May 28, 1874. J 



JOURNAL OF HORTIGULTOKE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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peared the insects were washed or brushed off. It is dangerous 

 to fumigate with tobacco smoke; we have had many choice 

 Orchids and Ferns injured with this. Thrips are difticult to 

 dislodge when once they obtain a hokl, but there is no better 

 way than to wash them off with soapy water. It is well to be 

 careful with all ornamental-foliaged plants that are required for 

 dinner-table decoration : the foliage should be perfectly clean, 

 and the plants in a condition to iDe placed on the table at a 

 moment's notice. Many persons do not select the most suitable 

 plants for this purpose. All with broad foliage ought to be 

 rejected. A few of the more slender-growing Dracaenas may he 

 admissible, but as a rule all those with feathery or finely- 

 divided foliage are the most suitable. The collection shown by 

 Mr. "Wimeett and Mr. W. Bull at South Kensington on the 13th 

 of May contained some fine things. If Cocoa Weddeliana ever 

 becomes cheap enough it will be by far the best Palm. Dfemo- 

 Dorops plumosus is also very fine. Aralia Veitcbii, a scarce 

 plant, and A. leptophylla have finely-cut leaves. Nice healthy 

 plants of Adiautum cuneatum are easily gi-own, and can be 

 worked-in in almost every style of house or table decoration. 



FLOWER GARDEN. 



"With the exception of Coleus, Iresine, and Alternanthera all 

 the bedding plants were out on the 2urd. The plants were well 

 watered before putting-out, and the surface of the beds, which 

 was like dust, received some water before planting. Notwith- 

 standing this the plants, especially Calceolarias, were suffering 

 from the drought ; it was decided to water them, but a drizzling 

 rain fell at intervals on Saturday, and the moist atmosphere 

 made everything look fresh and beautiful. A very large portion 

 of our time baa been taken up with planting-out, and mowing 

 the lawn to cut the Daisies. — 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 fully, we shall readily note anything especially excellent, 

 and we wish for information on such specialities to be sent 



to QS.] 



JUNE. 



Glasgow and West of Scotland . . 3 



TJndercIifF 3 



St. AuBtell 3 and 4 



Coventry and Warwickshire 8 



Bath and West of England ..8 to 12 



Leeds 10, 11, and 12 



Gloucester and Cheltenham 11 



Koyal OxiordBhire 16 



Gosport 17 



Cbertsey 17 



Burton-on-Trent 17 



Thome 17 



Jersey 17 



JUNE 



Guildford 17 



York 17,18,andl9 



Formoy 18 



Stamford 23and24 



Nottingham 24 



R.H.S. of Ireland 25 



Cambridgeshire 25 



Thetford 25 



Ipswich and E. of England 25 and 26 



Kingston and Surbiton 25 and 26 



Devon and Exeter (Roses) 26 



Boston 30 and July 1 



TRADE CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 



Charles Verdier fils, 12, Rue Dum^ril, Paris. — Rosiers Nou- 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*,* It is particularly' requested that no communication be ad- 

 dressed privately to either of the Editors of this Journal. 

 All correspondence should be directed either to " The 

 Editors," or to *' The Publisher." Great delay often arises 

 when this rule is departed from. 



Correspondents should not mix upon 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. 



Books fM. J". R.)-— Lowe's English and Sir W. Hooker's " Exotic Feme." 

 They are high-prieed ; any bookeeller could ascertain their cost. 



Lamium purpdreum var. ADRErM (J. F.). — We do not Imow where it is 

 to be procured. Some Dublin florist might inform you. 



Dendrobium Culture (A Lover of Orchids).— Yon have up to the present 

 time acted quite wisely with your Dendrobiums; they should, however, now 

 be removed to your stove. Fasten them upon blocks of wood, and hang them 

 head downwards; when they have grown a little reverse their position, and 

 if you keep them properly moistened all will be well. 



Garden Engines— Alpine Auriculas Dividing — Clematis Breaking 

 FROM Base— Coarse Grass in Lawn {F. J.).— As you do not wish to go to 

 the expense of a barrow water-engine, we cannot recommend anything we 

 have in practice found superior to a good syringe. There is the suction 

 garden engine or syringe, which draws the water from a bucket, and is more 

 powerful than a syringe, and one at 50s. would suit you. We cannot name 

 anyone in particular, nor depart from our rule not to recommend dealers. 

 Border Auriculas are best divided now, or directly the flowering is past. The 

 Clematis Jackmanni broken off at the ground will probably shoot again from I 



the root, dependant, however, on the plants having on the root-stem or collar 

 dormant eyes. The coarse grass on the lawn will to some extent bo reduced 

 by frequent mowings; but the most effectual riddance would be to root-oufc 

 the coarse grasses, which would prevent their outgrowing the finer kinds, 

 giving room to aud thereby encouraging their growth. 



Malforjird CTJCV^ini-.Tt. {Ramalho). — As the specimen sent and others on 

 the same plant are similarly eccentric, we think that that plant must bo 

 overvigorous, for there is an abortive attempt at the end of the fruit to form 

 auotber; the tlower is fresh and persisteut; there are leaves around it, aud 

 in the centre of the flower is a partially formed but white Cucumber. We 

 never saw a similar inntance. The variety was sold as CuthiU's Black Spine, 

 hut this must have been a mistake, for the spines on the specimen sent to us 

 are white. 



Hollyhocks Diseased {G. W. J.).— It is Puccinia malvacearum, of which 

 you will see an account and engravings in a previous page. 



Destroying American Blight {S. E.). — The receipt you had from " The 

 Orchardist," published in 18(i5, is, as your experience shows, a valuable one, 

 having effectually cleared a Dumelow's Seedling Apple twenty-six years o£ 

 this pest. The receipt may be useful to some of our readers: — "Half an 

 ounce corrosive sublimate, reduced to fine powder by beating with a wooden 

 hammer, and put into a three-pint earthen pipkin with a gtaseful uf spirit of 

 hartwhom, stirred well together, and the sublimate thus ditisolved. Tho 

 pipkin then filled by degrees with vegetable or common tar, and constantly 

 stirred till tho mixture is as iutimately blended together as possible. The 

 mixture applied with a hard brush to the parts infested. The effect on parts 

 where the bark has been cut away, or where branches have been lopped-off., 

 is marked — most invigorating and healing — the new bark comes with the 

 healthiest appearance, and soon laps over the exposed wood." Answering so- 

 well for the older tree, we do not see why it should not answer for the young 

 ones if applied, as we presume it was in the former case, when the tree is 

 leaflsss. During growth you may syringe the trees forcibly with a solution 

 of soft soap, 4 ozs. to the gallon, or diiute paraflin oil with an equal quantity 

 of water, and apply with a brush to the parts infested, keeping it from th& 

 leaves and shoots of the current year's growth. 



Peach Trees Infested with Aphides (I(kin). — Syringe them on & 

 calm evening wilh tobacco water, adding six gallons of water to one of 

 tobacco juice, thoroughly wetting every leaf. The liquid should be strained 

 before use, so that it may not clog the syringe. Tobacco water may be made 

 by pouring a gallon of boiling water on 'A ozs. of the strongest tobacco 

 covered up until cool, and then strained before use. 



Lily of the Valley not Flowering (A. E.).~The Lily of the Valley- 

 may not have flowered owing to the plants being in a dry position and not 

 well suppUed with water. Water during summer with weak liquid manure, 

 and apply a top-dressing of rich compost in autumn after the leaves are 

 decayed and cleared off. The want of colour in the Marechal Niel Ruses is- 

 probably due to a deficiency of light, tho plants not in vigorous health. Give 

 weak liquid manure at every alternate watering, and all the light practicable. 



Heating a Stove (Idem). — You will require for heating the greenhouse, 

 which you propose converting into a stove, four rows of 4-inch piping along 

 the front — that is, two rowa with their returns, which will require 64 feet, 

 and two rows along one end, which will take li4 feet more, so that you will 

 need to add to your present stock, though it may be that with elbows and 

 syphons you will have enough. The boiler we should have outside, and take- 

 the pipes across one end to the front, dividing the flow there into two 

 branches, and with a syphon at the other end come back with two pipes imme- 

 diately under the flows, and across the end in one pipe to the boiler. A small 

 boiler only will be necessary. For wintering bedding plants we should have 

 a half-span-roofed greenhouse or pit, and heat it with hot water from tho 

 same boiler. Half the quantity of piping would suflice for it, it being a pro- 

 portionate height and width. Orchids that would succeed in your stove are 

 Afrides japonicum, Airides rubrum, Ca?logyne cristata major, Barkeris* 

 Skinneri, Cattleya citrina, Cymbidium eburneum, Cypripedium Maulei, 

 C. venustum, Dendrubium chrysanthum, D. nobile, Epidendrum amabile, 

 E. maerochi'.um roseum, E. vitellinum majus, Lrelia purpurata, Cattleya 

 Mossia?, Dendrobium Bensoni.'e, D. Parishii, Lycaste Skinneri, Masdevallia 

 Harryana, L;elia superbiens, Maxillaria Harrisoni, Odontoglossum Aleiandr^, 

 0. grande, Calanthe vestita, Oucidium ampliatum majus, O. macrantbuni, 

 O. sphacelatura, Phajus grandifolius, Pleioae maculata, Trichopilia tortilis, 

 and Zygopetalum Mackayi. 



GoosELJERKiES DROPPING (Iilfm). — The fruit is dropping, probably from 

 the effect of the late frosts, as ^'e observe is the case with many, thougSi 

 at the time they were notapparently injured. In some instances the growths 

 have been seriously attacked by a species of Acarus, which has caused the 

 leaves as well as the fruit to fall. 



Piecework (Emili/ C. H.). — It is diflicult at any time, and especially in 

 the present disturbed state of the labour market, to give any definite state- 

 ment of the value of piecework. Digging, if ordinary soil, is worth 70s. to 

 tiUi., and for turf or leys 12J«. to ISUs. per acre. So much depends on the 

 rate of wages, that we cannot advise you better than to ask some market 

 gardener or farmer in your locality for information. 



Ewing's Composition fob Vine Mildew (Several Correspondents).-^ 

 We are obliged by your information, that you find it effectual. 



Do Seeds Live? (J. M.). — Strictly speakicg they do not, but, like egga, 

 they give birth to living organisations. 



Manuring Roses [J. X. P.). — As you object to carrying stable manure 

 through your house, use guano. There is no chemical preparation that will 

 supersede the need of organic remains for them. 



Auriculas (W. B.). — We cannot name dealers. Consult our advertisement 

 columns and prize lists. 



Pears Insect-eaten (C.R.). — The wounds on the yonng fruit are caused 

 by a weevil, Curcuiio Pyri. They feed at night. The only remedy is to spread 

 a white cloth beneath the tree and shake it, or brush it, if against a wall, after 

 dark and destroy the beetle-like insects which fall on the cloth. Take a 

 lantern. The same treatment repeated on two or three nights will subdue 

 the marauders. 



Gooseberry Caterpillars (R. F. B.). — They do not come out of the 

 ground, but they retire into it each to become a chrysalis, and then they change 

 to flies, which come out of the ground, deposit egge on the bushes, and from the 

 eggs come the caterpillars. Hand-picking and dusting with white hellebore 

 powder will subdue the caterpillars. To prevent their going into the ground 

 cover the surface 2 inches deep with spent tanners' bark. 

 Converting Tool-house into a Hothouse (ff. L. E.).—A. western aspeci 



