December 25, 1866. ] JOUKNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAC.E GARDENER. 



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COVENT GARDEN MARKET:— DecbSiBER 22. 



Prices remain unaltered, and a renews pj the former heavy and con- 

 tinuous (topplies will prevent nnv aiivainc. Good dessert fruit is i.m- 

 what scarce, Pinos and Urtipe* being exceptions. The usual Christmas 

 evergreens are abundant and meet with ready porpoafecKSi from fifteen to 

 twenty load.-* a-day being disposed of. 



s. d. 



Apples J sieve 2 0to3 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bush. 10 



Currants j sieve 



Block do. 



Pigs doz 







Filberts lb. 



Cob9 lb. 9 



Goosoberrios . . quart 



Grapes, Hothouse . . lb. -t 



Lemons loo S 



d i 



() Melons each 



i Nectarines doz. 



Oranges 100 



Peaches doz. 



I) Pears dessert) ..doz. 



kitchen doz. 



Pino Apples lb. 



Plums ^ sieve 



Quinces doz. 



Raspberries lb. 



. Strawberries lb. 



. Walnuts bush. 10 20 q 



VEGETABLES. 



Artichokes each 



Asparagus .... bundle 

 Beans, Broad. . hushel 



Scarlctliun.'. Move 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Brns. Sprouts J sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



pickling .... doz. 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish . . bundle 



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Leeks bunch 



Lettuce per score 



Mushrooms pottle 



M11-M..Y Cress, punnet 

 Onions. ... per bushel 

 Parsley, .doz. bunches 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kiduey do. 



Radishes doz. bunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-Kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes. . . . per doz. 



Turnips bunch 



Vegetable Marrows dz. 



TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Sutton & Sons, Reading. — Sutton's Amateur's Guide and 

 Spring Catalogue for 1867. 



William Barron, Elvastou Nurseries, Borrowash, Derby. — 

 Select Catalogue of Ornamental Plants. 



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, etc., 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. 



Pors fir Strawberry Ct/LTtraB.— "An hnateur" wishes to know 

 where and at what cost per dozen he can obtain the pots recommended 

 by '■ J. T. and Others," at page 443. 



Seeds for an Acre of Kitchen Garden [Ymtnaster). — It is quite 

 true, as you observe. that Dr. Hogg states in " The Gardeners' Year Book." 

 that five quarts of Peas are sufficient, and we endorse that statement if 

 only a small family has to be supplied. On reference to Thompson's 

 " Gardener's Assistant," we find that he says twenty-four quarts are 

 required; and Mcintosh's "Book of the Garden '' says thirty-six quarts. 

 If the whole acre were to be dibbled with Peas, we think the last-named 

 quantity would be about sufficient for the purpose. Probably, as we do. 

 Dr. Hogg considered that the acre would be partly occupied by Asparagus, 

 Rhubarb, Sea-kale, and other permanent beds. We should like to know 

 what some of our readers' experience teaches on this point. 



Gardenia Leaves (S. L.). — Tv'e could not discern any insect on the 

 leaves, but one of them was very severely attacked by a parasitic fungus _ 



Warming a Small Conservatory (E. B. B.). — Either a gas stove with 

 a pipe-flue to carry off the fumes, or Hays's Constant Stove without a 

 pipe-flue, is " the best and simplest manner of warming a small con- 

 servatory." 



Everlastings (F. A. D.). — The following plants have what are termed 

 everlasting flowers: — Annual*. — Aci-oclinium roseum, rose pink: Heli- 

 chrysnm bracteaturu and macrantlmm, which by their intermixture have 

 produced many varieties with white, yellow, pink, and crimson flowers, 

 as well as many intermediate shades of colour: Rhodanthe Manglesii, 

 rose-coloured and yellow ; and the varieties of Xeranthemum annuum. 

 The above may all be grown out of doors, but the Acroclinium and Rho- 

 danthe Bhonld be raised in gentle heat. Helipterum Sandfordii, orange 

 yellow; Waitzia aurea, or Morna nitida, as it is also called, yellow; 



Wait/in eorvmhosa. r.-d ; and Waitzia grandiflora are also handsome 

 Everlastings, especially the last, which is new. They require to be sown 

 in a moderate temperature ill March, and tho needling* should be potted 

 oft, kept mar the glass, and planted out in May. ll.n.hi I'.r.nniah.— 

 Antennaria dloica, pink; margaritaooa and tripliiicrvu, white ; Amne. 

 bium alatiim. white; (iuapliiilinm stadias and armarium.-., How. Tender 

 Annual*.— Oomphrenas of various colours, ffreinhov*? plant*. Astehn.i 

 eximium, crimson ; Helichrvsuui argoiiti-uin, white ; cricoides, pink ; 

 sesamoides and proliferum, purple; and main more might be enamel Ilea, 

 The flowers of Everlastings should be gathered before they are quite 

 . vpamled, and kept in a warm dry/ room. 



Vine FOB Ground Vinery fit*. It. B. A.'. -In your "wet. sunless 

 climate ,,f the west of Ireland," we should trv Miller's llurguudy. If 

 vou obtain a well-rooted cane, and plant it in the {pound vinery during 

 February, disturbing the roots as little as may be, it ought to yield a few 

 bunches late in the summer. 



Vine-border (C. Caterham).— As your it oil i did chalk, and tho 

 soil 8 feet deep, you will need no coiicrote at the bottom of the border. 



Admitting Air (F. JPiiflon).— The system you propose of haying a cold- 

 air chamber along the front of the house, with openings to the external 

 air at each end, to be regulated at pleasure, and tins air to be heated 

 by the pipes before being admitted into the house, is very good; but then 

 there is nothing new in the idea, and the chief objection to it is the addi- 

 tional expense. The proprietors of houses are much opposed to what 

 will entail an increased expenditure of money. We notice that your air- 

 gratings for this chamber aro beneath the pipes, which is correct ; but 

 these gratings would require to be more numerous. The idea of having 

 a grating at the back of the house, communicating by cross drains with 

 this chamber, is also good; but one grating at the back would be of little 

 use for the purpose of promoting circulation, and even numbers would 

 be of no great effect unless the heating medium were enclosed, as some 

 years ago we described in a simple Polmaise-heated large le . 

 Lane's, Berkhampstead. The truth is, with pipes exposed, and placed in 

 the front of the house, there will be a circulation of air in the house in 

 spite of yon, and just in proportion to the heat givon, as the colder air 

 will be drawn along the floor to he heated and made lighter by the pipes. 

 For insuring heated fresh air we would prefer the air being heated in a 

 chamber before being admitted, or having a pipe— say 4 or lunches in 

 diameter, all the length of the bouse, pierced with small holes, the 

 draught regulated from the outside, and then the air passing through 

 these small holes close to the pipes would be presented to them more 

 regularly than by two or three open gratings. Much is properly made of 

 thus heating the fresh cold air before allowing it to enter among plants ; 

 hut, after all, it is chiefly valnable when, for any purpose, high tempe- 

 ratures are required in' winter. For all common purposes these 

 tenable cold blasts in winter may be completely avoided under the 

 ordinary modes of management, by giving no front air in cold weather, 

 and only as much at the highest part of the roof as will make sure of the 

 cold air entering being warmed and moistened before it reaches the 

 plants. It is quite an error to suppose that with no means of heating 

 front air, vou must therefore open tour front ,ashes in the coldest 

 1 weather, in all early work the top air is the great point, and very little 

 I will not only change the atmosphere of the house, hat promote a circu- 

 lation as well ; not but that in all cases where much heat is wanted m 

 winter we would rather heat the air before admitting it if we could. We 

 have no doubt that the large room will be efficiently heated and the air 

 circulated by a furnace surrounded with a hollow wall, an opening by a 

 grating to let the cool air into the hollow wall, and on the opposite side 

 a grating placed higher to lot the heated air escape. The circulation 

 would be more perfect if the cold-air grating were as far as possible from 

 the furnace. The plan being in light pencil marks we can make little of 

 it. As to intentions, results aro always more valuable than the best con- 

 ceived ideas not carried out. We have no objection whatever to tubular 

 flues if large enough. There used to be good samples of them made of 

 i cement, at Linton Park. As frequently stated, we place less stress than 

 manv on the mere form of a boiler. Setting anu management are the 

 chief points. One man will obtain much more heat and use le . fuel 

 ! than another, because the one does his work with thought and system, 

 end the other leaves nearly everything to chance. One improvement of 

 the saddle-back would he a stout three-inch pipe connecting the two sides 

 I of the boiler at the end farthest from the furnace door. The waggon 

 boilers of Barwell, of Northampton, were so connected. One tap would 

 ! then empty the boiler. 



Fruit Trees in an Orchard-house [An Amateur Snowrifcer).— Take 

 up the Peach, Nectarine, Plum, and Pear trees, now in pots plunged out 

 of doors, and all that you intend to fruit next seasou. Cut off the roots 

 through the pots, remove the surface soil, fresh dress with rich compost, 

 and place the pots in vour orchard-house, and the sooner the better. 

 The plants in small pot- may he fresh shifted into larger pots; but they 

 will not do much good next season as respects fruiting. I se manure 

 water weak, and the more kinds von use, so as to chance tie- food, tne 

 better. For more directions obtain Pearson "On Orchard-bouses, 

 which yon can have from our office for twenty postage stamps. 



Pipes for Bottom Heat (.4 Subicrib'er).— You will do very little good 

 with pipes for bottom heat unless these pipes are shut in, either in a 

 chamber or covered over with clinkers, and then with something to set 

 the pots in for propagating. Frequently a little fresh air admitted among 

 the pipes tells verv favourably on the bottom heat. The whole subject of 

 propagating-beds has been frequently alluded to Four four-inch pipes 

 ought to give heat enough for a large bed; but then you would need top 

 heat as well, or means of borrowing the bottom heat at wall. If you tell 

 us your proposed plan, and give us a section in mere outline, wc may bo 

 able to advise you better. 



Forctng Vines IB. IF., Jeney).— If vou were to commence forcing the old 

 Vines this season in the beginning or middle of January, vou may CO m- 

 mencenext year in the beginning or middle of December. There is no 

 limit to the time. Even old Vines may be forced if the forcing is effected 

 gradually. In course of time the V.nes wiU acquire an early habit. The 

 onlv circumstance that seems against you is what you say of the roots of 

 tie Vines being beyond reach— a matter of less consequence when tho 

 Vines are allowed to break and fruit naturally, but of more importance 

 when forced. This will also be of more importance if the roots arc out- 

 side instead of inside the house. In the first case the borders will require 

 protecting in early forcing. 



