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JOCENAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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strong prominent buds. Of coarse MctJlashan'B machine 

 would make short work of sucli planting ; but even with the 

 above materials, if men do the first tree very carefully and 

 nicely under your superintendence, you must not think much 

 of the time, as every fresh tree they go to they will move more 

 rapidly and better. The chief advantage of such transplant- 

 ing is that the trees make a show at once. They generally re- 

 quire a couple of years or so to get into full growth. — K. F. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET— jANUAnY li. 



Wc hnve aenin to report abondant hnpplics with little or no MteratioD 

 in prices, uur first con^ignnientH of Suladi; from France havo com* to 

 hand, but at present are not much bt-tter than borne grown. 



FRUIT. 



Apples A sieve 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Cbestnats bnsh. 



Currants, Red \ sieve 



Black do. 



FifTS doz. 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs .... 100 lbs. 

 Gooseberries. . 4 sieve 

 Grapes, Hambro... lb. 



Muscats lb. 



Lemons 100 



Artichokes each 



Asparaf^ms. .. . bundle 

 Bcan< Broad. . bushel 



Kidney 100 



Beet, lied doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Bms. Sprouts..^ sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicoms 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cftoliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cacumbers each 



pickling doz. 



Endive score 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic and Shallots, lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish . . buudlo 



Melons each 



Mulberries. . . . punnet 



Nectarines doz. 



Oranges 100 



Peaches doz. 



Pears (kitchen)., doz. 



dessert doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plnms A sieve 



Quinces J sieve 



Raspberries lb. 



Strawberries lb. 



s. d. 



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Walnuts bash 14 20 



Leeks bunch 



Lettuce .... per score 

 Mushrooms, , . , pottle 

 Mustd. & Cress, punnet 

 Onions . . . .per bushel 



pickling* quart 



Parsley 4 sieve 



Parsnips '. doz. 



Peas quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes doz. bunches 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes ^ ^^ievo 



Turnips bunch 



Vegetable Marrows dz. 



3. d. 8. 

 8 too 

 2 



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TRADE CATALOGUE PJECERTSD. 



Lamoureux, Clark, & Co., 4, Cornwall Street. Plymoutli.— 

 General Price Current and Garden Directory for 1866. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS, 



ORAFTrxG Mastic IR^v. C. C. f;.).— We do not know where it can be 

 ubtamed, except of M. L'homme Lefort, Belleville, near Paris. 



Repaihing Parish Road (Indrr).— Yon must consult a Folicitor. There 

 axe usually local as well as the general statutes to be considered. 



Stove Without Flue (P.).— The stove vou mention would give suffi- 

 cient heat for your small greenhouse, but the fumes from the fuel would 

 mjure the plants. We recommend you to have a small gas stove, with a 

 tube from us top passing into the op'en air. We used one for years. 



Washes FOR Walls and Wall Trees (Mr. N. F. C.).— For the walls 

 lake fresh lime and soot m equal proportions, mi.x to the consistencv of 

 whitewash \vith boihng urine or liquid manure, and apply the wash hot, 

 the hotter the better, to the walls, brushing it well into the hok--^ and 

 crevices. For the trees, take of soft soap, 8 ozs.; sulphur vivuni, 1 lb. ■ 

 and fresh lime 1 lb. Dissolve the soft soap ii^ a callon of strong liquid 

 manure, add the sulphur and lime, and mix thoroughly . then bring to 

 the desired consistency by adding clay. Apply this mixture with a brush, 

 rubbing it well into every crack, hole, and crevice, and being careful to 

 cnat but not to brush so heavily as to rub off the buds. The earlier it is 

 none the better. 



Black Damask Plum as a Stock (Alhh).— This Plum, recommended 

 by Mr. Kivers as a stock on which to graft Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots, 

 and other Plums, is the Damas noir of the French catalogues. 



Chixefo: Primulas f.^ />adrr).- White-flowered Chinese Primroses 

 with red-leaf stalks are not unnsnal. 



Lxsects IK Oak Floor (VorAv.;. ,>*-).— The insect in question is the 

 common Anobium te8.sellatnm. If the oaken floor were soaked with a 

 i^aturated solution of corrosive sublimate, the larvio would bo kiUcd.— W. 



Discharging a Gardener without Notice (A Constant Itradrr).~l( 

 you received your wages weekly a week's notice will be sufficient, and 

 your house, if rent free, being really part of your wages, must be quitted 

 alter the same short notice. You can recover those wages and some 

 compensation for the house if turned out and away without a week's 

 notice. Viu say certain charges are broURht apainst von ; of these we 

 know nothing. If you bare not been faithful you are not entitled to any 

 notice. ' 



Orangk and Citron Trees Unhealthy {.4tnatfur).~YouT troea will 

 be difficult of recovery. Your haWng thnn lately taken out of the pota 

 is right, if you drained the pots well, u.Hed 11 compost of light turfy loam, 

 with a frue admixture of sand, removed all tlio old soil from the ball, and 

 cut out the deail roots with u sharp knife. If you did not art thus do so 

 towards the end of Fi-bruary. .Vbout the middle of March plunge the 

 pots in a hotbed of about 7u \ with a top heat of 59 by night, and nprinklo 

 the trees o\"erlieHd twice daily. If you cannot nive them b-ttoin heat, 

 then place tbein in a viuer>-, or. failing that, keep thi-m in the greenhouse 

 with the soil ju?t moist, but upon nu conaidenition xery wet, nor, on the 

 other band, dry. and sprinkle overhead moniiii;* and L-vening with water 

 5^ wanner than the tem|KT.iture of the housf. If the trees Moom. or show 

 for bloom, as they may do, without producing shoots, rub the blooms off 

 immediately they are seen, and if the head bo very full of small twiggy 

 shoots, thin these out cousidenibly, leaving only the stn^ugest shoots so 

 as to form a we]l->hapen thin head. .\ny old partially dead wood to 

 be removed. Keep the soil moifit, but do not water copiously until the 

 young shoots appear, and not then until the soil ttocms to re<iuirc it, which 

 is a good sign of the plants having roots to lay hold of it. Manure, 

 whether liquid or solid, is poison to pbints without loaves and otherwise 

 sickly. Strong food is only for honithy plants, and yours will not need 

 fuch for the first year. Do not overwatur, and yet keep wuU supplied 

 after growth has commenced. 



Roses and Laurels on a B.^ne (S. G. W.). — Yonr bank would look 

 extremely well if climbing Roses only were planted, but not ^ith LaureU 

 in alternate lines. We would have it all Roses, or all Laurels, either of 

 which would look very well, and, if anything, tlie Laurels would be the 

 finer of the two, as they are so much more attractive in winter, ^\'llich- 

 ever you have, and you «;;\n have either according to your taste, the 

 plants should be pegged down, the Itoses now, durintt mild weather, and 

 the Laurels in spring. If you have all Roses pes down the strongest 

 shoots, as they v,iil best cover the burface, and do not prune them beyond 

 cutting out the very weak i^hoot-?. In future years all they will need ia 

 to be gone over in summer to cut out any old and ^'traggling sbooti that 

 spoil the general effect, pe^King these down instead of removing them if 

 the ground is not sufficiently covered. In autumn, or from that season to 

 spring, they should be looked over, and the old shoots that have flowered 

 and are weak cut out, young strong shoots being pegged down in 

 their place. The effect of this bank of Roses will be excellent in Juno 

 and July; but at other times it will not be great. A dressing of manure 

 when the shoots are regulated in autumn, before pegging them down, 

 will do them good, it being neatly pointed in. If Laurels be preferred, 

 peg down the shoots in spring before they begin to grow, spreading them 

 out so as to cover the surface. If the shoots are produced in sufficient 

 numbers to covt-r the surface, cut them in in June to within 6 inches 

 from the ground ; but if not. let them grow, and in autumn or spring peg 

 them down, and ^0 on annually until the ground be completely covered. 

 When that is the case prune them early in June so as to keep them low, 

 and go over them once or twice during the summer, aud cut out irregular 

 gron'ths so as to produce a close, even, sloping surface. A slope thus 

 covered is one of the finest ornaments in a garden, always looking well, 

 and many an ugly bank may in this way be rendered ornamental. 



Pruning Climbing Devoniknsis Rose (Mrm).— Prune it next March. 

 Be content with cutting out the old, weak, and ill-placed shoots, and 

 train so as to allow them plenty of light and air. If the plant ia weak 

 cut it in to six eyes. 



Pel.\rgosiuiis to Bloom fn August (A. li. McG.).—V,'c presume that 

 your plants have already been stopped, but if not do so at once, by taking 

 out the point of each shoot at the third leaf; but if they were cut-in late, 

 as we do those for late blooming, they will not as yet require stopping if 

 they have been kept on a shelf close to the glass and just free from frost, 

 with air daily. You cannot keep them too near the glass, or too cool, if 

 only frost and damp bo ••imrded against, nor give them too much air. 

 When the shoots have made three leaves stop them, repeating this pro- 

 ceeding up to the first week in April, when they should be stopped for the 

 last time. When the plants have broken after the last stopping, remove 

 them to a cold pit, and stand them on an inverted fiower-pot so as to be 

 not further than a foot from the glass. Train out the shoots as they grow, 

 tying-down or otherwise regulating them so as to keep the head open and 

 evenly balanced. Give all the air jXkSsible by tiltinR thelik'hts, and pro- 

 tect at nipht from frost by a covering of mats; and by day a ihin mat 

 thrown over them will do much to retard them, but it must only be used 

 during ver>- bright weather, luid for a few hours in the middle of the day. 

 After danger from frost is ovtT draw down the lights on calm nights, 

 and on those when there is no danger of more than a gentle shower of 

 rain, but put them on by day, tilting them high, and shade as before for a 

 few hours during the hottest part of the day, using them at night only to 

 protect the plants from rain and high winds. If the plants are likely to 

 bloom too soon you moy. after the trusses appear, remove the pots to a 

 north aspect, where there is no sun from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., protecting from 

 wind and rain by a frame and lights. It will take sLx weeks from the time 

 the trusses show till the plants come fully into bloom. Stopping the 

 young shoots lute will injure the bloom, but the freshness of the lolio^a 

 will amply compensate for that. You can hardly have plants in bloom in 

 August by piclving off the flower-bud«, and doing so will tend to make tho 

 plants leggy. Autumn-struck cuttings will make nice plants, but the best 

 are those u year and not more than two years older. 



Sowing Cypress Seed (Idem). — You may sow it in shallow pans as 

 you propose, in sandy loam, and pLace them in a cold frame. Plant or 

 prick off the seedlings in tho spnng of tho following year. March is as 

 good a time as .any to sow the seed. 



Cracks in Cemented Wall (/d^'m). — Neither paint nor any other 

 comp»i.^ition will prevent tho water oo;ting through the wall after frost. 

 Your only remedy is to prevent tho frost acting upon it, and unless you 

 can do tliis you must be content to fill up the cnicks with cement. If tho 

 wall is dr>- and the craeks are filled with cement, but damp comes through 

 after a sttirm, then you may coat the wall with boiling coal tar, adding 

 1 lb. of pitch to a gallon of tar. Alter filling up the cracks, apply the tar 

 when the wall is dr>', or you may give three coats of Carson's anti-corro- 

 sion paint, allowing each coat to dr>' before the other is pnt on. 



Improving Clatey Soil (£. S., A'oTTrooJ).— Throw the top spit of the 

 whole ground on one side ; pare and bum the next 9 inches ; spread the 

 ashes over the whole surface, return the top spit, and fork the whole 

 together. Bricklayers' lime rubbish w ill be a good manure for such a soiL 



