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JOXJBNAIi OF HOBTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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Artlcboltei doi. 8 



Ai4pani^U8 100 



Bt)anH,UuQDur ^ sievA 3 



Broad buMbcl 



Bent, Red doi. 2 



Broccoli handle 1 



Ems. SproatH }j mIcto S 



Gabbftge doz. 1 



CapBlcams 100 2 



Carrots bancb 



Caaliflower dor.. 3 



Celery bnndle 1 



Coleworts . .doz. bchs. 2 



Cacnmbera .... each U 



pickling doz. 



Endive doK. 3 



Fennel boBcb 



Garlic Ih. 



Herbs bUDcb 



Horseradish ..buiidle 3 



whrre Jhe old adage can bo carried oat, "A place (or every- 

 UniiK. «nd everjtbing in its place." The manager mast con- 

 trive a place for many things, and many things in a place, and 

 these shifted and changed very often, whilst a constant struggle 

 most be maintained as to the space to he Kiven to what 

 miniatcrs to the senses of eight and ecent, and those which 

 appea] chiefly to the, perhaps, more gross sensations of the 

 laHte. Hence a large garden, with a place for evorytliing, and 

 oae crop of one thing chiefly in the one place at a time, may 

 k« raasaged with less laboar than a mnch smaller garden with 

 Ian eoDTeniences, but where something of the same results are 

 eipeeted, and which can only be partly realised by a well-con- 

 aid»ted system of shifting and moving, which cannot be done 

 wilhont eitra labour. Looked at in this light, a fmall place, 

 though involving less outlay at first, may become much more 

 expensive in yearly outlay than a larger one. Mere size of 

 boiuea or ground, which some of our readers seem to look 

 opoD ss everything, in reality forms only one item of com- 

 parison as to outlay, even so far as mere labour is concerned. 

 ^e procuring of, and theproper attending to, rare and costly 

 plants is quite another affair, in which keeping-up one acre 

 may cost more than a dozen acies where no such tastes are 

 indniged. 



Depending chiefly for next year's display on young Scarlet 

 Pelargoniums, now standing thickly in boxes — that is to say, 

 with l.V or 2 inches between plant and plant, we, nevertheless, 

 on the afiernoon before the sharpest night took up a good many 

 old plants, and placed them in sheds, and out of doors covered 

 OTer with litter. Some of the most tender of these, as varie- 

 gated kinds, we potted separately in small pots, without any 

 pnoung, except removing a few of the larger leaves, and set in a 

 little bottom heat to root quickly, whilst the tops are kept airy. 

 Others with plain leaves we deprived of all the large leaves, all 

 larger than a sixpence, at the points, and only shortened the 

 larger shoots ; these we packed like so many faggots — ten, 

 twelve, or twenty in large pots and boxes ; they will come in 

 for centres and particular purposes when separated next sea- 

 soo. Others, again, had their roots shortened, the heads 

 pnmed-in rather closely, looking when cut like so many small 

 antlers of deer, every loaf removed, the cut points dipped in 

 £meand charcoal, and packed as closely as they would go to- 

 gether. A good-sized pot, or a small bos, would hold from a 

 doien to a score. These, watered, allowed to drain, then sur- 

 faced with dry soil, and placed anywhere secure from frost and 

 eteiap, even though there bo little light, will be all safe, and 

 be^ to break afresh about JIarcb. As soon as the young 

 leavee show, the plants will want light ; and when the leaves 

 become crowded the plants must be separated, and fresh potted 

 or planted. There are few of the Scarlet group which will not 

 do veil under this treatment, Every cottager who loves the 

 bright scarlets, may thus preserve his plants in a dry cellar or 

 ganet in winter, have tbem singled out in his windows in 

 aprinp, and planted out in May. By the plait first referred to 

 — lelaining most of the roots and most of the stems, but re- 

 moriog all the leaves, he may keep a dozen largo plants in a 

 potio winter, but they need light, as in his window, or the 

 steBiB will be apt to decay and shrivel. These plants, preserved 

 lacatber way, generally bloom more freely early in the season 

 than younger plants, but they do not continue to flower so well 

 lateinautamn, unless they receive a little encouragement from 

 n little mulching in summer.— K. F. 



VEGETABLES. 



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Leeki bancb 



Lettuce score 



Mnsbroemfl pottle 



Mnstd.A Cres8,punnot 

 Onions bnsbel 



pickling . . qaart 



Parsley sieve 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas qnart 



Potatoes bushel 



Kidney ditto 



Radishes doz.bancbefl 



Rbobarb handle 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Shallots lb. 



Spinach bushel 



Tomatoes doz. 



Turnips bnnch 



Vegct. Marrows, .doz. 



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TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 

 J. Linden, Jardin Royal do Zoologie et d'HorticaUare, 

 Qaartier Leopold. Brussels, and 52. Bne du Chaume, Ghent 

 (Establissement Horiicole Ambroise Verechaffelt). — SuppUmeiU 

 ct Extrait ties Catalogues Gencraux, Xo. 83. 



COVENT GARDEN .ALVIIKET.— November :1. 

 Taa improvement noticed last week is barely kept np, but we mny 

 reaMQably expect it to remain as it is, if it prove no better. Foreign 

 Paai3 are not so freely olTered as they were, but other produce is about 

 Mm average. Potatoes arc plenttf ul and good. 



Apples }i sieve 1 



Africots doz. 



Cherriee lb. 



CSteetnnts.... bushel 8 



Camnts a sieve 



Blaek do. 



Fins doz. 2 



TiBxits lb. 



Cobs Ih. 



Gaceeheniea . . qa.irt 



Gnpee, Hothouse. lb. 2 



l««i(ni8 ino 10 



Mdona each 2 



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to 1 G { ^fulberrie3 quflrt 



I Nectarines doz. 



Oranges 100 



14 Peaches doz. 



I Pears, kitchen . . doz. 



I dessert doz. 



4 Pine Apples lb. 



1 Plums J4 sieve o « 



n Quinces doz. 1 6 



Kisnherrios lb. 



5 , Strawberries lb. 



21 I Walnuts bushel 10 



5 I do 100 1 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



•■• We request that no one will write privately to any of the 

 correspondents of the " Journal of Horticulture, Cottage 

 Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so doing they 

 are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and expense. All 

 communications shoald therefore be addressed solely to 

 The Editors of the .Journal of Horticulture, etc., 171, Fleet 

 Street, London, E.C. 



^Ye also request that correspondents will not mix 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. 



Books [A Suh*crihrr, Manchenttr). — Keane's "In-door Gardening" 

 and " Out-door Gardening." You can have the two volumes, post free, 

 if you enclose forty postage stamps with yonr address. {P.. Kifisj).—We 

 recommend to you " Flower Garden Plans." It contains directions for 

 arranging and cultivating flowers and shrubs. Yon can have the volume 

 post free from onr office if you enclose sixty-four postage stamps with 

 your address. 



Memobial (T. S.).— It would be very invidious to oppose the friends of 

 any man testifying respect for his memory. Yon are wrong in observing 

 that Loudon and Beaton had no memorials. The debts of the first were 

 paid off by subscription, and a monument to his memory erected in the 

 Kensal Green Cemetery. We and a few other friends erected a tombstone 

 in Surbiton Churchyard to the memory of Mr. Beaton. 



Woot.t.y Excrescences on Apple Trees fGlenagenry). — These, and the 

 red-juiced insecta bcncnth, are the American Blight. -Apply to all the 

 places spirit of turi^entiue and soft Boap %nth a hard brush. In the 

 winter any surviving insects will descend to the roots of the trees. Re- 

 move some of the earth from over the roots as the spring approaches, say 

 in February, and soak around the stem with animoniacal liqaor from the 

 gas works. 



Laxton's Scpreme Pea tT. Parke) — We cannot insert any more letters 

 on the subiect. The communications of " J. W." and Mr. Laxton place 

 it in the true light. The Pea is good, but not a dwarf. 



Vines on Back Wall of Vinery (F. U'.).— Xo Vine will do well, as 

 the hack will be so mnoh shaded. We have ripened Black Hamburghs, 

 however, on such a wall by training the rods down it of the Vines planted 

 in front, and that extended beyond the roof. Von may have a straw- 

 coloured Hose, bat not a deep yellow. 



Vines (J. K. Boiid). — We would advise yoa to put 5Irs. Pince in yonr 

 early house. The other is a first-rato Grape, but would do better in the 

 Muscat honsc, and it hang-* about as long as the Mu<5cat. It is quite new, 

 and was introduced since the last edition of the "Fruit Manual" was 

 published. 



Vine Leaves Blotched (.4. B.). — .\9the roots are in an ontside border, 

 and the Grapes shank, wo have no doabt that the roots are too cold At 

 times, and too dry at others. If the border were covered to keep out frost 

 and excessive wet. and mulched in summer to prevent excessive dryness, 

 you would probably ward off the diseases of the fruit and leaves. 



Caterpillar (C. .Vorsdral.— Owing to onr unavoidable absence, the 



caterpillar was dead, and shrunk np tso much that we conld not identify It. 



Seedlino Verbena (.v. Sluppcrson). — It is too late in the season to 



form any opinion of your seedling Verbena : it appears to bo of strong 



habit, hilt nothing can be said of the colour so late in the year. 



Carnations ant> PiroTF-EafPicofrr).— The soil seems too poor: to three 

 parts of such soil add one part dried cowdunff, and one part vegetable 

 mould, sucli as decayed leavos or the bottom of an old woodstack. We 

 could detect no insect but a mite or Acaras, and that docs no harm. 



