April 1, 18S9. ) 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARBENER. 



229 



como iu, find Boll for 25*. por lb. Kidney Boflns nml Cacurnbers are be- 

 coiniDf^ n ilruK iu the miirket. The Potato trttdc is dull, iiud stocks of 

 inftjrior descriptioas heavy. 



FRCIT. 



8. d. 



Applps }.\ sieve 2 to 2 



Apricots doz. 



Cherrioa lb. 



Chestnuts bush. 10 



Corrnnta i^ sieve 



Black do, 



Fills doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 1 



Gooseberries . . quart 



Grapes. Hothouse.. lb. 15 



Lemons 100 4 



Molonfl onch 



Nectnrinos don. 



OrnnRes 100 



Peaclios doz. 



Pears (iloflsort) . . doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 6 



Plums ^-^ Hieve 



(Jaincos do/,. 



Raspbervien lb. 



Strawhflrrios oz. 



Walnuts busb. 10 



do 100 



VEGETABLES. 



Artichokes doz. 



AsparaRna 100 



Beana, Kiducy .. hd. 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Bros. Sprouts ?-j sieve 



GabbaRe doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers .... each 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunt^h 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish ..bundle 



p. d. B. d 



S Otofi 



5 



1 



2 



8 

 



1 



8 



1 







6 

 3 



1 G 

 6 



2 

 8 



8 

 2 







10 

 6 

 2 



1 G 

 

 

 

 

 5 



Leeks bunch 



Ijettnco score 



Mushrooms. . . . pnttlo 

 Mustd.A Cress.punnct 



Onions bushel 



Parsley sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes doz.buuches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes doz. 



Turnips bunch 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



•«« We request that no one will write privately to the depart- 

 mental writers of the "Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and expense. AU 

 communications should therefore be addressed solehj to 

 The Editors of the Journal of Horticulture, tC'c, 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.C. ' 

 W© also request that correspondents will not mis np on the 

 same sheet questions relatiufij to Gardening and those on 

 Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get them 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. 

 Books [E. 3r).^Lindlev's "Flora Mediia " contains a description of 

 all officinal plants. {B. U".).— "Tlie StrawbeiTV," by Johnson and Reid, 

 forms the eighth of the " Gardeners' Monthly Volumes." If not out of print 

 it may perhaps be obtained of Messrs. Bell & Daldy. 



Asparagus Plants [A ^<'f7(n7icr).— Three-year-old plants planted no^ 

 will not yield a crop this year, nnr ought they to be cut from in 1^7(1. Rich 

 liquid manure poured between the rows once or twice a-week is the best 

 promoter of the growth and production of Asparagus. 



Storfng Apples. — Miss Brandreth informs us that "the finest and 

 most delicious Apples she ever tasted, were kept in a small outside build- 

 ing somewhat resembling? a butler's pautiy, with a succession of unpainted 

 shelves, made with holes to insert each Apple, in form like those which 

 are in use to drain decanters. The building was on an eminence." 



STRiNGiNr, Gloxinias (Stanmorr, J.B.). — The plants now showing for 

 bloom ought not to be syringed after this, but a moist atmosphere must 

 be kept up by frequent sprinkling of the floors, walls, and other surfaces, 

 PoiNSETTiA Cdttings (Idem). — They are best covered with a bell-glass, 

 but that is not very material if the atmosphere be kept close and moist, 

 and a brisk top and bottom heat bo provided. Your other question is 

 answered by a paper in last week's Journal. 



Fumigating (S. S.). — The evaporating pans will not raise moisture in 

 sufficient quantity to cause injury to tlie foliage and fruit of Vines in a 

 house filled with tobacco smoke. The foliage, however, should be dry 

 when the house is fumigated. 



Gas Lute (C. IF. Fo^'^t).-— The water in which gas lime has been placed 

 will be, if at all strongly impregnatei, injurious to the roots of jilants or 

 trees in the soil it is applied to, but we do not think it would be injurious 

 from the way in which it was api»lied, though the fact of the Potatoes 

 having been destroyed is a proof to the contrary. We advise the removal 

 of the soil as you propose, and at once replacing with fresh. Pearson's 

 "Vine Culture Under Glass" would probably suit you. It may be had 

 post free from our office for thirteen postage stamps. 



Zonal Pelargonium Leaves Spotted {Woodflcl'l Amateur). — The 

 leaves are much spotted in consequence of the attacks of some fungus, 

 probably encouraged by a too close and damp atmosphere. Admit air on 

 all favourable occasions, keep the plants as near the glass as possible, and 

 allow each plant sufficient room to develope its foliage. The parasite may 

 be destroyed by dusting the foliage with flowers of sulphur, which keep 

 dry. 



Potatoes in Pots (S.). — Being in immediate want of the frame, you 

 may place the pots out of door:? in a warm sheltered situation, and protect 

 them at night from frost by a covering of mats or other material, placing 



stakes in the ground bo as to keep the co%'criu(j off the haulm. Tho best 

 position would bo close to a wall with u pouth uwpuct. Unless protected, 

 the huuliu would no doubt be cut ofl" by frost. 



Planting Willow Cuttings (Nottinfihain).~Yoii would only lose by 

 patting in Willow rods, 7 feet long ; they would most likely only grow at 

 the top, and woulil not form a screen. We adviweyou tocul the rods into 

 lengths of 10 or 13 inches, plant them at once G inclics apart, leave no 

 inipi-e than two eyes or buds ubovo grounrl, and nmki-. llio soil firm round 

 thcra. The best time to put in tho cuttingH is aiilinnu, immediately after 

 tho leaves have fallen, or from that time up to March. Willows, however 

 are proverbial for striking readily. 



Trellis j-or Cucumbers {Crirjl SubHcriber).— Tho ho»t diaUince tor 

 tho treUis to ho from the glas^ is l:i inches, but for winter wo like it to be 

 9 or 10 inch(;s. A^ the latter distance wo have had Cucumbois for 

 summer without the leaves being injured by scorching, indeed they can- 

 not be too near if the foUage does not touch tho glass. 



Grai'Es in Cool House (JJpjk).— You may grow Grapes perfectly in a 

 house having a night temperature of 50 ■ with a corresponding rise from 

 sun heat, and an incrcaso of tcmpiirature as tho season advances, tho 

 house to be started iu the middle of March, and the Grapes to bo mostly 

 Black Hambvirgh. 



Melon-growing IN a Flue-heated Pit (7(7f7»i).— Your flue-heated pit 

 will grow Melons. The flagstones forming tho bottom of the bed may 

 bo 1 f oot or 1 foot (i inches above the fluea—moro if you have space for 

 soil, and headroom for the plants. The joints iK-t ween tho flags should 

 not be closed but left open, and at the bottom of the bed, or upon the flags, 

 you should have fi inches of rubble, 1 foot of suil upon that, and the 

 surface of tho soil sliould not be nearer tho glass than a foot, nor further 

 from it than 15 inches, unless you have a trellis, which may be 12 inches 

 from the glass. 



Plants for Surface -cove ring Under Large Ash Trees (A, L. R.) 

 — No plants thrive well under Ash trees. They and Poplars are the worst 

 trees to have in a garden or on a farm. Tho bej^t thing you can do is to 

 plant Ivy of tho tree sorts, and train it over thosi"onnd beneath the trees ; 

 and the Periwinkles would grow, putting out good plants and watering 

 during dry weather the first season. 



Vines in Pots (Reader).— You. have the right idea of growing Vines in 

 pots for fruiting in consecutive years ; but we think you lack sirface dress- 

 ings which are far more important than feeding by roots extending 

 beyond the pots, for unless you can keep most of tho roots confined to 

 the pots, your hopes of success will be estremelj' small alter the second or 

 third year's fruiting. We should prefer the Vines to be planted out in the 

 border, and they would not be enfeebled by the annual cutting away of 

 the roots which extend beyond the pots, which is root-pruning with the 

 utmost severity. Though much practised and applauded, this is diametri- 

 cally opposed to a plant's natural provision for continued fruiting and 

 extension, the only sound system of fruit-growing. Your poles may be ot 

 any height the house will admit of, and we should train on the spur 

 system, and have two shoots— one for fruit, and a second for nest year's 

 fruiting, cutting out the old shoot at tho autumn or winter pruning, train- 

 ing up new rods occasionally to displace the old, but we do not think the 

 rod system adapted to pot Vine culture. Vines grown on the Continent 

 are inferior to ours, and the mode of culture there pursued is not suited to 

 our houses, for the Vines on the Continent are in most cases horizontally 

 trained, as espalier Apple and Pear trees are with us. and the fruit, owing 

 to the shade, is neither so fine nor so well flavoured and coloured as 

 English Grapes grown under glass. In this country the Vine makes 

 longer shoots than on the Continent, and they on that account require 

 m ore room, so as to expose them fully to all the light our duller atmosphere 

 affords. 



■ Glass Screens (An Old Snhncriber). —"We helie\e you may bear about 

 the screens if you apply to Messrs. Rivers, Nurseries, Sawbridgeworth, 

 Herts. 



Chorozejia Leaves Browned (A Sft?)«cr?6cr).— The leaf sent is browned* 

 at the edge from water hanging upon it. This may be from the accumu- 

 lation of moisture during the night, which a little air early in the morning 

 would have dissipated before the sun's rays fell powerfully upon it. The 

 only remedy is to give air more freely, and especially in the early part of 

 the day. 



Azaleas Growing (Iffcjn).— Your plants are too vigorous, and the 

 growth is not well matured, hence they start into growth prematurely. Do 

 not pot so liberally, but obtain a good growth and mature it well, keeping 

 cool in winter in a light airy house; 40" at night from fire heat will be 

 sufficient heat in winter. 



Planting on Vine Border {D. M. Alexander). — We do not advise plant- 

 ing anything on Vine borders. Flowers and vegetables are equally 

 injurious, depriving the border of air and wamith. 



Orange Trees (.( Norfolk Gardener).— Yon could not apply guano 

 safely to Orange trees except in a liquid state, which you may apply at 

 every alternate watering up to October, but not in more powerful doses 

 than 2 ozs. to the gallon of water. 



Climbers for South Wall (Idem). — Wistaria sinensis, Passiflora 

 ca?rulea. Climbing Devoniensis, and Cloth of Gold Roses, would grow 

 rapidly and probably suit you, but you do not say how many you require, 



Applvino Salt to Keep off Hens [An Amateur). — We are not aware 

 that salt will keep off hens, and you cannot apply it except in small 

 quantity without injury to the plants. 1 lb. per square yard will injnro all 

 the plants you name. The dressing would not he safe unless the beds 

 were empty. 



Amaranthus ELEGANTissnius (/(^/cnM.— It'attains a good colour out of 

 doors if sown early, forwarded in a hotbed, and well hardened ofi" before 

 planting out, which should not be done until the beginning of June. 



Cyclamen Seed Sowing (Idem). — The seed should be placed in a hot- 

 bed after sowing to ensure germination, and if continued in a gentle heat 

 the plants will be fit to prick off in a few weeks, or when they have two 

 or three leaves. A hotbed of from 65 to 70 will be quite warm enough 

 for the seedlings, aud for the young plants the heat should not bo so 

 warm by lu\ Keep them near the glass, and with a moderate amount of 

 air. 



Haresfoot Fern {Shrewsbtmj). —You must not cut down the plant at 

 all, but allow tho plant's fronds to fall of their own accord, as they will 



