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run away with any freeh idea, and consider that what is appli- 

 cable in one case will be applicable in all caeos. Tliroiigli the 

 kindness of a friend who saw the operation, we were among 

 the liist to draw attention to the American pump, so Bucoees- 

 fully used iu Abyssinia, by which all sinking of wells is avoided. 

 Visitors have said to us, '• Why do you not have two or three 

 American pumps, and thus ^ot plenty of water? We see there 

 is water in your ponds, there is or must be plenty a little 

 deeper iu the ground." It is almost useless to tell them that 

 the water in the ponds is that collected from rains, that a tube 

 pump can be of little use where the water is not fouud under 

 less than 30 feet from the surface, whilst our well only retains 

 water at something like 280 feet from the surface, and oven 

 that has dried at times. 



Some also tell us there is nothing like artesian wells. " Why 

 don't you get one sunk, and have the water bubbling up for 

 you?" and all this though we occupy the highest ground for 

 miles, and must go to the level of the nearest streams before 

 we can obtain water at all, and then raise it by machinery and 

 force-pump to the surface. An artesian spring can only run 

 over when the water comes from a much higher altitude, and 

 therefore, as a rule, can only be had in a valley, and not on the 

 top of a hill. Strange things as respects water do sometimes 

 take place. For instance, on one side of Barnet, and that on 

 high ground, you cannot sink 3 or 4 feet without coming to 

 water ; on the other side you must go down some hundreds of 

 feet. Those who think they can have American tube pumps 

 and artesian wells anywhere would admire water-work foun- 

 tains as much at the top of a hill as iu the level in the valley, 

 though the valley is the only place in which a fountain can 

 appear naturally ; and all fountains on higher grounds will 

 suggest to the considerate the machinery that is required to raise 

 the water. The waterworks, as at Chatsworth andEnville, will 

 ever be the most successful when no such thought of machinery, 

 steam power, &c., is obtruded on the mind of the spectator. 

 At the former place the knowledge that there is a lake on the 

 top of the hill throws everything of the artificial as to obtain- 

 ing the water aside. At the latter the splendid fountains in 

 the lakes are supplied from a large elevated reservoir, and if 

 not told, you know nothing of the steam power that keeps the 

 large reservoir full. The smoke and the clanking from the 

 steam-engine, if seen and heard, would rob the gorgeous scene 

 of half its charms. The lesson to be learned is not to attempt 

 much in the way of wells and fountains on the tops of hills, 

 and to make no great effects with jets or falls of water unless 

 you are placed in a valley, as then a fountain would look 

 natural. — B. F. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— July 2!t. 



A GREAT falling off in tlie supply of soft fruits, Raspberries and 

 Strawberries being quite over. Large arrivals of West Indian Pines are 

 again reported, and we liave heavy consignments of Apples and Pears 

 from the Continent. Good vegetables are scarce. 



FBDIT. 



Apples >o sieve 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bush. 



Currants 3._2 sieve 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 



Gooseberries ..quart 

 Grapes, Hothouse, .lb. 

 Lemons 100 



Artichokes doz. 



Aeparagus 100 



Beans, Kidney y^ sieve 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Bma. Sprouts ^J sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



CucumberB each 



Enidive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



H«rbs bunch 



Soreeradish .. handle 



e. d. s. d 



MeloDB each 3 



Nectarines doz. 4 



Oranges 100 12 



Peaches doz . 6 



Pears (dessert) ..doz. 2 



Pine Apples lb. 3 



Phims 1-2 sieve 5 



Quinces doz. 



Raspberries lb. 



Strawberries . . per lb. 



Walnuts bush. 10 



do per 100 1 



d. B. 

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 6 

 





 

 

 

 

 8 



Leeks bnnch 



Lettuce .... per score 



Mushrooms pottle 



Mustd.tft Cress, punnet 

 Onions per doz bchs. 



Parsley per sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes doz. bunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Siiinach busLel 



Tomatoes.... per doz. 

 Turnips bnnch 



d. B. d 

 4 too 6 



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4 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



•»• We request that no one will write privalelj to the depart- 

 mentoi writers of the "Journal of Hoiticullure, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and expense. All 

 communications should therefore be addressed solely to 

 The Editors of the Journal of liorticuliure, <£'c., 171, Fleet 

 Street^ London^ E.C, 



We also request that correspondents will not mix i;p on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those on 

 Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get t hum 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. 



Dark or Pink Hybrid Perpetual Robe {A Subscriber).—" Yon re- 

 quire a dark or pink Hybrii Perpetual which will bloom abundantly 

 and lato in the teason, and 'which must be a successful and quick 

 climber on a west aHpect.' For the dark, 1 recommend Due de Cazts, and 

 lor the pink, Anna Aloxieff ; they are both good II' Urst-class flowers are 

 needed, for dark procure Prince Cimiillo de Rohan ; and for salmon 

 pink, William Griffiths, a Rose that has uevar been excoUed.— W. P. 

 Radclyffe." 



Rose Cardinal Patrizzi(E. H. Doicsoii). — " Having earthed-up Cardinal 

 Patrizzi 8 inches over the puiut of union, no doubt it has made roots of 

 its own, independent of the Minetti stock. If you wish to have blossoms 

 this season from the 4-fcet blind shoots you must cut back G inches or so 

 to a plump eye in tolerably hard wood. At Ihe fall of the leaf you will do 

 well to take "the plant up, cut away the Manetti ftock which is too far 

 removed from the sui-face, and having replanted, dry-mulch through the 

 winter. — W. F. Radclyffe." 



Rose Over-luxuriant (Thr Hoar, at tin' Coitagc).—^^ The glorious crim- 

 son Hose, of a deep colour, and large size, growth of wood (i inches, I 

 imagine was Louis XIV. Another Rose of moderate growth, and of a 

 similar description, would be Victor Emmanuel, a Bourbon. If the lady 

 will forward me a bloum, or a piece of wood, or foliage, I might be able to 

 tell the name. LouiyXtV. is of the colour of rich blood, dark-shaded, and 

 not over-full. Victor Emmanuel is crimson pur(de. Tnere are two other 

 d^ep crimson Rosea of moderate growth, and which may be called 

 glorious — namely, Madame Masson, large, expanded, a claret crimson; 

 and Xavier Olibo, globular, tine before expans-ion, but hollow as a drum. 

 I expect if the rate of growth is correct that the Rose is either Louie 

 XIV., or one of these two. Supposing the variety not to he any of these, 

 it may be Due de Cazes, Pierre Nutting, or Prince Camille de Rohan. 

 The first is not over-full, the second is globular and full, the third is flat, 

 or expanded, and dies ofl" nearly black. With regard to the long blind 

 shoot, cut the shoot back one-third, and if the Rose is not a summer 

 Rose, it will probably put forth side branches and bloom this year. No 

 matter what the Rose is, if the growth is rampant, the less it is cut the 

 more chance there is of producing blooms. If the ground is not iu high 

 condition when the Rose is cut back, supply a little manure, and water. 

 — W. F. Uadclyffe." 



Grapes Spotted (O. C. G.). — The Grapes you enclosed are affected 

 with what gardeners call " the spot." It is believed to be an ulcer caused 

 by the roots not supplying a suUiciency of sap. Water th^m with tepid 

 water abundantly, and give a little weak liquid manure. Thin half the 

 berries out froni each bunch in which they are as close as in that yon 

 enclosed. 



Name of Grape {John Fcrm^).— The ben-ics were totally smashed and 

 dry. Send some in a tin box. 



Vines for Conservatory (E. B. B.), — We recommend a Black Ham- 

 burgh and a Royal Muscadine. 



Febn at the Leicester Exhibition. — " In your account of the Floral 

 Committee's awards at Leicester, you give Mr. E. J. Lowe, instead oi 

 J. E. Mapplebeck, the credit of receiviog a first-class certificate for a 

 Fern exhibited by me, which I found, and he does not possess. The 

 name of it is Lastrea Filix-mas var. Mapplebeckii. — John E. Mapplebeck, 

 Mosslcy, near Birmiuf/ham.'" 



Address (J. F. N-). — Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing's address is 

 Stanstead Park, Forest Hill, London, S.E., andl7, South Frederick Street, 

 Edinburgh. 



Training Vines in a Vinery (Reader).— If you make no other use of 

 your front glass, there is no objection to spurring the Vines from the 

 ground to the top of the front glass, and thence along beneath the rafters, 

 but here we should advise the mode of mnuagement to be the same, for 

 if under the rafter you were chiefly to use the rod-system, it would starve 

 the lower part of the Vine. With Vines '6 feet apnrt you will do little 

 good on the back wall by training down after the Vines are established, 

 but the plan may be tried. The shade will be against them there. If 

 you grow much below the Vines, your spurs in front will keep out light 

 from the secondary crops. 



Pruning Fruit Trees (Richd. Taylor).— U the strong leading shoots 

 are stopped early, the laterals produced would have time to ripen their 

 wood perfectly, and the shortening of the stronger shoots would diffuse 

 the strength more equally over the tree. We should in your case stop 

 back freely, and we think that as you have so little fruit, we would also 

 root-prune in September, doing it so as to check growth, but not so much 

 as to cause the trees to flag. 



Heating a Peach House with Hot Water (J. M., Northfield).~Al- 

 thouyh it is not necessary to heat a Peach house, it would be an advan- 

 tage to do so, as you can take pipes very readily from your present boiler. 

 Pipes on the Truss principle will be best for removal. We think they will 

 cost a little more, but it would be best to ask the advertiser, as we have 

 used none ourselves. As you have common jointed pipes in the other 

 houses it would bu well to have an understanding as to removal with the 

 landlord. A boUer complete in itself may be removed, but ono 



