July 10, 186C. ] 



JOUHNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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maintain the samo level with tho others, and free drainage 

 will to a great extent bo prevonted. Of course in this trowel or 

 spado planting tho wholo process is intended to bo quite dif- 

 ferent from dibble planting. In the latter caso tho roots aro 

 generally few, and with but littlo earth about them. In thoir 

 case the firming of the earth about tho roots is the chief point, 

 and, as previously explained, this can only be well done with 

 one strolco of tho dibble inserted in an oblique direction to the 

 plant, and then brought sharply up to tho perpendicular. So 

 put in a plant will be more firm than if it had received half a 

 dii7.cn pottering strokes from tho dibble. Wo are always sus- 

 picious of the plants being hung — that is, the roots suspended 

 in an open space, when tho planter uses more than three 

 strokes of the dibble — one to make the hole, one to fasten the 

 plant, and a back stroke with the point to partially fill the hole 

 made by tho second stroke. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Very much as described in previous weeks' notices. Pro- 

 tecting and gathering fruit, syringing orchard-houses, thinning 

 Grapes, lessening shade in earlier houses, and nipping out a 

 few bad berries inclined to damp from drip, and watering as 

 required. Peaches and Figs swelling to ripening want plenty 

 of water and plenty of air, as dryness at the root will arrest 

 free swelling, and a close atmosphere will cause Figs to damp 

 at the points, and Peaches to be deficient in flavour. 



ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT. 



Here we havo had much to do in mowing, clearing, etc., tho 

 rains making the grass grow too fast for the mowing machine. 

 Potting Cinerarias, Primulas, &c. ; giving Epacrises a good 

 open placo in a pit to harden growth, regulating conservatory, 

 making up any faults in flower-beds, &c, but we have time to 

 allude to two things only this week. 



First, placing greenliouse plants out of doors. "We do not 

 think there is any advantage in this if it could bo avoided. A 

 place a little shaded, but commanding either the morning or 

 afternoon sun for few hours, is generally best ; but if the 

 plants are inured to it by degrees, even Heaths, Epacris, Cy- 

 tisus, etc., will suffer little from a south exposure if the pots 

 are protected from tho sun's rays. A piece of mat or a turf 

 on the south side of tho pot would often be sufficient. Under 

 such circumstances, and as avoiding much extra attention in 

 summer, plunging the pot to within an inch of the rim, either 

 in ashes, or sand, or even earth, is a good plan, as there is no 

 chance ot the fibres being scorched, and the firmness of the 

 pot gives a security against high winds to the head of the plant ; 

 but in plunging thus in summer all valuable plants, and es- 

 pecially all those with hair-like fibres, the hole should be 

 large enough to permit of two bricks, or two tiles, or stones, 

 being set on their sides at the bottom of tho hole, with an 

 open space between them. The pot will stand on the bricks, 

 and the open free space will alike keep the worms away and 

 secure drainage. 



A second matter to be borne in mind, both in-doors and out 

 of doors, is that all supports for plants, sticks, &c, are neces- 

 sary evils — evils, therefore to be hidden instead of exhibited. 

 All necessary supports should therefore be kept out of sight as 

 much- as possible. Young shoots of any shrub or tree with tho 

 bark on are, therefore, better than all clean-shaved sticks ; and 

 all plants grown to a stem in the pyramidal form may be se- 

 cured with one stake only, the subsidiary branches being kept 

 secure by a loop of small string, generally more inconspicu- 

 ous than matting. Even rather large Geraniums and Calceo- 

 larias may be made pretty secure by means of one stick in 

 time, and the other shoots hasped to it with a loop. One 

 would imagine at time3 that the stakes were the objects to be 

 looked at, instead of the plant, and one step in the right direc- 

 tion will be taken when even the one stake necessary for most 

 plants shall cease to be an object of attraction — be, in fact, 

 looked upon as a drawback, which it is necessary to conceal as 

 much as possible. — R. F. 



Weixikgtonia. — In your Number for June 26th, Mr. Robson 

 asked for memoranda touching Wellingtonias. At Shotover 

 House, Oxon, there is a remarkably well-grown specimen. It 

 wrs planted in 1859, and had then attained a height of 

 G inches. In June, 18f>2, the circumference of the base (at 

 ground) was 9 inches, the height 4 feet 3 inches. In June, 

 1866, the dimensions of the same tree were as follows : height, 

 12.J feet ; circumference of branches, 37£ feet ; circumference 

 of trunk at 6 inches from the ground, 29 inches. — C. F. W., 

 Forest Hill, Oxon. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— Jci.y 7. 



Suppi.rES ot both home-grown nnd foreign fruit tiro well kept up, and 

 us the London season is now drawing to a close, tho more choice produc- 

 tions will rapidly decline in prieos. Pines arc in excess of tho demand, 

 and there are heavy arrivals from the West Indies. Soft fruit generally, 

 notwithstanding the rain of last week, has heeu food in hulk and appear- 

 nine, hut deficient in quality, flood Regent Potatoes can now he ob- 

 tained at prices ranging from 0». to On. per bushel. 



Artichokes each 



Asparagus bundle 



Boans, Broad. . bushel 



Kidney 100 



Beet, lied doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Brus. Sprouts l* sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots hunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



pickling .... doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic T lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish .. bundle 



Apples J£ sieve 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bush. 



Currants sieve 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs 100 lbs. 



Goose berries ..quart 

 Grapes, Hothouse, .lb. 

 Lemons 100 



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Leeks bunch 



Lettuce per score 



Mushrooms .... pottle 

 MustdA Cress, punnet 

 Onions. . do/,, bunches 



Parsley ' ■ lieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes . . doz. bands 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes per doz. 



Turnips bunch 



Vegetable Marrows dz. 



Melons each 



Nectarines doz. 6 12 



Oranges 100 fi 12 



Peaches doz. 10 15 



Pears I dessert) ..doz. 



kitchen doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 4 



Plnms 2 j sieve 



Quinces .... J-i sieve 



Raspberries lb. 



Strawberries lb. 







Walnuts. 





 

 

 

 

 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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 mental writers of the "Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and expense. All 

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 The Editors of the Journal of Horticulture, <£c, 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.C. 

 Ltve and Learn. — We have a letter for you, which we will forward to 

 where you may direct. 



Book (A Young Amateur, K~inckc*ter).~ " Tho Garden Manual" will 

 spit you. It can he had free by post from our office if you enclose twenty 

 postage stamps with your address, ordering tho book. 



Clearing a Lawn of Daisies (A. IK.).— The best plan is during moist 

 weather to take them up with an old knife, aud to persist in doing this 

 for a year. A dressing of rich compost in March, so as to cover the lawn 

 about a quarter of an inch deep, would make the grass grow and the 

 Duisies also, but as the latter aro thus stimulated to raise their heads 

 too high the mowing takes them off. We have a croquet ground in 

 which Daisies caused us much trouble, but since wo manured it every 

 year in March, and applied a dressing of guano at the rate of 2 cwt. per 

 acre in the first moist weather in May, and a similar dressing in July, we 

 have seen few Daisies, and the sward is excellent. A lawn adjoining i3 

 the very opposite; the ground is poor, and the Daisies and weeds there 

 find a liome from the poorness of the grasses. If you grub up the Daisies 

 aud weeds, we would advise you to give a good dressing of rich compost 

 in March, and to sow in April", when there is a prospect of raiu, Cynosurus 

 cristatus, 4 lbs. ; Festuca duriusculn, 4 lbs.; Festuca tenuifolia, 2 lbs. ; 

 and, if shaded bv trees, Poa nemoralis, 2 lbs., if not 1 lb. ; Trifolium 

 minus, 4 lbs. ; and, if light dry soil, Lotus corniculatus minor, 1 lb., but 

 if wet omit it. Immediately after sowing rake the lawn with an iron rake, 

 and roll. 



Carnations, Picotees, PrNKS (C. M.) ■ — Carnations have coloured 

 stripes from the centre of tho petals quite through to their edges. 

 Picotees have colour onlv round the extreme edge of tho pita!-, like a 

 border. Pinks have only'a band of colour, rough on both sides, and with 

 some white between it and the edge of the petals; there is colour also at 

 tho base of each petal, so as to form an eye. Your Rose leaves have been 

 eaten by some caterpillar. 



Round Scythe Stones. — Can any of your readers inform me where I 

 can purchase round scythe stones, called " Real Welsh Waterloo Scythe 

 Stones," made by a Wm. Foster?— A Gardener and Constant Reader. 

 Lonicera aureo-reticulata Blooming.— We have received so many 

 notes stating where it is blooming that it need not be regarded now aa 

 extraordinary. 



Paper Read at the Botanical Congress (G. T. S.).— We have no 

 copy of tho paper tou refer to. Have yon Pearson " On Orchard-houses ?" 

 You can have it free by post from our office for twenty postage stamps. 



Linnean Society {Botanieus).— To become a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society you must be proposed and seconded by a Fellow, each of whom 

 has personal knowledge of you ; pay six guineas as an entrance fee, and 

 ,£3 as an annual subscription. 



