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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ July 24, 18tJC 



Kaloranthes coccinea Culture in a Window (Amateur Gardener), 

 —The best time to propagate is the present. Select shoots without 

 flowers, cut them below a joint, remove the leaves for a couple of inches, 

 or half the length of the cuttings, and insert these down to the leaves in 

 small pots filled with a compost of peat, loam, and sand in equal parts. 

 They will root freely in a window, only do not over-water. The only 

 danger to be guarded against in wintering them is having the soil wet. 

 They should be kept as dry as possible without allowing the shoots to , 

 shrivel, and must be secure from frost. They do well in a compost of j 

 turfy loam, peat, and leaf mould in equal parts, with the addition of one I 

 part of small crocks and a like quantity of sand to keep the soil porous. ! 

 Your plant will not require potting this year if the soil is sweet, but if 

 this has sunk down in the pot you may repot now. Cut the plant back i 

 after blooming, and when it has made shoots 2 or 3 inches long repot. 



Destroying Earwigs {67. C). — If you procure a number of earwig- 

 traps, which may be had of any nurseryman, and elevate them on sticks, | 

 yon will soon considerably thin the earwigs; and if you place sticks 

 wherever you can, and hang on them any old cloth, the earwigs will con- 

 gregate there, and may lie destroyed in great numbers. You may still 

 further thin their ranks by adopting the means described at page 34. 



Orange Trees Flowering (Amateur).— Your trees now showing flower 

 will be strengthened considerably by removing the blossoms, but retain- 

 ing the shoots, as the season is now advanced. We should advise the 

 syringing to be done in the evening. It is not uncommon for the Peach 

 to bloom on the wood of the current year, but we do not remember seeing 

 it so early in the season. Our correspondent has "a Peach bush in a 

 small orchard-house with fruit on it more than half grown, and it has 

 produced two blossoms on a shoot of the present year." 



Fuchsias Infested with Thrips and Ked Spider (Old Cumviock). — 

 The leaves sent are infested with thrips and red spider, caused by 

 the plants having too little moisture and too high a temperature. Your I 



best plan of destroying them will be to syringe the plants with a solution 

 of 2 ozs. of softsoap to the gallon of water. Take them out of the house, 

 lay the pots on their sides, syringe that side of the plant, and, turning 

 them, thoroughly wet every part. Repeating this washing several times 

 will clear the plants. The leaves which have been severely attacked will, 

 however, fall off. 



(Enothera (W.H. JB.).— Your plant was probably CEnothera giandiflora, 

 which was at one time rare, but now plentiful enough in CE. Lamarckiana, 

 which is the same, and supposed to be new, though introduced so long 

 ago as 1778. It can be obtained of most nurserymen. If a dwarf-growing 

 plant is required it might be CE. macrocarpa (missouriensis). It can be 

 had of all nurserymen. 



Names of Fruits (J. F.).— No. 1, BUttner's Black Heart; 2, Corone ; 

 S, Black Tartarian. (67. B.).— Purple-fruited Egg-Plant, Solanum me- 

 longena fructu oblongo violaceo. 



Names of Plants (Mrs. Grant). — We do not recognise the leaves, send 

 it again when in flower. (2*. S.).— 1, Anagallis arvensis; 2, Polygala vul- 

 garis ; 3, Erica tetralix ; 4, Hypericum humifusum ; 5, "Veronica becca- 

 bunga ; 6, Nasturtium palustre. (A. B.). — 1, Symphoricarpns vacemosus ; 



2, Hoteia japonica; 3, Santolina chamrecyparissus; 4, Stipa pennata; 

 5, Saxifraga ajugiefolia. (Grassmcre). — A Kalmia, but without the leaves 

 we cannot say what species, i E. J.). — 1 and 2, the fronds are too young; 



3, Sedum reflexuni. (TV. W.).~ 1, Chelidonium majus; 2, Geranium 

 striatum ; 3. Leycesteria formosa ; 4, Anomatheca cruenta. (Brook). — 

 1, Pteris longifolia; 2, Adiantum formosum ; 4, A. tenerum ; 5, Pterin 

 cretica albo-lineata ; 6, 7, 8, Selaginellas. but the specimens insufficient. 

 (R. T. Wheeler).— Tetragonolobus purpureus. (H. L., Leed*).— The sub- 

 terranean Fungi forwarded were specimens of Melanogaster ambiguus, 

 usually found under Fir trees. Can you send us other specimens, or 

 give full particulars? (E. S. C). — Your Fern was named in our Number 

 published July 10th. It was Lastrea dilatata. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS in the Suburbs of London for the Week ending July 21st. 



POULTRY, BEE, and HOUSEHOLD CHRONICLE. 



RAILWAY CHARGES— WOODBIHDGE POULTRY 



SHOW. 



It is many weeks since the last notice on this subject ap- 

 peared in " our Journal," at least the last notice from my pen. 

 I can, however, assure all those who are interested in the 

 matter, that it has been by no means a " dead letter." Little 

 did I drearn, as T. Hood says, " that I should ever live to see 

 what is before me ;" but I can safely say, aDd it may be taken 

 in any sense " our" readers please, that I have often wished 

 of late there were no such things as "railway charges !" What 

 halcyon days ! No poultry shows then without entries ! No 

 calculations necessary then to discover whether, after obtain- 

 ing the honours of a prize, the pocket of the exhibitor will 

 really be emptier than before the show ! By-the-by, that has 

 been my condition at Woodbridge, the Show held six weeks 

 ago and the prize not paid yet. Although I have written to 

 the Secretaries, no notice has been taken ; en passant, let me 

 say that this plan is the best to ruin the prospects of any 

 show. 



Since the last notice on the subject of railway charges, I have 

 dispatched the " independent memorial." The signatures were 

 nearly 120. The memorial has been acknowledged by most of 

 the railways, and some of the replies do not look unfavourable. 

 I have carried out the suggestion which Mr. Warren, the Secre- 

 tary of the Hampshire Ornithological Society, threw out, " that 

 the officials of poultry shows might aid in the matter." I had, 

 therefore, a suitable form of memorial lithographed, and dis- 

 patched this form to nearly all the poultry shows I could make 

 out. The result has been the formation of a memorial, which, 

 as it appears to me, is one far more important than either that 

 of the Poultry Club or the independent exhibitors, and more 

 likely to influence the railway companies ; but of this memorial 

 more anon. One of the earliest replies was from grand- 

 maternal Birmingham ; it was accompanied by a note from 

 the Secretary, stating that it was the wish of the Council that 



their's should go as a separate memorial. I most willingly 

 agreed to this, and Mr. Lythall kindly took charge of this 

 memorial, and forwarded it to the various companies. Mean- 

 while other replies came in, and several of them were so well 

 signed that I had the signatures lithographed and forwarded 

 as separate memorials. They are as follows : — Chelmsford 

 and Essex. — This memorial was kindly taken in hand by Mr. 

 George Manning, of Chapel House, Springfield. Hampshire 

 Ornithological, by Mr. P. Warren, the Secretary. Haslingden, 

 by Mr. Shaw, the Secretary. Halifax and Calder Vale, by Mr. 

 Irvine, the Secretary. 



The general official memorial will be sent off in a few days, 

 I hope. This Mr. E. Pigeon, of Lympstone, near Exeter, has 

 kindly undertaken. It contains 253 signatures, and repre- 

 sents forty-nine different shows— viz., »Birmingham, Man- 

 chester, the Yorkshire Society, Bath and West of England, 

 Eastern Counties, *Chelmsford and Essex, Sheffield, Rochdale, 

 Hull, Worcester, 'Hampshire Ornithological, Whitehaven, 

 Plymouth, Aberdeen, Wakefield, South of England, Hastings 

 and St. Leonards, Dewsbury, Kelso, Kendal, Leicester and 

 Waltham, Cirencester, Brentwood, Lord Tredegar's, Frome, 

 Scarborough and East Riding, Ipswich, Hants and Berks, 

 Ripon and Clare, Suffolk, Nantwich, Epworth, Bude Haven, 

 Chippenham, Congridge, Calne, Market Drayton, Kingswood, 

 Ulverstone, Loughborough, Pudsey, *Haslingden, Atherton, 

 Long Sutton and South Lincolnshire, Essex Agricultural, 

 Cleveland Agricultural, 'Halifax and Calder Vale, and New- 

 biggin. 



I do not think it can be disputed that an evil which is so 

 widely felt that the officials of shows throughout the length 

 and breadth of the land unite in testifying to its magnitude, is 

 likely to remain utterly unaltered. The representatives of one 

 show, and one only, have been found to praise railway arrange- 

 ments ; that show is the Walsall. I cannot but feel that the 

 Walsall Committee have looked at the matter with different 

 eyes than those of distant exhibitors. 



There remains further to bring the subject before the mwst- 



* Those marked thus » had only the signature of the Sectary, as the 

 other names appeared in the separate memorials. 



