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was ppring planting more unsnccessful, even under general cir- 

 cumstances, and tlie want of success was still more ensured in 

 special cases by exceptional liabilities, whicli are not inet with 

 in autumn or early winter planting. Trees planted in Feb- 

 ruary and March were soon exposed to a fierce sun and a dry 

 atmosphere before a fresh fibre was formed to meet these dry- 

 ing effects, and in many thousands of instances the plants 

 burst their buds and then slowly died. The money and the 

 labour thus wasted in the past season will not have been spent 

 in vain if the result demonstrate the propriety of early plant- 

 ing, so that the roots will begin to make fibres before the earth 

 is sealed up by frost. In planting early in November there is 

 no risk of having the roots killed by exposure to severe frost, 

 ns they are apt to be when large ([uantities of trees are sent from 

 great distances in January or February. 



The heavy rains of the past week have greatly injured the 

 flower beds. On this day week the flower beds were fine, but 

 the rains have dashed the flowers off, thougli still the beds 

 are passable, more especially as the grass is so beautiful ; and 

 ft fine lawn and neat firm walks do much to neutralise some 

 deficiencies in the blaze of colour in the beds. 



Proceeded with propagating and potting, as detailed last 

 week. — Iv. F. 



TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Lucombe, Pince, & Co., Exeter. — Select List of Neio and 

 Hare Plants. Conifers, Ornamental Trees and Shrtihs, and Rases. 



Charles Turner, Royal Nurseries, Slough. — Catalogue of 

 JRoscs, Fruit Trees, Coniferic, Hardy Trees, Shrubs, dx. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— September 30. 



Our marhets nre very steady, and supplies both of home-grown and 

 foreign produce are well kept up. Soft fruits, such as Plums and Peaches, 

 are nearly over, the latter being confined to the Salway and October 

 varieties. 



Apples v; sieve 1 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bash. 



Currants }-^ sieve 



Black ."..do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 



Gooseberries ..quart 



Grapes, Hothouse, .lb. 2 



Lemons 100 10 



FRUIT. 

 d. B. d 

 6 to 2 



Melons each 2 0to5 



Nectarines doz. 



Oranges 100 12 20 



Peaches doz. 4 12 



Pears fdessert) ..doz. 2 4 



Pine Apples lb. 4 7 



Plnms }i sieve 4 



Quinces doz. 16 2 



KaspberrieB lb. 



Strawberries . . p^r lb. 



Walnuts hnsh. 10 IC 



do per 100 1 2 



VEGETABLES. 



Artichokes doz. 



Aspara?u3 100 



Beans, Kidney ^j sieve 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Bras. Spronts }'_^ sieve 



Cabbaj?e doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish .. bundle 



s. i. s. d 

 3 OtoC 

 







2 



1 



3 











1 







Leeks bnnch 



Lettuce per score 



4 Mushrooms pottle 



3 Mustd.& Cress, punnet 



Onions ... .per bushel 



Parsley per sieve 



2 Parsnips doz. 



, Peas per quart 



8 , Potatoes bushel 



I Kidney do. 



2 ' Radishes doz. bunches 



1 Rhubarb bundle 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach busbel 



' Tomatoes per doz. 



5 i Tomips bunch 





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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We also request that correspondents will not mix up on the 

 same sheet questions relating 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. 



• ,* 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. All 

 communications should therefore be addressed solely to 

 The Editors of the Journal of Horticulture, dc, 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.G. 

 Books (..(nfmonf).—" Florists' Flowers" and "Flower Gardeninff for 



the Many." Rive the information yon desire. You can have the two free 



by post from our office for nine postage stamps. 

 EDorsG Plast (C, T. it., Dorset).— Oi the two variegated plants, we 



prefer the Polemoninm carulonm to the Dactylis glomorata, but we can 

 hardlv say which of the litllo Altcmnntheras is the best. 



ruvslANTUUS AI.I1KNS (A. It. TiirAf Ol.-Your climber which is ripenini? 

 a lar"o pod is Physianthus ulbens. or White ^.f derbloom t .s a natrve 

 „l South America, an.l usually cultivated in the slove. That ■' should 

 not ...ily endure our climate aRaiust a south wall near Bristol, but ripen 

 ts fruit there is very interesting. Wo think that our late troi^^^cal s m- 

 nur is the cause of this success, and of vour Hoya caruosa also fruit ng 

 iu vour cool greenhouse. Will you oblige us by ^''''''f . ''"'■'^^".f,^^^ 

 I'liysianthus has borne exposure to one of our winters, and il so, whether 

 it had any protection ? 



Peat Chabcoai, (An Old Corr«po..rfrn«).-Wo do not know whcrethls 

 can now be procured. Th» most likely way to obtain it would bo to wr to 

 to Mr .1 Smithson, Messrs. Goulding's Manure Manufactory, Dublin. 

 •■T R" Iseo page 70 of our last volume), stated, that being unable to 

 obtain peat charcoal, he was induced to try common '^'j''"''.''-"? !,„"»», 

 it answered even better than peat charcoal. He also stated that ho was 

 unable to give the name of the party of whom he purchased it, but, 

 perhaps, "The Charcoal Burner, Datchworth, near Welwyn, Herts," 

 would fiud him. 



Heating a Fernekt and Pit {A Threc-ycnrt SuUcriber).— A smaU 

 stove in your Fern house, if furnished witli a vessel for evaporation 

 vnuld injure neither the hardy Fcrus nor the Rose. There will be no 

 ifliuly'iu heating yo-ar pit from the 1"8«, "-''^J"' ^"'j- ' '^" ''i°„''',^ 

 is a close one. The boiler being so much below the level of the pit is all 

 II its favour. If vou did so, we would take a pipe also into tho Fern 

 house Sstead of having a stove. Such hardy Ferns wil do very weU, 

 however, without anv heat if the air be kept still under glass m winter; 

 but a pipe would make it all the better and more pleasant. 



Erecting a Smai-l Vikert (IT. Mask).-It you do all your work 

 you?self of course you can do it at a very different cost from what you 

 woTd pay when a tradesman has to come, and travelling expenses, as 

 wel as wa"es, must be paid lor. We believe the materials can be had for 

 inch a mice ks vou say, but then there is the carnage, and then there 

 wiU be something of a stokehole, as well ns the chimney A small 

 Tynder boiler that will heat your place can be had for 40.. buUo kee^ 

 on all night vou would need one costing £1 more. But for your 

 w"sh for "real dc.nnliness, as vou must do your own stoking, for such a 

 small hoSse and onlv gentle forcing, we would have recommended merely 

 a brick stove against the back wall, with a pipe and small chimney 

 throuRb and oiiVside the wall, and cleanUness could be secured by 

 having the leeding door outside the waU. This, at least, would costs 



■"roses TOR Market (Clemens).-" If you have bought the Roses named 

 it is of no use my saying anything about them. If you have not bought 

 lem the following Zre the 4st of the summer Roses or jour purpose, 

 neat soil and aspect. They are good Roses. La ^ lUe de iSruxelles, 

 Sladamo sSetman?, Charles Lwsou Chenidole Madeline Kean,Bou a 

 do \mteuil and the two Bourbons Acidalie and Sir J. Paxton. Mj oria 

 Pei^etuals on?he Manetti stock are quite as early as the summer Roses. 

 The^?o"lowiSgare great bloomers, and fit for bo"?,7'^t°f Sf,*'' "j^f^^^ °J 

 show— vi7 Jules Margottin, Baronne Prevost, ijloire de l)iJon, Maurice 

 Bernardi^ Charles Lefcbvre, John Hopper, Madame Victor \ erdier, 

 Barmue de Maynard (pure white, an unceasing and great bloomer), 

 Souvenfr de D?. Jamaii, Mar;-chal Vaillant, Madame Boutm, Due da 

 Cazis, Senateur Va"?e. and Prince CamiUo de Rohan. They are a noble 

 lot.— W. F. Eadclyffe." 



Transplanting and Potting Cajieluas (S. F. B.).--Tou may now 

 remove the'^Camellias planted in a 'Conservatory border bun would be 

 safer to do so at the end of February or beginning of Marcli , if they are 

 in bloom at that time the moving and potting may be deferred until the 

 floweriu" is over. The plants being small, you can remove them without 

 much dilturblng the roots, preserving a ball to each plant. If removed 

 Lowtte flower buds will probably fall. The bo^der.shoud be well drained 

 also the pots. For soil use a compost of two-thirds turf, cut »t>oat an 

 °nch thick, from an old pasture where the soil is -ifond, rich rather light 

 oan. aSd torn into 1- nch pieces. The other third shou d be hbrous 

 sandy peat In potting the compost should be made rather hrm and the 

 sSTface finished ofl- with a little finer soil. The compost should be used 

 frYsh It would not hurt Heaths and Epacrises to repot them now but 

 Sless you h "ve some particular object in view it would be better to defer 

 doing so until March. 



Wintering CororeiisA ceiestib (Berlts).-We have splendid beds of 

 it Welre^t it as a hardy P"ennial, merely driving early in Novem^^^^^^^ 

 or after the first severe frost, a top-dressing of leaf mould 3 or J incbes 

 Thick, and whether the plants are from seed or from the old rootswe have 

 a snlendid bloom. They do much better in this way than when taken 

 UP but we take up large numbers of them for borders after the hrst frost, 

 TOt in sandy soilTand place on a shelf in the greenhouse They are kept 

 father diT during the winter, and when they begin to grow are supplied 

 w"th watJr more'copiously. You may keep the roots in dry ^»nd dunn| 

 the winter in anv place secure from frost, and n March they may be 

 pottrd placed in'^a frame or greenhouse, and planted out m May. A 

 cellar is a good place to keep the roots. 



Apricots for a Socth Wall (M.m).-Having Moorpark, you may add 

 Euisha, earUer than it ; Hemskerk, and St. Ambroise. 



CCLTCRE OF Belladonna and Gcernsev Lilit.s (Brom!f.vl--The8e 

 bulbous plants should be kept in a growing state dunng the "■" "• »"* 

 be placed on an airy shelf in the greenhouse, not shaded bv obmbers or 

 ntber nants Thev should be we supplied with water, but not in ei- 

 feifveTuaititv The" ofs mav be set on a pan filled with wet s.an.^ 

 which in "Smmer should never be allowed to become dry, but when the 

 Toliiee is mature the plants should have little water and full exposure to 



c sun's r^ys Do no repot until the roots split the pots, or not oftener 

 ban e?crv two or three years. It is seldom the bulbs bloom the second 

 yca° or [f they do so it is but sparingly, owing to their being disturbed 

 the previous autumn. 



Primula faeinosa (.S(a..),orr).-It is probably the prettiest of the 

 British Primroses but is not suitalle for an ordinary herbaceous border, 

 fho gh It ™11 succeed in such 11 a little care be taken -tb it- It is best 

 grown on moist ledges of rockwork. In a border {'fonl^ have good 

 drainage, a depth of 6 inches or more of pieces of ^'one being placed 

 under U and on the stones 6 inches of soil composed of light hbrons 

 loam, peat or old cocoa-nut fibre refuse, with one-half grit. The situation 



