeping roots at hand in the 

 vegetable shed. Carrots, Parsnips, Turnips, Jerusalem Arti- 

 chokes, Horseradish, Beet, Scorzonera, and Salsafy should be 

 at hand here. If the vegetable-shed is, as it ought to be, 

 several feet below the ground-level, and possessing a close- 

 fitting door, the above vegetables may be merely laid in heaps. 

 If they are apt to shrivel, things of this kind will be better in 

 layers with clean sand. It there is any spare time plant Horse- 

 radish, Sea-kale, and rjiubarh now, instead of in spring. In 

 all these cases be sure to trench deeply and loosen the bottom 



of the trench. Some Early Frame Radishes may be sown in a 

 week or so. 



FRUIT G.VBDEN'. 



Proceed with planting and pruning as previously directeci. 

 Trench and ridge-up ground, leaving the surface as rough as 

 possible, in order that a greater surface may be exposed to the 

 action of the weather. A piece of ground well trenched and 

 the surface laid-up in ridges will be fit for cropping, in the 

 event of a wet spring, much sooner than if the surface were 

 now made level and smooth. Fruit-tree borders should be 

 ridged in order that the water may be carried off, and special 

 care should be taken that water do not lodge about the stems 

 of the trees, near which, on this account, tho furrows between 

 the ridges should be more shallow than at the farther side of 

 the border. Where fruit is so situated as to be affected by the 

 daily changes of temperature, air must be freely admitted, but 

 presuming that the most choice kinds are placed in boxes or 

 close drawers, and, consequently, little affected by vicissitudes 

 of temperature, they need only be exposed when occasional in- 

 spection renders it unavoidable. 



FLOWEK GAKDEX. 



Annuals and herbaceous plants killed by frost should now 

 have their stems cut off and taken to the rubbish heap ; the 

 most choice kinds should be labelled to prevent them from 

 being destroyed when digging the borders. Take up the roots of 

 Lobelia spleudens, propinqua, fulgens, &c., and store them in 

 a frame or boxes filled with earth. They may be placed in any 

 spare vinery or Peach-house until they require parting in 

 spring. The great object to be kept in view is to prevent them 

 from damping-off in winter. Continue to sweep lawns and 

 walks until they are free from leaves, in order to make the gar- 

 den look well in winter. Seeds not yet collected should now 

 be gathered on a dry day. After so fine an autumn, during 

 which period all bulbs have been placed in the ground under 

 favourable conditions, we would advise that every bed of 

 Tulips, however small, should be properly and substantially 

 hooped over, so that by covering with a number of Russian 

 mats sewed together the whole length and breadth of the bed, 

 or beds, the collection may be safely defended from an excess 

 of either rain or frost. Most amateurs were taught a severe 

 lesson last season, the serious effects of which on their most 

 choice bulbs will be felt for some time. Beds of choice Pansies 

 ought also to be protected, and in mild weather traps should 

 be set for snails, which even at this season will do great mis- 

 chief. Carnations, Picotees, and Auriculas should be kept clean, 

 and the soil in the pots must not be allowed to become satu- 

 rated with wet ; in fact, tho less water the better, compatible 

 with health. 



GEEENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 



The winter-blooming Correas, Epacrises, Polygalas, Acacias, 

 Pimeleas, &c., will now begin to make a charming addition to 

 the other inmates of the conservatory. Take care to give 

 every attention to judicious watering, more especially to such 

 as the Epacrises ; it will not do to trust this operation to in- 

 experienced persons. Let all bulbs beginning to start, such as 

 the Amaryllis tribes, the Lachenalia, Oxalis, with others, have 

 very moderate supplies of water until the leaves are somewhat 

 expanded. If any of the stock appear too much crowded, en- 

 deavour to weed-out inferior or half-hardy plants, transferring 

 them to the pits or frames, or if no better shelter is to be had, 

 to a shed or outhouse, provided they are of the hard-leaved 

 class or decidedly deciduous. The Pelargoniums intended for 

 early blooming should now be stopped, and plenty of room 

 must be afforded them. Let them be tied out, and as soon as 

 they begin to break let them be repotted and their growth 

 slightly encouraged, always keeping them near the glass. As 

 this is rather a leisure time in this department, much work 

 might be forwarded before the arrival of a more pressing 

 season, and among other things the naming of plants com- 

 mands our attention. A collection of plants badly named loses 

 half its interest. When they are neatly labelled and the 

 names accurately written and spelt, it is a clear proof that 

 some attention is paid to them. The proprietors of plant es- 

 tablishments are not expected to be able to identify all the 

 plants in their collections, but they expect, and rightly, that 

 their gardeners will readily afford them the opportunity of 

 doing so. The compost-yard is most important. We do not 

 wish it to be inferred that we are an advocate for complicated 

 mixtures, being well assured that such will not of themselves 

 produce any great results without attention. We must still, 

 however, urge the securing of a little loam and some other 

 materials in the compost-yard. At this period one of the most 



