January liS, 18V1. J 



JOUBNAL OF HOETICULTDEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



105 



generally ripe by the last week of May or the first in June. No 

 other variety yet tried is so suitable for forcing as the Orangefiokl 

 Dwarf Proli'tic ; hut beiug much pleased with the excellent crops 

 of Hathaway's Excelsior which were grown on the open walls 

 at Chiswick last year, this variety is being tried against it as a 

 forcing sort. The fruit, moreover, is quite round, without ribs. 



STOVE AND GREENHOUSE. 



One of the most valuable occupants of the stove for furnishing 

 us with cut flowers is the Eucharis amazonica. This plant is, 

 if liberally treated, almost a continuous bloomer. Now is a good 

 time to repot the plants ; turn them out of the pots in which 

 they have been gi'owiug, and if the bulbs are too close together 

 separate them from each other, and allow more space when 

 repotting. Turfy loam, with a little leaf mould and rotted ma- 

 nure, is a good compostfor them. Liberal drainage with copious 

 supplies of water when the plants are established is the best 

 treatment. Slugs have been troublesome amongst the Orchids 

 they are most readily destroyed by looking for them with a light 

 at night when they will be out feeding. In the greenhouse 

 little has been done, except tying and training plants. Hya- 

 cinths throwing-up flower trusses have sticks placed to them 

 before there is any danger of the spikes falling over and snap- 

 ping at the base. 



Sta^e Pelargoniums in small pots are quite ready to be re- 

 potted, and will be attended to as soon as we can spare time. 

 Those plants intended for early flowering should be potted at 

 once. Plants that were cut down late in the season and in- 

 tended to flower into July, may be repotted late in February or 

 early in March. Look carefully after Cyclamens. If the plants 

 are large there is some danger of both flower and leaf stalks 

 being damaged through mould. Any decaying matter should be 

 removed. See that all plants removed to the conservatory from 

 forcing houses are not exposed to too sudden changes of tem- 

 perature, and let them not be placed in draughts. 



FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. 



In this department all fallen leaves should have been removed, 

 dead and decaying parts cut from trees and shrubs, and planting 

 finished. Specimens that have just been planted should be 

 mulched with rotten manure, and supports put to them to pre- 

 vent the wind from loosening the roots. Turf whereon there are 

 inequalities should be relaid at once ; the turf must be cut and 

 rolled back, and the inequalities fiUed-up with fine soil. We 

 havebegrmto prune the Roses. They are now bursting into leaf; 

 and allowing the growths to progress as they are, will only serve 

 to weaken the plants. Hyacinths and Tulips are through the 

 ground. Snowdrops are in flower, and Crocuses will open in a 

 few days. WheeUng-on rotted manure to the flower borders 

 and digging them. — J. Douglas. 



TKADB CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



William Paul, Waltham Cross, Herts. — Seed Catalogue, 1871. 

 W. Cutbush & Son, Highgate, London, N. — Catalogue of 

 Vegetable, Flower, and Farm Seeds. 



Charles Turner, F.oyal Nurseries, Slough. — New Pelargunlusm 

 fur 1871. 



W. Bull, King's Bead, Chelsea, London, S.W. — Betail List of 

 Select Flower, Vegetable, and Agrleultural Seeds and New 

 Flanls. 



Smith & Simons, 36 & 38, Howard Street, St. Enoch Square, 

 Glasgow. — Cultural Guide and Descriptive Seed Catalogue, 1874. 

 E. B. Matthews, 65 and 67, Victoria Street, Belfast. — Matthews' 

 Sower and Reaper : a Seed and Nursery Catalogue, loith Cul- 

 tural Guide. 



Hooper & Co., Covent Garden Market, London, W.C. — Gar- 

 dening Guide and General Catalogue. 



Robertson & Galloway, 157, Ingram Street, Glasgow, and 

 Helensburgh. — Deseriptiee Seed Catalogue and. iniaf car's Pocket 

 Guide to the Kitchen and Flower Garden. 

 J. Jefferies & Sons, Cirencester. — Seed Catalogue, 1874. 

 T. Bimyard & Sons, Maidstone, Ashford, and Allington. — De- 

 scriptive Catalogue of Vegetable, Flower, and Agricultural 

 Seeds. 



Walter Dawson, Spike Bridge Nursery (The Cemetery), Coven- 

 try. — Catalogue of Hardg Trees, Shrubs, £c. 



Felton & Sons, 23, High Street, Birmingham. — Seed Cata- 

 logue. 



Lawson Seed and Nursery Company, 1, George TV. Bridge, 

 Edinburgh, and Southwark Street, London, S.E. — List of Gar- 

 den Seeds. 



James Dickson & Sons, Newton NurserieB, and 108, Eastgate 

 Street, Chester. — Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 

 Gardening Tools, £c. — Catalogue of Forest Trees, Shrubs, de. 

 —List of Gladioli. 



W. BoUisson &: Sons, Tooting, London. — General Seed Cata- 

 logue, comprising a List of Seeds of Subtropical Plants, <£-c. 



T. C. Maxwell & Brothers, Geneva, New York. — Catalogue of 

 Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Eoses, dc. 



Little & Ballantyne, 44, English Street, Carlisle, and 36, Mark 

 Lane, London.— Sj))-i«<7 Seed Guide. 



W. Barron & Son, 16, Market Street, Nottingham, and Elvaston 

 Nurseries, Borrowash, near Derliy. — Descriptive List of Choice 

 Vegetable, Agricultural and Flower Seeds, ti-c. 



F. C. Heinemann, Erfurt. — General Catalog der Pflanzen, 

 und Satnen-Handlung. 



Barr & Sugden, 12, King Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 

 — Descriptive Spring Catalogue of Choice Seeds for Flower and 

 Kitchen Garden. 



Dickson & Robinson, '23, Market Place, Manchester. — 

 Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Horticultural Imple- 

 ments, etc. — List of Gladiolus, t&c. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



N.B. — Many questions must remain unanswered until next 

 week. 

 Personalities. — A Wvll-whlier has written to say that *' verj' severe 

 strictures "on The Journal of HoRTicnLTUnE have appeared two weeka 

 following,' m an Irish t,'ardenin^ contemporary. We are not curious to know 

 what these strictures are. We care only for the ),'ood opinion of oui- readers, 

 whose appreciation of the Journal has raised it to a position unprecedented 

 in circulation amons f^iirdeninn periodicals, and what our Ii'ish coutemporai7 

 thinks of us is a matter of pm-o indifference. There are only two objects he 

 can have in making these strictures, the one to benefit himself, and the other 

 to elevate horticulture in Ireland, and if ho thinks he is doin^' either or both 

 let him indulge himself ; but from what we know of the high-class gardeners 

 of Ireland they will not be complimented by being furnislied with a tirade of 

 trash which would not be tolerated in any gardening publication on this side 

 of the ChiinneL Oui- large and increasing circulation in Ireland may afford a 

 clue to our contemporary's strictures. 



Single White Primhoses (G. C). — If you will send your address to Mr. 

 Robson, of Linton Pai'k, Maidstone, he will put you in the way of obtaining 

 what you want. 



Evergreen Flowering Shrubs for a Small Lawn {Topscij). — For a 

 lawn, in an exposed situation, 73 feet by 38, we would not have the shrubs 

 dispersed either singly or in small groups over the enture surface, but confine 

 them to two or three small detached clumps at each end, and to a circular 

 bed, IH feet in diameter, in the centre of the lawn, filling the circle with a 

 selection that woiUd possess much of beauty and interest during the greater 

 part of the year. Such a circle would require about thirty plants. A dozen 

 Rhododeniirons might be grouped ui the centre, surrounding them with a 

 broad fringe of the choicest dwarf-giowiug evergreen llowering and berry- 

 bearing shmbs. Of Rhododendrons, choose Mrs. John Glutton, John 

 Waterer, Fleur do Marie, Old Port, Mrs. R. S. Holford, Purity, Charles 

 Dickens, Miimie, Due de Brabant, Alarm, Mrs. G. H. W. Hcneage. and EI- 

 frida ; and of other shrubs, Berberis Darwinii, Berheris stenophylla, Erica 

 mediterranea, Ligustrum japonicum, Kalmia latifolia, Ledum latifohum, Per- 

 nettya angustifolia, Pernettya mucronata, Skimmia japonica, Andromeda 

 floribunda, Mahonia Aquifolium, Rhododendron ferrugineum, Meuziesia poh- 

 folia, Meuziesia polifolia alba, Cotoueaster Siraonsii, Erica australis, E. lan- 

 ceolata, and E. Aiportii. For the cud clumps choose Spartium iunceum 

 (Yellow Spanish Broom), Cytisus albus (White Broom of Portugal), Ulex 

 europ;i^a llure-pleno, Berberis japonica, Arbutus Rollissonii, and a few Rho- 

 dodendrons. 



Select Carnations (E. F. Richardson). — Scai-let Bizarrcs : Admiral 

 Curzon, Lord Lewisham, Sir- J. Paxton, William Pitt, Guardsman, Mars. 

 Ci-uiuoii, Bizarrcs: Isaac Wilkinson, Eccentric Jack, Graceless Tom, Jenny 

 Lind, Lord Raglan, Rifleman, The Lamplighter. Pink and Plt^/»^■ Bizarrcs : 

 Falconbridge, Purity. Purple Flakc!< : Ascendant, Dr. Foster, Earl of Stam- 

 ford, Mayor of Nottmgham, True Blue. Scarlet Flakes ; Christopher Sly, 

 Cradley Pet, Justice Shallow, Mr. Battersby, Superb. Ruse Flakes : Mre. 

 Frederic Bumaby, Sybil, George Tugwell, James Merryweather, John Keet. 



Select Picotees (Idem).— Bed-edged : Bertie, Ensign, Mrs. Hornby, Miss 

 Small, Mrs. Keynes, Princess of Wales, Sylvia, Mrs. Little, Exhibition, 

 Forester, Lord Valentia, Mrs. Norman. Purple-edged : Ethel, Alliance, 

 Chanticleer, Edith, Medina, Norfolk Beauty, Admu-ation. Amy Robsart, 

 Cynthia, Frances, Jessie, Mabel, Mary. Rose and ScarleUcdged : Edith 

 Dombrain, Juliana, Mrs. Fordham, Gem of Roses, Mrs. Fisher, Obadiah. 

 Yellow ground: Canary, Claude, Gold Button, Jupiter, Seraph, Sovereign. 

 " Florists' Flowers," which you can have free by post from our office for 5d., 

 treats on the culture. 



Tubs for Stove Cli.mbees (F. F., Dublin).— U would answer to have 

 slate tubs or boxes for the growing of the climbers, but we should have a 

 border over the hot-water pipes, and it seems you have at present one 3 feet 

 wide and 3^ feet high or deep. We presume it has a wall forming the bed ; 

 if not, we should build a wall a brick thick 3 inches higher than the hot- water 

 pipes, and a 4^inch wall against the back wall to the same height, and have 

 flags or slates' reaching from wall to wall to form the bottom of the border. 

 Your pipes will therefore be in a chamber beneath, and this beiug open at 

 one or both ends, the roots of the chmbera will be benefited by the heat from 

 the pipes. We should then carry up the wall outside 4J inches thick, the 

 lower coiu'se pigeon-holed, and the top course laid in cement, and capped 

 with the same, so as to reSemble a rounded curbstone, which will give a 

 neat appeai-ance and stabihty to the work. The brickwork should betaken 

 across the ends, should not bo less than 2 feet high, and need not be more 

 than 3 feet 6 inches. At the bottom, 6 inches of nibble will be needed for 

 drainage, and a layer of turves over it, so as to keep the drainage free. The 

 border should be filled high with soil to allow for settling, and it is well 

 to di\'ide it crosswise, so as to confine the roots of each cliinher to their 

 proper limits. Passiflora quadrangularis may be one of the climbers, but it 

 would also of itself occupy the wall of a large house. P. Decaisnenna is 

 larger-flowered and scented, and gives as fine, if not finer fruit. We should 

 not have any of the Passifloras against the back wall, but have them planted 

 BO as to tram on the rafters of the house. Euphorbia jacquiniicflora answers 

 well, also Allamandas, but the finest of subjects for the back wall of a atove 

 is the very beautiful-leaved Cissus discolor. For the roof have Passiflora 

 princeps. 



Shading Cdcujiber House (TF. S.).— The best material Is tiffany, and 

 fixed to a roller, so as to move up and down at pleasure. They are liable to 

 be moved and torn by wind, but that may be prevented by having linen tape 

 sewn up each edge, and if the roller is properly secured it cannot be moved 



