Jnno 11, 1888. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOIITICULTUIIE AND OOTTAGF GARDENER. 



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for £30; Dondroohilnm filiforme, £6 lOii ; and Saccolabium 

 guttatum giganteum, £72 !•>•. Mr. WilliamH, of Ilolloway, was 

 Ukowise au extensive buyer, giving for Ai'ridos nobile, £1:); 

 Oncidinm Lanceannm, .£1! li.-i. ; Co^logyne pandaruta, £7 1U.<. ; 

 Anguloa lUiokeri, £H ; Angr^ieum caudatiiin, L'17; I'halM'nop- 

 sis grandillora, £',t ; Ai'rides Larpentiv, £17 Kf. ; Aiaides odo- 

 ratum purpurascens and Lidia gigantea, £14 each ; Cypripe- 

 dinm barbatum giganteum, £10 lO.s. ; Lmlia elegans, £19; 

 and Catt.leya Mossiaj magnitica, £20. Among private buyer?, 

 S. Mendel, Esq., who was an extensive purchaser, gave for a 

 young plant of S'uuJa Lowii £2;> ; for a line Acrides I'leldiugii, 

 £34; Saccolabium pr:umorsum, £10; Lujlia elegana, .€lo ; 

 Aeridcs Lindleyanum, £11 lis.; Dendrobium Falconeri, £21 ; 

 AiJrides Farmeii, £27 Ci. ; Aiirides SchriiJeri, £55 ; A. cyliu- 

 dricum, £17 ; Cattleya labiata purpurea, £.91 10s. ; Saccola- 

 bium ampullaceum, a superb specimen, £10; S. retuaum, 

 £23 2s. ; S. pramorsum, £13 ; and Cypripedium caudatum gi- 

 ganteum, £14. E. Warner, Esq., W. Agnew, Esq., Mr. Dixon, 

 Mr. I'arlier, J. Day, Esq., of Tottenham, Dr. Ainsworth, T. 

 Salt, Esq., and Mr. Medley, also gave liberal prices ; but to 

 attempt to enumerate more than a few out of nearly eiglit 

 hundred lots would occupy more space than we can alford. 



Wn. J. N. Lee, who has been for some year.s the Sub- 



Editor of our vaUiable contemporary, " Dell's Weekly Mes- 

 senger," is a candidate for the Secretaryship of the lloyal Agri- 

 cultural Benevolent Society, vacant by the re.signation of iVIr. 

 Shaw. We sincerely trust that that excellent Charity ma.y be 

 fortunate enough to secure the service of a gentlemen in every 

 way so qualified to promote its proapeiity as Mr. Lee. 



WORK FOR THE WEEK. 



KITCHEK GARPEN. 



BTOcenli, get as many as are ready planted out. Like all 

 hardy seedlings this season they soon crowd eacli other in the 

 seed beds. Do the same with Caiiliiloirer and C<i}>hnftc plants. 

 lieaiis and I'fiis, except for the earliest crops of these, pieoplo 

 seldom think of stopping them ; but they should all be stopped 

 if only to keep them within reasonable bounds. Sow suc- 

 cessions of H/'i'hs, such as Basil, CJirrvil, PinsUine, Parsley, 

 &c. It is a good plan to sow plenty of the latter in a quarter 

 of Gooseberries or Currants, as it will be found useful in Feb- 

 ruary and March, when to be scarce of Parsley is very awkward. 

 Endive, plant out a few of these for the first supply, and a few 

 more ten days hence, after which they will enter among regular 

 succession crops. Onjoiis, these have grown so fast lately, that 

 unless they are well thinned out they will injure each other. 

 Sow also Turnips and Kadishes for succession ; the last crop of 

 Broad Beans, Marrow Peas, and Scarlet liunners, and Dwarf 

 Kidneij Beans for succession. One crop of the last might be 

 Bufficient all the season if the ground were well manured, the 

 plants supplied with water, and no pods allowed to become large 

 for seed. Plant out Herbs, such as Basil, and Marjoram, in a 

 warm situation, and Cabbages, Savoys, Bmssebi Sprouts, and 

 Celery, the last-named in trenches, also in beds for future re- 

 moval, shading the latter. Sea-l(ale, and Asparayus, fork up the 

 ground of the beds ; give them a dressing of rotten manure, a 

 moderate sprinkling of salt repeated at, intervals, and a good 

 watering of drainings from the dunghill, if you can afford it, 

 and your bods ar« not in a damp situation. 



FRUIT GARDEN. 



This is about the best time to' gcarify the branches or stems 

 of hide-bound trees, a good old practice which has fallen into 

 disuse, probably from being performed in winter, when it did 

 more harm than good, by opening up wounds which could not be 

 healed till the return of ihe sap next summer ; but if per- 

 formed now, the incision will be filled upin two or three weeks 

 with a layer of soft matter from top to bottom, along which the 

 returning aap wall find a ready channel tp the roots. Just try 

 a, branch or two this way, if only for experiment. 1 am satisfied 

 from experience that it is a safe and useful plan to invigorate 

 stunted branches, , but it must be done at the right time. 

 Proceed with thinning, nailing, and tyipg-in young shootg. 

 There will be a. fair crop of Apricots and Peaches in most places 

 tiiis season. ttuMd against leaving- too much fruit, and too 

 many shoots. It is advisable neither to exhaust the tree by 

 <»ver-cropping, Bor to allow more wood to remain than can be 

 properly ripened, la unfavourable situationg, after seeing that 

 the borders are not suffering from drought, keep them clean 

 tnd smoothly >ak«d. near the. wall, or. cover them to the width 

 «{ 4.>^d witb (il$8 ;. th#. reA««ti9n;Pt.hei»t! touH th« tilea. Mid 



keeping the borders rather dry, will insure the earlier ma- 

 turation of the wood, but if the soil be allowed to become 

 soaked with rains in the autumn, all the extra labour will be 

 worse than thrown awny. 



FLO-nUB G.MIDKS. 



About the beginning of .Tune is generally the time for bud- 

 ding Hoses that are wanted to push into heads this season, 

 such as we call Monthly Hoses ; but already we are in the be- 

 ginning of the month, and hardly a bud can be inserted as yet, 

 the wood of both bud and stock being so green and soft ; it is 

 also time to begin to put in cuttings of all the China and 

 Climbing Boses, taking the young stubby shoots which form 

 along the main branches, and are about 1 or 5 inches long. 

 These are now nearly ready for making into cuttings, and 

 simple as this process is, there are many who do not know it. 

 Except where American plants are mulched, they must receive 

 a thorough deluge of water, by forming basins round them, 

 and afterwards covering the wet soil with dry earth or some 

 kind of mulching. Those who have lioses in pots may now 

 use them advantageously for budding, and on the Tea and 

 China varieties will obtain grosvth, and probably flowers in the 

 autumn. Auricula and Polyanthus seed will now be becoming 

 ripe ; as soon as the capsules assume a brown colour, and give 

 indications of opening, they must be gathered. Dry them well 

 and put them in small tin boxes. Put a glass shade over the 

 Tulips, the seed vessels of which are intended to be saved, to 

 prevent the wet lodging in the apex. Those bulbs, the leaves 

 of which have suffered from canker, or have sustained injury 

 from early frosts, may be taken up, as they are apt- to mildew 

 if allowed to rem;un in the ground too long. CarefuDy shade 

 the lianunouluses intended for exhibition ; semi-double flowers 

 for impregnation must not be covered, as the sUn and air are 

 essential in the process of fertilisation. Water the paths 

 about the beds so as to make the surrounding atmosphere as 

 moist as possible. W'etting the foliage at this season, espe- 

 cially with spring or hard water, is rather detrimental than 

 otherwise. Continue to tie Carnations with Soft worsted; 

 examine those previously fastened, and see that the tie is 

 sufliciently loose on the stick to allow the stem to elongate. 

 Thin out the buds, the crown or topmost bud ui^ually produces 

 the largest and best bloom. If the plant is strong, reserve five, 

 on the contrary three are sufficient if the plant Js weak. Pmks 

 are not generally lacing well this season. Pipings must be kept 

 regularly moist, and well protected from the direct rays of the 

 sun. Continue to put in cuttings of Pansies. 



GREENHOUSE AND CONSEKV-ATORY. 



' Of all the great families of conservatory plants, the Chinese 

 Azalea has made the most rapid improvement in size, shape, 

 and colour, and being amongst the easiest to force early in 

 spring we may have some of them in flower for this house 

 from the end of January to this time. In ordering them from 

 the nurseries, amateurs who are not well versed in the culti- 

 vation of plants should order " worked plants," while some 

 gardeners prefer them on their own roots, in order to keep 

 them dwarf tor particular situations; but they are much 

 more easily managed when grafted, and this is a good time to 

 graft them. I would strongly recommend, when young plants 

 of Azaleas are brought in, that they should be turned into a 

 bed of sandy peat in a turf pit or common cold frame for the 

 next three or four months ; they can always be removed with 

 safety into pots. The general routine of watering and train- 

 ing greenhouse plants, with attention to cleanliness, is all that 

 needs attention nosv, unless some of the plants may want 

 another shift. It might be worth while to mark such plants 

 as flower from April to June that may be becoming too large 

 or straggling, and are not in good health. Keep them in a 

 warm sheltered place, and when winter.forcing is begun take 

 them in to see how early they can be flowered. In very many 

 oases pknts iq flower do not require bo much water as when 

 they are in more active growth ; bat the strong-growing con- 

 servatory climbers planted out in the borders can hardly hSve 

 too much moisture now. 



; • . STOTB4 . ,' ., 



• Besides the daily routine of wfitering, shading, giving ait, 

 and training the plants, with an occasional shift to f"^^?^ 

 more promising specimens, there is little to be remarked olr 

 just now. The great fault in almost all plant houses is the^ 

 being too full of pjants, and consequently the plants injure one^ 

 another ; but as a number of atove plants are much baaefif*^, 

 by a change into sopje of the eooler honaeSf this hpusa.^eT^fti'. 

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