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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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a moist East Indian temperature just after stoning, and until 

 the fruit is within ten days of being ripe. The Pear wants more 

 ventilation, a drier atmosphere, and not quite such a high 

 temperature. All the trees from which the fruit has been 

 gathered would be potted at once, but other work is pressing, 

 and that must be ia abeyance for a few days. It is our usual 

 practice to pot as soon as the fruit ia gathered, nor do we make 

 any scruple about reducing the ball of roots, and repotting in 

 the same sized pot as that in which the trees were previously 

 growing. If the roots are much hacked about, the trees will flag 

 in the sun for a few days, but dewing the leaves over with water 

 from the fine rose of a syringe will prevent them suffering to an 

 injurious extent. 



GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 



The choicer description of flowers are scarce at this season, 

 either in the stove or greenhouse. As it is necessary to keep up 

 a moist growing temperature in the stove, any plants in flower 

 there are removed to the greenhouse. Eucharis araazonica, a 

 veritable queen amongst bridal flowers, fades quickly in a stove 

 temperature ; either cut and the flowers placed in water indoors, 

 or the whole plant removed to the greenhouse and shaded from 

 the sun, they are much prolonged. Potting all hardwooJed 

 flowering plants, as well as those grown for foliage ; it is time 

 all such work were done, in order that the plants may be well 

 established before the cold weather comes upon them. 



Recently the great value of the Phlox for decorative purposes 

 in the greenhouse and conservatory was noticed ; the plants are 

 now nearly over, and as they go out of flower the stalks are cut 

 down close to the surface of the pot, and the pots plunged in an 

 open position out of doors. A new variety of the early-flowering 

 section, named Miss Robertson, is said to be a great acquisition 

 to the pure whites ; and it must be a wonder in other respects, 

 as a contemporary gravely informs its readers that if cuttings 

 of this Phlox are put-in in spring and grown vigorously in a 

 cold frame until autumn, it will supply cut flowers at Christmas, 

 and these are to be of a more lasting character than the usual 

 run of forced flowers. Surely there is some mistake here, or 

 Miss Robertson is quite different in character from other early- 

 flowering Phloxes. With us cuttings of early-flowering Phloxes 

 put-in in spring flower in July, the late-flowering section in 

 August; and as for the flowers lasting after they are cut, why, 

 they fade as quickly as Verbenas. 



FLOWER GARDEN. 



We continue to get-in cuttings of all bedding Pelargoniums. 

 Mangles' Variegated and the Tricolors strike root best under 

 glass, the first-named in a close atmosphere, the others in a pit 

 or house freely ventilated. All the more robust green and varie- 

 gated varieties do well out of doors. We put in pipings of 

 Pinks ; it is rather late now, but under a north wall and pro- 

 tected by a glass frame they will no doubt form roots. Pink 

 pipings should be put in about the end of June, and if they are 

 taken from the plants in a wet day and inserted in the open 

 ground they will do well ; not one in fifty will fail. — J. Douglas. 



PROVINCIAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 

 [Secretaries will oblige us by informing us of the dates on 

 which exhibitions are to be held. Although we cannot report 

 them fuUy, we shall readily note anything especially excellent, 

 and we wish for information on such specialities to be sent 

 to ns.] 



august. 



Skircoat (Yorkshire) 28 



Sandy 28 



Perth 23 



Chailey 28 



Falkirk 28 j 



Bishop Auckland 28 | 



St. IsseU's (Cornwalll 28 



Kilmnn, Strone.and Blamore .... 29 1 



ThornhiU (VorkB) 29 



Eyton 31 



SEPTEJrnEB. ' 



Eamsley 1 



Chippenham 1 



Daventry 1 



Manchlioe 2 



UndercUn 2 



Nottingham 2 



Bath 2 and 3 



Airdrie and Coatbridge 3 



SEPTEMBEE. 



Alnwick 3 



Fermoy 3 



Paisley 3 



Royal Oxfordshire 3 



Woking 3 



Worsley and Swinton 3 



Dundee 3, 4, and 5 



Renfrew 5 



Brackley 8 



Kelso 8 



Eye 9 



R'jyal Caledonian Hort. Society . . 9 



Glasgow and W. Scotland 9 



Brighton 9 and 10 



Bury St. Edmunds 11 



Moffat U 



Kilmarnock and A.yr 15 



Cambridgeshire 17 



Northampton 18 



Kidlington 21 



TKADE CATALOGUES EECEIVED. 



Sutton Sc Sons, Heading. — Suttoti's Autumn Catalogue of 

 Bulbous Flower Boots, Seeds, &c. 



Dick RadclySe & Co., 129, High Holborn, London.— Ca^a?o^«(? 

 of Dutch BulbSf SundrieSj Horticultural Decorations, tQc, 



Joseph Schwartz, Rue du Eepos, 43, a la Guillotifire, Lyons. — 

 Catalogue et Frix Courant d'?s Bosiers — Autumn^ 1874, and 

 Springy 1875. 



J. Carter & Co., High Holbom, London. — List of Dutch 

 Flower Boots, Fruit Trees, Boses, ((-c. 



Hooper it' Co., Covent Garden Market, London, W.C. — Cata- 

 logue of Autumn Bulbs, d-c. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*,* It is particularly requested that no communication be 

 .addressed privately to either of the Editors of this 

 Journal. All correspondence should be directed either to 

 " The Editors," or to "The Publisher." Letters ad- 

 dressed to Mr. Johnson or Dr. Hogg often remain unopened 

 unavoidably. 



Correspondents should not mix up on the same sheet questions 

 relating to Gardening and those on Poultry and Bee sub- 

 jects, and should never send more than two or three- 

 questions at once. All articles intended for insertion 

 should be written on one side of the paper only. 



We also request that no one will write privately to any of our 

 correspondents, as doing so subjects them to unjustifiable 

 trouble and expense. 



EooKS (C. S.). — There ia no work published on growing under glass fruity 

 A:c., for market. {A. M. G.).— Hibbert's " Town Gardcniug." 

 Plumbago Leaf (17. C). — We do not think the variegation attractive. 

 Geraniums and Pelargoniums (C. W. F.).— Wehave repeatedly published 

 the botanical distinctions between these plants, but in the garden the bedding- 

 out varieties are usually called (ieraniums, aud the pot varieties Pelargoniump, 

 The French Pelargoniums have frilled petals. 



Orchids under Trees— Vallota Leaves Cceling (Flora).— The trees 

 not being very closely planted, though affording shade, tho opener spots 

 of ground will be suitable for the following plants of the Orchis tribe : — 

 Cypripedium acaule, C. macranthum, C. pubescens, C latifoiia, Gyranadenia 

 conopsea, Habenaria bifolia, H. chlorantha, H. viridis, Liatera ovata, Orchis 

 maculata, and O. morio. You may obtain plants of Thalictrum minus of 

 any nurseryman dealing in herbaceous and alpine plants. It is difficult to 

 account for the leaves of Vallota purpurea curling up, but we should think it 

 arises from the plants being kept in a room of which the atmosphere is very- 

 dry. Place it out of doors from T^Iay to the middle of September, keep it 

 well supplied with water, and afford it an open sunny position. 



Hydrangeas after Flowering (C. Cross). — If you have glass, keep them 

 in a light airy position until the leaves fall ; but if you have not a greenhouse, 

 place them in front of a south wall, and water fo as to keep the foliage fresh, 

 and whenthe leaves fall plunge the pots in ashes to the rim in a sheltered 

 position. The shoots that have flowered may be cut down to the next lower 

 prominent eye or bud, and when tho plants begin to grow repot them and 

 place in a window with a southern exposure, or give them the warmest posi- 

 tion you can command out of doors. When they are gi-owing water abun- 

 dantly. At the base, or not very high upon rockwork, with good soil, abun- 

 dant watering in sammer, and a warm situation, we have no doubt they 

 would do well, the main thing being to secure the ripening of the wood to 

 make sure of future flowering. 



Alpine Sthawberrv Planting (J. P.).— The Alpine Strawberries do not 

 require different treatment from other kinds, only they need not be planted 

 so far apart. The rows may be 1 foot apart, and the plants 9 inches from 

 each other in the rows if plants from runners are employed, but such do not 

 grow so freely as those raised from seed. We plant in rows 15 inches a*^under, 

 and the plants 1 foot apart in the lines. We think they do best on an east 

 border. Now is a good time to plant them. There are but two kinds of 

 note, the Ked and White; but the Bush Alpine, which does not produce 

 runners, is by some advised for edgings. 



Various (A. G.). — Gloxinias done flowering should be kept drier, water 

 being gradually withheld. The plants should be kept in the pots in a place 

 safe from frost until started in February or March. Cyclamen persicum just 

 repotted keep in a cold frame on ashes until the end of September, and then 

 place in a light airy position in the greenhouse, waterlog so as to keep the 

 soil moist. If in small pots, thoy may be shifted into larger ones early ia 

 October. Pot Roses ought not to be pruned until the leaves fall. Pruning 

 may be deferred until they are introduced into the house. They should, how- 

 ever, be repotted at once. Hovea Celsii will now be perfecting its growth, and 

 should be kept rather drier. It should have a light aiiy position in winter, 

 repotting in spring when it begins to grow, watering copiously when in free 

 growth, and affording at that time slight shade. 



Ground not Fertile {H. L. E.). — We think the barrennes.n of the soil 

 on the site of the old building is a result of its being kept for a lengthened 

 period from the influence of the atmosphere combined with the dryness, the 

 rains not being sufficient to thoroughly moisten it, and the Beason having 

 been remarkably diy. All you require is a thorougti moistening of the soil, 

 and when this takes place we think you may safely venture Strawberries or 

 any other kind of crop. It is likely the gi-ound will not be in a fit state for 

 cropping until the spring of nest year. 



Selling Timber Trees (Hclherscfe Lodge). — The Elm will be worth 

 something, as you surmise, for timber, for the sale of which consult a timber 

 merchant. The Sycamore, forking as you describe, is worth very little except 

 for firewood. 



Musa Ensete Fruiting (J. U.). — It is because this plant is somewhat 

 rare, but from its being largely grown for decorative purposes its flowering 

 and fruiting will be common enou^^h shortly. The Datura is undoubtedly a. 

 gi'ond one, the largest we have seen noted. 



Grub Eating Grapes (C. B.). — The depredator received some injury and 

 is scarcely recognisable, but the indications suggest that the mischief is pro- 

 duced by the larva of a small moth, very possibly of Cftrpocapsa firnebrana, 

 which in 1872 deserted its favourite Plum sometimes to attack ripe Grapes. 

 In this instance, therefore, it is important to burn all infected Grapes that are 

 removed, as, if thrown casually away, the moth may still appear to pursue 

 the same course again. 



Grapes Mildewed (E. O. C). — As the fruit is "quite worthless," cut it 

 off and throw it away, then syringe the Vines thoroughly with water in whicli 



