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JOORNAL OP HORTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAKDBNEB. 



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and I may add light. To prove this I last year inntle the follow- 

 ing experiment : — lu pruning a house of youDR Muscats of the 

 first season's (,'rowth, I left one vigorous rod, 18 feet in length. 

 Wlien the house was started I laid this Vine horizontally 

 along the front of the house, having the bottom half of the 

 rod directly above the pipes, and boudin,'; the top half out so 

 as jast to be clear of tbe warm air-curreut, but ke^pin^ it on 

 the same horizontal level. The bottom half broke first and 

 regnlarly, and when tbe shoots were about an inch long I laid 

 the top half in above the pipes also, and the rod broke evenly 

 its entire length, with the exception of a few buds on that 

 part of it which lay over the space between tbe evaporating- 

 tronghs, and which had not been subjected to the constantly 

 ascending vapour. Last November I pruned-in tbe shoots ol 

 the same Vine to one eye all along, and tbi-; fe^son I left it in its 

 natural position — i.e., tied to tbe wires under the roof, which 

 has a pretty sharp auyle, and it has broken as evenly as bofcrs, 

 from top to bottom, but in conseiiuence of its being cropped 

 heavily last year by way of experiment, it has shown no fruit, 

 and the shoots seem to' be weaker. — J. Simpson, WorlUy Ilall. 



GARDENING IN TOWNS. 



In confined smoky towns no plants flourish and bloom so 

 well as the Chrysanthemums. I have grown them in the 

 Temple Gardens nearly thirty years as the priucipal town 

 flower. Tiiey are green iu the beds nearly all tbe year, and 

 bloom freely iu October, November, and the beginning of 

 December, when no other flower is to be seen. 



The treatment I Rive them for the beds and borders merely 

 consists in dividing the roots in the spring, and replanting after 

 digging and manuring the borders. I water in hot dry weather 

 through the summer, tying the plants up to strong stakes, and 

 a little mulching of rotten dung in August will be found of 

 great assistance. 



The Chrysanthemums which I grow for bedding are chiefly 

 Pompons ; they are propagated in June by cutting«, and planted 

 in the beds iu September. They bloom very freely, and if 

 watering is properly attended to, I find they scarcely show any 

 signs of the moving. They keep up a succession of bloom 

 in the beds to the end of November. The other plants used 

 for filling these are Crocuses, Hyacinths, Tulips, Annuals, 

 Pelargoniums, Calceolarias, Verbenas, and all other useful 

 bedding plants, so that I grow in each bed four crops a-year. 



For large specimen flowers I take oif the suckers as soon as 

 these throw up in December, put them iu 50-sized {.5-inoh) 

 pots, in loam and sand, place them in a cold frame through 

 the winter, repot in 5-inch pots iu spring, and so go on re- 

 potting in good, turfy, strong loam and rotten dung till they 

 are put into the blooming-pots, which are Oinch pots, or 

 nothing less than an 8-ineh pot. The pots are plunged in the 

 borders on the top of a GO-sized pot, to keep out the worms 

 and give good drainage. The pots are plunged within 2 inches 

 of the rim, and the plants watered with weok liquid manure 

 three times a-week, from August to the time of the flowers 

 showing colour. The foliage, too, is syringed every morning 

 and evening. The side shoots are taken off, the plants trained 

 to one stem, and in September they generally divide at the top 

 into three or four shoots. li' the fljwer buds are more than 

 two on a shoot, thin out all but the best ; say four good buds 

 on a plant are quite sufficient to insure a good largo bloom. 

 Insects are very troublesome ; they must be well looked after, 

 especially caterpillars and earwigs. 



The following is a list of the varieties I find best to insure 

 a good show : — 



Large FLOWEEiNG. — White — Vesta, Mrs. George Eundle, The 

 Globe, Beverley, White Queen of England, Formosa, and 

 Florence Nightingale. Yellow — Jardin des Plantes, Gloria 

 Mandi, Delight (or Yellow l'\jrmos,'i), Guernsey Nugget, Golden 

 Hermine, Gulden Qieen of England, Little Harry, Golden 

 Beverley, and Annie Salter. Rose — Lady Harding, Ariadne, 

 Alfred Salter, and King of Denmark. Blusli — Hermine, Lady 

 Slade, Venus, and C.-ssandra. Red — Pio Nono, Mount Etna, 

 St. Patrick, and Nil Ueeperandura. Orange amd Red — llav. J. 

 Dix, Dupont de I'Eure, John Salter, and Sparkler. Chestmit — 

 Mr. Gladstone and Diver Cromwell. Crimson — Crimson 

 Velvet (late). Dr. Sharpe. Purple — Prince of Wales and Sir 

 George Bowyer. Amarantji, — Progae and Lord Palmerstou. 

 Rose and Crimann — Piince .Mfred. 



Pompons. — White — Cddo NuHi, Argentine, Miss Talfourd, 

 Martha, Wnite Trevenna, and Marabout. IVJioic— Aigle d'Or, 



G6n^ral Canrobert, Golden Anrore BorCale, Berrol, Golden 

 Cede Niilli, Drin Drin, and La Vogue (gilden). Lilac— Gedo 

 Nulli. Cri^airt— Andromeda. Violet— tiiliiio, Mr. Murray. Rose 

 — Duruilot and Koso Trevenna. C'/i6'»t//— Florence. Crimson — 

 Bob. CVicsfHUt— Sainto Thai!). /JrowK— ilustapba. Carmine 

 — Salamon and Dr. Bois Duval, lironze Red- -hi, Liliputienne. 

 Tlie whole of the varieties named in this list bloom freely 

 with me. Tbe Anemone-flowered varieties do not bloom well 

 here, but both the large and small varieties are very beautiful 

 when grown under glass. I only write about those which do 

 well exposed to smoke in the open borders. — Samdeu Bbooue, 

 Temple Gardens. 



INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OP PLANTS AT 



ST. PETERSBURG. 



To reduce the railway fares for visitors to the International 

 Exhibition of Plants at St. Petersburg, and also for the trans- 

 port of plants and other objects in connection with gardening, 

 the Association for Developing Gardening of Burlin ha<i ob- 

 tained from tbe Minister of Commerce, Industry, and Public 

 Works, the following communication : — 



"Berlin, 31s< Jlfc/vA, lf)69. 



" In reply to the report of Gth inst., I bog to communicate to the 

 Association, that I have resolved to permit the following facilities of 

 transport on the government railway lines, tor the 'International 

 Kxhihition of Objects of Ilorticaltaro at St. Petersburg,' which will 

 be held from the 17th to the iUst of May (5th to 19th of May, O.S.). 



" a. AU Uviu!:; plants, as well as all perishable objects, which carry 

 the address, ' International Kxhibitiou of Objects of Horticnltnre at 

 St. Petersburg.' will be sent on tlie going journey by passenger trains 

 (but not by mail or express trains), and only be charged after the 

 ordinary goods tailff. 



" b. AU specified objects, as well as all machines, implements, &c., 

 will be returned free of charge for carriage if such have not been sold 

 at the Exhibition, and carry certificates of the Committee to be ex- 

 hibitors' objects, and returned to the exhibitor. 



" e. Persons who visit the Exhibition have to pay for the going 

 journey the ful. fares, but the return journey to their country is free 

 fnr the same class of carriage, if they piove by a certificate from the 

 Kxhibition Committee that they are visitors ot the Exhibition. 



" The Dh-ectors of the royal railways have received the order ac- 

 cordingly, aud also the Royal Railway Commissioners have been 

 ordered to try to obtain tbe same facilities from tho x^rivate railway 

 companies of their districts. These facilities extend only to three 

 weeks after the closing of the Exhibition. — The Minister of Com- 

 merce, Industry, and Public Works. — By order, Weisioaupt." 



The following information relating to the final arrangements 

 for transport of plants aud other objects intended for the Ex- 

 hibition at St. Petersburg, has been received from the Com- 

 mittee : — 



" The Great Russian Railway Co;npany will charge to exhibitors 

 the following tarilf : — Fur each werst and each pud, l-:-iO kopeks (from 

 the Prussian frontiers to St. Petersburg is S4U werst, and 3 pud are 

 exactly 1 cwt. English). 



" The rule that objects of large dimensions shall pay double carriage, 

 aud that such as do not weigh 3 pud shall pay for ?> pud, does not 

 apply to the Exhibition goods. A railway van loaded entirely by 

 one exhibitor pays 1.5 kapeka per werst. — The President of the Com- 

 mission, E. Regel. — The Secretary of the Administrative Depart- 

 ment, E. Endler." 



" 1 cwt. from the Prnssian frontier to St. Petersburg will cost 

 •2s. 6rf." 



Dr. Karl Koch, of Beslin, informs us that arrangements are 

 being made at Berlin, for all tho visitors from tho west pro- 

 ceeding to the St. Petersburg Show to rendezvous at Berlin, 

 aud proceed in a body thence to the Exhibition ; and that on 

 their return they will remain two or three days at Berlin, where 

 a committee has been formed to show themall objects of hor- 

 ticultural interest. 



We are requested to inform intending exhibitors that all 

 communications relating to the E.-ihibition should be sent to 

 one or other of the three appointed representatives, on or before 

 the 24th inst. Tho representatives are Dr.. Hoon, office of The 

 JoCKNAL OF Hor.TictJLTaRE, Fleet Strett; Dr. Masters, office 

 of the Gardeners' Clironicle, Weilinglon S.reet, Covent Garden; 

 and Mr. H. J. Veitcu, Kiug'a B jad, Chelsea. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



"D., Deal," recommends any who are curions in sack 



matters to see four extraordiuary paintings by Morales, a 



Spanish painter, temp. 1G40, of the four seasons, each fttOO 



and figure composed of flowers, fruits, and vegetables, cone- 



