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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ November 27, 1866. 



visited with a dry, severe frost, we need not trouble ourselves, 

 after so much rain, with a moist atmosphere among green- 

 house plants at present. It will be better to keep them com- 

 fortable with as little fire heat as possible. 



Chrysanthemums, now in their beauty, always bloom better 

 and keep in bloom longer when protected in a cold glass house 

 and without any fire heat, or very little. At one time we used 

 to have a fine show almost up to Christmas, and sometimes 

 beyond it, in a verandah partly roofed with glass and partly 

 with zinc, and having glass in front. The air inside being 

 still, we have seen the Chrysanthemums not in the least injured 

 when the temperature was 10° below the freezing point outside, 

 and even lower than that. 



Shading.— This is little needed at the present season ; but 

 sometimes it is required when there are sudden changes 

 from very dull to very bright weather, or the plants are brought 

 from a moist close place, though cool, to a place more exposed, 

 where the rays of light will strike them more perpendicularly, 

 and where the position is drier. For instance : some Cucumbers 

 began to show distress in a pit on the first bright day after a 

 week of dull weather, and needed shading for an hour or two, 

 and a bedewing of the leaves from the syringe. A number of 

 rather large Cinerarias, that we wished to bloom soon, were 

 moved from a flat pit, where they were moist, to the shelves of 

 a Peach-house, at an angle of 45°, and in the first bright day the 

 sun would have curled up their large lower leaves if they had 

 not been syringed and a little whitened water put on the glass 

 outside opposite to them. We might have saved shading the 

 glass if we had lifted the plants down to the floor for an hour 

 or two until they became used to the new position ; but wo 

 had no room on the floor, and the glass could be sprinkled in 

 a quarter of the time that the moving of the plants would 

 have required. 



Ventilation. — Unless houses are very close little will now be 

 needed except in bright sunshine, and what little air is given 

 should come from the highest part of the house, that the cold 

 air may be heated before it reach the plants. It is best in 

 every way to make as much use of the sun as possible for 

 keeping the plants healthy and growing. Keep out as much 

 cold air as possible, and give no more fire heat at night than 

 will suffice to keep the plants safe and moving on quietly. It 

 is better to allow a house kept generally at about 4.3' at night 

 to sink to 38° in a very cold night than keep up the regular 

 heat by extra fires. — R. F. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— November 84. 



But little alteration has taken place daring the week either in the 

 supply or demand, and prices have been tullv maintained. Of hothouse 

 Grapes and Pines there are sufficient for all requirements, but good 

 dessert Apples are extremely scarce. Of Oranges the arrivals continue 

 very heavy. Late frame Cucumbers and Radishes are to be had very 

 good, and of Potatoes there is a fair supply of good quality. All green 

 vegetables are abundant. 



s. d. s. d 



Apples 4 sieve 2 OtoS 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 





 

 

 



Chestnuts bush. 12 20 



Currants J sieve 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs lb. 



Gooseberries . . quart 

 Grapes, Hothouse, .lb. 





 

 - . _ 

 Lemons 100 8 14 Walnuts bush. 10 20 



Melons each 2 



Nectarines doz. 



Oranges 100 8 



Peaches doz. 



Pears (dessert) . . doz. 2 



kitchen doz. 2 



Pine Apples lb. 3 



Plums i sieve 



Quinces doz. 3 



Raspberries lb. 



Strawberries lb. 



d. 8. d 



6to5 o 







12 tl 



VEGETAELES. 



Artichokes each 



Asparagus bundle 



Beans, Broad. . bushel 



ScarletRun.l sieve 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Brus. Sprouts £ sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums loo 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



pickling doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish . . bundle 



s. d. s. 

 2 too 













 2 



1 



4 Leeks bunch 



Lettuce per score 



Mushrooms pottle 



j Mustd.& Cress, punnet 



j Onions per bushel 



6 Parsley.. doz. bunches 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



: Potatoes bushel 



6 Kidney do. 



\ Radishes doz. bunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-Kale basket 



d. s. 

 StoO 

 1 

 6 

 2 

 

 (l 

 9 





 2 



Shallots lb. 



] Spinach bushel 2 



j Tomatoes per doz. 



, Turnips bunch 



I Vegetable Marrows dz. 



TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Jabez J. Chater, Gonville Nurseries, Cambridge. — Catalogue 

 of New Pelargoniums, etc. — A Feic Practical Hints on the Culture 

 of the Pelargonium. 



T. S. Ware, Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham. — Catalogue, 

 of Evergreens, Deciduous Trees, Conifers, American and Climb- 

 ing Plants, Fruit Trees, Roses, tic. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



•»• We request that no one will write privately to the depart- 

 mental writers of the " Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and expense. All 

 communications should therefore be addressed solely to 

 The Editors of the Journal of Horticulture, die., 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.C. 



We also request that correspondents will not mix up on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those on 

 Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get them an- 

 swered promptly and conveniently, but write them on 

 separate communications. Also never to send more than 

 two or three questions at once 



N B. — Many questions must remain unanswered until next 

 week. 



Queen Anne's Pocket Melon. — We have more of the seeds of this 

 Melon, and can send three seeds to each of about one hundred appli- 

 cants if they tend a stamped and directed envelope. We had nearly three 

 hundred applications before. 



Evaporation and Rainfall (31.). — It is quite true that the evapora- 

 tion, as stated in the " Farmer's Almanac," which is always to be relied 

 upon, is only 15 inches from the soil annually, whilst the rainfall in the 

 same time is about 2;J inches. " What becomes of the other 8 inches?" 

 may be explained by taking into account the evaporation from trees and 

 other plants. 



Plaistes for Trees (IT. 3/.). — To the face of the cut where a branch 

 of a tive has been sawn off, melted pitch applied when the wound is quite 

 dry will exclude wet and not prevent healing. Burning with a red-hot 

 iron, and then applying melted pitch will also stop the bleeding of late - 

 pruned Vines. 



Book (1. Z.). — If you need immediately a work on laying out villa 

 gardens buy L union's "Villa Gardener." If not in a hurry for such a 

 work wait until the spring, when we purpose publishing one now 

 printing. (Dr. J. Carmarthen). — " The Vine Manual," which you can have 

 free by post from our office if you enclose thirty-two postage stamps with 

 your address. 



Planting Forest Trees (Can). — We know of no work devoted to the 

 subjects you niuie. Martyu's edition of Miller's " Gardener's Dictionary " 

 includes them, but it includes much more. 



Hays's Constant Stove (8. B. F.). — There is not only no objection 

 to using a pipe to carry off the fumes from the charcoal, but the stove is 

 constructed so as to Lave a pipe fitted on for the purpose. Professor 

 Pepper used one. If the pipe is short, merely passing into a chimney, 

 it would not increase the consumption of fuel materially. 



House for Vines and Plants (a. b. c. d.). — You would see by an 

 article at page 365 that you may have Vines and plants in the same house. 

 We can perceivo no impropriety in the proposed plan of planting the Vines 

 outside and taking them in beiow the wall plate ; we have done the same 

 ourselves ; but we would prefer planting them inside and letting the 

 roots out. We would have preferred 6 inches of concrete to 6 inches of 

 beaten chalk for the bottom of the border. We would make sure that the 

 water could escape ; and for drainage above the chalk, instead of 3 inches 

 of loose chalk, we would have preferred from 6 to 12 inches of stones, 

 brickbats, &c, aud then the reversed turf. As to the rest, we would give 

 less dung; ami supply its place with lime rubbish, if it could be obtained, 

 and the quantity of bones you propose. 



Planting a Vinery (F. B. N. C. G.).— The Vines will do very well 

 against the back wall if the pipes are not nearer than 15 inches from the 

 wall. Do we understand aright that the two pipes are there to be 6 inches 

 below the surface of the soil intended for the Vines'? Then, if covered, 

 they will do little good in regard to heating the atmosphere of the 

 house, and the roots of the Vines will have to be beneath them, li we 

 knew your object we might advise better ; but for general purposes the 

 following lists will be found good : — For the first house, with six hot- 

 water pipe*, for the back wall, one Dutch Sweetwater, one White Frontig- 

 nan, two Muscat of Alexandria, one Bowood Muscat. For front Vines, 

 one Muse it Hamburgh, one Royal Muscadine, three Black Hamburgh, 

 two Trentham Black. For the back of the cool house, one Golden Ham- 

 burgh, one Bowood Muscat, one Muscat Hamburgh, one Trebbiano, one 

 Black Prioce, one Barbarossa ; and the seven in front we would divide 

 among Black Hamburgh, Trentham Black, and Lady Dome's, the latter 

 chiefly to hang long. 



Flower Garden Plan {Soya bclla).— Your flower-garden plan is good 

 and simple. Much the same plan has been previously given, but without 

 the sharp points and angles. These points in your figures make the plan 

 look more artistic ; but for planting they are better when rounded. Your 

 proposed planting will look very well, but, considering size, we would in- 

 cline to put Centaurea round Stella, and the variegated Alyssum round 

 Christine. Saponaria will do very well round your Calceolarias, if you 

 let it run in among thorn a little ; it is best left to itself, and therefore does 

 not make such a good edging as Purple Verbena or Iresine. Golden Tom 

 Thumb Pelargonium will do very well round Ageratum, but something of 

 the same habit of growth will do better. 



Cob Nuts (Mrs. C. T. Parker).— They are from (W. to Is. per lb. La 

 Covent Garden Market. 



