JumaTy 31, 1867. J 



JOUKNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



93 



COVEXT GARDEN MARKET— Jan-uaey 30. 



laipRovEi* supplies, nmi some difficulty in eflFecting clearancea at 

 fonuer nites, French importations comprise Lettuces, Endive, Arti- 

 choke?, young C-iiTots, Tomatoes, and Aspumffus. Forced vegetiibles 

 consist iif Asparagus, Kidney Beans, Sea-kale, nnd Rhubarb. Potato 

 tnule very nu^ettletl, good samples realiaing rather high rates. 



Apples \ sieve 



Aprieuts doz 



Cherhes lb. 



Chestsnts bush, 



CDTTi'ut.'^ ^ sieve 



Black do. 



K>?a doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 



Ooosebennes . , quart 

 Orapes, Hothouse, .lb. 

 VesDoas 100 



Artichokes each 



As^njvpv^ .... bundle 



Berns, Kidnfy;]ierlOO 



Scnr)etRun.4 sieve 



Beet. Red ~. doz. 



TJroceoJi bundle 



Brus. .Sprouts ^ sieve 



C:ihbi;.'0 doz. 



Capsicums ....;... 100 



Cnmrts buuch 



CantiOower doz. 



Celrry bundle 



Cncumbers' each 



pickling doz. 



Eniiive doz. 



Fennel bnnch 



Oarlic lb. 



Herbs bnnch 



UoTseradii^h .. bundle 



d. B, 

 0to3 

 



FRUIT, 



Melons each 



; Nectarines doz. 



I Oranges 100 



I Peaches doz. 



VEGETABLES, 



Pears (dessert) ,. doz. 



kitchen doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plums ^ sieve 



Quinces doz. 



Raspberries lb. 



Strawberries lb. 



Walnuta.^i-J.i^bush. 10 



d ■' I- : 



8 I I^eeKg bunch 



, Lettuce per (Joz. 



' Jlushrooms .... pottle 

 D ^' Wust'd:A Oress, iJannet 

 O^-Onjoda.. . .per bushel 

 jiPfirsloy. .... .per ficve 



Parsnips. doz. 



Peas'.'.: . .-. , . per quart 

 -Potatoes . . .... bushel 



S„ Kidney, ...... do. , 



Radishes doz. hunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys .......... doz. 



^ Seflrkale basket 



I Shallots lb. 



j Spinach bushel 



j Tom»f6erJ'. . . . ^er doz. 



G Turnip"! bunch 



I Vegetable Jlarrows dz. 



trade' ' CA^iitodui^-^ ^jiE(^^ 



Carfer .t Co., 237. 23S, and-2r,l. High 'H.olhoTn.-^Ganlrner'.^ 

 and Fanurr'.^ Vudt'-Mccnm. Part l.—Fhinr Si-eiU, Plants, 

 ami lUdh.^. Part II. — Vt-qctahle -nnd Anrirtflttival S,-rth. 



Barr &: Sadden,- 12, KinR Street, Govent GarJen. London. 

 '^^C.—D/'.srn'ptire Friced Luit of C'holc''. Seeds fur Floivcr and 

 Kitchen Garden. ■'■■•■ .'j - ^..ar'Vii oji* 'j_. \t *i: . j , 



ButJer. McCuHodb;! &D Qcf^i 'Goveufc' harden Market,- London, 

 W.C.— .S7»(/ii/ Catqlotjne of'St^&ds^if&i-Z'th&KitchintrWfidm and 

 Flmvcr Garden. ■' /''^i;: -:-' " V' ^.ihm.Vr^ .-■.'' (-a;! •.!-m!'' ' 



F. & A. Dickson &■ Sdti-s. 100, Easftffftte StreM, and Upton 

 Nurseries', Chester. — Catahfiw of )><irtahl,- ,nid Fln/rcr Scrds. 



Dowuie. Lairfl, & Lainp, SUinstead Park, Lon(.lun, and West 

 Coates and Pinkhill. 'Ed'mhurgh.'^Catahfptr of (iardm. Flower, 

 and A(jTicu}tttrrd Seeds, l>npJetm'ntJf, tt-c.^-Descrlptiv/' Catalogue 

 o/7?asY^- — Descriptive Lita'^of Frotch H)/h9Ud Giadif>U. - 



"UTit-eler &: Sous, Gloucester.— U'A^vfi'p i0 Sans> Little Book, 

 or Select Seed Liit. . -• ' 



■WiUittm Poutey. Hiuldflr^field.— A'(/;*fl/'n/ List, being a Cata- 

 logue f>f Forest nnd Oniiimeutal Trees, Shrabs, Arc. 



Thomas Sampson, Preston Road, and Honndstone, Yeovil,—^ 

 Cataloifue of Flo)r<*r, Vcijelahle, nnd A<iri cultural Seeda. 



John Scott, Yeovil and Merriofct Nurseries, Orewkerne, 

 Somerset.— Cataloipie of Vegetahlcy Flower, ■ and Agricultural 

 Secd^\ . ' . ' ! 



Kobert M. Stark^, York Eoad, Trinity, Eclinburgh.— C«to- 

 lofiuc of American, .ilpi'fie, (end Herbaceous Plauts. 



Henry Cannell, Fachsia Nursery, Station Pvoad. Woolwich. 

 Select and Dcseriptire List of Fnchfias, Verhenna, Prtunian, Jrr. 



Peter S. Ilobinson JL-Co., Trinity Nursery, and :J3, St. Andrew- 

 Square, Edinburgh.-^C«/(7/o//j/(' i>f Garden and Fl-ower ^e^ds.— 

 Catalcfjuc of Fo^-eit Tf0cs,-Skni(bi,Mose3yidh<t, -'I'Kt' 'i^S'J -" 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. _'V,.3'''c.,'' 

 ••• We request that no one vriW write privately to'flie'^epfirt-' 

 mental writers of the ".Toumal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unju-^titiable trouble and expense. All 

 communications feliould therefore be addresseJ soUly to 

 The F.ditors of the Journal of Horticulture, d'c, 17l, Fleet 

 Street, Loudon, E.G. ." ' ' ' 



N.B. — Many nuestlons i^uSt tetnain unaltiswerpd until next 

 week. J '" '',",*". ''l^-l'.', ;.'■"-'..'" '-" ' .,'_' 



Back Numbrrs (G. B).~li you send us a list of the Numbers yon 

 reqtiiie, we "vcQl let you know whether ve can supply them. 



Boiler FOR Heatino Tkree HonsES {Wrymouth). — A cast-iron saddio 

 boiler do inches long, '24 inches high, and ^2 inches wide, will suit you. 

 If you wished the middle liouse to be the hottest the boiler could be placed 

 behind that, and the hont be taken to tlio other houses right and left. If 

 the houses were intended to come in in succession from end to end, we 

 would place the hojler at what was to be the earliest end, take a flow 

 and return pipe all tlio Icugth of the three houses, and from these have 

 valves to admit circulntiun to the pipes of each separate house as 

 wautfd. If you wished to have early forcint; in all three houses, averag- 

 ing 20 feet by 11, then we would advise a boiler 6 inches longer. 



Alkaline Manures for Potatoes. — D.. ofHcailcorn, asks, "Has your 

 coiTesiwndent ' 0.,' of Deal, tried any of those alkaline manm*es recom- 

 mended in February last by "W., Uonn, Herefordshire," for growin^j 

 mealy Potatoes? If be has, or any other correspondent, will he oblige, 

 through the Journal, by stating thb result of his trial, as the season for 

 Potato planting is approaching i*" 



Plukoinu Mateuial {Novice.). — We could hardly say why the sand for 

 plunging in did not answer, uulods we knew more of the particulars. It 

 ought to have answered over your tank if you have enough of heat. We 

 presume your birge slates are bedded on the tank, if so, no moisture will 

 escape, lu that ease we would cover over with G inches of rough clean 

 c-iudors, or clean small stones, and on that i)laeo finer ashes, sand, or 

 cocoa-nut refuse, for plunging the pot.^ in, with some upright pipes going 

 through the sand or other material to the slate, for pouring water down 

 when a moist heat «tis -wanted, likewise for allowing the heat to rise into 

 th& atmosphere in which the cuttings are. If you use cocoa -nut refuse, 

 do not let the bottom uf the pot rest on much of it. If you use sawdust, 

 lift the pot at times, uv the bottom hole may become firmly fastened up, 

 and see that no fnngl gmw. If you uave plenty of heat nothing is more 

 simple or cle.mly than Kand. It is difficult to make the heat pass through 

 cocoa-nut fibre, cspe.ci.aily when dry. Perhaps you did not have enough 

 of top heat. We shall be glad to assist if wo know more of your practice, 

 the size o[ the bed and tank, the mode of covering the cuttings, the size 

 of the house, the mode of giving tup heat, and other particulai-s, 



PitoPAOATiNd and Cucumef.r-house (.4 Market G«r(if7if7-).— Your pro- 

 posed an-angements will du either for propagating or Pines, but you will 

 not have he[it enough fiT fairly work. If your flue go along one side, 

 you would r.Minire three pipes on the otber'sido, two flows and a return, 

 and we would prefer three pipes below the centre bed to two pipes. If 

 these centre pipes were covered with 6 inches of clinkers or brickbats, 

 placed as hoUpw as possible, and covered again with clean small stones, 

 you could put your plunging material, either for cuttings or Pino 

 plants, above. " In the side walls opposite the hollow clinkers, &c., 

 you could have five or six plugs on each side to let heat out, and let 

 nmisture in when you deemed it necessary. With this arrangement two 

 pipes on the side might do. It would be as well if the centre bed were 

 not more than 30 inches from the ground. You would need glass for 

 many subjects in the pro pa gating- bod. If you do not object to the glasa 

 division as to expense, it would be as well to divide the house into two, 

 as you could reguUte the treatment better as respects shading, air- 

 giving, &c. ' 



Vine Border Son. (HI J.I. —The soil you enclosed, pared from the sur- 

 face of an old meadow, is quite suitable, but should be mixed with some 

 calcareous additiont such as bilcklayers' limy rubbish and hones broken 

 into small fragments. 



SowiNii iliSTLETOE ^EF,D f.7. E. D.). — Cut ft tri.anglc in the bark on the 

 under side of a branch do\\u to the wood, raise the point of the triangle, 

 and insert the seed between the bark and the wood. >.'o application or 

 tying of any kind is needed. 



Strawrerrv Plants Injurkd by Frost (i^vzo'nria). — Strawberry plants 

 in y2-sii;e(l pots that have stood out during the late severe frosts, and tlie 

 roots of which seem all Itilled on tbe outside of the balls, had better bo 

 plunged as you propose, in a botbed, plunging the pots to the rim to excite 

 root-action, and keeping the lights off in mild weather. You must not 

 giye the plantB more than-^o of bottom beat to commence with, increas- 

 ing it to Ty gradually, and you must not think of forcing the tops until 

 the roofs are in action, in iwci^ you ought not to attempt to obtain from 

 the plants very early Strawberries. 



GrUds in Vine Border (H.-T, C.\. — We do not think that the gnibs 

 will injure the roots of your Vines. If you Avill state wbether you re- 

 quire the Apples for dessert or kitchen use, and in what part of the 

 British Ishinds you live, we will name some that may suit you. 



Black Alicante Vine (X Brijnn). — Any Vino can be grafted upon any 

 other variety of Vine, but what the effect a Bowood Muscat stock would 

 have upon a Black .Vlicautc grafted upon it we cannot tell. We do not 

 know W)here tarpaulin can be purclased. If we wished to cover a Viae 

 border, we shuuld use Croggou's asphalt felt, which is much cheaper. 



Pine .\pples Black Inside [C. H. .4.).— Atmospheric moisture when so 

 excessive as to create drip has a tendency to cause the lower pips of the 

 fruit to become discoloured and black, and even to decay before the 

 upper pips are ripe ; but we do not consiUer it will affect the interior of 

 the fruit farther than the pips are discoloured and flavourless. Black- 

 ness at the centre of the fruit is caused by tho soil being kept too wet. 

 To combine at this season size' with good ce-lour ftnd flavour requires 

 great care in cultivation— in fact, large size can hardly be attained with- 

 out sacrificing something, and we have -now for some years been less 

 particular aliout it in winter fruit, and have consequently kept the atmo- 

 sphere and soil considerably drier, and have been rewarded with fruit — 

 less in size certainly, but equal in flavour to thohe ripened under more 

 favourable conditions. Maintain a moderate amount of moisture, and 

 water carefully at the root until the fruit is ripening, then keep con- 

 sfderably drier. 



-Stocks for Camellias lATomtatti Header^ J H. 7).).— We do not know 

 where stocks for CamelUiia pre to be had. You may graft by the plan 

 known as whip-grafting, and then plunge tho pots in the hotbed. You 

 may obtain Camellia seed of any of tbe principal London seedsmen, and 

 if you sow it the plants wDl be ready for gi-afting in two or three years, 

 according to the eneouragemunt ^iyen. 



HoR.sB Cakbot (Jdf m}.~The best Carrot for horses, at least that most 

 valued by stablemen, is the Red Altrinchom, and for cattle the Yellow 

 Bel;^ian. 



Heaviest Bdnches qp Grapes (Dodrjer). — Wo conclude that the 

 Jadges at Bury 8t. Edmnnda will require the Grapes to be ripe. 



