JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



t Jane 2, 1870. 



Remove the suckers as often as produced. Ants are doing good, either 

 attacking green 8ies or removing honeydew from the foliage. 



Cyclamens after Flowering (Centurion). — The plants after this 

 Bhonld be placed on an east border or olher place shaded from the direct 

 midday son, either planting them out or plunging the pots in coal ashes. 

 The pots ought not to be placed on their sides, nor must wateriug be 

 neglected if the plants are kept in pots. Water them in dry weather, but 

 not so as to keep the soil very wet, yet it should be moist. If planted out 

 they will not require water, or only during a long period of drought. The 

 fruit of Bigarreau Napoleon Cherry are certainly fine at forty to a pound, 

 but we have known instances of larger fruit, and yet your crop was 

 heavier from there being more fruit on the tree ; 10 lbs. from a tree five 

 years old is very good indeed. 



Digging Between Rows of Potatobs (Idem).— It is a practice as old 

 as the hills, and of no real benefit except in badly prepared gronnd, which 

 it lightens, and rains are thus admitted ; besides air can get in, and the 

 roots spread through the loosened soil ; bnt in soils that are in good tilth 

 Surface hoeing is best, and digging injurious, as it destroys the roots. If 

 the Potatoes are not earthed uo ynn will have to see that the tubers near 

 the surface are covered with a little of the soil. 



The Espiran Grape Vine— Soot for Roses (A Constant Reader).— 

 The Espiran Grape Vine has a very hardy constitution, and is free- 

 growing. It is not the nature of the variety, but something else, that is 

 accountable for its growing slowly with you, which may happen with any 

 Vine. The roots are at fault, we should say; possibly the soil is not 

 over-suitable. You may put soot on the ground amongst your Rose trees. 

 It is a good manure if used in moderation. 



FABFUGruM grande Leaves Injured (Salfsrfon).— The leaf sent 

 appears to have been gnawed by a caterpillar, and before the leaf was 

 fully formed, hence the Bcolloped appearance. Your only remedy will be 

 to examine the plpnt morning and evening, paying particular attention 

 to the undersides of the leaves, and the crowns near the surface. Wood- 

 lice will also eat the leaves whilst young, and so will slugs. Cut some 

 raw Potatoes in halves, lay them on the surface of the nots after scooping 

 out the interior of the Potatoes a little, and examine them in the morn- 

 ing. If the enemy be woodlice you will find them under the Potatoes. 



Cork for Rustic Work.— Kate wishes to know the address of the cork 

 cutters who advertise the bark for rustic work. 



Manuring Potatoes, &c. (W. M.).— If the soil was properly prepared, 

 we do not advise you to apply either guano or nitrate of soda now to your 

 Potatoes, Turnipp, Carrots, &c. You will see what we say to another 

 correspondent about earthing up Potatoes. We do not recommend the 

 practice. 



Gardenia Florida Treatment (Poplar).— It will do beBt grown in a 

 pot, and in a compost of two part? sandy peat, and one part light fibrous 

 loam, with a free admixture of sharp sand. It will not succeed in a cool 

 greenhouse, but requires a warm greenhouse cr cool stove. It is not 

 difficult to cultivate. Encourage it now to make a good growth by a 

 moist and rather close atmosphere, with a good heat, shutting up early in 

 the afternoon, and syringiDg morning and evening so as to keep down 

 red spider. A good growth being secured, expose it more fully to light, 

 and admit air more freely, lessening the moisture and the supply of 

 water, and do not give more water than enough to keep the foliage fresh 

 in winter. Pot as soon as the flowering is past, and do not give a very 

 large shift, as the plant does best in a rather small pot for its size. 



Roses fob Forcing (2*. A. G.).— A good dark kind is alar.'chal Vaillant, 

 Hybrid Perpetual; white Mrs. BoBanquet, China; and Manchal Niel, 

 Tea-scented. They will not succeed in a temperature "always^at 65V 

 The plants must be strong in pots, and the wnod ripened early by placing 

 them in August in front of a south wall. In S< :ptc*nber they should be 

 repotted, and early in November they may be placed in a house with a 

 temperature by night of 45 : to 50 c , increasing the heat 5 ? every foitnight 

 nntil a maximum night temperature of 00° is attained. 



Llly of the Valley Forcing [Idem).— For flowering at Christmas 

 the roots may be potted in September or October, and in the first or 

 second week they may be placed in a house with a temperature of 45' at 

 night, covering the pots with an inverted pot, which is to remain until 

 the flower stalks and buds are 3 inches above the ground ; then remove 

 the pot and expose them to light. They will soon assume their proper 

 colour. The temperature need not at any time exceed 55" at night, and 

 that ought not to be given until the plants have been in the house a 

 month; therefore, increase the temperature about 5" 1 every fortnight. 



Zonal Pelargonium Management (J. S , Guernsey).— It is not ne- 

 cessary to keep the plants in-doorB all the Bummer for blooming in 

 September. Place them out of doors, and pot at once if the pots are full 

 of roots ; if not, defer the potting until the end of June. Remove all 

 the trusses as tbey show, and keep the plants stopped and tied-out so as 

 to make them busby. The last stopping may take place at the close of July 

 or early in August, and up to that the trusses should be removed. They 

 should have an open situation, but sheltered from winds. Take them 

 into the greenhouse for blooming. 



Names of Plants (Apt).— We cannot name such specimens, and as 

 you have Sowerby's work on British plants, you can at once identify 

 them by the aid of the coloured plates. {A. Y.),— We answered at page 

 847, but seemingly to a wrong correspondent ; " apparently an upper shoot 

 of Cupressus Lawsoniana." [L. E.). — Clematis florida, Large-flowered 

 Virgin's Bower, a native of Japan, and cultivated here a century ago 

 by Dr. Fothergill. 



POULTRY, BEE, AND PIGEON CHRONICLE. 



Reds, and these have consequently been neglected, except by a 

 few fanciers, who have perBeveringly endeavoured to raise 

 them up to the standard. 



At nearly all shows the Game Bantam classes are the most 

 numerously filled, and I am quite persuaded that if five clasBes 

 were allotted to them — viz., one for a single cock of any colour, 

 and one each for Black Beds, Brown Beds, Duckwings, and 

 Piles, they would be well supported at all shows, and pay the 

 eommittees handsomely. Frequently when I have asked, Why 

 do you not show your Brown Beds ? the answer has been, 

 " There is no class for them, and we cannot beat your Black 

 Beds, so we shall keep them at home." 



A few months ago I corresponded with most of the principal 

 breeders of Brown Red Bantams, and their united impression 

 was that the time had come for them to have a class to them- 

 selves at our principal autumn and winter shows, because the 

 number bred this season will probably be more than double that 

 of any former year. A few days since I saw about eighty Brown 

 Red Bantam chickens, some of them nearly ready for ex- 

 hibition, and the owner of from forty to fifty of them told me 

 he would gladly subscribe towards a silver cup as a first prize, 

 if a class were made for them, and Becond and third prizes 

 added by the committee. I would likewise do the Bame. I 

 have myself about fifty Brown Bed Bantam chickens, of beau- 

 tiful colour, and expect to have several pens ready for showing 

 in September. 



I hope that committees will take Brown Reds into con- 

 sideration this year, for with so many admirers as these fowls 

 have, the class must be as well supported as any other. 

 Already our American friends have separate classes for Brown 

 Beds, Black Beds, and Duckwing Bintams, and surely we need 

 not be left behind by them when we number ten breeders of 

 Game Bantams to their one. — W. F. Entwisle, Weitfield. 



THE WHITE COCHIN CUP FOR THE 

 GUILDFORD POULTRY SHOW. 



First, I think, I had better make right one or two small 

 mistakes which occur in the prize list of this Show about the 

 White Cochin cup which I have been getting up. To begin 

 with, I have no right to the title of "Reverend," which the 

 schedule bestows on me; secondly, I am not of "Merton 

 College, Oxford," but of Pembury, Tonbridge Wells; and 

 thirdly, the cup is not a piece of plate presented by me, but a 

 cup purchased by subscriptions collected by me. 



Below is a list of the contributors towards the cup, with 

 their subscriptions, and I most heartily thank all those friends 

 who have so kindly aided me in my canvassing. I tniBt it will 

 not be the last piece of plate we shall hear of collected by 

 subscription for my favourites, the White Cochins. 



£ s. <L i £ s. d 



D. Cochrane, Esq., Stour- I Mrs. Miller, Tonbridge 



bridge 10 6 Wells 10 6 



MiBS Hales. Canterbury . . 10 6 Mrs. Williamson, Leicester 10 6 



W.E. George, Esq., Bristol 1 1 A Ladv Subscriber 5 



Mr. Allan J. E. Swindell, Mr. Reginald S. S.Woudgate 16 



Stourbridge 10 6 



Mr. E. Smalley, Lancaster . 10 6 £5 5 



—Reginald S. S. Woodgate. 



JUDGES REPORTING. 

 I believe " CoLDiiEA " in his remarks is not sufficiently ex- 

 plicit, as he probably alludes to a judge who "has something 

 to do with the editing of the paper in which he reports," and 

 also appears occasionally as an exhibitor. I am surprised that 

 fanciers have not forwarded you their protests before. — Coldm- 



BABIAN. 



[We have another letter more stringent, signed " Castob 

 and Pollux," and two others, but we must decline inserting 

 any more upon the subject. The objection has now been shown, 

 and we must leave it to be urged on poultry show committees 

 by complainants. — Eds.] 



BROWN RED GAME BANTAMS. 



I quite agree with " Gallus," and Mr. J. Crosland, that 



there should be a separate class for Brown Red Game Bantams, 



as they have very little chance of winning against Black Beds. 



Little encouragement has been given to breeders of Brown 



PIGEON ROOSTS. 

 I have, from time to time sent, under a nom de plume, what 

 I consider it is the duty of every fancier to contribute to your 

 Journal — namely, discoveries of experience for the information 

 and guidance of our fellow fanciers ; and I beg, now that the 

 construction of Pigeon pens is so admirably explained by my 



