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JOmtNAL OP HORTICULTTTBE AND COTTAGE GABDENEB. 



44S 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— June 9. 



WX have an abnndani supply of out-door produce, nnd a fair demand 

 for most descriptions of it. A few Ploms and Apricots are included in 

 our foreign imports, with Strawberries, Cteiriea, &c. New Potatoes 

 arrive in rather large quantities from the West of England and the 

 Channel Islands, the best Ashleaf Kiilnej's realising from 18s. to 258. per 

 cwt. ; Round from 12s. to 20s. per c«-t. In old Potatoes the trado is verj- 

 heavy. 



VEGET.VELES. 



Artichokes each 



Asparagus bundle 



Beans, Broad. . bushel 



Kidney 100 



Beet, Red doz. 



BfoccoLi bundle 



Erus. Sprouts J^ sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbers each 



pickling .... doz. 



Sndive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish . . bundle 



s. d. B. 

 3 too 



6 































4 













 

 3 

 

 3 

 6 



d ; 



6 Leeks bunch 



Lettuce per doz. 



Mushrooms pottle 



MuBtd.& Cress, punnet 



Onions bushel 



6 Parsley 3^ sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas per quart 



Potatoes bushel 



8 Kidney do. 



Radishes . . doz. hands 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bashel 



Tomatoes. . . . per doz. 



( Turnips bunch 



( Vegetable Marrows dz. 



s. d. 

 3 too 



FRUIT. 



Apples )4 sieve 



Apricots doz. 4 



Cherries lb. 3 



Chestnuts bush. 



Currants sieve 5 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 8 



Filberts lb. 



Cobs 100 Ibg. 



Gooseberries ..quart 



Grapes, Hothouse. .Ih. 5 



lemons loo 6 



d. s. d I s. d. s. 



OtoO I Melons each 4 Oto8 



6 

 3 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Nectarines doz. 10 



Oranges 100 6 



Peaches doz. 21 



Pears (dessert) ..doz. 



kitchen doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 6 



Plums Vz sieve 



Quinces . . . . H sieve 



Raspberries lb. 



Strawberries lb. 3 



UO 

 12 



\^'alnut8 bash. 14 



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 y tf'c, 171, FUet 

 Street, London, E.G. 



K.B. — Many questions must remain unanswered until next 

 week. 



Books 'E. S. B. G.).— Any of the one-volume English Floras would be 

 what you require ; Babington's *' Manual of British Botany " is about the 

 «heapeBt. There is no such book as would teach "enough knowledge of 

 Latin to understand the names of plants," for the generic names are 

 chiefly derived from the Greek. 



PAnLOWNiA iMPERiALis f.4. Iiaicson).—Wo are much obliged by the 

 Tery fine blooms of thi.s noble tree, produced at Bromley, in Kent. This 

 year has been especially favourable to its blooming, or, we should be 

 more correct in saying that laut year was favourable to the formation of 

 the blossom-buds. Very fine specimens of the blooms have been exhi- 

 bited in London. 



Blight on Rose Leap (T. IT.).— It is not " a blight," for that popular 

 Dame is confined to the consequences of parasitical fungi, aphides, and 

 nngenial temperatures. On the leaf you enclose is a cluster uf the eggs 

 ot some moth. 



Various {IUx). — Write to Mr. Sims, Nurseryman, Foot's Cray, Kent, 

 for the information about Ferns. The plant you mention as shown at 

 the International Horticultural Exhibition was not a Fern, but an aquatic 

 plant belonging to the Natural Order Juncaginea). Its popular names 

 are the Lace Leaf and Water Yam ; its botanical name, Ouvirandra 

 tenestralis. We cannot gues^ what kinds of plants you wish to cultivate 

 in your plant case. Ferns and Lycopodiums would be most easily culti- 

 Tated in it, Calftdiuras and other omamentfll-leaved plants, as in Messrs. 

 Arthur Henderson & Co.'s canes in the Horticultural society's arcade, 

 reqnire heat in the cold seasons of the year. 



Bbuoxaksia suaveolbns Bloom-bcds Falling (A Constant Rgadet). — 

 The bads fall from an insuflicient supply of water ; the plant requires an 

 abundance of water when the buds are swelling. The drainage must be 

 good. We think that the buds would swell properly if you were to thm 

 them ont to one where there are three, syrinpc freely to keep down red 

 epider, and give a plentiful supply of water, and manure water at every 

 altermUe watcrini;. Before Riving water let there be a necessity for it, 

 then afl'ord enough to reach the lowest roots. 



ExPERUTENTrNu WITH ARTICLES ADTEnxiSED (P. H. G.).— Instead of 

 inctrrring the eipen'^e and consumption of time you recommend, we much 

 prefer our correspondents doing so and informing us of the results, which 

 we readily find space fur. 



Boss LxATBB CuBLED^C. ZJorfc).— We detect by means of a magnifier 

 flbinnto fungi on their under surfaces. Dust them with flowers of sulphur. 

 Water the roots with weak liquid manure, and mulch over the surface. 



EscALLOxiA M0NTEVIDRN8IS (3*. Pearson).— YOTiT plant which formed 

 its buds last aututiiii, and flowered in May, having white heads of blooD, 

 i::* quite in character. It is one of many handsome shrubs that aro 

 seldom seen, and though it was introduced in lti27 is not iii general cul- 

 tivation. Thi;j may be partly owing to its not being sufUcioutly hardy 

 to endure our winters in many locaiitios, for it wilt ouly thrive in warm 

 sheltered places, and in some it rtMiuirea a wall with a south or wetit 

 iLspect. 



Asters in Pots {Constant ii^ad<rr).— They succeed in a compost o! 

 turfy loam from turves a year old two-thirds, and one-third leaf mould. 

 You may if you have it add one-fourth of cowdung a year old, or well- 

 reduced hotbed manure, adding sufliciont sand to make the soil rather 

 sandy. It ib best to use small pots at first, and then repot oa often as 

 the roots reach the sides of the pot, giving the final bhift when the 

 flower-heads show above the leaves. Liquid manure applied twice or 

 thrice a-week after the pots become full of roots will increase the size of 

 the plants and flowers. 



Dracesa tekminalis Ccxtcre (TtieTTi).— The leaf sent wo think is 

 that of the pUint named, and if so, it does well in a cuuipost of turfy 

 loam and fibry sandy peat in equal parts, with one-third leaf mould, and 

 a free admixture of silver sand, which may amount to one-sixth of the 

 whole. Drain the pot well and pot rather low, shakiug tho old soil 

 away. It will root from the stem inserted in the soil. Do not tift tho 

 soil, but chop it with a spade andmake it fine. Pot firmly but not tightly. 

 After potting keep rather close and moist in a hou^e having a tempera- 

 ture of from 60- to 65' by night, and when the roots are working in the 

 fresh soil give a Ucht and airy situation in a warm house, in which a 

 moist atmosphere is maintained by sprinkling of the walls, paths, and 

 all available surfaces twice daily. Avoid syringing the foliage, also cold 

 currents of air, which will tend to cause the leaves to become brown at 

 the points, as in the specimen sent. Give water copiously whilst growing, 

 but none until the soil requires it. In summer the plant will do in a 

 moist light stove, and in vriuter it will sustain no injury in a temperature 

 of from 45- to 50", if the soil be kept rather dry. It requires a brisk heat 

 in spring, and encouragement in the shape of moisture ; it does well in a 

 vinery in summer. 



GnowiNG Mignonette in Pots {De Foix).— For early flowering flow 

 the seed now in pans in a compost of equal parts loum and leaf mould, 

 plice the pans out of doors in an open situation, and keep the soil 

 moist. When about 2 inches high prick ofi" the young plants singly into 

 small pots in the same compost, with the addition of one-tbird well- 

 reduced hotbed manure; place them in a cold frame, and ketpthem cloaa 

 and shaded until established, then expose them to air and light, and to 

 insure growth choose a place shaded from the sun between 9 a.m. and 

 4 P.M. An occisional watering is all that wiU be necessary up to August, 

 and until then the flowers should be pinched ofi" as they appear. In 

 August shift into sii-inch pots, and if the shoots are close together peg 

 them down and out so as to keep them open. Tho plants will now grow 

 rapidly and require frequent stopping and occasional waterings. Early 

 in October shift them into eight or nine-inch pot-^. but still keep them 

 out of doors and continue stopping. House the plants when it becomet 

 unsafe to leave them out longer, and then place them as near the glass 

 as possible, and where they can have plenty of fresh air. They do best 

 in a cool, dry, airy greenhouse. Stop them up to December, and then 

 allow them to go to bloom. Avoid keeping the soU wet, and give air 

 abundantly. In midwinter you will have nice compnct specimens covered 

 with bloom, and in a convenient size of pot. If you wish for later- 

 blooming plants, though these will cr.utinuo in flower for a long time, 

 you may sow the seed towards the end of July as before, in pans, placing 

 them on an airy shelf in the greenhouse, where they are to remain until 

 the plants are 2 inches high ; then prick them off in eight- inch pots, foOT 

 plants in each, in the compost already mentioned. Tho plants must be 

 kept on the shelf until thev show flower, when they may be removed to 

 the brackets or stands whe're they can have an abui/dance of light and 

 air. At this stage clear and weak liquid manure may be given at ejery 

 alternate watering, remembering always that it and all water Hhould b« 

 of the same temperature as the hrmt^e. As the flowers begin to deyelopo 

 themselves liquid manure is given whenever moisture is required by the 

 roots. Afterwards the plants are not further potted if the dramaRo acts 

 well, and wateriuK i:^ not necessary so long as the soil rctiuns snihcienl 

 moisture to previ;ut flagging. It is essential to keep the plants near tha 

 glass. We have given a mode of culture requiring pegging, stoppmg, and 

 staking the shoots, and a method that needs no such attention, and wa 

 hope that one or other will meet your wishes. 



Selaginella c^siA CcrLT0BK (Jcfcm).— The plants growing in ^ro 

 baskets become brown because exposed to too stronjj a light. At beat it ii 

 not a very good basket plant, for it does not continue Builiciently long m 

 foliage. For a few months it is rather handsome, but when ihc frnnO- 

 like foliage Iobca its fresh appearance it becomes of a broTMi dingy hue, 

 losing its metallic lustre, and is then the reverse of omomental. Tha 

 way wo prow it is in pans 18 inches wide nnd 6 inches deep. Alter 

 placing at the bottom a couple of inches of broken pots for drainage, 

 the pan is filled to tho rim with turfy, brown pout two-thirds, and ono- 

 third chopped sphagnum and charcoal from tho sir.e of a hazel up J*> '"»* 

 of a walnut. Tho plunts are then taken from the store pans and laid on 

 the surface in pieces 2 or 3 inches square nnd inches apirt, the first 

 row 3 inches from tho rim of the pan. The spnces between t"^>"'f8 "* 

 filled with a compost of turfv sandy pent twj-tbird?. and one-third loam, 

 broken and made fine, and sifted through an inch sieve, addmg one-siiia 

 of silver sand. This compost is put in high enough to Plr.^htly e .vir tna 

 tuftn, and the surface being pressed gently a good watcrinK scltio^ au 

 nicely around tbe tufts. Placed in a warm and rather dirk or sugni^ 

 shaded house, such as a vinery at work, if the ntmosphcro i« ki-pt «">!« 

 and watering well attended to. this Selflsanellaquickly covers the surlaoa 

 Mid hnngs over the a*des of the pan. Throughout the summer it fornia a 

 fine object in a Cool shaded house, to which it should be removed from 

 heat alter a good growth haa been made. We P"t in snnng wbon thj 

 young growths are an inch or so long. In wmtcr the fobHfic in a"' w^J 

 toremaia until it dies down, when it is cut off close. Wo keep it m 

 winter in a house having a temperature of from 4o^ * ° ™ ■ ?"'''",5i«« 

 more water thrm a little now and then to prevent the soil from becoming 

 very dry ; it is best kept just moist. Wo r«pot every other year. 



Plans op Garden «~Beddino.out. Ac. (Af. N. E.).~X 7<^°^}^^ 

 iUustrated on these eubjects is ready for tho proaB; but il oamuH M 

 published at tho price you mention. 



