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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE ANP COTTAOE GARDENER. : I Novomber ll. 18G9. 



VncKS IK ToTB (A WoTkina Meehanie).~U a heavy crop ho taken from 

 N Toofif; Vine in a jiot. il wUl rarely do any good the Hocond year, as all 

 ilR oDcrviw wpro exhausted in Iho crop. If only three or four bunches 

 wore ta)(t«n and the woid wore Htrong, tho plant miKht do tolorahly well 

 in ibo foUowiotf aonHoii, if— say, iu a i;^ inch pot; hut if tho plant is in 

 a iwt of that size now, it will often ho btttur to richly too-dreHs instead of 

 rro»h pottinK .>*o Intiv Kvervlbinff fruited in a pot does best when, before 

 stortiiig into (it-sh Kri*lh, tho pol is full of roots. 



Watebixo an Insid'^ VrsB Border iCli/tonietiti«).—Wc would water 

 IhB border insido directly, making Bomo holes and doing it nt two 

 »pan.tiofjH intJtend of ouoe, allowing an interval of a week or ten davs 

 botw«ea theiu. If tho soil is so dry to tho depth of 2 feel, the roots a'r« 

 apt to bo dried-ap, and, what is worse, to go down deeper in st-arch of 

 oiotstore. There could bo no reason for keeping the roots ho dry alter 

 thn Imit wa3 cut in AuguH, unleRS it was to help to ripon the wood. Itut 

 this dynes3 may easily be orried to excess. We would use tepid water. 



OxAU3 TTtoP.tor.oiDES IH. 3/.).— As you havo no creenhouao or other 

 coovenitnce, we would advif^o you to let your thick patch cf Oxalis tro- 

 i>x)Q)oid68 remain where it is ; merely put some dry ashes over and anions 

 it. and slick lonnd and over it 80me ovorgreen twigs. The plants will 

 moat likely lose their tops, hut they will come up strongly next spring. Last 

 aensoD, with ns north of London, it was porfoctly hardy. We merely look 

 it op and tr«n^itiuute(lit regularly. Wo will servo it, Cineraria maiitima, 

 .-ind Centaurea c;indidissinia as :*liuve, with dry ashes and burnt earth. 



SxwACK (ff.).— Tberegiduunt is very little and not oflffinsivo, the con- 

 staol passage of fluid diasoWeg everything but paper. 



Compost for Roses (/■'. If. O.).— Tho mixture of horse dang and malt 

 dost recommended by BIr. Ulvers, may be nsed fresh, but will preserve 

 itB efficiency for a long time if kept under cover. 



FuBKACK FOR Steamheatino {E. C. //cdj/^rs).— For a hothouse to he 

 heated by steam-pipes, wo should prefer tho furnace to be outside the 

 honae. ns thus some possible ineuiiveniences could be avoided. Furnaces 

 inaide hothouses are only advisable when the utmost economy as respects 

 /ad is tu be con:3idered. 



Hkattso a Small OREENnouSE (Forest Hill).— The cheapest mode of 

 beatiDg yourhou^e, IC feet by 5, is by a small iron stove with a flat top, 

 so that yon can place a pan of water on the top, and take a 3 or 4-inch 

 pipe through the roof or back of iho honiie. If your stove fireplace is 

 lined with firebrick all the better. Ono costing about 50«. should suit 

 yonr purpose. We presumo you have read something of what has beea 

 paid ol the manngement of puch stoves. We are in doubt about the 

 Foms nnless they are rather hardy kindi, and even they should not come 

 veri near the store. The Camellias and Azalens will be quite safe at 35', 

 hot to bloom well they require from 4ii to 50 



Heatino a Fernery and Greenhouse from one Boiler (E.L.I.). 

 —Is the fernery now iueufficiently heated from the boiler, owing to tho 

 pipes being so few? If so. then the cheapest and simplest mode would 

 be to connect the old and new pipes, cspeciallv the flow, and the simplest 

 mode ol doing this would be to connect them'with 1-inch gas pipes, with 

 a screw into each pipe. If the new pipe is on the snmo plane as the old 

 pipe it will soon be nearly as hot. We have no doubt that from Weeks's 

 tnbalar boiler you cju heat your greenhouse and fernery equally well, 

 though the latter is 3 feet below the level of the former, provided, as 

 Hhown by your sketch, the lowest pipes in the fernerv are above the level 

 oJ the lop of the boiler, and more especially as you seem to take two 

 separate flows from the boiler— one flow to the greenhouse, and one flow 

 to the fernery. Each pipe is, therefore, independent of the other. It is 

 often difl'ercnt when diff.-reut places on difl'eront levels are heated from 

 one flow-pipe, branch off as it may, as then there will always be a 

 tendency to havo the greatest flow to tho highest point. Hence, in heat- 

 ing warehouses, Ac., in two or three storeys, it is often best— generally 

 h«t— to take the flow to a cistera at the highest point, and from thence 

 take flows downward from the higher to the lower storey. The heat is 

 Ihua more equalised than if taken into the lower storey at once from tho 

 ascending 3ow-pipe ; and eo when a number of houses and pits are to be 

 heated, the flows being of difTerent levels. You will avoid this bv the 

 separate flow for each house direct from the boiler We do not see" why 

 on sccoant of a wall, you should bend down your pipe as it leaves the 

 boiler for the fernery. This lowering of the pipe is always injudicious. 

 To make it .inswer you would require an open air-pipe at the bend. 

 Etch then we should not like it. If renllv the level of the pipes in the 

 fernery requires this, then the simplest remedy against all likely 

 mishaps would be to sink the boiler. There will never he rapid circn- 

 latioD, if so soon after issuing from the boiler, the pipe sinlis so much. 

 Your success will depend on an open cistern at the farther end, and a 

 small, open, gas air-pipe over the bend. The working will always be be^t 

 when every heating-pipe is above the level of the top of tho boiler. The 

 rotums may be thus situated before it is necessary to dip down to the 

 bottain of the boiler. 



CocuMEEK Winter Culture in Pots (Cftoyiir).— There is no diffi- 

 culty in growing Cucumbers in pots iu a stove, the chief point is to secure 

 an average night temperature of t.''. , and a dav temperature of from 70 

 to 75' , and of ;iu- with sun heiU. Any part of the stove will do, provided 

 the leaves of the plant he expo^jed to all tho euu and light possible. We 

 hftvo had the pots on the ..•urbs of a pit above a fl je, plunged partly in a 

 hed, and sometimes f-et on a shelf at the buck of the house, and the bines 

 of the plant trained down. If anything, the plants did rather tho best 

 when the pots were set in a bed. so as to have an average heat of ^0^ not 

 more, at the roots. When wo wanted Cucumbers quickly, we have grown 

 them in 8-inch pots. Fifteen inches U a very good average size. Tho 

 soil for winter may bo Hvo parts of sweet fibrous saudv loam, and one 

 part of equal quantities of heath soil, dried sweet leaf mould, and a little 

 charcoal. The heath soil helps now ; after January we would rather be 

 without it. 



KfiCRRCiioLTziAs (.gncra(iitir).— They aro herbaceous plants. In 

 I'axt^n'R Dictionary they aro erroneously called tuberous- rooted, and in 

 the "Cott)ic?o Gardeners' Dictionary" as erroneously bulbous-rooted. 

 The Ronns V(inidium is Arctotifl,and Callirb.:e is Niittalia iu tho " Cottage 

 Gardcnf^rs' Dictionary," Ccntamidium Diummoudi is a recent intro- 

 duction. 



Packing Trees for Exportation (Sub«€r:ber).~-Tie the branches of 

 each together, envelope the roots in moas, and wind a straw band round 

 th« wholo— roots, stem, and branches ; and after tying tho trees together 



in ft handle, cnrelopo It with straw as 70a see done bynarierTmen. Now 

 is a good timu to send thorn. 



Kradicating HonsEUADisn (Odfc'iam).— Wo know of no better pUn 

 thnn per()i!«tiug in what you have done. To dig up the plants by the root* 

 is labour in vnin, as it is next to impo^flible to nnd every piece, and not 

 unfrequoully, from the pleeu^ |i>ft, it is a source of increaae ratbor than 

 clearance, and we are not surprised that youi tronchlng the ground hai 

 caused it to come up more thickly than ever. Continue to pull up tb« 

 plants as they appear, not waiting antil tboy hsTe grown to a considor- 

 ablo extent ; but as soon as thny can be laid hold of remove tho soil about 

 each a few inches deep, or so that they can bo laid bold of, and pull them 

 up, placing a little Halt in tho hole from which the roots were drawn. 



CuTTiNo Down an Oleander (Wirm).— Cut it down at tho end of 

 March, keeping it rather dry, or avoid making the soil very wot until It 

 begins to grow, nnd has shoots a few inches long, then ropot, keeping a 

 moist atmosphere, and do not water heavily at tho roots antil they are 

 working freely in the fresh soil, then water freely. In repotting remoTe 

 as much of the old soil as csu bo done, reducing tho ball comsidorably, 

 and pot in a smaller'sizod pot. 



PoTTiNr, IIyacintiis TO Bloom IN Marcq (A 5u&irtfn6rr).— Hysclnlhs, 

 Tulipp. Xarcinauses. and Crocuses to flower at the end of february ana 

 through March, ought to bo i)otted without delay; indeed, they would 

 have been better putted a month sooner. Place them in a cold frame, and 

 cover them with Hpent tan or aHhes to obout an inch over tho rtms of 

 tho pots ; only employ the liplits to keep ofT heavy rains and during 

 sovero weather. About Christmna remove tho bulba to a cool boase, 

 plicing them in tho most light and airy position, and as near the glass as 

 practicable. Up to February tho temperature from flro boat should not 

 exceed 40 ', when it may bo increased to 4j-, and in that they will bloom 

 at the time rt-quired. 



PnuNiNo Roses (A. D.) —You may now peg tho shoots down, or cut 

 them back to within three or four eyes of where yon would prune them 

 to, deferring the final pruning until the beginning of March, or if yoa 

 peg the shoots down you could draw out the pegs in March, and then 

 prune the plants as required, or leave them to flower as thoy wcrw pegged, 

 merely removing the pjiuts of the shoots. By the partial pruning now, 

 <^^ pegging down the shoots, you would escape the winds, and by deforrlog 

 the pruning until March, ii.jury from spring frosts would ho avoided. 

 Your question was answered October, 2l8t, page 323. 



Red Spider tlflcm). — You do not say what are the occupants of your 

 bouse, and we cannot, therefore, udvise. 



Newtown Pippin in an Orchard House 'rrf^m).—L'ko Pears, Apples 

 do not mature well in an orchard house ; but placed out of doors in August 

 they mature perfectly. It is, perhaps, due to the greater dryness ol tho 

 atmosphere of an orchard house, as compared with the open air, and tho 

 want of dew in the former.— G. A. 



Climbers for a Greenhouse (A. B,).— There are no plants which will 

 endure tho gas. Why not have a funnel or funnels connected with tho 

 exterior to take away tho fumes of the gas? Habrothamnus elegans, 

 Hoya carnosa, Hibbertifi volubilis. Jasminum gracile, Konncdya ino- 

 phylla floribunda, K. monophylla, K. Marryatt:e. K. rubicunda superba ; 

 Lapageria rosea. Plumbago capeusis, Rhynchospermum JAsmiooides, 

 Sollya linearis, Tacsonia Van-Volxemi, and Tropseolum Triomphe de 

 Gand. 



Bulbs after FLOWERiNa (Poor ^mni^Mr).— There is no necessity for 

 throwing tho bulbs on the rubbish heap after they havo been forced ; but 

 they flower so indifferently a second year in pots that for tho most part 

 they are not employed, but planted out in the borders, where they do 

 well. After flowering continue the bulba in a light airy position, and in a 

 house from which frost is excluded, supplying them with water as re- 

 quired ; and when daagor from frost is past plant them out in the open 

 ground, supplying them with water until tue leaves turn yellow; then 

 withhold it, and when quite yellow take up the bulbs, dry them, and 

 remove the loose skin and ofi'dots, keeping the bulbs in a dry place aulil 

 planting time. 



Australian Seeds (Crzifurjon).— AJbizzia lophantha ia a synonyme of 

 Acacia lophantha. Alyxias are Apocynaceons plant'*, all described in 

 Don's "Botanical Dictionary." A.pugioniformis is a variety of A. rasci- 

 folia, pictured iu Loddiges' *' Botanical Cabinet." Bauera is in tho 

 " Cottage Gardeners' Dictionary. ' B. rubioides and rnbia'folia are tho 

 same. Cryptocarya glaucescens is a Lauraceous bhrub, noticed in 

 Loudon's *■ Hortus JJntanuious." Frenela cupressiformis is a Conifer, 

 described in the last edition of Loudon's " Encyclopredia of Plants.*' Sow 

 iu February or March ; directions are given in our vol. xv., page 424. 



IlrsiEA ELEGAN8 [S. P.).— The plants which have flowered this year 

 will not do so next. Those which havo not flowered should bo taken up 

 and potted ; winter them in a cool airv house, repotting them as tho pots 

 become tilled with rooti*. and they will flower well next year. It will bo 

 t^ufficient if frost be excluded from the house in which they are wintered. 

 Huniea elegans is a biennial, but flowers the first year if sown early; 

 tu do well the seed ought tu he sown iu May, and the plants treated as 

 biennials. 



Erratum.— Page 302. left-hand column, twenty-seventh line, for *' white 

 at top and black at bottom," road '* black at top and white at bottom." 



Apples. Ac. (A Novice). — Absence was the cause of their not being 

 named, and when wo returned they were too decayed to be recognised. 

 Send some other epccimcns. 



NA3IES OF Fruits {E. tv.l. — Reauty of Kent. (Keir Forf$t). — Benrre 

 Bosc and Beurri' d'Aremberg quite correct. Tho former is sometimes 

 coarFo in the flesh, and decays at tho core. (F. L. A.).~l, Thompson's ; 

 2, Achan ; 3. Cliaumontel; 4. Beurre Nautais; 5, Boxovitski ; 6, Non- 

 pareil ; 7, Lewis's Incomparable. 



Naues of Plants {J. L. /).).— We cannot name plants from their leaves 

 only. 01. H.).—l. Aster N'ovi-Belgii; 2. A.Nova?-AugUw; 3, A.tardiflorus, 

 var. caspitosus ; 4, A.cyaneus. iJameit Seott).—!^ Peristropho speciosa, 

 formerly known as Justicia t<pecio-a ; 2,Aster Novi-Bolgii. (i>'»i//t/brop/it/), 

 — Lonicera involucrata. This may be thought a very curious Honey- 

 suckle, and is, indeed, a great departure from the ordinary character of 

 the genus. It is native of California. (D. AM.— Wo take your plant to 

 be Loholia ilicifolia ; unfortunately our material is not the best, tbero 

 not being a perfect flower on your specimen. 



