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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ January 22, 1874. 



half an inch of the rim with very sandy peat and silver sand, pressing firm. 

 Water and press firm, and fiU-up to the rim with silver sand, and after stand- 

 ing; a day water again and prefls; after six hours put-in the euttiuRs round the 

 sides about an inch apart, covering with a bell-glasB or hand-glass, and place 

 in a close pit or frame sbaded from sun. Air should be admitted when the 

 cuttings beaiu to grow, a little at first, increasing the amount by degi-ees. The 

 main point is to keep them from damping, and yet maintain a close, moist 

 atmosphere. You will lind the propagation and treatment of the most desir- 

 able greenhouse plants in " The Greenhouse," which may be had free by post 

 from our office for lOd. 



Sowing Briar Heps {J. Bentley). — Dividing the heps, sow the seeds in 

 moderately rich poil out of doors, and cover three-quarters of an inch deep 

 ■with fine soil. The situation should be open, and some of the plauts may 

 come up the first year, but more will come up the second. The seedling 

 plants may in autumn be taken up and put-out in nursery rows 1 foot apart, 

 and tbfi plants 3 or 4 inches apart in the rows. In two or three years they will 

 be fit for budding for dwarfs. 



Forced Vines for PLANTiNO-otrT (0. W. P.). — Vines that have been 

 forced are not suitable for planting, but they may be cut down to within a 

 few inches of the soil, and a new and strong cane being produced, they are 

 then eligible for planting-out ; but we prefer yoimg canes that have not been 

 fruited. They start more freely, and sooner become established. 



Mossy Lawn (J. T. S.). — From now to the end of March, in mild weather, 

 ■have the lawn well scratched with a new iron rake, moving it to and fro with 

 force, so as to bring up and remove the moss. The more you remove the 

 better; clear it off. lu March give a good dressing of rotten manm-e or 

 rich compost, spreading it evenly, and not more than half an inch thick. 

 In April lake again well with the iron rake, removing any rough and un- 

 eightly portions of the manure and any stones, and with an early prospect of 

 rain sow over it evenly 8 lbs. Festuca duriuscula, 12 lbs. Cynosurus cristatus, 

 8 lbs. Festuca tenuifolia, and 81bs. Poa nemoralis sempervirens, 81bg. Tri- 

 folium repens, and 4 lbs. Trifolium minus, in mixture for 1 acre. If you are 

 troubled with birds, rake lightly with a wo-^'den rake after sowing; it not, 

 i3in)ply roll well; rolling should also follow the raking. Let the grass grow 

 until the middle or end of May, then mow with a scythe, and afterwards 

 keep under with the mowing machine. If the lawn is wet the moss would 

 be subdued by draining. 



DoRYOPTERis NOBiLis UNHEALTHY (L. M. S.). — Tour plant is probably 

 tept too cool. It requires to be grown in a stove, and not only to be kept 

 ■moist, hut kept moist all round. We should repot it, and keep moderately 

 XQoist for a time, or until it grows freely, then water abundantly; but it will 

 not thrive unless you give it the temperature of a stove, or, at this season, 

 55" to 6u^ at night, and 60=' to 65° by day. 



Christmap Rose Culture (L. ^.).— Leave the plant where it ia, and 

 jnulch round it with some pai-tially-decayed leaves or rotten manure. You 

 may divide the plant in spring, planting out in good, rich, light soil in a 

 slightly-shaded border, and watering freely until the leaves turn yellow; but 

 •sre do not advise dividing the plant unless it is large. As you want flowers 

 at Christmas, wi should not divide the plant unless you had a certainty 

 of good divisions. "We should procure plants now, which may be had 

 through the principal nurserymen advertising in our columns, and plant them 

 out in a border as above named. At the end of September, or early in 

 October, take-up with good balls, placing in pots large enough to hold the 

 roots nicely, using light IJbrou.s loam, with a third of leaf soil, and assign- 

 ing them a light airy position in the greenhouse. By this mode of treatment 

 you may have them in flower at the time required. Helleborus niger maximus 

 andH. niger minor are very desirable kinds, the latter flowering rather earlier 

 than the former. For flowering at Chriatmas the Roman Hyacinth is good, 

 baving pure white Lily-of-the- Valley-like bells. Beyond Camellias and 

 Epacris The Bride, we do not know what other white flowers would suit, 

 except Primulas, especially the double white Primula fimbriata alba flore- 

 •pleno. White Camellias are Alba plena, Comtesee Calini, Firabri*ta. Mrs. 

 PercivaJ, Matbotiaua alba. You may have fine blooms of Chrysanthemums, 

 growing the plants out doors up to October, and then removing to the green- 

 house. White-flowering kinds : — White Beverley, Carihsima, Countess of 

 Granville, Empress of Indio, George Peabody, White Globe, Hetty Barker, 

 Isabella Bott, Madame Domage, Miss Marechaux, Mrs. G. Bundle, Norma. 

 These are large-flowered Pompons: JIarabout, Mdlle. Martha, Modele, and 

 White Trevenna. You will need to keep them cool, in order to have them in 

 flower BO late. 



Lapageria rosea Planting outside (A. B. P.). — The Lapageria would 

 not suit for planting in a border outside the conservatory, as the shoots come 

 directly from the root, and it would not answer to cut those away to en- 

 courage the development of the other shoots. Could you not make a border, 

 and 80 plant inside the house ? You would have a much better result. 



Cyclamen Seedlings not Thriting {A Puzzled Ainatfur]. — In your 

 greenhnupo, in which Primulas, Heaths, and Camellias thrive, Cyclamens 

 ought to flower well, and wo can only conclude you have erred in their sum- 

 mer and autumn treatment. In " The Greenhouse," which you can have by 

 post from our office for Ifirf., you will find full particulars of the treatment of 

 Cyclamens. Your treatment must be very singular, as you write of " some 

 corms uncovered, some covered, some nearly dry, some seldom watered, 

 •others more freely." But you furnish us with no data to enable us to judge 

 •whether your treatment is right or not. 



Apple Trees Barked by Sheep (J. D.). — As your trees are seven or 

 eight years old, they have mostly good-sized stems, and as sheep rarely bark 

 trees so completely as rabbits, we expect that enough of the inner bark is left 

 to enable the trees to recover. We would not advise anything being done to 

 them, excepting, perhaps, wrapping them round with hay or straw bands to 

 ieep out the cold ; but if severe weather occur before this is done, we would 

 bardly take the trouble to do that, as in any case it ought to be removed in 

 April. Healthy vigorous trees have the power of remedying many evils arising 

 "from accidents, and this being one, we would not by any means regard the 

 trees as hopeless, unless the bark is gone whollv, and even then we would not 

 give them up. We do not approve of any kind of dressing, especially anything 

 of an acrid or caustic nature; but if their appearance is offensive, you might 

 paint them over with ordinary mud or clay, if it contains nothing hurtful to 

 Tegetation. Healthy vigorous trees outlive a good deal of bark-gnawing. 

 Usually it is the repetition of the injury that kills. Wo have plenty of 

 inBtances of the latter. 



Lime Water for Expblling Worms (T. O.). — Uee clear lime water, 

 made by placing 1 lb. of fresh-slaked lime in three gallons of water, stir-up 

 in a cask, allow the whole to stand forty-eight hours, then stop the holes in 

 the pota with clay, and deluge the soil with the clear liquid. The holes in 



the pota should be opened after the soil has been flooded with the lime 

 water three hours. The lime water does not injure any Ferns that we hava 

 employed it for, and we do not think it would hurt yours. 



Worms in Bulb Pots [S. T.). — Water with lime water. 



Name of Grass {A Work'uuf Lady). — The dried specimen of grass you 

 sent us is, we think, Erianthus Ravennie, a very fine silvery-plumed sort, but 

 not equal to the Pampas Grass. A bulbous plant, popularly known as " the 

 Onion Plant," we do not know, nor can we make out from your description. 

 Send us a flower when the plant comes in bloom. 



Names of Plants (J. (?.).— Chimonanthus fragrans, Japan Allspice. It was 

 introduced from China by Lord Coventry in 1799. (F. W. Z*.).— Phlomis 

 frutlcosa, Jerusalem Sage. 



POTJLTEY, BEE, AKD PiaEON OHRONIOLE. 



BRISTOL POULTRY SHOW. 



This was held on the 16th, 17th, and 19th inst. in the Eifle 

 Drill Hall. The entries of poulti-y amounted to upwards of 850, 

 those of Pigeons to some 200 more. A full report from the pen 

 of " Wiltshire Rector" will appear next week. The following 

 awards were made : — 



liORKiNGS (Coloured).— Cocterf I.— 1 and 2, L. Patton, Hillmore. Taunton, 

 3, T, C. Burnell. Mi-heldever. he and c, Mrs. WoUociimbe, stomford Rtctory. 

 Pulletx —1 and Cud, Henry Lintrwood, Needham Market. 2, W. W. RuUhdge, 

 Kendal. 3, A. Darby, Bridgnorth, he, Mrs. E. Willcox, Nailsea Court (2). c, 

 L. Patton. 



Dorkings (Coloured).— Cocfc.—l and Cup, Mrs. W'dlocombe. 2, Rev. H. F. 

 Hamiltun, Combe St Nicholas. S,J. Longland, Grendon. Hens.- 1 and 3, L. 

 PatloD. 2, J Lnngland. 



DoHKiNOH (Siilver-Grev).— Cotrfccrelor Cock.—l. O. E. Creeswell, Early Wood, 

 Bagshnt. Pullets or Bern —1, O. E. Cresswell. 2, W. W. huttlidge. 3, L. 

 Wren, LoweKtoft. he. Kev. T. E. Cato. Wye Vicarage. 



Cochins (Cinnamon and Buff) —Coekerel.—l and 8, W. A. Burnell. 2, Mrs. A. 

 TindttI, Aylesbury. Pullets— 1, Mrs. A. Tindal. 2, A. Darby. 8, W. A. Burnell, 



Cocniss (Cmnamon and Buff).— Cocfc.— 1 and Cup, Lady Gwydyr, Stoka 

 Park, Ipswich. 2. C. Taylor, (iluucester. 3, A. Dickinson, Destington. Hens, 

 —1. Mra. A. Tindal. 2. H. Feast, Swansea. 



Cochins (Brown and Partridge). — Cocfcfrcl or Coek.~l, G. Shrimpton, 

 Leightofte Buzzard. 2, T. Stretch, Ormekirk. 3, 0. Taylor, he, Hon. Mrs. 

 Sugden. Wells, e, W A. Burnell. Pullets and Hens— I. F. Wilton. 2. G. 

 Shrimpton. 3, T. Stretch, he, J. K. Fowler, Aylesbury, c, Hon. Mrs. Sugden; 

 C. Ta\lor. 



Cochins [White). ^ Cockerel or Cock. — l, R. W. Beachy, Fluder, Kinga- 

 kerswell. 2. w. Whitworth. .)un., Longaiglit, 3, W. A. Burnrtll. he. Mrs. A, 

 Tindal ; J. Bloodworth, Cheltenham, c, J. Turner, Bath. Pullets or Hens.—\, 

 Cup, and 2, R. W. Beachy. 3, C. Bloodworth. he. Lady Gwydyr; W. Whit- 

 worth, jun.; W. A. Burnell. 



Brahmas (Dark).- C'ocfccrel.— 1 and 2, H. Linewood. S, L. Wright, he. T. H. 

 Waterman, Anderton, Cornwall; J. EvaUR, Kovnsbam (4); Hun. Mm. A. B. 

 HamJltDU, Fidgrnoiit. Wuburn : T. Waters, Keyusham : L. Wright (2) ; G. 

 JoneB. Goldthurn Hill. Wulverhampton. c, H. B. Morrell, Oaemawr, Clyro ; 

 Hon. Mrs. A B. Hamilton; J. Eviins (21; E. Ensor. Brihtol. PuVets —\ and 

 Cup, L. Wright. 2, H- Lingwood. 3, Rev. J. 1>. Peake, Laleham Vicarage. 

 I'/tc. H. B. Morrell (>); J. Evans; L. Wright; H. Liucwood. /«;, K. Pritcbard, 

 Tettenhall, Wolverhampton ; H. E. Morrell; W. Bircb, Barnacle, Coveniry ; G. 

 Jones ; T. F. An»dell. Cowley Moimt. St. Helens, e. J Evans. 



Brahmas (Dark).— Cocfc —1 and cup, Newnham & Manby, Wolverhampton; 

 2. F. J. Cotterell, Birmmghara. 3, Rev. A. Van Straubenzee, Tettcnhall 

 Vicarage, vhc, W. H. Crabtree, Levenshnlme. he, J. T. Tainton, Gloucester ; 

 J. Evans; Hon. Mrs. A. B. Hamilton; E. Ensor; W. Hartley, Earby, Skipton; 

 L. Wrght. He»w — 1, e. Lingwood. 2, J Evans. 3. T. F. Ansdell. vhc,R.B, 

 Morrell. he, F. J. Cotterell; T. F. Ansdell. c, E. Pritchard. 



Brahmas (Light).— CocA-crcI — 1 and Cup, T. A Dean. Marden, Hereford. 2, 

 P. HHiiies. Paltjrave, Diss. 3, F, J. Cotterell. vhc, M. Leno. Markyate Street. 

 he, Mra. A. VVillianiaon. Leioestpr (2): F. J. Cotterell. c, Mrs. A- Tindal. 

 PulUts—\, Cup, and 3, Mra. A. Williamson. 2, T. A. Dean, he, P. Haines; J. 

 Turner ; H. Dravcott. Leicester ; E- EUis, Chepstow ; W. H. Crabtree. 



Brahmas (Light).— Corfc.—l and Cup, M. Leno. 2, H. M. Maynard. Holme- 

 wood, Rvde. Isle of Wight. 3. Mrs. A. Williamson, he. Mrs. A Williamson; 

 W. H. Cr.ibtree; .1. Blooiiworth, Cheltenham; J Mitchell, Moselev, Birming- 

 ham, c, J. R. Rodbard. Wringion. flf «*■.— I and Cup. Mrs A. Williamson. 3, 

 J R. Rodbard. S. F. J. Cotterell. he, Mrs. Turner, Avon, Ringwood ; F. Crook, 

 Forest Hill. 



SvAitisii.—Cockerel —\, Cup. and 3, E. Jones. 2, J. R. Rndbard. vhe, J, 

 Barry, Bristol ; J. R. Rodbard he. E. Jonea ; G. K. Chilcot ; A Darby, c, F. 

 Cooper, Henley; A. Jonoa. .^tapleton; J. R. Rodbard; Miss E. Browne. 

 Pullets.—i, Cup, and 3. E. Jouca, 2, Mrs. E. AlUopp. he, G. K. Chilcot, Cot- 

 ham ; T. Bamtield, Br.ind.m Hill, Bristol. 



Spanish.— Cocfc.— 1, W. R. Bull, Newport Pngnell. 2, E. Jones. 3, T. Moore, 

 West Bi'te Ducks. Cardiff. Hcn».—1, A. Darby. 2, Mra. E. Allsopp. 3, E. 

 Jones, he, T. BamfieKl. 



Hamburohs (Gold-spanKled).~CocfcertfI or Cock— I and Cup, J. Buckley, 

 Taunton, Ashton-nn'i.-r-i yne. 2, H. Beldon, Goitstock. Bingley. S, W. A, 

 nyrie, Hurat, Aabt-m-under-Lvne Pullets or Hens.—i and Cup, H. Beldon. 2, 

 J. Bueklev. 9. J. RoUinhon. he, W. A, H vde. 



Hambokghs (Silver-spangled). — Cocfcfrci or Coek. — l, Asbton & Buoth, 

 Mottram. 2, H. Beldon. 3, J. Fielding. Newehnrch. Manchester. Pullets or 

 Hctts.~i and vhc. J. RoUinson. Lindlcy, Otley. 2, J. FiebUng. 3, Miss E, 

 Browne, he. Askton & Booth; Miss E. Browne, Chardleigh Green, c, J. Carr, 

 Swansea; H. Boldou. , , , .^^ 



Hambdrghs (Gold-penciUed).-Cocfcenl or Cocfc.— 1 and 2. H. Bpldon. 3, W. 

 Speakm-in, Nantwich he. T. Edmonds, jun., Totnea : W. J. M. Gregory, 

 Weston-super-Mare. Pullets ur Hem.— I. J. Walker, Bristwith, Ripley. 3, J. 

 Rollinson. 3, U. Moore, Weston-super-Mare. he. H. Beldon. c, C. Blood- 

 worth. Cheltenham (2). 



Hamburohh C^ilver pencilled).— Cocfccrci or Cocfc.— 1, Withheld. 2 and 8, H, 

 Beldon Pullet^ or Hen-t.-l and 2, H. Beldon. 3. K. H. Roe, Swansea. 



Hamburohs (tilauk)— Cocfecrc/or Cocfc.— 1, Rev. W Serjeantson. Acton Bur- 

 nell Rectorv, Shrewsbury. 2. H. Maskcry. Brow Hill. Leek. 8. H Beldon. 

 Pullets or Hens.—lanA 8, Rev. W. Serjeantson. 2, T. Bash, Bristol, he, U. 



Game (Black-breasted and other Ucd») —Cockerel or Cock.—\ and Cup, S, 

 Matthew, Stowmarket. 2. W. T. Lovenng, Caprera, St. AuBtel. 3. J. Cock, 

 Worcester, vhe. J. Palmer, Wedm'shury. he. W. H. Stagg. Netheravon, 

 Pewsey {21; J. Forevth, Wolverhampton. Pullet or ifcn.-i,J. Cock. 2, S. 

 Mathew. 3, G. Cottrm, Sunningdale. Berks, he, W. H. Slagg; H. Lutin, 

 Oundle; Rev. H Helyar, Pendomr-r Rectory, Yeovil. ^ . „ , 



G'MK (Anv other varietv).—rocfcrrc/, or Cocfc— 1. S. Mathew. 2. P. A. Beck, 

 Guiladidd Welahpool. ?.'i; Luut, Market Drayton, he, Dr W. K. Bullmore, 

 Faltnouth'- H .lulian. Pnlh-tnrHen.—lami Cup, Hon. and Rev. F. Uutton, 

 Wmdrush Kectnrv. Burlord. 2. Mr.^. A Tindal. 3, H. P. P. Price, Castle 

 Madoc. Hn Clin fir. Mrs. A. Tiiidid ; J. Oscrdt. 



Malay —Cockerel or Cock.—l, J. Hintnu, Warmmatcr. 2, 1-. habm, Biroiing- 



