Seplember 16, 1869 j 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GARDENEB. 



233 



foliage. A due proportion betncpn green and bright colouring 

 is essential to a pleasing effect. — R. F. 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— Septembeu 15. 



Heavy arrivals nc.iin this week, in addition to Urge quantities of fruit 

 BtrippeJ off Ihe trees by the late gsles, have caused a temporary re- 

 daction in prices. Cob nuts are ploutilul ; Filbt?rts not more than 

 enougii for the demand. 



FRUIT. 



Apples J^ sieve 1 



Apricots doz. 



Cberries lb. 



Cheatnats bushel 



Corrants ^^ sieve 



Biack do. 



Fiss doz. 2 



Filberts lb. 6 



Cobs lb. 6 



Gooseberries . . quart 



Grapas. Hothouse .lb. 2 



Lemcns 100 8 



Artichokes doz. 



Asparajzus 100 



Beans, Kidney J^ sieve 



Beet. Red doz. 



Br'-ccoli bundle 



Brns. Sprouts i^ sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicams 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cncurabers each 



Endive doz. 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic lb. 



Herbs bunch 



Horseradish ..bundle 



tol 

 



d 

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9 9 







5 



12 



e. d. a. 



R. d. s. d 



Melona each 2 Oto 5 



Nectarines doz. 4 8 



Oranges 100 20 14 



Peaches doz. 6 12 



Pears (dessert) .. doz. 2 3 



Pine Apples lb. 3 6 



Plums J«j sieve 3 6 5 



Quinces doz. 



Raspberries lb. 6 10 



Strawberries lb. 



■Walnuts busbel 10 16 



do 100 1 



ABLES. 



Leeks bnnch 



Lettuce score 



Mushrooms pottle 



Mustd.& Cress.punnet 

 Onions, .doz. bunches 



Parsley sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas quart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney ditto 



Radishes doz.bnnchea 



Rhubarb bundle 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes doz. 



Turnips bunch 



Veget. Marrows, .doz. 



4 too 

 2 





 1 



1 

 2 

 4 



TRADE CATALOGUES RECER^D. 



E. G. Henderson & Sod, Wellington RoaJ, St. John's Wood, 

 Lciidon. N.W. — Atitinnn Catalogue of Bulbs and Flower EooU, 

 Roses, FruU Trees, dx. 



Barr& Supden, King Streef, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 

 — Autumnal Descrqytive Catalogue of Bulbs and Plants. 



Thonaas Eunyard & Sons, Maidstone.— 5t=;ecf List of Dutch 

 Flower Boots. 



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^ ct'C, 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.C. 



We also request that correspondents will not mis np 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. 



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

 week. 



Tomatoes fl. G.). — We do not know what you mean by the Tomato 

 " Groseille it grappes." If the fruit is small and black like a Black Car- 

 rant, it is unsafe ; but if it is yellow or red, and the size of a good large 

 Gooseberry it is perfectly wholesome and maybe used as the ordinary 

 kinds. {Dulcihella) .—The same reply will answer yonr question respect- 

 ing your " (irape Tomatoes." 



Roots is VTater Pipes {C. C.).— The roots, probably, of some tree, 

 or trees, have entered the earthenware pipes throucih their joints. We i 

 object to lead in any form for the pipes or cisterns to supply water for 

 use, either by human or animal species. We prefer iron, but if the joints 

 of the earthenware pipes were well cemented no roots conld enter. 

 Sweet Peas vrould not be injurious to fowls if they would eat them. 

 Pigeons probably would. 



Sv.'iss Lakes {P/ii7oArepo«).— We cannot admit any discussion on the 

 sabject. 



FcNGUs ON Peab-tree Leaves iA Subscriber, Deron).— The large 

 rasty-brown patches with rough papillated surface, are Eoestelia cancel- 

 lata, a parasitical fungus. They are said to be removable by dusting the 

 leave? with flowers of sulphur, and if this is repeated in any year they 

 rpappear, they may be entirely prevented. The '• Cottage Gardeners' 

 Dictionary" probably would suit you ; but you do not state whether in- 

 formation on any particular department of gardening is wished for. 



Plants for an Island (Dorttrtshiie). — For the peaty island we advise 

 plftntiug either the Weeping Birch (Betula alba pendulal, and not one but 



a group of not less than three, or the Cut-leaved Alder (Alnus incisa), 

 which would, perhaps, thrive better if the peat be of a boggy nature. 

 Along with those we would plant the Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis), and 

 nothing else. You might, if you wished, have a few plants of common 

 Dogwood (Comus sanguinea), and its silver and gold variegated-leaved 

 varieties, one of each. The Weeping Willow is fine for such Bituations, 

 but the soil is more suitable for the Alder and Birch. 



Laurels Dying Back (H. D.).— When Laurels become old they, like 

 every other tree or shrub, are subject to decay, and though they may 

 start from the bottom the Ecrowths are not of very long continuance, 

 but are continually dying-ofF. more or less. The branches become dried 

 up, and the leaves assume a bright yellow hue, and though fresh shoots 

 may come from the root, the Laurel's «erm of beauty is gone. It may 

 esist as a pollard shrub for some years, often many, but will never again 

 make a prolonged healthy growth. There are exceptions, however, in 

 those that push suckers from the roots or stem beneath the soil; they 

 form new roots, have a stem of their own, and in the course of a few 

 years become independent of the old stem and root, which in most 

 instances perishes, and will often be foond quite decayed amongst the 

 suckers which have attained the size of the old plant and become a 

 large bush. That bush will, after it attains its full size, be liable to the 

 same decay from age as the old plant, and though it in its turn will put 

 out suckers from the root stem, they will not continue healthy. We do 

 not know the cause of the branches dying after being cut back to a 

 healthy shoot, nor of the leaves becoming suddenly yellow. In cutting 

 down old stems it should be done to near the ground, so as to encourage 

 suckers from beneath the soil, so that they may not derive their food 

 through the old stem, or only temporarily, but have a stem and root free 

 of the old stem and root. Digging round, and manuring with old rotten 

 manure mixed with fresh soil, would be beneficial, a portion of the old 

 soil being removed. It is best to cut them, when much pruning is 

 required, in spring before they begin to grow, and at that time only, 

 irregular growths being removed in August. Dead wood may be cut out 

 at any time except when frozen, and never into the live wood. 



Exhibiting Fuchsias (.1. J. J.).— If a prize be offered for sis Fuchsias, 

 it is always understood that Fuchsias with all shades of coloured corollas 

 are included, and unless the prize were ofi'ered for six dark corollas as 

 distinct from sis white-corolla flowers, the white would decidedly be ad- 

 missible among six varieties of all shades of colour. 



Vine Trained Downwards (J. R. P.).— Your Vine will do very well 

 trained down the roof, as you propose ; but it would be well to daub the 

 slate roof with a paint made of strong soap water, and soot and sulphur, 

 as soon as the Vines break. This will act as a preservative against the 

 attacks of red spider. The Vine shoots will be shorter-jointed from being 

 trained downwards, after the main stem reaches the top of the wall. 

 Hays's constant stove you allude to is not to be had. We have little 

 faith in any stove without an outlet into the open air; but with prepared 

 fuel, and a stove on the principle of Hays's, we should be satisfied with a 

 small outlet pipe, more for gases than mere smoke. But why, if so good, 

 has some one else not made similar stoves, as the original makers seem 

 to have given them up? Chiefly, because there is the endless trouble 

 about the prepared fuel. We would have a Joyce's stove as soon as any 

 if there were a pipe from it. A good iron stove will suit your purpose, 

 and if you use clean coke a small smoke pipe will do. This you can 

 move when not wanted. 



Fruits fob South Lancashire (J. Wliever).— Apples : Irish Peach, 

 Kerry Pippin, Cellini, G'llden Winter Pearmain, Adams's Pearmain, 

 Cox's Orange Pippin. Pears : Peach, Eeurr.- Superfin. Doyenne Bous- 

 soch, Dovenne du Cornice. Fondante de Maline^. Forelle. Plums: July 

 Green Giige, Peach, Denniston's Superb, Green Gage, Purple Gage, Coe'a 

 Golden Drop. These will do verv well for growing in large pots or tubs. 

 The Apples should be grafted on any of the stocks known by the name of 

 Paradise stocks, and the Pears on the Quince stock. The Plums you 

 cannot get on any other than the Plum stock usually employed in nur- 

 series. Louise Bonne of Jersey, Citron des Carmes Pears, and Denyer's 

 Victoria Plum will do well with you. 



Planting a Flower Bed (F.).— We must adhere to our rule, and only 

 criticise proposed planting, and not plant. Keeping in view what you 

 say you have, the following would be beautiful and telling:— No. 1, Wall- 

 flowers ; 2, blue Pansy; 'S, yellow Pansy; 4. purple Pansy; 5, white 

 Daisies; 6, Vandyke bands, red Daisies; 7, blue Forget-me-not, edging 

 all round white-variegated Arabis ; or 7 and edging might be Arabis, but 

 not be so telling. 



Plants Da^iping-ofe iKettcrinn).—I>(i away with all plunging material 

 on your platform, and give air as the weather permits. Musk seed sown 

 now win not bloom much early in the spring. Try to obtain a few roots, 

 and pot them. There is no difficulty in raising from seed, but you must 

 keep the soil moist, and cover the seeds very lightly. 



Mulberry Tbee without Stamens (H. G. Merriman).—We have no 

 doubt that your fruit-bearing Mulberry was fertilised from the other tree 

 at a little distance. 



One Boileb for Several Houses (S. fl'.).~There will be no difficulty 

 in heating the difi'erent houses from one boiler if the position of the 

 ground is suitable, and is either on a level, or rises rather than falls from 

 the position of the boiler. As you must sink the pipesin crossing the open 

 gravel in a tunnel, the easy working of the pipes in all the houses will 

 much depend on having the top of the boiler sufficiently low to be a foot 

 or more beneath the level of the pipes in the tunnel, and in having the 

 main flow and return pipes rising gently from the boiler to the conser- 

 vatory, instead of dipping at all. There will be no difficulty in this if the 

 ground is nearly level, or rises from the position of the boiler to the 

 position of the conservatory : but if the ground should fall, you would 

 require a deep stokehole. Independently of the eyesore of a second 

 chimney, we would decidedly prefer having only one boiler at n, and 

 encase the pipes in a tube or tunnel stuffed with sawdust, where they 

 cross beneath the gravel. You can heat each house, beginning at b, 

 separately, by having a flow and return there to act independently, but 

 with liberty to go on to a when you like, that also to have the circulation 

 complete, and then go on to c when wanted. By this means you must 

 have the flow and return through b before it reaches a, and through both 

 before it reaches c, but you need not have more than the two pipes, and 

 these may be 3 inches in diameter if deemed desirable. Il would sim- 

 plify matters, as you require a great heat U b. and a strong heat in a, 

 to take the flow and return at once to a without any valves, &c., and then 



