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JODBNAL OF HOETICULTDKE AND COTTAGE GABDENEK. 



[ November 21, 1867. 



tempting. These houses have nothing but wood and glass in 

 frout, the half of the wood being a ventilator. Merely to save 

 the splashing of wet on the boards, there is a row of bricks 

 placed on the soil below the boards, and tliis single row of 

 bricks has done us lately additional service. The line of bricks 

 is continuous, unless where the post stands that supports the 

 front of the house. About a week ago we found traces of the 

 visits of rats all along this single row of bricks, and more espe- 

 cially at every opening where the post stood. There they had 

 scratched vigorously, and had even attempted to nibble the 

 oak post, but which with the brick at the side they found rather 

 hard for them. ■ They never seem to have raised their heads 

 above the line of bricks, where they would have found softer 

 material for their teeth in the one-inch deal board, which is a 

 mere trifle for a rat to bore through when determined. Lest 

 our visitors should determine on this on a second visit, ive 

 trickled a little tar all along the outside of that row of bricks, 

 and although we could trace the marks of their feet a foot dis- 

 tant from the bricks the next morning, there has been no 

 Ecratching near them since. 



ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT. 



Went on planting, levelling, turfing, &c. We have only time 

 to state, that in taking up and potting Eoses, Lilacs, X-c, as 

 mentioned last week, and placing the plants in a slight hotbed, 

 with the top of the plants exposed to the open air, the watering, 

 and the little heat, had caused the buds to become so plump, 

 that the birds found them, and cleared many buds, and we were 

 obUged to put up some rough hoops, and place a net over them. 

 It is rather tantalising to find that we can scarcely leave a bud 

 uncared for, and then go into cottage gardens, and even large 

 nurseries, and scarcely find a bud touched. The tomtit will 

 now be our enemy, until he can obtain insects and caterpillars. 

 — E. F. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— November 20. 



Scarcely any chfinge hag taken place here durins; the week, business 

 being very unliniioi-tant. and the supply is adequate to meet the demands 

 of all comers. In addition to other imports, we are now receiyioR some 

 very good Oranges from Valentia and other ports. The crop promises to 

 be very fine this season. Potato trade steady. 



FRUIT. 



Apples i sieve 



Apricots .'. doz 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bush. 



s. d. P. 

 Oto3 

 

 

 



s. d. 8. d 

 0to3 

 







Corrants ^ sieve u 



Black do. 



Fig3 doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 



Gooseberries . . quart 

 Grapes, Hothouse.. lb. 

 Lemons 100 



. Melons each 



I Nectarines doz. 



I Oranges 100 5 10 



14 Peaches doz. 



I Pears (dessert) ..doz. 2 3 



I Pine Apples lb. 4 6 



Plums i sieve 



Quinces doz. 2 3 



Raspberrios lb. 



Strawberries lb. 



5 ' Walnuts bueb. 10 IS 



12 1 do per 100 1 1 6 



Artichokes doz. 



Asparagus bundle 



Bean^5, Kidney 100 



ScarletRun.^ sieve 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Bnis. Sprouts i sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



pickling .... doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish .. bundle 



VEGETABLES. 

 B. d. B. d 



B. d. s. d 

 2 0to4 I Leeka bnnch 3to0 





 



, Lettuce per score 1 



a iilushrooms pottle 



I Mu3td.& Cress, punnet 

 8 I Onions perbushel 



1 fi Parsley per sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



1 

 

 



3 

 2 6 



2 6 



1 



3 







6 



1 



1 























4 



6 , Peas per quart 



, Potatoes bushel 



8 I Kidney do. 



Radishes doz. bunches 



G : Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



i Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



I Tomatoes per doz. 



Turnips bunch 



Vegetable ilarrows.dz. 



2 



8 



3 



9 







3 



3 6 

 

 

 



9 







9 







8 



G 

 

 

 5 







1 6 







4 6 



5 



1 







1 

 3 6 

 fi 

 3 

 3 

 

 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 

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

 ■week. 



Books (Amaffin).—" Science and Practice of Gardening" is by Mr. 

 G. W. Johnson. You can have it free by post from our office if you 

 enclose forty postage stamps with yonr direction. (Rev. J. Rat/vs).— The 

 work you name will bo published early in next year. The epitome you 

 mention would not be remunerative. We never heard even of the cata- 

 logue you name. There is none so good as Dr. Hogg's " Fruit Manual." 



Royal MrscADniE Vine (TF. TT.).— From vour description of the Grapes 

 and their cracking, we think that your Vine is the Chaaselas Musque, 

 sometimes called the Muscat Muscadine. 



New Zealand Lauhel (A Conntant Beatlrr). — We do not know a plant 

 so named. Perhaps it is New Zealand Tea, Leptospermum scoparium. 



Sewage and Tam (J. B. A'.).— The rich sewage and decayed tan would 

 form a fertiliser more than equal to the same quantity of stable manure. 

 If obtained in the summer and covered with a few inches in depth of the 

 tan, the compost would retain nearly all its fertilising constituents until 

 the wintuv. 



Rose Stock (T. W. TT., BallinasIoe).—"Th6 specimen you enclosed is 

 not the Manetti, but you may use your Rose as a stock to bud on. You 

 can move with care the Mauetti-budded Rose that has started. Do not 

 put the buds that are dormant under the soil. If the winter is severe 

 a little straw, horse litter, or dry leaves over the l)uds would be of service. 

 --W. F. Radclyfke." The woolly-head Grass is Lagurus ovatua.or Ovate 

 Hare's Tail. The other is too imperfect for identification. 



M.ADDER Plant Culture (C. I,.1.— The Dyer's Madder (Rubia tine 

 toria), is a native of the south of Europe. It is a trailing perennial in- 

 creased by division, or by sowing the seeds. A sandy soil suits it, and 

 in warm well-drained soils it is hardy in this country, but though its cul- 

 tivation has been tried the result has not proved favourable. The seed 

 should bo sown in shallow drills about 1 foot apart, and the plants after 

 they come up should be thinned out to that distance apart in the row. 

 The seed may be sown in April, or the divisions of the plant may then be 

 put in, and, being watered, will soon grow freely. The plantation must 

 bo kept clear of weeds, and in autumn have n top-dressing of rotten 

 leaves or manure. In the third year the roots will be large eoough for 

 making into Madder. Unless your situation is warm, the soil sandy and 

 well drained, wo fear you cannot cultivate this plant profitably in Eng- 

 land, and at the place whence your letter is dated it will require the pro- 

 tection of a frame in winter. 



Room for Storing Fruit (L. E.). — Your attic will answer for the 

 storing of fruit, and it is well to have it on a north aspect. You could, 

 and in fact ought, to have the room ceiled, which will maintain a more 

 uniform temperature. A window may be made having shutters to take 

 up and down, so that the room can be made dark at will. Fruit ought not 

 to be frozen, but it cannot he kept too cool if only secure from frost. This 

 may be done to some extent by straw coverings in severe weather. 



Fruit Trees for Walls (Idem). — Your south wall, which we under- 

 stand can be planted on both sides, will on the south aspect accommo- 

 date ten trees at 20 feet apart, and there we would have 1 Hemskerk 

 Apricot, 1 Kaisha Apricot, 1 Moorpark Apricot, 1 Early York Peach, 

 1 Grosse Mignonne Peach, 1 Noblesse Peach, 1 Barrington Peach, 

 1 Violette Hative Nectarine, 1 Jefferson Plum, and 1 Coo's Golden Drop 

 Plum. On the north aspect you may plant Morello Cherries 20 feet 

 apart, and Currants at 4 feet apart. The west wall will hold four trees, and 

 these may be — 1 Marie Louise Pear, 1 Eeurre Diel Pear, 1 Glou Mor(,'eaa 

 Pear, and 1 Ne Plus Meuris Pear. Against the east-aspect wall you may 

 have — 1 Victoria Plum, 1 Green Gage Plum, 1 Kirke's Plum, and 1 May 

 Duke Cherry. Against the walls of your house you may plant Apricots 

 on the south aspect. Pears on the west, and Plums and CheiTies on the 

 east. We think the following Pears would succeed as pyi-amids : — • 

 Doyenne d'Etf, Comte de I<amy, Beurre de Capiaumont. Prince of Wales, 

 Seckle, BeuiTe GiffarJ. Louise Bonne of Jersey, Thompson's, Zephirin 

 Grtgoire, Citron des Carmes, Fondante d'Automne, and Beurre Sterck- 

 mans. Applea as pyramids: — Irish Peach, Kerry Pippin. Devonshire 

 Quarrenden, Nonesuch, Golden Pippin, Margil, liing of the Pippins, 

 Cockle I'ippin, Pvibston Pippin, Court of Wick, Nonpariel (Old), Keddle- 

 ston Pippin, Adams's Pearmain, Braddick's Nonpariel, and Claygate 

 Pearmain, all dessert kinds : Manks and Keswick Codlins, Lord Suffield, 

 Kentish FiUbasket, Gloria Mundi, .\lfriston, Beauty of Kout, Norfolk 

 Beefing, Royal Russet, Dumelow's Seetlling, Blenheim Pippin, Bedford- 

 shire Foundling, and Northern Greening, all kitchen Apples. Of Plums 

 you may have July Green Gage, Denniston's Superb, Kirke's, Jefferson, 

 VVoolston Black, Early Orleans, White Magnum Bonum, Diamond, and 

 Prince of Wales. If you prefer Peaches to Plums on the south wall, you 

 may have 1 Qhancellor Peach and 1 Elruge Nectarine. Your soil is quite 

 deeii enough. It should be well drained and trenched prior to planting. 

 You cannot add too much turf to the soil, even if you go to the extent of 

 putting it 6 or 8 inches thick at the bottom of every trench. You need 

 not trench it deeper than 2 feet if you put turf at the bottom, which we 

 would do and thereby raise the border, an excellent thing in your climate. 

 Apples and Pears for Espalier Training (TT. L. ).— Apple s : Kerry 

 Pippin, Summer Golden Pippin, Adams's Pearmain, Fearn's Pippin, Cockle 

 Pippin, Cellini, Nonesuch, Margil, Braddick's Nonpareil. Nonpareil, 

 Court of Wick, Downton Pippin, and Cox's Orange Pippin. Pears: 

 Citron des Carmes. Beurre d'Amanlis. Williams's Bon Chrttien, Louise 

 Bonne of Jersey, Thompson's, Jean de Witte, Beune de Capiaumont, 

 Beurre Diel, Bergamotte d'Esperen, Glou Mori;eau, Monarch, and Ne 

 Plus Meuris. 



Various Plants* Temperature and Co^ipost {An Amateur). — Alo- 

 casia metallica, A. LowJi, Spbajrogj'ne latifolia, Phyllogathis rotnndi- 

 folia. and Cyanophyllum magnificum succeed well in a compost of very 

 turfy sandy peat one-half, and light fibrous loam one-half, adding one- 

 fourth each of leaf mould and silver saud, and pieces of charcoal from 

 the size of a Pea up to that of a Hazel nut, the whole being well mixed. 

 The soil should be chopped with a spade and made fine, but on no ac- 

 count sifted. It is essential that the pots be well drained. Jlarch is a 

 good time to repot them, but you may repot earlier as your j^lants are 

 in such bad health, and yon should lake care not to over-water them at 

 this dull season. It will suffice if the soil be kept moist, and in repotting 

 use a smaller size of pot, shifting again into larger sijies as the plants 

 grow. A night temperature of 60' at this season is suitable, and from 65' 

 to 70 ' by day. The first two are propagated by taking ofl" the offsets in 

 spring, and the others are propagated by cuttings early in spring and 

 summer. The covering of the pots of Alocasiaa is sometimes done with 

 sphagnum, which is to keep the soil moist, but they do quite as weU 

 without it. 



Evergreens for Beds fZrfcm).— Common Laurels, common, tree, and 

 variegated Box, Portugal Laurel, Rhododendrons, Aucuba, and almost all 

 of the Firs, Pinnses, Thujas, Cypresses, Junipers, Cedars, &c. You will 

 l>est tell what will suit you upon inspecting some nurseryman's stock. 

 Hollies have no rival for such purposes. 



Gurnet Stove {John Gould). — We never heard of it before we received 

 yonr letter. 



