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JOUBNAL OP nOBTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAUDENEB. 



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roughly washed with water as nearly at the boiling point as it 

 could be used. All the woodwork had also been well washed 

 instead of painting with limo and sulphur. I'resh dung and 

 fresh soil had been nsed — and whence in these circumstances 

 came the little clusters of green fly ? There they are, and we 

 know they could only come in the usual way ; and the concla- 

 Rion at which we arrive is, that unless thoroughly crushed it 

 is scarcely possible to destroy the eggs of insects, if they have 

 any access to air when hatching-time comes. 



To destroy such insects in frames and pits nothing is more 

 effectual than tobacco smoke. The experienced may use bruised 

 Laurel leaves, or even burn them like tobacco, but they may 

 easily injure the plants by doing so ; whilst less care is required 

 in the case of shag tobacco, and the expense of the article will 

 be more apt to guard against its abundant use. In frames 

 and pits there is no better plan than having a hole in the wood 

 or wall, the size of a common cork, through which the funnel 

 of a fumigating bellows or machine may pass, or a pot with a 

 a hole in its side may be used, some live cinders put beneath, 

 tobacco or tobacco paper above, and a common bellows' pipe 

 inserted through the hole in the wall, to blow the pot until the 

 place is full of the smoke. If o fumigating machine is used 



floors, stages, &c., helped to keep the inside atmosphere in a 

 more genial condition. People, where cool is cheap, need not 

 be so partionlar, but our impression is that many things even 

 whore fuel is plentiful are injured by too much fire brat. Be- 

 member that it is scarcely possible to draw or make a plant 

 weak by sun heat if air is given early. 



ORNAMENTAL DEPAHTMENT. 



Much the same as last week. Much time taken np with 

 wotering. Plant-houses were shaded by spattering the glass 

 with whitcd water, and flooded the floor, and syringed the 

 stages, to keep the atmosphere moist and cool. ViUed the 

 frames with the cuttings alluded to last week. Moved all 

 Scarlet Geraniums from the vineries, where the shade would 

 make them weak, and planted great numbers of Calceolarias 

 and Geraniums in " earth-pits," in rows 4 inches or so apart, 

 where (hey will remain until bedding time, protected with 

 cloth, mats, hurdles, and what we can obtain. The Culcoolaria- 

 beds were a flne sight before being moved, as in most cases not 

 one in a thousand cuttings had (ailed, and not a trace of an 

 insect on them. It would never have done to have planted 

 them out fiually from such a thicket. We trust in three weeks 

 or a month they will make nice balls for lifting. All these 



— K. 1'. 



C0\T5NT GARDEN MARKET.— ArniL 98. 



A PAIR Hiipi'Iv, n«d prcnt improvement in the qnility of many kinds of 

 produce. Kirltiey Beans are now nrrivini? in consiilcrablo qnanlitloa 

 hIdhk with the other foreign imports, which comprise Asparnffus. 

 Artifhnkes. younp Carrots ami Turnips, Cirdoons. nnd Green Pea?. 

 p."Jsort Apples nnd Pears are limited to a few varieties. Oo-'d samples 

 »{ I'dth Ash-lcavcd and Round Potatoes have como in from tbo we&t of 

 England and the Channel Islands. 



FRUIT. 



Apples 3ii sieve 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bush. 



Currants, Ited }rz sieve 



Black do. 



FiRs doz. 



FUberts lb. 



Cobs 100 lbs. 



OooBebcrries H sieve 



I Grapes, Hothouse, .lb. 13 

 , Lemons 100 6 



Melons each 



Necturines doz. 



OraoRcs 100 



Peaciics doz. 



Peai's (dessert) .. dnz. 10 



kitchen doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plums ^ Bieve 



Quinces ?^ sieve 



liaspborrics lb. 



Strawberries oz. 



Wulnuta bush. 



VEGETABLES. 



Artichokes each 



Apparapus bundle 



Beans, Broad., buphel 



Kidney 100 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Brns. Sprouts ^j sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



('apsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



CauliflOTTcr doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



picklinf* .... doz. 



EndiTe doz. 



Fennel buneh 



(iarlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish .. bundle 



there will be no danger of the smoke being too hot. If a pot ( thing': require care and attention, and must have it to do well, 

 and the common bellows are used, plenty of cool damp moss 

 should cover the tobacco, so that the smoke may be cool when it 

 strikes on the plants. Hot tobacco smoke will kill every living 

 vegetable. We are not learned enough to exiilain the reason, 

 but numerous facts tell us that tobacco smoke is best used 

 when the plants are rather dry and the leaves as dry as pos- 

 sible. When plants are syringed before they are smoked with 

 tobacco the smoke will often be more injurious to the plants 

 than it is to the insects. Eiperieuce may thus often be our 

 teacher, though we cannot explain the principles of that expe- 

 rience. Facts tell us that when a house is damp, and the 

 leaves are wet from the syringe or the watering-pot, the nico- 

 tin principle of the tobacco, when in the shape of smoke, is 

 peculiarly dangerous, especially to all tender plants : there- 

 fore let plants be dry when smoked. In most places it will be 

 economical to liave a little box or a small close shed for 

 smoking plants in, as then they can be smoked without taint- 

 ing the whole house, and a pinch of tobacco will often thus do 

 what pounds would not do in a larger place. 



As a case in point, of not being able always to tell how things 

 act, though having no doubt as to the results, we may men- j 

 tion that when the plants were all removed in winter we had a | 

 house very much overrun with insects thoroughly washed, [ 

 walls, woodwork, &c., with very hot soap and water, and then, 

 that every cranny should be reached, we made several little 

 tires in the empty close house, and burned flowers of sulphur I 

 and bruised Laurel leaves. We knew that the sulphur would 

 settle every growing thing, though it would not hurt the well- 

 ripened wood of deciduous trees, as Vines, ic., and the result 

 was pretty well what had been desired so far as the destruction 

 of insects was concerned ; but what alarmed us was to find, fiom 

 the moisture used in the house, that the whitish woodwork was 

 almost black from a sulphate and prussiate of lead, whilst our 

 most strenuous efforts by means of brushes, water, and plenty 

 of perseverance were next to totally inetfectual in removing it. 

 Now here again experience became a better teacher to us than 

 onr limited science, for when, on repeating such extreme modes 

 of cure, the paint on the woodwork was similarly affected, we 

 just let it alone, and the atmosphere soon restored the colour 

 to the paint, which no scrubbing of ours could accomplish. 

 We will not have discoursed on insects in vain if it impress all 

 beginners with the importance of taking them in time, before 

 an opportunity is given for preparing for successional genera- 

 tions of enemies. 



Removed most of the foreright shoots from Peaches, &c., 

 preferring to do this often instead of at once or twice, in order 

 that no check may be given to the growth of the trees. We 

 hope we shall soon have a dull day for Grape-thinning. At 

 present we have to confine such work to the morning and even- 

 ing. Though the weather has obliged us to use the water- 

 ing-pot freely, it has saved us trouble and expense in the way 

 of firing, for in such parching weather we prefer in all forcing- 

 houses to give less air and no fire heat during the day. In 

 these sunny windy days it is amaxing how little air does when 

 the heating material is cool, and of all heat there is none equal 

 to sun heat. Under such circumstances the little air must be 

 given early, and then the heat from the sun rises gradually, 

 and we would sooner see the houses rise gradually to 90° than 

 give much air when the wind was so parching. Syringing 



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Leeks bunch 



Lettuce per doz. 



Mushrooms . , , . pottle 

 Mustd.A Cress, punnet 



Onions bushel 



Parsley sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



j Peas 4 sieve 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney do. 



Radishes . . doz. hands 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes Vi sieve 



Tnrnipa bunch 



Vegetable Marrows dz. 



TRADE CAT.U.OGUE RECER'ED. 

 ,Tttmes Carter & Co., 237. 238, and 201, High Holbom, Lon- 

 don, W.C. — Gardcnrr's and Farmi'r's I'ade-Mccum. Part III., 

 Store, Greettliuuse, and Bedding flaiiU. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



CoTTiOE (iiKDF.NKRs' DicTioNABT ill. W. F.). -Thank voo for the sUp 

 vou enclosed. It is but a hunt on the trail of a red herring. Dr. HoRg 

 never had the slightest pecimiary interest in the " Cottage Oardenera' 

 Dictionarv," and neither has " his partner," it bcinK. wo belieTO, tb» 

 propirty lit Mr. II. G. liohn, or ol his auecessore. The question of its 

 merits i's simply one of opinion. On one side there are ranged upwards of 

 20,000 of the gardening public who have purchased it. and on the other — 

 Who? The ivriters of the work, aa the ]ireface tcstitiea, were Jamea 

 Barnes, of Bieton; Robert Errington, of Oullon; Donald Beaton, ol 

 Shrubland : Robert Fish, of PutteriJgebary ; Thomas Weaver, of Win- 

 chester; and Thomas Appleby; and who is their critic? Its price is 

 about 6s., a convenient sum lor the light pocket of a yotuig gardener 

 with 12^. a-week, who has not got. and would have some difficulty in find- 

 ing nearly seven guineas to purchase as text-books those excellent bat 

 expensive works, "Tlie Book of the Garden," "The Theory and Pr»ctie« 

 ol Uurlicnlliud," and " The Uudoaer'a Aasiatuit." 



