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HARTLErooL.— Angnet 34th. Mr. Councillor H. Magoi-is, Hon.-Sec. 

 NEwnEiiRY.— Auf^uBt 24th. Mr. H. Seymour- Ilou.-Sec. 

 laLE OF TuANET (SiT. Peters). — August 25tb. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



',• All correspondenGe should be dirocted either to "The 

 Editors," or to " The rublieher." Letters nddressedto 

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

 ably. We request that no ono 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 Rame sheet questions 

 relating to Crardoning 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 (Gf.).— Thero was a now edition ot the "Garden Manual" ipsued 

 eighteen months a^o, and is now on sale. We do not iocntify the Briar by 

 your description, but the proper one for stocks is the Dog Uose, the prickles 

 (if winch are hooked. (Young Qardemr).— The book you mean is Mr. Thom- 

 son's) "Practical Treatise on the Grape Vine," price 5». Apply to Messrs. 

 Blackwood, Paternoeter Kow. 



Fnt AND Pine (C. E.).—" Fir" is a popular name including all such cone- 

 bearin:^ trees as are included in the genera Pinua, Larix, Abies, Wcllingtonia, 

 and muuy others. " Piue " is also a popular name applied to many cone- 

 bearing trees so differing that we cannot find spaoe for the distinctions. 

 There are the Amboyna Pine, Weymouth Pioe,Moreton Bay Pine, Screw Piue, 

 and many more. 



ViNEy NOT Frditinq {Vitis noil l/yi/cra).— We cannot understand the 

 Black Hamburgh not fruiting from the lateral growths; wo believe that you 

 cut back too closely to the main stem at pruning time. Nest year leave two 

 or three eyes instead of one. In your district it will not be necessary to put 

 shutters on the borders ta throw off the rains; place 3 or 4 inches of manure 

 on the surface instead. This is preEuraiug that jours is a late house; for 

 eaily forcing it would be necessary to throw off the cold rains. The rest of 

 your practice i3 correct. 



China Roses Casting their Bnos (E. C. Laming).— 'We should at- 

 tribute the casting of the buds to an imperfect supply ot sap caused by the 

 drought, which probably mit;ht have been overcome by copious waterings. 

 The plants being only recently planted would not have obtained sufficient 

 root-action to enable them to withstand drought. 



Tacsonia pinnatistipula (W. J. B.).—lt is probably easting its buds 

 fr^m an insufficiency of moisture at the roots. We cannot otherwise account 

 for it. Water thoroughly with weak liquid manure. 



BEAUC4BNEA PRorAQATiON (J. B.). — Take off the young stems close to 

 whence they proceed after they have formed two or three leaves, and insert 

 them in sand over sandy loam and peat in pots singly, and place in a gentle 

 bottom heat and keep moist, but avoid making very wet. A temperature of 

 about 10" to ir.° warmer than that in which the plants are growing will 

 answer for striking. They should not be inserted deeper than the base of 

 the leaves. We have no experience of their flowering. 



Vine Leaves Shading the Bunches— Stopping Vine Shoots (F. L). 

 ^'Xbe leaves wliich shade the bunches of the Grapes should not bo removed, 

 they being the principal leaves, and the Vines being properly stopped you will 

 not have too much shade. The main leaves must not at thi? or any stage be 

 removed to permit of light to the fruit. Remove all the laterals from the 

 showts ftgainpt the wall, except from the two lower leaves and the nppermobt 

 one to which tbe shoot wap first stopped, and stop those at the first kaf, and 

 at each succeeding growth therefrom to one leaf throughout the sc-agon. If 

 by laterals you mean the side shoots upon wood of last year, they should be 

 rubbed off to 12 to 15 inchts apart, as we gave you iustructions some time 

 Bgo ; but if you mean laterals on the ciTie of the present year's growth stop 

 them at the'first leaf, and to one leaf afterwards as succeeding growths are 

 produced. 



Heating Pit from Kitchen Bopler iH. W.).—lt will answer to take 

 the flow and return pipes fro:« and to the boiler throuch the forcing pit, and 

 also heating a ci&tern for baths, &c , upon a higher level, having a valve upon 

 the flow and return pipe of the cistern, hut you will need au air pipe upon the 

 highest point of the pipes in the forcing pit, and this pipe must ha taken 

 higher than th-^ bath cistern ; in fact it would be well were its end taVen to it 

 so tbat any run or flow of ^ater might be into it. Without a valve upon the 

 return pipe of the cistern the heated water would rise through it. With this 

 complication you will need to be careful, and not expedite a blow-up. 



Kalmia latifulia N(iT Fldwebing (R. N.). — Your plant only needs 

 vigour. Give it some good turfy loam and cow dung iu equal parts with your 

 peat, and it will make better wood and flower fi'eely. Add sand liberally if the 

 peat be deficient of that substance. 



Providing Bottom Heat [E. Ji.).— The best means is by a hot-witer 

 tank, and the next best means by hot-water pipes in a chamber, or the same 

 surrounded by rubble. Tan is troublesome, hat gives a long-continned heat 

 — six months or more according to its extent. We could not tell you the 

 expense of a " tan pit," and we do not recommend it for an amateur. The 

 size would iu a measure determine the cost, and if small the heat is not 

 nearly so enduring. We strongly recommend hot water as best for an amateur 

 or anjone not having ready access to fermenting materials. 



Winter Nelis Pear (C. R1.— It is probably a result of over-blossoming 

 that your trees do not bring their fruit to maturity. We should advise you 

 to mulch the surface with short manure, giving the tree against the south 

 wall a thorough soaking hefiTs applying the mulch, and water liberally in 

 dry weather iu summer. We would farther advise thinning the bloi-som, 

 leaving the largest and most promising, and it is probable you will have as 

 you say " truly one of the best of Pears." 



Propagating Pentstemons (H.). — Insert tbe cuttinss iu sand in Sep- 

 tember, and keep them mi ist and shaded for a time. They may bo put in 

 pots and be placed in a close cold frame, or have abed prepared on the ground 

 and a frame placed over it after the manner of striking bedding Calceolarias ; 



indeed they may ho treated throughout the same as are Calceolarias. You can 

 of course strike the cuttings now made from shoots which do not show flower 

 spikes, but the plants would be large and rc'iuire a jjroportionate amount of 

 room in which to winter them. We advise their being struck in September, 

 when you will have fine plants for flowering the following summer. 



Markchai, Niel and Aimke Vibert (F. IT'.).— Let them have another 

 season's growth; do not prune them too much, only thiu-out weak branches, 

 and most probably they will repay jou another season. With good soil, 

 liberal treatment of manure, and a moist climate, thero will be naturally too 

 great an incliuatiou to wood growth. 



Seedling Strawberries (TT. B., JTaitfs).— It is impossible to form any 

 estimate of the seedlings. If thin lot them remain, and transplant in the 

 spring; hut if Hkely to be overcrowded transplant a portion as soon as they 

 are large enough to handle. They will not take up much ground, and will 

 require very littio atteutioa, aud it will be interesting to watch the results. 



Aphides on Apple Thees {W. H.).—Tho leaves are much infested, but 

 no insects accompanied them. It appears to be the common aphis, and may 

 be destroyed by a thorough syringing of softsoap water of a strength of 

 2 ozs. of soap to each gallon of water, in which is mixed a little tobacco 

 water. If applied at a temperature o( 100= it will kill all the insects it 

 reaches, and will not injure the fruit. 



Mildew in Roses {H. B.).— This usually arises from defective root action. 

 There must have been some cause other thuia its being grafted on the com- 

 mon one for your Black Oak to have died. 



Fairy Rings [J. B., Bickh'ij].—1Po.ivy rings on lawns are caused by the 

 spawn of a fungus, which keeps spreading outwards as it exhausts the soil 

 upon which it has gi-own. To get rid of it water the ring with a solution of 

 common salt, 2 ozs. to the gallon. It will cause the grass to become brown 

 for a time, but it will soon grow again. 



Dveing Flowe&s.— i4 Young Gardener wishes to know how Everlasting 

 Flowers and Grasses are dyed. We shall be glad to receive information from 

 any of our correspondents. 



Names of Plants (TT. C.).— Every week wo have to repeat our reply that 

 we cannot name the varieties of florists' flowers, which Pelargoniums are. 

 IW. B.).— Loniceraiuvolucrata. (CJm(HS).— Euonymus europseus, or Spindle 

 Tree. (ir. Hilluak).—lt is Lilium purpnreum, but this is only a variety of 

 L. Washingtouiauum. (Freci).— l,Campanulaglomorata; 9,Trolliuseuropffius; 

 8, HemerocaUis flava; 4, Lupinus polyphyllus ( ? ) ; 5, Muscari monstrosum. 

 (fl. H. C.).—l, Composite, too young to name; 2, HemerocaUis flava; 3, Orchis 

 maculata; 4, Lychnis coronaria; 5, Lychnis diurua flore-pleno; 6, Lavatera. 

 (R. 0.).—l, Geranium sansuineum; 2, G. phceum ; 3, Genista sagittalis. 

 {M. C.).— 1, Lifitera ovata ; 2, No specimen received; 3, Ophrys apifera. Bos 

 all to pieces. (Sonurscii.— 1, Saxifraga umbrosi; 2, Corydalis lutea; 3, Caly- 

 caathus floridus; 4, Veratrum vir^inicum. {W. H.J.— Poa trivialis. (C. B.). 

 — Deutzia crenata. (II. B.).— We cannot make out the Grass, the Bpik© 

 having fallen to pieces. Send ua a perfect specimen. 



POTJLTEY, BEE, AND PIGEOI OKRONIOLE. 



LES BASSES-COUES DE L'ANGLETEERB. 



PROLOGUE. 

 We shall not go ronud the world in any order, for we are 

 erratic in our movements, and rush from poultry-yard to poultry 

 show, up and down, all over the country, just as we have the 

 iuclination or the opportunity. The number of our chapters 

 will consequently he uncertain, aud the date of the epilogue 

 promises to be a long way heuce. The regularity of the num- 

 bers, too, must depend upon circumstances over which we have 

 no control. Having thus much spoken for prologue we com- 

 mence— _ „ 

 Chaptee 1.— WAEMINSTEE. 



Warminster? Why ever Warminster? Peace-minster we 

 should have said, for everything with which we are here con- 

 cerned seems to enjoy the utmost peace. Certainly there may 

 be troubles ecclesiastical, but our Journal does not go in for 

 that kind of warfare, and the Malayp, the Polands, the Pigeons, 

 the roses, "Angelina" and all, seemed in perfect and happy 

 peace. "Ihe Plovers," did some one say? Well, they found 

 the peace too much for them, and betook themselves, we 

 believe, to far-oS golden climes, and idiots we call them for doing 

 so, leaving that pretty rose garden with such aristocratic com- 

 panions as the Malays must have been. But we must begin at 

 the beginning. 



When we reached the station we found Mr. Hmton waiting 

 for us, for of course we came to Warminster to see him, and we 

 soon find ourselves in his house. We had been there before, 

 aud now on this our second visit everyone seemed like an old 

 friend. Directly we arrived we were met by two of Mr. Hinton's 

 youngest daughters, little girls of five and sis, such merry joyful 

 little pets who really seemed glad to see one again. They came 

 bouncing in doll iu arms, with Angelina between them (Angelina, 

 is the black cat you kuow), and to see the interest they took in 

 the Pigeons and other live stock around made one feel and wish 

 very strongly that all children might have opportunities of learn- 

 ing to love our interesting dumb animals. We saw the cups and 

 the champion trophies of many a good show, and we saw on the 

 centre table iu the dining room the Oxford piece of plate. It 

 was a small epergne of engraved glass and silver, and was full 

 of the choicest roses, and on the table close by we saw our Journal. 

 Everj thing ou the premises betokened the same love for flowers 



The days are long now, and the birds go to bed late, so Mr. 



