376 



JOUKNAIi OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 



[ May 11, 1876. 



"West of England (HEBEFoax)). Roses. June 29th. Her. C. H. Bulmer, 



CredeDhill, Sec. 

 Frome iRosesl. JuDfi 29th. Mr. A.K. Baily Hon. See. 

 "WisBEACH (Rope-J). June 29th. Mr C Parker. Hon Sec. 

 ToRB^Y. June 29th and aoth. Mr. W. F. TnckerCaft.BraddonTor.HoD. Sec. 

 Oxford (Roees). Jtine 30th. Mr. C.R. Ridley, 115. Aldate's, Hon. Sec. 

 Brockham (Roses). July let. Rev. A. Chealea aud Mr. C. Mortimer, Sees. 

 Marsden, July Ist. Mr. J. H. Edmondson, Hon. Sec. 

 Royal Caledhnian Horticultural Society. July 6th and September 13th. 

 OuNDLE. July 5th. Mr. Alfred Kidci. Sec. 

 SouTHPoRT. July 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th. Mr. E. Martin, Sec. 

 Newark (Roues). July 6th. Mr. F. R. Dobney, Sec. 

 Alexandra Palace. Roses, July 7th and 8th. 

 Ealing, Acton, and Hanwell. July 11th (at Fordhook). Mr. R. Dean, 



Eikling. Sec. 

 Helensbdboh (Roses), July 12th and ISth. Mr. J. MitcheU. Sec. 

 "Wimbledon. July 12: hand 13th, Mr. P. Appleby, 5, Linden Cottages, Hon. Sec, 

 Kxlmarnock. Riises, Jul? 18th and 19th. General Exhibition, September 



14th. Mr. M. Smith. 11, King Street. Sec. 

 Tonbridge. July I9th. Mr. W. Blair, Hon. Sec. 

 "Wrexham. July 25th. Mr. J. B. Shirley, Hou, Sec, 

 Headingley. July 26th and 27th. Mr. T. Atkinson, Borleywood, Head- 



inj^ley, Leeis, Sec. 

 Bbighouse. July 29th. Messrs. C. Jeesop & E. Rawnsley. Hon. SecB. 

 KiLSBY (Flowers). August Ist. Mr. C. E. Bracebridge, Sec. 

 Heworth (Hor'it!uUural|. August 2nd. Mr. R. H. Feltoe. Hon. Sec. 

 Kawtenstall (Rosendale). August 4th and 5th Mr. M. J. Lonsdale, Sec. 

 Tadnton Deane, August 10th. Mr. F. H. Woodforde, M.D., and Mr. 



Clement Smith, Hon. Sees. 

 Filey. August Hth. Hon- Sec, Mr. Waltfr Fisher. 



Clav Cross. August 15th. Mr. J. Btallard, Clay CrosB, near Chesterfield, Sec. 

 ■Weston-super-Mare. August 15th and 16th. Mr. W. B Frampton, Sec. 

 Preston. August 16th and i7th. Mr. W. Troughtun, Hon. Sec. 

 Shhewsbury. August I6th and 17tb. Adnite & Nauntou, Hon. Sees. 

 MiRFiELD HoRTictLTURAL. August 19th. Mr. Gcorgs Senior and Mr, John 



Hushforth, Hon. Sees. 

 Newbury. August 22nd. Mr. Henry Seymour, Hon. Sec. 

 Eamsgate (Isle op ThanetJ, August 23rd. Mr. R. R. Schartan, Broad- 

 stairs, Sec. 

 Seaton Burn. August 26th. Mr. B. Richardson and Mr. W. Ellott, Sees. 

 MoNThosE. September Ist and 2nd. Mr. Ales. Burnett, 2, High Street, Sec. 

 Dundee ilnteruatioDal). September 7th, 8th, and 9th. Mr. W. R. McKelvie, 



26. Euclid Crescent, Sec. 

 Glasgow. September 12th and 13th. Mr. F. Gilh. Dougholl, 167, Canning 



Street, Sec. 



TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Megsrs. Dick Radclyffe & Co,, 129, High Holborn, London.— 

 Catalogue of Flayiia and Garden Hequisites. 



Mesers. Thomas Bunyard & Sons, The Nursery, Maidstone. — 

 Catalogve of Bedding Plants, Boses, Clirnberft, d-c. 



Messrs. Francis & ArthurDickson & Sons, " Upton " Nurseries, 

 Chester. — List of Florists* Flowers, Bedding FlantSj d-c. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*,* All correspondence should be directed either to '* The 

 Editors," or to "The Pablieher." Letters addressed to 

 Mr. Johnson or Dr. Hogg often remain unopened unavoid- 

 ably. We request that no one will write privately to any 

 of our correspondents, as doing so subjects them to un- 

 justifiable trouble and expense. 



Correspondents should not mix up on the same sheet queetiona 

 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 

 cannot reply to questions through the post. 



Books (Pa/cr).— You cannot have a better companion than " The Sports- 

 man's, Tourist's, and General Time Tables, and Guide to Scotland." 



Pink Azalea (3/. B.). — We cannot name varieties. Why not propagate 

 from your old plant ? 



Rock Plants (Bierlcy). — Whether in the nnrserymen'a catalogues or not, 

 write for the plants ; any nurseryman could procure them for you. 



DEt'OBMED Cucumbers {Dot).— The heat of the bed has been irregular 

 and suddenly declined. This has checked growth and induced mildew. 

 Attend to the sugeestinni we made before, which are still more needed, the 

 ■winds and the nights are so unseasonably cold. 



Trdffles. — We are eaid to have Truffles in our clays. Will some of your 

 readers te 1 me the way to find them, and the proper season ? — R. H. 



Abnormal Polyanthcs {BrhtoUan).—l'i is not usual of course, but the 

 enlargement of the calyx so as to be leafy ia a transfurmation ta which moat 

 flonera ate liable. 



Phormium tenax (J. 3f.).— It is not nnusnal for it to flower in England, 

 r Watercresses in a Border (G. G.).— Plant slips in September in a moist 

 Bhady border, and tbe only cultivation nepeasary is to dig the eaith fioe, to 

 draw a s'ight trench with a hoe, to fill this with wattr until it becomes a 

 mud. to covRr it about an inch deep with drift sand, and then to stick in the 

 Blips about 6 inches apart, watering them until established. The sand keeps 

 tbe plants clean. They will be ready for gathering from in a very few weeks, 

 and the shoots should be invariably cut, and not picked. They are not to 

 mild-flavoured as those grown in water, tiut then they are free from aquatic 

 insects, &c. 



Polyanthds Grub (J. P.).— We could detect no grub. The specimen was 

 dried- up. 



Daniels' King of the Broccoli.— Mr. J. Erayn writes to ns that this ia 



one of the best late kinds; the heads are white, Arm, and close, and very well 

 protected. 



Cyclamen after Flowering [Qeraniuvi Cottage). — The plants will be 

 quite safe lu the frame for tbe next six weeks, or until the middle of June, 

 when we should plant them out in an open situation in tbe garden, and in 

 the autumn take them up aud pot them in turfy loam with a th^rd of leaf aoil 

 added and intermixed, removing most of the old poll prior to pntting, drain- 

 ing the pots liberally, aud after potiing placing them in the Irame on aehea 

 and keeping the suil mr>ist, shading from bright sun until established. 

 Admit air moderately, and keep the plants safe fc'>m frost. They will in all 

 probability flower as well in the coming winter and bpring as they have done 

 in the past season. 



Plant Leaves Scorched (R. W. C).— The leaves pent are those we 

 think of Spirffia japonica, which are very susceptible of injury from the fumes 

 of an ill-constructed flue, and equally no of t'jb*cco smoke. Either there has 

 beea an escape of smoke from the flue or the house has been fumigated with 

 tobacco, which ha'^ so frequently scorched the leaves of this plant that we 

 now always remove the plants before fumigation, not returning them to the 

 house until the following morning, and since we practised this have been well 

 repaid the trouble. If the house has not been fumigated see that the flue is 

 fcmoke-tight. 



Walndt Trees Bleeding (Mrs. Grounds).— We fear it will hardly be 

 practicable to dry the wound, but we should nevertheless endeavour to dry it. 

 The branch we presume has been sawn off eo as to remove any rapgedness or 

 eplint'-r by a traosverae cut, and ta this apply red-hot irons, which will char 

 end close the pores ot the wood ; and when dry, if you can succeed in drying 

 the wound, apply patent knotting, as used by painters, giving two or three 

 coats. 



Lobelia Culture (Eejiihcorth), — If your plants of the scarlet Lobelia 

 Queen Victoria are now strong, say if the foliage ia 3 inches in length, they 

 will make a display in the autumn. The soil for these plants cannot he 

 too rich and deep, and the plants must have untimited supplies of water 

 throughout the season. If your plants are very small plant them in a nursery 

 bed for this season, potting them in tbe autumn, and yon will have a fine 

 stock of vigorous plants for the spring of 1877. 



Grapes Spotted and Shanked (A Gardener). — The roots do not supply 

 sufficient sap. Water copiously, and give manure water once a-week. Cut 

 out all the diseased berries. Perhaps you have too many bunches on the 

 Vine. 



CoNVOLvuLi ON STANDARD RosES (Suttou), — They wUl not injure the Roses 

 if only allowed to entwioe the stems; but their roots would rob those of the 

 Roses unless the Cunvolvuli were grown in pots. Urine is too stimulating as 

 a manure ; pour it over garden refuse, and use the compost when decayed. 



Skeetlegs (D. D.). — This ia the local name about Ashford in Kent for 

 the Orchids. It may be derived from two Anglo-Saxon words — Sceatha, a 

 robber, and lag, a special district. 



PaoNiNG MariIchal Niel Rose (F. T. P.I.— We have fonnd the best 

 practice in pruning this fiuc Rose under glas? to be the removal immediately 

 after flowering of the principal shoots whiuh have produced the flowers, being 

 careful to cut to a poiut from whence healthy shoots are issumg. These 

 youDg shoots are trained thinly, and are not t*tupped or pruned either during 

 summer or winter, except to keep them within bounds. Cut out all the old 

 wood you can, farnif.biogthe space with new growths. Afford plenty of water 

 to the roots— liquid manure if needful — and yuu will have a " golden harvest " 

 next year. This Rose does not produce its flowers nearly so freely or so fine 

 from Bpura on the old wood as from the eyes of youn^ shoots. Shoots pro- 

 duced even as late as September flower freely the following spring. With 

 liberal treatment your plant will produce shoots from 6 to 20 feet in length 

 during the fteasou. Let thia be your aim — young wood, but do not permit 

 any overcrowding of the shoots and foliage. 



Names of Fruits (J. L.). — tJvedale's St. Germain. (Miss ^.).— Northern 

 Greening. 



Names of Plants (^^Tner;.— Staphylea pinnata, or Bladder Nut. 



POTJLTEY, BEE, AISTD PIGEON OHEONIOLE. 



JUDGES. 



We little thought when we wrote last week on poultry olnbe, 

 and mentioned that there were plenty of men who would make 

 good judges, that we should so soon beask^dfrom several dif- 

 ferent quarters to take the matter up. It shows undoubtedly 

 that there is a want in the faLcy for fresh judging blood, and 

 perhaps that some are far from satisfied with present arrange- 

 ments. This latter matter, however, we will not go into, as 

 dissatisfied exhibitors and people who think themselves wronged 

 must make their own complaints aud themselves show up their 

 own private grievances. We feel, however, that I here is a great 

 need just now for competent men aa judges, not because we do 

 not think the gentlemen who now perform these arduous duties 

 are in every way as good adjudicators as formerly, but because 

 they are themselves in number quite insufficient for the many 

 exhibitions which will soon again be held in nearly every 

 county. Sometimes there are a dozen shows or more in a 

 week, and this often necessitates a judge nearly living in a rail- 

 way carriage and rushing about all over the country. Often, 

 too, then the work which should take several hours is hurried 

 over in a short space of time, to catch some train and to be at 

 another exhibition in due time. 



About our present judges we will say nothing. They are 

 mostly men who are so well known that we can say nothing 

 new of them. We have ourselves won prizes with nearly every 

 one of them, and so we do not feel aggrieved, and many of them 

 are standing dishes, and it it were possible we should not mind 

 seeing them on most occasions, hut it is not possible, and that 

 again brings us to the subject of new judges. 



