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JODBNAL OP HOBTIODLTUBB AND COTTAGE GABDENEB. t September 17, 187i 



where these are grown Tomatoes can be grown perfectly wel 1 

 with them so long as they are not shaded. The flavour, I am 

 iaclined to think, is equally as good in winter as it is in summer. 

 Orangefield Dwarf is still the best variety for forcing and also 

 for general culture. Hathaway 's Excelsior is a very handsome 

 variety of good flavour, but it is not so early nor yet so proUfic 

 as Orangefield. I know of no particular merit in the large 

 coarse-growing kinds. Seeds sown, or cuttings struck in 

 summer and grown-on in large pots outside as long as the 

 weather permits, will bear abundantly when placed in beat. 

 Give them heat, light, and moisture, and they will bear as a 

 matter of course. Another batch should be sown in heat early 

 in December, to come into bearing in April ; and the third, 

 which will supply the plants for fruiting outside in summer, 

 should be sown in the middle of January. 



The Globe Artichoke is another delicacy whioh is easily pro- 

 duced out of its natural season ; not, perhaps, in the depth of 

 winter, bat certainly in great abundance till the frost cuts 

 them off. All that is necessary to produce enough and to 

 spare throughout the summer and autumn is to put in a few 

 plants every year about the middle of May ; these, if liberally 

 treated, will come into bearing by the time the older plantation 

 is over, and will continue to bear till the weather stops them. 

 Xoung plants are easily obtainable from the old stools at any 

 time ; and although for a week or two after planting they may 

 appear almost dead, yet they will bear as much rough treat- 

 ment at that time as a Cabbage plant ; but when once they 

 begin to gro«', if large fleshy heads are wanted they must 

 receive no check. The faster they grow the better they will be. 

 Liquid manure helps them wonderfully. 



Lastly, I wiU mention Lettuces. I suppose nobody need be 

 told how to grow these in winter with the aid of glass ; but 

 everybody cannot afford glass, and there are ways by which 

 they can be grown tolerably good without. The small Cab- 

 bage Lettuces, of which Tom Thumb is a good type, are 

 the best for this purpose. Seed sown at the end of July, and 

 the plants dibbed-in 7 inches apart in a sheltered position 

 where they can be covered with a shutter in severe weather, 

 will produce nice crisp little hearts through an ordinary winter. 

 Another batch, sown about the 20th August, and planted out- 

 side unprotected as soon as they can be handled, will succeed 

 them in April, or even March in a mild spring; after which 

 Bath Cos sown at the same time will follow. The dates given 

 can of course be only suggestive, each one must find out the 

 exact time for his own locality. My Lettuces for spring use 

 are always sown between 2-lth and 27th August; the succes- 

 sion to these is sown in a Potato frame at the end of February. 

 Cabbage Lettuces generally turn-in earlier than Cos, therefore 

 it is a good plan to bow both at the same time. — W. Taylok. 



LILIUM AUKATUM. 



In reply to " H. G. S." in The Jocknal of Hokticultube of 

 September 3rd, as to the number of Lilium auratum flowers 

 grown on one stem, I beg to inform him that in the conserva- 

 tory of Alexander Brogden, Esq., M.P., of Lightbume House, 

 TJlverBton, the head gardener, Mr. John Melrose, showed me 

 some plants the bulbs of which were purchased from Mr. W. 

 Bull, of Chelsea. On one, grown in a 12-inch pot, there are 

 five stems, one of which is very full of bloom, having no less 

 than forty- six well-expanded flowers upon it. The other four 

 stems average sixteen flowers each, or a total of 110 flowers. 

 In another 12-inch pot there are eight stems, and the total 

 of flowers on these is 128. From tip to tip the blooms measure 

 Irom 10 to 11 inches. 



In the same conservatory I noticed a splendid specimen of 

 the Vallota purpurea. The plant was raised from seed by Mr. 

 Melrose. It was shown at the recent Ulverston Horticultural 

 Show, and the Judges awarded it a special ticket of merit. It 

 was to them a new variety, and I should feel obhged if you would 

 kindly sav if anything similar to it has come under your 

 notice. Ton will observe that it differs from the old variety, 

 inasmuch as the new one is white-throated, and the petals are 

 rounded, in place of pointed, at the outer extremity. — Beta. 



Notes fkom Atbshibe. — Several Arancarias were planted 

 here in 1846-7, then about 1 foot high ; the tallest is now 

 33 feet and perfect in symmetry, feathered to the ground ; the 

 others not quite so tall, but all healthy. A Cryptomeria japo- 

 nica, planted out just two years ago, then 4J feet in height, is 

 now IIJ leet in height ; it apparently grows summer and 



winter. The honey harvest is excellent. We are about a mile 

 from the sea, and sheltered, in the parish of West Kilbride, 

 Ayrshire. — W. D. A. 



GLAZING WITHOUT PUTTY. 

 In reply to your correspondent, " C. S.," I annex a section 

 (Jig. 7G) of the sashbar, which differs slightly, though not 

 materially, from the previous one. From c to d is 1 inch, 

 from A to B is 2 inches, giving a depth of 1 inch to the channel. 

 I see no reason why dust should accumulate in it, but if it 

 should, the first shower would wash it away. The channel 

 would be deep enough to prevent any overflow, but its capacity 

 for carrying off rain could be increased, as shown by the dotted 



Fig. 76. 



lines E, F, B. The glass is kept in position by thin strips of 

 lead or zinc nailed on the side of the sashbar at n, and bent 

 under and over the glass, say two strips to each pane. The 

 first cost of this kind of sashbar will no doubt be a trifle 

 greater than the one now in use, but that will be more than 

 compensated by the saving in time (which in these days of dear 

 labour means money), in fixing or replacing the glass. — S. B. 



"S. B.'s" plan (page 190), appears open to the following 

 objections : — If lead clamps are to afford sufficient resistance to 

 the action of wind, if they would at all, as it will lift sheet lead 

 and large slates on a roof, the lead must be of considerable 

 thickness, and then every clamp would act as a lodgment for 

 dirt, and wherever this occurred the water would draw under 

 the edges of the glass and cause drip. If the clamps proved 

 inadequate, the glass being loose on one side and tight on the 

 other, the leverage being great, there would be a tendency to 

 breakage. There being no bedding, as with putty, and as every 

 overlap occasions a vacuum at the sides, independently of ine- 

 qualities in the glass, there would be nothing to prevent the 

 wet from driving under if the least obstruction. The roof ven- 

 tilation, too, would be considerably increased. I look upon any 

 channel that could be safely cut out of the sashbar as practi- 

 cally useless or worse, as it would require constant and careful 

 attention to keep it clear. Had putty been more durable there 

 does not appear to be anything yet discovered that so perfectly 

 answers its purpose. However, the subject is well worth ven- 

 tilation, and we may yet reach the ultima thule. — V. 



STKAWBERRIES. 



In reply to " D. F. J. E.," I never weighed Cockscomb, but 

 at a Strawberry feast here some years ago a person took up 

 eight Cockscombs from the dish, and said, "I think these 

 must weigh more than a pound." The largest Cockscomb 

 measured here was 12 inches, measured round the rim. I have 

 grown many 9 and 10 inches, so measured. My man , " Steevie," 

 who is gone to Canada, and is heartily sick of it, measured the 

 Strawberries with the inches marked on the tape, so that there 

 could be no mistake. Ingram's Prince of Wales is an early 

 Strawberry, but there are several others — Cnthill's, for instance 

 — and one or two foreigners. I have never heard of a Straw- 

 berry called Lady Carrington. If Vicomtesse Hfricart de Thury 

 has its flowers removed with a view to autumnal bearing, the 

 runners must be kept cut off, and the plants well drenched 

 with liquid manure. It is the same as Marquise de la Tour 

 Maubourg, and Duchesse de Trevise. I used to grow it under 

 the last name bat one. I hardly think Mr. Taylor of Haidnioke 



