Soplomber 12, 1865. ] 



JOUENAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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the scythe. Notwithstanding pre\noiis rolling the grass was as 

 soft, as yielding, and as dillicult to cut as so much puffy cotton. 

 We shall be glad when we can overtake all with the mowing 

 machiuea again. 'When beds are to be dressed, regulated, 

 picked, (tc, it is often best to mow round them, as one clearing 

 up does for all, and an extra sweeping in these times ought to 

 be guarded against. 



The genei-al work has been so similar to previous weeks, 

 that we shall here advert to two causes that greatly affect the 

 beauty of flower-beds in the ilower garden. 1, There is the 

 custom of having numbers of cut flowers stuck all over the 

 rooms of the mansion ; it matters not though these from their 

 position and surroundings are anything but ornamental. In 

 some cases the gardener merely sends in a basket of flowers 

 every day. In others, vases, baskets, tables, are sent to him 

 to fill, and then a great amoimt of time is taken up with the 

 filhug of tliem, which is often little thought about. In either 

 case the flower-beds will be rubbed of their beauty, as it will 

 be of no use cutting any except the very best. Cut even 

 twenty trusses out of a good little bed of scarlet Geraniums, 

 and you will not leave the bed as bright as before, ^\^lere the 

 flower-beds are to be kept very nice, and yet lots of flowers 

 must be had in-doors, we would advocate a reserve garden or 

 a large mixed border being appropriated to this cutting pur- 

 pose. ^Ye laiow that much unpleasantness arises from the 

 seeming forgetfulness of the simple fact that the best flowers 

 cannot be in the flower-beds and in the house at one and the 

 same time. With such a border a lady could have the jdeasiu'e 

 of heljiiug herself withoiit at all interfering with the pet beds 

 of the gardener, and more satisfaction would be derived fi'om 

 the cut flowers. 2, If taken from the beds, the gardener himseU, 

 if possible, should always cut them. He will bo very careful 

 in making his selection so that the cut flowers shall be as 

 little missed as possible ; he will also go to the beds again and 

 again rather than have too much cut at first. Most likely if he 

 send some one else that has not reason to take a pride in the 

 beds, he will have havoc made and have more of some things 

 than he Vi'ants. Some ladies do this selecting work in fine 

 weather themselves, and in general with great nicety. Cut if 

 a gardener dare hardlj- trust some of his own men, what shall 

 we say when house servants are allowed or commissioned to 

 cut and gather such flowers as they please, and when they 

 please ? If such work were confined to a definite border it 

 would matter less. True, as the flowers belong to the lady or 

 gentleman employer, they respectively have a right to cut 

 where they please, or to send others to do the same, even to 

 cutting over all the flowers in a bed if it so please them. 

 We have no desire in the least to question the right, but we do 

 question the prudence and fitness of all such proceedings. We 

 go farther, and say, unhesitatingly, that where the practice 

 exists of anybody and everybody doing pretty weU what they 

 like in a garden, the gardener must be more than man if his 

 interest and enthusiasm in his work do not gradually decline 

 to zero point. We know that many otherwise kind and con- 

 siderate employers have lost the services of good gardeners 

 because they failed to recognise the very simple fact that to 

 enable him to serve them efficiently, he must be as indepen- 

 dent of all house servants as they are of him ; in other words, 

 that no more liberty should be taken by house servants in the 

 garden than the gardener would think of using in the store- 

 room, kitchen, or pantry. — E. F. 



TR.\DE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Jean Verschaffelt, Rue de la Caverne, 43. Ghent, Belgium. — 

 Catalniiuc des Plantes et Prix-courant pour VAutovuie, 1865 ; 

 ct Frintcmjis et Etc, 1866. 



Quettier & Son, Ussy (Calvados), France. — Trade Catalogue 

 of SeedUnri and Transplanted Forest Trees and Conifera;. 



Barr & Sugden's Compendium of tlieir Illustrated Autumnal 

 Floral Guide. 



F. & A. Dickson & Sous, lOfi, Eastgate St., Chester.— Cnta- 

 logue of Select Dutch Flower Hoots. 



Sutton & Sons, Reading. — Catalorjue of Bulbous Flower Hoots, 

 Geraniums, Fuclisias, and Fruit Trees, iCx. 



R. Parker, Exotic Nursei-y, Tooting, Surrey. — Catalogue of 

 New and Bare Store, Greenhouse, and Hardy Plants. 



Hooper & Co., Covent Garden Market. — General Autumn 

 Catalogue of Dutch, Cape, and other Flowering Bulbs. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— September 9. 



Impoutations have decreased tjonurally, with the oxccpliou of Grapos i 

 which (ire now uouiiup from Hulliiud luid Jorsfy. iis wtdl an from France* 

 Tlio market continues to ho heavily supi)lied, and trade in very duli. 



Apples A sieve 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries Ih. 



Chestnuts bush. 



Currants, lied J sieve 



Black do. 



Figa doz. 



Filherts lb. 



Cobs do. 



Gooseberries. , A sieve 

 Grapes, Hambro.. . lb. 



Muscats lb. 



Lemons 100 



Artichokes each 



Asparagus bundle 



Beans Broad. . bushel 



Kidney do 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Brns. Sprouts. . I sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Cfli-rots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



pickling .... doz. 



Endive score 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic and Shallots, lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish . . bundle 



Melons each 2 Oto 5 



Mulbci-rics x>unuot 6 10 



Nectariucs doz. 9 6 



Ornngcs 100 10 20 



Poached do/,. 



Ptinr» (Idtchcu) . . doz. 



dosscrt doz. 



Pino Apples I b. 



Plums A sieve 



Quinces | sieve 



Kaspberries lb. 



Strawberries lb. 





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Walnuts bush 14 20 U 



VEGETABLES. 



Leeks bunch 



Lettuce per score 



Mushrooms pottle 



Mustd. & Cress. punnet 

 Onions, -doz. bunches 



piclding quart 



Parsley ^ sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Pvadishes doz. bunches 



lUiubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes A sieve 



Tiu-nips bunch 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Fruit Trees for South-south-east Wall (Jf. J. JV.). — Younvall -will 

 do well for Api-icots, and the better kinds of Plums ; and if the situation 

 be not elevated, but is sheltered, Peaches and Nectarines might be grown 

 tolerably upon it. The grubs feasting on the winter greens, as Savoys, 

 &c., are what gardeners call "leather-coats," they being the larvae of the 

 daddy longlegs. They are unusually prevalent this season, and eat 

 through the stems a little below the surface. There is no eflfectual 

 remedy but to search for them and kill them. Ey all means as they are 

 so numerous have them hand-picked and destroyed. 



Scale on Fruit Trees (Siimpatlnj). — Spirit of tui-pentine is fatal alike 

 to both insects and their eggs, and it will not injure the shoots or 

 branches, but destroy evei-j" bud it touches, especially when applied after 

 the buds begin to swell. Wash the trees after the leaves fall with Gis- 

 hurst compound at the rate of 8 ozs. to the gallon of water, applying it 

 with a brush, and brushing it well into every crack, hole, or crevice, and 

 this so etTectually os to dislodge the insects, taking care all the time not 

 to injure the buds. Badly infested as your trees must be from the 

 specimen sent, we would advise the trees to be well washed with water at 

 160' by means of a rather stiff or half-worn painter's brush, which will 

 free the trees of the insects to a gi'eat extent, and then wash them with 

 Gishnrst early at the rate of 8 ozs. to the gallon of water, or sulphur and 

 soft soap in equal quantities, 8 ozs. of each to a gallon of water in which 

 2 ozs. of the strongest tobacco has been steepedfortwelve hours, and the 

 water pom-ed over it boiling, and 4 ozs. of gum arable put in to dissolve 

 after it became cool. The trees once or twice washed with water at 160-, 

 as thev mav be infested, and then dressed with either of the above com- 

 positions w'ill be free from the enemy to a great extent, and the process 

 will only need repeating annuallv foi-a timeto efTectacure. Turijentine, 

 as stated in the " Gardener's Dictionary," is a certain cure for all attacks 

 of the coccus or scale family ; but it should only be applied to the 

 branches, avoiding the buds. 



Trees for Sheltering a Garden (If.).- Of the trees named by you 

 Robinia pseud-acacia is too spare in branches, too spreading, and alto- 

 gether too large for the purpose. Plane trees are alike too large and 

 spreading, and if it be Platanus occidentalis it needs sheltering rather 

 than is calculated to shelter a small garden. Birch is for the most part 

 the least objectionable, and is mostly of small growth; it is dense in 

 foliage, has numerous small twigs, and does very well in moist soils, but 

 is less ornamental than many others. Ailanthus glandulosa is a tree that 

 requires rather than affords protection. For protecting a small garden 

 from cold winds there is no better shelter than a hedge 6 or 8 feet high of 

 Thorn or Privet, and one of Beech 10 feet high is sufficient protection for 

 any garden of small area. Thev take up less room and tlieiiToots extend 

 less than trees, for the latter should be sitnated at such a distance that 

 thev do not root into, overhang, or shade what they are intended to 

 shelter. Unless the trees can be so planted that their roots do not extend 

 into the garden or their branches overhang it, hedges are the more 

 desirable. 



ScHiRAS Grape (T.\.—We know of no synonymes of this Grape except 

 those enumerated in Dr Hogg's "Fruit Manual." You could obtain 

 three varieties of it from M. A. Leroy, Nurseryman, Angers, France. We 

 do not know a fuller address to Mr. Hej^vood. 



Gas Tar for Garden Frame |D(»<i).— We deprecate from experience 

 using gas tar even outside a plant-house, and to apply it inside is only to 

 enable it to be more speedily and more certainlydestructiveto the plants. 

 A year must pass before they could be put safely into a gas-tar-painted 

 structure. 



