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JOURNAL OF HORTIOULTURE AND COTTAGE QARDENEB. 



[ jQlr 8. 1869. 



Rlann ftll ronnd ; bat we may state that for a Icnn-to house, diWdfog tho 

 cnbic feet of nir by 80, will give tho number of fort of 4-inch piping, 

 eufncient to keep the honpc nt 60 , except in vorj- cold wentlier. To keep 

 each a hoanc at 70 . divide the cnbir feet of air by 20. The large conaor- 

 vatory at Chotsworth bus been kept nt 60 with I foot Of 4-inch piping to 

 no cable feet of nir; but this renult is greatly owing to tho bnlk of air 

 cQCloAcd. In low gpan-rocffd houses, glsBS nil round. It would require 

 1 foot of piping to from H to *20 cubic feet of nir. Tlio size of piping 

 aenorally goes in the ratio of 2, », 4. Thus, 203 feet of 4-inch piping will 

 be cqaal to 8)0 feet of ."> inches, and 400 foot of 2 inches. The smaller 

 eizofl are sooner heated. 

 EjlRLV Stiiawberry {A'. ^T. /r.).— VicomtcHse Ilerlcart do Thury. 

 Growixo MrsHROoMS IN A Cow IIoTTSE (.V. L. /),).— Than your fonr 

 stalls in a dark, or almost entirely dark cow house, no place could bo 

 bettor for Mushroom beds. Without other heat you cannot force well, 

 except from the heat of the beds. The best material to use would bo 

 three parts horse droppings, one part short litter, and one part turfy 

 loam in rough pieces about tho nizo of eggs. Wo have Bcorcely over 

 vantcd Mushrooms for many years, and we never conld make a bed 

 of horse droppings, but were glad of some for surfacing the bed. The 

 next best material is well-wrought manure, such ns gardeners in general 

 use for a Cucumber bed, and a couple of inches of droppings on the sor- 

 faco. For spring and autumn, a bed of some 12 inches of droppings would 

 bo ample, and less would do for summer. If tho bod is o mixture, as 

 above, tho depth should be at least IS inches ; and for winter it should 

 be from 18 inches to 2 feet in depth. With tho four stalls we would have 

 four successions. In winter you must keep the hods warm with dry 

 covering over them, and in very cold weather you could have n heap of 

 fermenting dung, or dung and leaves, in the pai;sat:;6 behind the stalls, 

 and this would give a good preparation for material for the bottom of a 

 freah bed. With such a dark house, and, we presume, rather thick walls, 

 wo sboold have no difficulty with Mushrooms. Provided the material is 

 plentiful, the fermenting material in the passage would maintain a warm 

 bomid atmosphere in the place during winter. In summer it would be 

 necessary to sprinkle the walls and lloor to keep the place cool, and avoid 

 keen drauphts of air. One essential is not to kill tho spawn with too 

 much warmth, and another is neither to starve it with dryness, nor flood it 

 with moisture. We presume you understand thc^e points. 



Protecting Wall Fruit Trees (IT'. R. B.).— Tho best moveable pro- 

 tection for a Peach wall would be calico sheeting, which you could pull 

 np and down. The cheapest permanent protection is a house of glass 

 and wood, in the orchard-house style, using rafter sash bars and wide 

 glass, and thus dispenaing with heavy rafters and moveable sashes. Wo 

 presume you know how these are made. The cheapest moveable sashes, 

 such as you see advertised in our columns, will cost much more, but 

 then you can move them from place to i>lace as yon like. 



VENTiLATraG AN Unheated PEAcn HocsE (J. li. H'.).— If vou havc no 

 means of making ventilators in the back wall, yon will require an open- 

 ing at the apex, equal to from It) to 12 inches all the wiy along. You 

 will need the same in front. If the proposed windows are to be of glass 

 in front, then all will be well ; but if they are to bo wood, then we would 

 dispense with the bricks, have fixed glasswhere the ventilators are shown 

 to be in front, and wooden ones of 10 or U inches wide below them, 

 nearer the ground ; but your plan is sure to answer. Glass ventilators 

 are not so good for folding down as wooden ones, still they may be fixed 

 by rods to open only certain lengths. 



Tricolor and Bicolor Pelargoniums in a Frame (Q. Q). — Tho 

 colour of both would be improved by the lights being taken off entirely. 



Mastic L'HoiDre Lefort (7(/*-m).— The mastic is successful as an 

 application for budding Roses or any other plant, but it is safer to tie 

 slightly before applying tho mastic. 



Lobelias lldrm). — There are many now like L. cardinnlJg, but much 



handsomer, they are also of stronger habit, and are more hardy. Among 



them the follo\ving may be instanced: — Comet, Dazzle, Glitter, and 



Vivid. Loboha Queen Victoria answers to yonr description. 



Fruiting of the Indxarubber Plant {B, H.).— This is not of very 



common nccnrronco. We have, however, seen a good many rxamplcs o' 

 its having fruited, especially during tbo past winter and spring, chiefly 

 on plants which had at some period been chocked in their growth, as la 

 your case, by losing the poiut bud, or in consequence of the thorough 

 ripening of tho wood during the hot summer of IBGtj. Stunted or half- 

 atarved plants also produce fruit frooly. 



BtoARREAU CnEnnv Caatino it** Fruit (AmnUur).—V*i> think it will 

 bo advisable for you, and most sutisfoctory, to take up your Cherrj* tree 

 carofnlly in tho beg nnlng of October, saving-all the roots yon possibly 

 can, when, after scrnring proper druinngf, if necessary renew the soil 

 completely around it^ rn^its to tho depth of 2 feet or so. Allow the tree 

 liberty of action for its branches, prune but sparingly, and wo doubt not 

 you will bo repaid for the trouble. 



Rose Leaves Spotted (/J' »i|.— Your Rose trees, judging from the 

 leaves sent, are sutTering from the elTccts of cold— cold weather and cold, 

 sonr soil. Remedy tbo latter. 



Liquid Manure for Out-door Vines— Thinning Bebries (Idem). — 

 The best liquid manure for Vines Is that from a cow shed. They might 

 be supplied with it once a-weok, diluted with uater, or bettor on a raloy 

 day, from tho time of the setting of the berry to the commencement of 

 colouring. Quantity must be entirely regulated by the size and strength 

 of the plant, and the extent and quality of the soil in the border. They 

 will stand much in a well-drained, porous soil. Commence to thin tho 

 berritrs on the bunches as soon as they are set. Tbe operation moy be 

 finished at once, or repeated. Tho object is to thin, so that the berries 

 when folly grown may not interfere or crowd against one another to pre- 

 vent their swelling to the full bize. 



Punting Vines in an Inside Border (Riradrr).— Tho beat time for 

 planting Vines is daring this month, and tho best Vines for planting are 

 those which have been started from eyes in the spring of tho same year, 

 which in July, if properly mnnnged, should bo fine, healthy, free-grow- 

 ing plants in I'J-inch pots, and from 4 to G feet in height. They sboold 

 he planted out before tbo roots become much matted round the sides of 

 tho pot, so that in planting the roots may bo but little disturbed, and the 

 plants continue to grow unchecked in a most luxuriant manner. Vines 

 planted thus, having their roots so well established in tbe soil before 

 winter, are capable of bearing, and would bear, fruit as well in the follow- 

 ing spring as if they had remained in a pot. Having' regard, however, to 

 the nermanent and future condition of idanted-out Vines, it is not policy 

 to allow them to hear fruit. To plant in September or October is some- 

 what too late, as by that time the natural season of the growth of tho 

 Vino is nearly over, so that the Vines can establi!*h themselveB but little 

 in the new soil until the following spring. To excite growth bo late in 

 the season, and daring winter, by littering, watering, 6;c., will prove not 

 only useless but positively injurious. The littering is nseless, and tbe 

 watering injurious. Your efforts ought rather to be to keep the roots 

 warm and dry, so as to secure the early ripening of tho wood, for by each 

 means only can your object be attnined. Cutting back the canes and 

 growing them on again must depend altogether upon their strength. 

 Vines break oil the stronger by being ollowed to do so naturally — that is, 

 with as little artificial assistance as possible. 



PuTTERiDGEBUHY (A OarrUncr, Herti).~V!e know nothing as to tho 

 gardens atPutteridgebury being oi)en to tho pnblic, but any gardener maj 

 see them by making application in the nsual way. 



Names of Plants (S.J. H.).— The Ribbon Gra^s is Phalaris amndi- 

 nacea. The other seems to be Vinca major variegata, or Variegated 

 Larger Periwinkle. {Mim if.).— Sednm Sieboldii variegatum. {F. P.).— 

 1, Polygonum convolvulus ; 2, Solanum dulcamara ; 3. Centranthns mber, 

 {Marffaret). — 1, Lamium maculatum ; 2, Rhododendron hirsutum. {An 

 Old Subscriber).— 2, Spirn?a prnnifolia. {G. .S.).— We believe your Iris to 

 be I. versicolor, hut your specimen was quite smashed in coming through 

 the post Iris bicolor, Linrfl., usually known as Dietos bicolor, Sircc/, has 

 clear yellow flowers with a black blotch at tho base of each sepal. It is a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope, and is usually treated in cultivation as 

 a hothouse plant. I. versicolor, TAndl., is a North-American plant, hardy 

 in cultivation, and bears purplish violet flowers, the sepals being whitish 

 at the base with a central streak of yellow. 



IVIETEOROLOCtICAL observations in the Suburbs of London for the week ending July 0th. 



Wed... 80 



Thurs. 1 



Fri.... 2 



Sat.... 3 



Snn. . . 4 



Mon.. . 5 



Tnes. . 6 



Mean.. 



BAROMETER. 



Max. 



Min. 



30.164 

 30.137 

 3).125 

 30.113 

 30.046 

 29.874 

 29.963 



30.131 

 30.120 

 30.076 

 30.07H 

 29 963 

 29.y.38 

 29.8 J3 



TBERMOUETEB 



64 



60 

 69 

 69 

 77 

 89 



30.060 30.007 i 71. 57 



53 

 52 

 53 

 51 

 43 

 59 

 56 



52.43 



1 ft. dp. 



60 

 60 

 59 

 61 

 63 

 63 

 63 



61.20 



2 ft. dp. 



5.9 

 57 

 57 

 57 

 58 

 59 

 59 



Rain in 



inches. 



N.E. 

 N.E. 

 N.E. 

 N.E. 

 S.E. 

 S. 

 S.W. 



57-86 



.00 

 .00 

 .00 

 .03 

 .00 

 .00 

 .00 



0.00 



Genebal Reuarks. 



Clondy, cold wind ; densely overcast ; overcast. 

 Densely overcast ; overcast ; densely overcast. 

 Denselv overcast ; cloudy; overcast. 

 Overcast ; clondy but fine ; densely overcast. 

 Very fine ; exceedingly fine : clear and fine at night. 

 Fine, cloudy ; verj* fine and hot ; densely overcast. 

 Densely overcast ; heavy clouds ; densely overcast. 



^OniTRY. BEE, ANB PIGEON CHRONICLE. 



NORTHAMPTON POULTRY SHOW. 

 Fob many years past the Northampton Agricnltural Society has had 

 Rood reason to feel prond of that portion of its annual Kxhibition 

 devoted to ponltry. In fact, from year to year the pnhlic interest in 

 this department seems to increase, and under the manac^ement of 

 energetic Stewards, the ponltry arrangements have become so complete 

 as to admit of but little, if any improvement. The tent accommoda- 

 tion is excellent, and Messrs. Turners' pens are now too well known 

 to require any special description, and the zeal shown by each mem- 

 ber to maintain the Society's present high standard in poultry is most 



commendable. norl-in;/s invariably stand pre-eminent at the Korth- 

 ampton Shows, and tho rivalry in these particular classes is always 

 intense. Many specimens this year of extraordinary size in the 

 Dorking classes proved, however. " as miserable to look at as they 

 were comfortless to themselves, " gonty feet being very prevalent. 

 With many birds the ball of the foot was increased to the size of half 

 of a child's playball, and so intensely sensitive, that the slightest 

 pressure between the toes evidently gave the safferer the most eiqoisita 

 pain, and tho fowls conld only move with extreme dilBcnlty. Over- 

 feeding, a contracted range, and too lofty perches, arc the causes of 

 this generally incurable complaint. Some" very early hatched chickens 

 were shown both among Dorkinns and SimniJi fowls. A pen of early 

 Rouen DucUing.i were equally worthy of note. Mr. Fowler and Mrs. 

 Seamons, of Aylesbory, of world-wide reputation, were competit :-rs, 



