December 31, 1803. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTIOULTUliE AND COTTAGE QARDENEB, 



505 



TEOETAStES. 



ArticLokod do7. 8 



Aspamgna 100 10 



Beans, Kidney per hd, 2 



Boot, Ked doz. 2 



Broccoli baudle 1 



Brns. Sprouts J-isievo 2 



Cabbage doz. 1 



OapBiooms 100 



Carrots biinob 



Cauliflower doz. o 



Celery bundle 1 



Ctlonmbei'S onch 



Endive doz. 2 



Fennel bunch 



Garllo lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish .. bundle S 



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Leeks ..*..... bnfioh 

 Lettuce .... per score 

 Mnghrooms .... pottle 

 Mustd.A Cress, punnet 



Onions per bnbhel 



Parsley per sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes doz. bunches 



Khul)arb bundle 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes.... per doz. 

 Turnips bunch 



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TRADE CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 

 Charles Tamer, Royal Narseriea, Slongb. — CataloQue of 

 Seeds for the Kitchen Garden, Flower Garden, and Farm, 



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. All 

 oommunioationa should therefore be addressed solely to 

 The Editors of the Jouitial of Horticulture., d'C.^ 171, Fleet 

 Street, Londont E.C. 

 We also request that correspondents will not mis 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. 

 Cottage Gardeners' Dictionary (T. T.).— If you send a post-office 

 order for 7s. 2d. you can have it, with the supplement bound up with it, 

 free by post. It contains the names of plants iutroduced into Groat 

 Britain down to the end of 1667, translations of the generic and epocilic 

 names, culture, insects, diseases, operations, etructuros, &c. 



Vines for a Greenhouse [Bath Subscriber). —'We presume you wish 

 to grow plants in summer in addition to Grapes ; if so, your Vines must 

 be further apart than if you dispense with plants in summer, or grow 

 such as will endure a consiierable amount of shade. Mrs. Pince'a 

 Black Muscat, Golden Champion, and Royal Ascot are first-rate Grapes, 

 and will succeed in a greenbouse, a littleassistance being j^iven them in 

 dull and cold periods, but we are not prepared to say they will ripen with- 

 out heat. If yon have plants we would not have the Vines nearer than 

 4 feet apart, placing the end ones 1 foot from the ends, and allowing 

 4 feet between each Vine, which will give you eight. These may be— 

 four Black Hamburgh, two Foster's Wbite Seedling, one Calabrian 

 Kaisin, and one Lady Downe's. The size of tho burder is ample. Char- 

 coal will not answer as a substitute for lime rubbish, but it is an excellent 

 material to form a part of every Vine border ; one barrowful to every 

 nine of the other material, will be sufficient. For lime rubbish you may 

 substitute chLilk, in pieces from tho size of a hen's egg to that of a 

 hazel nut. It may form one-sixth of (he whole. 



Sowing Larch, Spruce, Fir, and Crab Seeds (J. H. D.).— The seed 

 of Firs, Spruce, and Larch should be sown early in March in light sandy 

 soil. Crab pips may bo sown now or before March, and Hawthorn haws 

 now or before the time above named, but the earlier the better. The 

 plants from the latter will not appear next year. 



Sowrao CoLEUs Seed (Idem).— The best time to sow the seed is early 

 in March, in a hotbed. 



Planting Stocks for Grafting (Jiifm).— Crab, Pear, Plum, and Cherry 

 stocks planted now may be grafted next year, but are best when estab- 

 lished a year before grafting. The latter two are better budded than 

 grafted. 



Box Edging (F. J.).— We fear you have misunderstood us. Wo did not 

 mean to put an edging to the grass, but to remove the grass verge, and 

 plant in its place an edging of Box. This may be planted from tho 

 present time up to April, and may be kept very dwarf and neat by clip- 

 ping as required. Wo think it would please you better than an edging of 

 tiles. Tiles are too cold and tame, and we would not place them where 

 Bos would live. In small confined places grass edgings or verges are not 

 often satisfactory, and wo can with confidence recommend Bos, though 

 if you live in a town and your place is much confined it will not thrive, 

 and you will have no alternative but to have tiles in place of Box. 



White and Red Camellias for Standards in a Conservatory (A. B.), 

 —Alba plena or the old Double White and Compicta alba are pood whites. 

 Fimbriata is also good and prettily fringed. Uampieri and Koyauth are 

 good scarlets. Monarch, bright red, and Bealii or Leeana superba are 

 calculated to make good heads. They are all decided in colour. 



Cultivation of Hard-wooded Plants {Dulcibclla), — We fear we can 

 be of Uttle service to you. Camellias and Epacrises can be grown well 

 in a greenhouse amongst a miscellaneous collection of other plants. A 

 separate house is not required, though it is well when there is separate 

 accommodation for every description of plant. Oir advice is, etate fully 

 to your gardener whit you wish, and give him to understand that others 

 with the same means as are at his disposal have a result such as you 

 wish for. Give him " In-door Gardeniug," which can be had from our 

 office, free by post, if you enclose twenty postnge stamps with your 

 address. Upon any question he may not have found treated of in tbe 

 Journal we shall be glad to render what assistance we can. 



Raising Auriculas from Seed (E. B. B.).—li is not an unusual occur- 

 rence lor Auricula seed iiot to grow, as that saved from first-rate flowers 

 is frequently abortive. We have not only been disappointed by seed 

 purchased, but by seed home-saved. It should be sown early in March 

 in pans filled with light rich soil, covering it lightly with fine soil. It 

 should be eown somewhat thickly, and placed in a cold frame, keeping 

 the soil moist but not very wot, and giving air abund;intly after tho 

 plants appear. In froai eight to ten weeks they should bo removed to a 

 shady situation, and in June they will bo fit to prick off. 



Covering Cherry Tree with Frigi-Domo (J. ir. A'.).— Frigi-domo, 

 we think, is too close a material for covering Cherry trees to protect tho 

 fruit from birds, and yet allow of sufficient air for the fruit hanging hite. 

 Thin muslin or tiffany would be better, and best of all netting with hal!- 

 iuoh meshes, sufficient to keep out bird-j. 



Fruit- Garden Arranoesient (Ji;;torami(a).— Wo think your garden 

 well laid out, the walks very conveniently placed. On the right hand of 

 tho walk No. 2, tbe border behig 15 feet wide, we would have two rows of 

 Pears on the Quince stock, planting tho first row 3 feet from llio walk, 

 and allowing 7 feet from row to row, and 4A feet from tree to trc??. They 

 should be pyramids or bushes, whichever you prefer, and the kinds — 

 Alexandre Lambrc, Citron des Carmes, Colmar d'Et«-, Williams's Bon 

 Chretien, Fondaute d'Automne, Beurre Diel, Eeurre d'Aremberg, Ber- 

 gamotte Esperen, Louise Bouuo of Jersey, Baronne de Mello, and 

 Zephirin Gregoire. On tho other side of the walk No. 2 we would havo 

 Apple trees as lateral cordons, 1 foot from the walk, and G feet apart. You 

 will see a list of kinds at page 340 of the present volume. In the border 

 to the right of No. 3 walk we would have pyramid Apple trees at the same 

 distance api'.rt as the Pears, and on tho other side continue the lateral 

 cordon Apples, and we would have them to the right and left of No.l 

 walk. In the border to the right of No. 5 walk we would have a row of 

 vertical cordon Pear trees, planting them 2 feet apart, and the samo 

 distance from tho walk, and would not allow them to exceed 7 feet ia 

 height. On both sides of the central walk No. 4 wo would plant pyramid 

 Plum and Cherry trees on tbe Mahalob stock 6 feet apart, and 3 feet from 

 the walk. Of Cherries— May Duke, Late Duke, and Florence; and of 

 Plums— Jefferson, Kirke's, Green Gage, July Green Gage, aud Coe's 

 Golden Drop. The border to the left of No. 1 walk will be suitable for 

 Strawberries, and you may have a row of them to the right of No. 2, 

 3, and on both sides of No. 4 walk, about 15 iuche^s from the edge of tho 

 walks, which will, no doubt, be enough. You will by this arrangement 

 have the central portion of two beds or borders— that is, between No. 5 

 and 4, and between No. 4 and 3 walks, for Raspberries, Gooseberries, and 

 Currants, the latter two of which should not be nearer the other treea 

 than 6 feet, allo.ving 4^ feet between the rows, and 3 or 4 feet between 

 the plants, according to their size. Tho Raspberries should be? feet from 

 the fruit trees, aud 5 feet ought to he allowed between the rows, and 

 3 feet between the stools. The Pears should be on the Quince, tho 

 Apples on the English Paradise stock, and the Cherries on the Mahaleb. 

 We have given what we consider a fair i)roportiou of each description of 

 fruit. The fan mode of training is not eligible for the form of trees 

 abovenamed. You will find a list of tho trees best suited to your pur- 

 pose in page 387-38S, referred to by you. The distances there given for 

 the trees, &c., are, owiug to the circumstances, less than yours, but tho 

 latter are all the better. 



Bottom Heat {S. 5.).— We do not see why your plan will not answer. 



Joints of Hot-water Pipes Leaking (BeIfaH).—'Vfe havo known 

 several cases of leakage when the joints of hot-water pipes were run 

 with molten lead. If yon had rammed the joints well, as you say, with 

 oakum, and then with lint and red or white lead in tho soft state, there 

 would have been no leakage. As a partial remedy now, we would drive 

 the lead all round as much -is possible, then empty the pipes and use red 

 lead all round, the more of it the better. Let it settle for twenty-fonr 

 hom-3 before admitting the water, and then paint tho joints. If this do 

 not answer vou will bave to melt the lead in the joints by meina of a 

 brazier of charcoal beneath them, and then fill as above, or with iron 

 filings and ammonia in the usual way. 



Galvanised Wire for Treb-training {H. W. 7J.).— Galvanised wire 

 is the best that can be used for training Peach and Nectarine trees 

 against open walls. It does not rust, and never requires pointing as the 

 ordinary wire does. We have seen instances of the gumming and 

 cankering of the young shoots where galvanised wire has been used (we 

 baliovo the very instances which have given rise to its objection), the 

 cause of which must ba ascribed to some other outward infiaence. 

 Wired walls are very neat, and facilitate training, but tho trees trained 

 oa tbem are about as liable to the attacks of insects as those that are 

 nailed in the usual manner. 



Orchard-hocse Arrakgement {-4. D.).— The plan you propose will 

 answer. If your wall will admit of it, have the back wall 12 feet above 

 the floor, and the front, partly of glass, from 5 to 6 feet. You may vary 

 these heights respectively. We have a useful house, height at back 

 11 feet ; width. 11 feet ; height in front, 4§ feet. When you have settletl 

 on the plane of the roof, take length and breadth, and that will show very 

 nearly the number of feet of glass required. As fruit is your object 

 have nothing to do with a stage in the house. Devote the back wall as 

 you uropose to Peach trees, and the front of the house to trees in pots 

 paitfy plunged in the ground. The simplest way to do this is to have a 

 narrow woodea-trellised path to walk upon at 3 feet from the back wall, 

 and then fill the front thinlv. In an 16-fcat length, three Vines up the house 

 will be better than nine, as the more tho Vines shade the less will the 

 other trees succeed. A small iron stove lined with firebrick, which will 

 co=t about 50s., will be the best for heating. 



Persian Melon Seed.—*' A. A. C." and others inquire where they can 

 purchase seed of the Persian Melon, described by Loudon, and in the 

 " Transactions " of the Royal Horticultural Society. Wo shall be obliged 

 by a reply. 



Gra«s under a Tree's Shade (H. W. BurUigh).—T:hG Grass which 

 best endures such shade is the Sweet-scented Vernal Grass, Anthosan- 

 thum odoratum. It may be obtained true of any of the well-known 

 seedsmen who advertise in our columns. No treatment is needed except 

 forking the surface just before sowing the seed in early spring, and 

 rolling lightly after sowing. 



Insects (A. T. E.).— The insect you have Sent, which clusters very 

 thickly in warm places in cracks and crevicea about your house (having 



