JOUKNAIi OP HOBTICULTOBE AND COTTAGE GABDKNEE. 



[ June 27, 1867. 



that were either Bown in the previous autumn, or in a bed in the 

 following spring, so as to be raised in patches. These patches 

 were far enough apart to permit of the bedding plants being 

 well planted and in their regular places, and the annuals kept 

 up a good appearance of bloom until the bedding plants 

 almost choked them with their advancing growth. Many plants, 

 as Sweet Alyssum, &c., may remain ns under-crop or carpeting, 

 and if a few flowers come through the foliage of the bedding 

 plants, it will be an advantr,;e rather than otherwise. If a 

 fine bed of annuals is groviu and flowered where sown, the 

 same ground will not do justice to bedding plants, and they 

 will make no great displ.Tv v:.Iees turned out as large plants 

 from pots. The lowest-giuv,,ng annuals are the best for this 

 early-flowering and partly-carpeting system, and when the 

 annuals are planted out in patches of a good size and a con- 

 siderable distance apart, every fair chance is given to bedding 

 plants, and the ground is never so much seen after fresh planting. 

 The second subject is u-atcrinrj. The season has been trying 

 to bedding plants turned out early. We did not plant early, 

 and, therefore, lost none from that cause. Some plants, as 

 Amaranlhus melancholicus and Ii-esine, we turned out about 

 the 20th of June, and early enough we found it for the first, 

 though the sun that we have now will make up for all deficien- 

 cies. When some of these early-planted bedding plants looked 

 rather badly, they were made much worse in many cases by inju- 

 dicious watering. When a plant shows signs of distress the 

 water-pail is looked upon as the infallible remedy, when cold 

 rather than dryness is the cause from which they suffer. Would 

 some of our readers just reflect, that the damper they make the 

 soil the colder they make it, they would use water less plenti- 

 fully. Some of our contemporaries have been telling their 

 readers to soak their bedding plants well, and yet there are 

 complaints that these do not thrive. We should say, that at 

 least up to Saturday we have had no weather that would have 

 warranted giving more water than would just moisten the roots 

 of bedding plants, and the drier the surface of the soil was left 

 all round them the better it would be for them. If fresh- 

 yAlanted subjects, whilst the ground was comparatively cold, 

 showed distress at a little bright sunshine, it would be safer to 

 sprinkle the foliage a little instead of deluging the cold soil to 

 insure its being made colder. A very little water at the bottum 

 of each plant is all that has yet been given to our bedding 

 plants, besides the little at planting to settle the earth about 

 the roots, and we would not have given more even had we 

 a river to go to. The plants are as yet all right, and we should 

 not think of deluging the ground with water, or even damping 

 the soil far beyond the extent of the roots, until at least we 

 have had more sun and a higher temperature, that the roots 

 may have warmth as well as moisture. — E. F. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— June 2t;.. 

 All, kinds ol ont-door veKctahles nre plentiful ; and Cherries, Straw- 

 berries, and forced fruit are equal to tlie demand. 



Apples ^ sieve 



Apricots doz 



Cherries bo3 



Chestnuts bush. 



Currants ^ sieve 



BL-ick do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 



Gooseberries . . quart 

 Grapes, Hothouse, .lb. 

 Ijemons loO 



Artichokes each 



Asparagus .... bundle 

 Beans, Kidney, per 100 



ScarlctRun.i sieve 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Brus. Sprouts ^ sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



-Carrots bunch 



Oauliilower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



pickling .... doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Ktaseiadish . . bundle 



FRUIT. 

 B. d. B. d I B. 



3 0to4 , Melons each 5 



3 

 2 



4 I Nectarines doz. 10 



5 I Orantles 100 8 



6 ! Peaches doz. I'J 



i Pears (dessert) . . doz. 



kitchen doz. n 



10 Pine Apples lb. 5 



Pluips i sieve 



1 6 Quinces doz. 



6 Raspberries lb. 



irawberries lb. 



12 



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VEGETABLES, 

 s. d. 8. d I 



3 to 6 I Leeks bunch 



16 6 ! Lettuce per score 



10 2 Mushrooms pottle 



I Mustd.& Cress, punnet 



3 3 I Onions per bushel 



2 J> Parsley per sieve 



II (I Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



G New lb. 



2 Radishes doz. bunches 

 Rhubarb bundle 



s. d. s. 



8 too 

 10 2 



1 G 











9 



6 



iiSavovs doz. 



2 -Sea-kale basket 



8 Shallots lb. 



8 1 I Spinach bushel 



3 ' Tomatoes per doz. 



2 6 4 I Turnips bunch 





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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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

 mental writers of the "Journal of Horticullnrn, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unjustifi.able trouble and expense. AU 

 communications should therefore be addressed solely to 

 I'he Editors of the Journal of Uorticultxire , dJc, 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.C. 



We also request that correspondents will not mix np on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those on 

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

 swered promptly and conveniently, but write them on 

 separate communications. Also never to send more than 

 two or three questions at once. 



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

 week. 



OEcnAUD-HocsK M.\Nir.E5iENT {C. P.).— Thc direction is "Tf. W.," 

 Holcombe Vicirn^re, Wellington. Somerset. 



CoNjFi^u.'E f.7. T'., Coriiii'all). — Several pages nf our .Toumal would bo 

 occupied if wo exiilain.-id hitelligibly and nsefiilly thc numerous genera 

 of this natural order. We have a volume preparing which will impart 

 the information, and much more than you mention. 



Irrigation tir. Jackson). — Stephens's "Practical Irrigator" will suit 

 you. 



Mr. HurLETT's Chinese Sugap. Grass (Hopf Deferred),— VCe are sorry 

 that ynu sowed it, and sorry that it has failed, hut we canuot aid you. 

 Bo wiser in future. 



Greenhocse Stages (Amatrur). — You must be the best judge of bow 

 the stage should Ije altered to suit the plants. Even now you could 

 not well have thc front shelf of the stage lower without lowering your 

 platform in front. We consider the stage a ver>' good one for small or 

 fair-sized plants. If your plants are large you could set them farther 

 apnrt, and even miss one shelf and use the next. X good-cized pot will 

 stiind on a shelf 7^ inches wide. We would not wish a better stage for 

 gener.nl purposes. It will hold many small plants, and large ones placed 

 more thinly will have all the light possible. If large plants are chiefly 

 desired, a fiat table or a stage with fewer and wider shelves would he 

 better. 



Training Cdcumsers (Idem). — It is well not to keep Cucumbers too 

 long in vineries : but we have grown them well there and early on the floor, 

 on a bed, on a trellis, and standing upricht trained to a stout rod, and 

 pretty well stumped in, much in the style that Mr. Rivers adopts with his 

 trees in pots. Cucumbers bear well on that plan, but we will give the best 

 advice when we know the case. 



Viola cornuta IF!. S. S.). — The tlowers you enclosed are the true Vio'a 

 cornuta. It is in many old gardens, and being introduced nearly a 

 century sinc*\ it is not surprising that it has been in yours a quarter 

 that period. Thc sand enclosed is quite suitable for potting-purposes. 



Removing Roses ix .Jci.t (TF. Jl/. S.). — As Ibey must be removed, cut 

 all round each of them at ones, at 1 foot distance fi-orn the stem, by 

 thrusting down a sptido the full depth of its blade. Keep them weU 

 watered, and remove in .Tuly with the balls of earth as unbroken as pos- 

 sible. If to be removed to a distance, each had better be put into a pot 

 fully large enouiirh to receive the ball. After planting keep them w-ell 

 watered and mulched. 



Azalea Cuttings (Jeremiah). — The cuttings should be taken from tho 

 shoots of the current year, selecting those which are moderately strong. 

 When the wood becomes a little hard, or what is known as half ripe, the 

 I)oints of the shoots should be taken oil' at asufticieut length for cuttings. 

 Cut below the lowest joint which they may have, remove tJie leaves from 

 the lower part of thc c tting, and for half its length ; then insert the cut- 

 tings up to the leaves in sils'er sand. The pots may be plnnged in a hot- 

 bed of from 70^ to 75-, with a shaded and close atmosphere. Azaleas 

 imite the two sc.^es in the same flower. 



EilEOTHRIUM COCCINEUM AND PjIILESIA EDrcXFOLIA CULTURE (F. G.). — 

 The Embothrinm renuires to be pl.inted ng^iiirst a wall with a south-west 

 aspect, training it figainst the wall and keeping the shoots moderately 

 thin, and the foreright shoots well stopped during summer. It does well 

 in a compost ot turfy peat and loam, with a free admixture of sand. Phi- 

 lesia busitolia succeeds in a compost of wet bog soil or peal, and should 

 be kept abundantly supplied with water. Free drainage is essential. It 

 is hardy, .and so is the Embothrinm. They flower freely when of sufficient 

 age, and are to be kept in order by frequently stopping the irregular 

 growths, up to .Tuly. wlien stopping must be discontinued. They are also 

 vei-y tractable .is pot plants, if aJTurdod the protection of a cool bouse in 

 winter, with abundant light and air at all times. The blooming is depen- 

 dant on the ripening of the wood, it being necessary to secure a good 

 growth, and to have it well ripened by full eiposnre to light and air. 



AcaoPHVLLUM VENoscM CULTURE (Idem). — This plant rcquircs fl light 

 and airy situation in a cool house, to be well supplied with water 

 when growing, and at all times to have the soil moist. A compost of two- 

 thirds sandy peat, and one-third turfy loam, with a free admixture of 

 sand, will grow it well. Good drainage is essential, and not less so are 

 light and air plentifully furnished. The plant should ho potted in spring 

 alter fl .wering, and may then be cut in as required, to give it a suitable 

 shape. It is not hardy, but requii-es a house in winter, from which frost 

 is excluded, otherwise it cannot be kept too cool in winter. It is the 

 better of a cold pit or frame in summer. A work such as you mention is 

 being prepared for publication. 



Taking up Tea kcenteb Roses in Winter (Syntax).— It is desirable 

 to take up the delicate kinds of Tea-scented Roses in autumn, keeping 

 them cool and dry during the winter, and planting out in spring. They 

 must not be kept so warm in winter as to cause them to grow. .\nj' of 

 the florists advertising in this Journal caa supply the Violets you require. 



Peas Failinli {Yoituif Oarilrncr). — We can only account for your Peas 

 failing from your watering them excessively. In fact, you say they are 

 sown in deep trenches, as *or Celery, putting in plenty of mtmiu-e. Peas- 



