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Btage doea very well in a lower temperature than is usually 

 thought necessary to be maiutained in the fruiting house; for 

 instance, in our fruiting house there is also a very heavy crop of 

 Muscat Grapes ripe, and to keep them iu good condition it is 

 necessary to air freely night and day. So far the temperature 

 does not fall below GU' at night, but as the nights become colder 

 55° will be the minimum. Lower than this it is not desirable to 

 go, and with a little management the Pines ripen well and are 

 of excellent flavour. Succession houses require the temperature 

 to be regulated by the state of the plants. One of our houses 

 containing a number of Queens that have made their growth is 

 now kept at a minimum of GO^, and will fall to 55' or even to 50'. 

 As the nights are colder plenty of air is admitted by day, and a 

 drier atmosphere maintained than when the plants were in full 

 growth. This treatment will rest the Pines, and they will be in 

 good condition to start for fruit at Christmas. 



Our suckers were potted later this year, as it is intended to 

 pot them again in the spring and to grow them on for fruiting 

 in 187G. For such a purpose it is quite early enough to pot the 

 suckers about the first week iu September, further north a week 

 earlier might be as well. If it is intended that suckers of this 

 year should fruit next year, then they ought to be taken off in 

 June or early in July; indeed, some of the best Queens we ever 

 saw were ripened in Jane from suckers of the previous June. 

 There is no difficulty in doing this. The suckers are potted in 

 6 and 7-inch pots, and as soon as the pots are filled with roots 

 the plants are repotted into 10 and 11-inch pots, and by the first 

 week in October these will be quite filled with roots, and the 

 plants after a little rest may be started about January the 1st. 

 It will be necessary to maintain a night temperature of 70' with 

 a good rise by day ; indeed with sun heat we have had the 

 thermometer to 100 ' without any injury resulting from it. 



PLANT STOVE AND ORCHID UOUSE. 



One plant of easy culture when its requirements are known is 

 Disa grandiflora. It has flowered two years in succession in a 

 small span-roofed house here, and the ventilators have been 

 fully open night and day all the time. The plant is repotted 

 annually about this time; the pots are filled half full of drain- 

 age, aud over this some fresh sphagnum moss is placed. The 

 compost is turfy peat aud fresh sphagnum ohopped-up ; the 

 sphagnum is also encouraged to grow on the surface of the ' 

 compost, which it will do if the plant is syringed twice daily, i 

 Under this treatment and a moist atmosphere the plant will 

 succeed well. The night temperature iu winter should be about 

 45". In summer, when in full growth, shade from the sun. If 

 the house is facing north so much the better for the plants. The 

 large brilliant crimson flowers that open iu July are very 

 striking iu appearance. Another very fine Orchid for green- 

 house culture is Cypripediiun spectnhilc. It requires the same 

 treatment as the other as regards soil, temperature, potting, &c. 

 The flowers are white tinged with pale rose; others are tinged 

 with a deeper rose or crimson. In the stove the Calauthes are 

 rapidly approaching the flowering stage, and will be very valu- 

 able to us, as flowers are scarce at present. Bougai/ivillea 

 spoctahiUs, with its beautiful mauve-coloured bracts, should be 

 encouraged to flower in the autumn. It will flower in May or 

 June, and after being rested a little will start again. It is now 

 in flower with us. It is quite as well to let the stove plants have 

 as much sun as possible now. Orchids, except Phahenopsis and 

 some of the Cypripediums, with a fiw other species, are much 

 benefited by the sun at this time. Dendrobiums and Cattleyas 

 will flower much and more freely when the psoudo-bulbs are 

 ripened under exposure to the sun. Any young plants of such 

 subjects as Dipladenias, Ixoras, or, in fact, any hardwooded 

 stove plants, should be encouraged to grow, and, if necessary, 

 they should be repotted. The plants will yet have time to be- 

 come established in the pots before the dark days of midwinter. 

 An over-moist atmosphere is injurious at this season. 



FLOWEB GABDEN, 



The Auriculas have been removed from their quarters under 

 the north wall to a southern aspect. We have potted Carnations 

 and Picntees, two plants in a pot, the strongest in iH's aud the 

 rest in GO sized pots. The Pinks will be planted out as soon as 

 the ground is ready for them. As yet no other bedding-out 

 plants have been propagated exc3pt zonal Pelargoniums and 

 Centaureas; all others will be put-in in the course of a week. 

 Calceolarias being left to the last. — J. Douglas. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 

 Secretakies will oblige ns by informing us of the dates on 

 which exhibitions are to be held. 



Jersey. — Autumn October 13tb, Chrysanthemums November 10th. Mojor 



Howell, Spring Grove, St. Lawrence, Hon. Sec. 

 LouoHBoKOUGH.— November 15th and 16th. Mr. W. Pallett, 55, Baxtergate, 

 See. 



TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Messrs. Hooper & Co., Covent Garden, London. — Catalogue 

 of Bu'bs, Fruits, a-id Garden Requisites, 



Alfred Legerton, 5, Aldgate, London. — WhoUsale Catalogue 

 of Dutch and other Flower Hoots. 



Joseph Schwartz, Rue de Repos, 43, a la Gaillotjere, Lyon 

 {]lhoae).'^Catalogue of Roses, 



John Jeffries it Sous, Cirencester. — Select List of Dutch 

 Flower Roots. 



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Peab Cracked (J. Hamillon). — This is causeil either by exposure to cut- 

 ting oast wiQd3 when tho fruit ii in its earliest Hta':^es of Rvowth and the 

 skin is very tender, or else there is fungoid growth on the fruit ; in the latter 

 case the leaves would be also attacked. Sulphur is the only remedy we know 

 for attacks of this nature. It would have to be applied early in the seaaoo 

 to do any good. We would mis 1 lb. of sulphur and 3 ozs. of soft soap in a 

 gallon of rain water, and apply it to the trees with a syringe. We do nofc 

 say this will effect a cure, but it i.s worth a trial. 



Celery Leaves Grub-eaten (T.J. B.). — The grubi are the offspring of 

 the Celery Fly, Tephritis onopordinis. Mr. Westwood suggested that to 

 prevent the grubs the parents might be caught by strings smeared with 

 bird-lime stretched over the Celery rows. Pick off the affected leaves and 

 destroy them ; to do so would not be very time-consuming. 



Dressing for Vine Border {Q. Q ).— Remove the top soil down to the 

 roots, but without injuring them, and replace with sound turfy loam mixed 

 with inch bones at the rate of 2 bushels of bones to a cartload of soil, and sur- 

 face the border with a covering of good manure. Do it at once. 



Budded Roses iltUm). — Remove the ties at once. We should not stop 

 the shoots which have pushed, but should let them grow, and cut them close 

 in at the winter's pruning ; that will a' so be the proper time fco shorten the 

 Briar stems back to the buds. 



Drying Cockscombs (ff. Q.). — There is no process that we know only to 

 hang them up iu a dry warm room, but the combs will not retain their colour 

 as they are too fleshy to dry well. 



JIvatt's Seedling Strawberry {Iiifm).^li is a Sue laC^ fcicJ, and 

 usually very prolific, doing well in light soils where British (^leen does, ami 

 is usually known as " Filbert Pine." 



Cuttings of Calceolarias [Drake). — By reducing the flowering parts you 

 will further the formation of shoots from the base of the plants, and these 

 or any shoots not showing flower are eligible for cuttings. They should be 

 put in before being frosted from the middle to the end of October. 



Separating Potato Seed from tub Pulp [Idaii). — Reduce the " apple 

 or crab " to a pulp, aud this being washed in water the seeds will sink to the 

 bottom ; the pulp will swim or mingle with the water, and may be poured off. 

 ConliDUe the washing until tho seed is thoroughly cleansed, and dry it before • 

 storing away in paper. 



Sowing Apple and Pear Pips [Id.:m). — They may be sowu now. but are* 

 better kept in a rather moist place thinly spread until February or March, or 

 they may be kept in shallow boxes in dry sand in a cool place. They shrivel! 

 because the seeds are not well ripened, and by being kept in too dry a place. 



Thinning Peach Shoots [A. B. C). — You will have sufhcient young wood! 

 if the shoots are 6 to 8 inches apart, but we should limit the thinning to the' 

 old bare shoots or long bare branches, aid to those which have fruited thie* 

 season. If the shoots 18 inches to 2 feet long have triple buds at abons- 

 14 inches length yon mty shorten them to those, and safely, as in such a^ 

 length there cannot fail to be wood buds, as well as at their extremities. lb 

 will not injure them for future fruiting, but be conducive thereto by admitting 

 light and air to the parts left, thereby securing their more thoroug;h ripflning 

 of the wood. 



Eucalyptus— Wintering Caladiums [A. B.). — We cannot tell what th6> 

 Eucalyptus may he without some description. There are about fifty species. 

 The Caladium roots should he wintered in the pots aul bo kept without 

 water, but the pots placed on a moist bottom from which they will derive 

 sufficient moisture to keep the roots from shrivelling, and the temperature 

 in which they are kept should he that of a atove^not less than 55-. 



Tuberose Growing Tall (S(. E.).— They are tall because kept at a great 

 distance from tho glass and therefore are drawn, but undorany circumstances ■ 

 they grow tall. It appears you can grow and flower them, and yet you ask us 

 to give theh treatment. The "greenhouse" Daphne is treated of in the 

 " Greenhouse Manual." You cannot have a more suitable Vine than the • 

 Black Hambui-gh. 



Pink or Rose-coloured Roses [Midland ilffifel.— Baronne de Rothschild,. 

 Baronne Prevost, Charles Rouillard, Edward Morren, Louise Peyronny,. 

 Duchess of Edinburgh, Oomtosse de Chabnllant, and La France. 



Fruit Trees fob Garden (.Y. .V. .V.).— We presume you want pyramids' 

 or bushes. Plami—D'^^^cyt : Golden Gage, Green Gage, and Tiaasparent 

 Gage. Kitchen Phum : Prince Euglebert, Victoria, and Yellow Magnum* 

 Bjnum. StraK-berri';i : La Grosse Sucr-,-e, Sir Joseph Paxton, President 

 Lucas, Dr. Hogg, and Helena Gloede. Pears : Jargonelle, Williams's Bon- 

 ChrL-tien, Beurrt- d'Amanlis, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Beurro Hardy, Marie 

 Louise, Thompson's, General Tudtlebcn, Beurrc Diel, Glou Morveau, Beurre 

 Bachelier, and Beurrc d'.Vremberg. They are named in the order of ripen- 

 ing, and not as to quality, for all are good. Cherries: Empress Eugenie, 

 May Duke, Bigarreau, Biganeau Napoli^on, and Morello. Damsons : CluBtet' 



