November 13, 18C6. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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rienced, so much depends on the treatment and tho locality. 

 I am sure " B. S." need not be ashamed to state tho truth 

 about them. It would also be interesting to know the lands 

 which ho lias planted, the growth in length and thickness of 

 each variety, and whether or not the canes are well ripened. — 

 J. Wills.] 



NOTICE. 



Tun following letter was addressed to a cm-respondent, and 

 forwarded by him to us for publication : — 



" Having a few plants to spare of an entirely new and most 

 delicious fruit from Java, of which the Emperor Napoleon has 

 had several, and has expressed himself highly gratified with 

 the fruit, I thought that perhaps you might like a plant. 



" This beautiful tree grows easily in tho stove, and is very 

 dwarf in habit. The flowers are sweet-scented and large, fol- 

 lowed by one of the most splendid fruits known. 



" The plants are small, but very strong and healthy, and will 

 be sent to any address on receipt of cheque for three guineas, 

 extremely carefully packed in case. The tree will flower and 

 fruit next year. The Emperor's letter can be sent to be read 

 if liked. — J. Hon 



We think it our duty, after what occurred relative to Mr. 

 Hullett's Mangosteens and 1-1 lbs.-fruited Passiflora, to print 

 this letter, and to state that we no longer have Mr. Hullett as 

 a correspondent, and we advise our readers to be careful how 

 they receive such representations. — Eds.] 



VINES AND FLOWERING PLANTS IN THE 

 SAME HOUSE. 



I have lately erected a greenhouse here of the following 

 dimensions : — Length, inside measurement, 2!) feet 6 inches ; 

 breadth of ditto, 16 feet ; height of back wall, 11 feet 8 inches ; 

 height to front, 7 feet 4 inches. The front of the house is 

 composed of eight sashes and a glass door, the latter being in 

 the centre with four sashes on each side. The sashes are 

 4 feet high by 3 feet wide, and are all hinged so as to open to 

 any extent desired, and due ventilation is effected by means of 

 four sliding sashes in the roof. The front brickwork is about 

 3 feet inside, but only 1 foot 6 inches above the Vine-border on 

 the outside. The house is heated by four-inch hot-water pipes, 

 and the heat could be raised to 120° Fahr. if required. Now, 

 can I have good flowers and good Grapes in this house ? 



I intend to plant ten Vines — that is, one at every second 

 rafter. The length of rafter is 17 feet o inches. The distance 

 between each Vine will be 3 feet 4 inches. The Vine-border is 

 outside tho house, and its breadth 14 feet. I have been given 

 four well-grown Vines — viz., one Muscat of Alexandria, one 

 Bowood Muscat, one Muscat Hamburgh, one Duchess of 

 Buccleuch. Are these suited for such a house as mine, and, 

 if so, what would you advise the other six to be ? 



The back wall is '29 feet 6 inches long, and 14 feet 8 inches 

 high. In front of it — that is, between it and the flagged floor of 

 the house, is a pit 2 feet wide and 3 feet deep. At the bottom 

 of this I have laid 4 inches of broken stones, upon these two 

 lengths of three-inch pipe, which are connected with a boiler 

 (not the same as that heating the house), and are furnished with 

 a stop-cock, so that the boiling water can be turned on or off at 

 pleasure. I mean to put 2 inches of broken stones over these, 

 then to cover the whole with turf cut from an old pasture, and 

 to fill up the pit with maiden earth. 



My present intention is to plant in this border six standard 

 May Duke Cherries, the stems to be at least 6 feet high before 

 they branch, and in the five intervals between these I would 

 plant an Orange tree, a Lemon, a Lime, a Citron, and a Shaddock. 

 These could grow to the height of feet, and furnish the lower 

 part of the wall — would they do in such a border ? Besides 

 this, I would use the border for propagating-purposes. Along 

 the entire margin of it the four-inch house-heating pipes rim, 

 while underneath heat is given by the three-inch pipes. Now, if 

 I covered this border about an inch or so deep with silver sand, 

 could I in spring strike what cuttings I wanted for bedding 

 plants ? Please to recommend me some book on the care of a 

 greenhouse. — A Subscriber, Ballinasloc. 



[You may have both fruit and flowers good if you be some- 

 what limited in your desires as to variety. In your proposed 

 list of Vines you have marked so many Muscats and others 

 requiring a high temperature, that you could only succeed with 



plants in the house by having them in chiefly when tho Vines 

 were at rest; and if yon i van ' I bug a high tem- 



perature at that time, then tho Vines would have to be taken 

 out of tho house ; and all proper greenhouse plants would, on 

 the other hand, require to be taken out as soon as tho Vines 

 broke in the house after being taken in. Our advice would be, 

 to be satisfied with lato Grapes — say from August until 

 towards the end of October, and then to grow plants which will 

 either stand the shade of the Vines, or be capable of going out 

 of doors after they have made the house gay all the winter 

 and spring. 



Our present remarks will, therefore, apply to the manage- 

 ment of such a house. The kinds of Vines we would select 

 are the following : — One Muscat of Alexandria (nearest the 

 boiler), one Buckland Sweetwater, one Muscat Hamburgh, one 

 Prolific Sweetwater, one Black Hamburgh; one Trentham 

 Black, one White Froutignan, one Black Champion, one Royal 

 Muscadine or Golden Han bur b, one Lady Downe's. This 

 would give you a White and Black pretty well alternately, and 

 you may increase the Black Hamburghs. 



The plants which wo would chiefly grow, would be Chinese 

 Primulas, Calceolarias (herbaceous), Cinerarias, Cyclamens, 

 Cytisus, Acacias, Oranges, Camellias, Daphnes, Epacris, Pelar- 

 goniums, especially scarlet and fine-foliage J kinds, and Fuchsias. 

 Now, this is how we would manage such a house : We would 

 plant the Vines inside if we could. In your arrangernent^they 

 must be planted outside, but the stems should be protected. 

 We would prune as soon as the fruit was cut, dress the Vines, 

 and then fill the house with plants. We would keep the honse 

 in winter at from 40° to 45°, with a rise from sunshine of from 

 10° to 15°, provided air were given by the time the house ap- 

 proached 50°, but not hotter at night by fire heat than from 

 40° to 45°. With such management the Vines will not break 

 much until towards April ; and whilst breaking, and the bunches 

 were showing, we would make no difference in the house until 

 the latter approached the blooming period. Then we should 

 like to keep the house warmer and closer than would suit the 

 hardier plants, as Cytisus, Acacias, &c. ; but they would go 

 out of doors in a sheltered place, whilst Camellias, Oranges, 

 Daphnes, Epacrises, &c, would like the shade and the ad- 

 ditional heat, and might either remain in the house or be 

 taken out for a short time, as the Grapes became ripe and 

 needed a drier air. By such management very good Grapes 

 can be obtained. 



In such a house, Cinerarias, Primulas, Cyclamens, Cytisus, 

 Camellias, Epaoris, Daphnes, Mignonette, Violets, &c, can be 

 had in bloom all the winter and spring. The Primulas, Cine- 

 rarias, Calceolarias, Violet.;, Mignonette, Chrysanthemums, &c, 

 can be prepared in cold pits, or out of doors. in summer, and 

 be housed by the middle of October. Early-flowering Pelar- 

 goniums will bloom in May. and in light places in June, 

 and then may be turned out and cut down, repotted, and housed 

 as above. Scarlet Pelargoniums will not only bloom in winter 

 and spring, but they will flower all the summer, even in a little 

 shade and a raised temperature, and may be pruned back, and 

 started afresh. Cytisus and the whole tribe of Acacia will 

 do admirably all the winter and spring, and may be turned out 

 in a sheltered place by the beginning of May. The grandest 

 plants of all will be the sweet Daphnes, Oranges, Camellias, 

 and Epacrises — the latter, the true Heaths of Australasia, and 

 as beautiful as Ericas, are just in their glory in such a house 

 where they have a cool temperature to bloom in, and a high 

 temperature in which to make their wood. This and the shade 

 at that time just suit them, Camellias, and Oranges, in making 

 their wood and setting their buds ; and but for the damp re- 

 quired in watering, these might all remain as the Grapes 

 became ripe, damp being kept from the berries by encasing 

 the bunches in glazed bags, or cutting the bunches as soon 

 as thoroughly ripe. Setting the plants out of doors in a 

 sheltered place for a few weeks would do them no harm. 

 We have not mentioned Azaleas, but all those which bloom 

 early might be treated in the same way. Fuchsias kept in tho 

 cellar all the winter would thrive in the open parts of such a 

 house in summer ; and then if the house be kept closer and 

 hotter for the Vines, if the Camellias, ic, were not enough, 

 there might be a fine show from tender and half-tender 

 annuals, as feathered Cockscomb, true Cockscomb, Browallias, 

 and Cleome. Thus with a little manageuent , even when the 

 Vines were ripening their fruit, the house might always be 

 sweet and gay. 



One more subject we must allude to, and that is the shut-in 

 border at the back of the house, 2 feet wide, 3 feet deep, with 



