| Decemzsr 21, 1896.) 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
739 
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` the growth of mildew. On the other hand, should the 
nature of the weather be euch as to necessitate severe 
firing to maintain the minimum temperature given 
above, a slight distribution of moisture in the house 
in the morning and afternoon, will be neces- 
sary to counteract the somewhat parching influenca 
of the эй -heated pipes, and to avoid infesting the 
lants with red-spide 
When water 4 the roots is needed, it should have 
atemperature of about 80°, and afforded in accordance 
with the requirements of each plant, bearing in mind 
that too much at one time cannot well make up for 
a deficiency at another, hence the necessity of know- 
ing whentto apply and when to withhold water at 
the roots, а knowledge only acquired by experience, 
It P Cucumber- houses are heated by their own 
r, the fires should be banked ЕР by 830 ог 
9 o'clock on bright mornings, by which time sun 
will have rendered much artificial hei unnecessary. 
This should be done on bright mornings, even though 
the thermometer does not register the minimum 
degree of heat referred to above, for the obvious 
reason that if the ‘fires had been pushed on till a 
mid-day temperature be attained, the sun, meanwhile, 
as well as the fire-heat, would bave increased in 
' — force, ther ilati 
necessary, * letting out the very thing (heat) 
upon which labour and fuel have been wasted in 
getting up in the house, and didit cold. 
The fires should, be re-started in the afternoon, as 
soon as the sun goes off the house, so that by the 
time the sun-heat has fallen to 65°, the heat from 
the hot-water pipes will suffice to maintain the 
proper degree of warmth during the night. In 
the event of severe frost, a night temperature of 
60° will be ample for the time being, but 65° should 
be the normal degree, To obtain and keep up even 
— | „ — 
size, the supply of hot - water piping must be liberal, 
1 and the fuel and stoking good. And with a view 
| to ascertain the degree of heat in the Cucumber- 
з house without & letting i in a volume of cold air кыл. 
P ever the door is : 
_ mometer should be arot in auch а Неа їп the 
house as to enable the degree of heat to be read by 
the gardener from without, with the assistance of 
his bull’s-eye lantern at night.* The above remarks 
are applicable to all forcing-houses, 
Should green or black aphis atte ck the plants, 
fumigate with one of Luff's fumigators a couple of 
. evenings in succession when the weather is mild and 
It is supported 
by three legs sufficiently long to allow of the 
necessary current of air for slow combustion. Should 
mildew appear, dust the leaves affected with it with 
flowers-of-sulpbur when damp, and keep a drier 
atmosphere. The eva — 7 troughs on the flow- 
_ Pipes should be filled with liquid ur 
he 
Painted wich apa эйр when the plants and 
are dry in the evening, letting the tempera- 
ture run up to iie t 83°, so as to fill the house with 
the sulphurous fume thrown off by the highly-heated 
Pipes, airing the house more freely the two following 
vd or the plants may be sponged over (both sides 
of the individual leaves) with soft-a soapy water. 
Crop the plant rather light than heavy, cutting the 
as soon as they have attained to proper s/z», and 
1 them on their ends in saucers — а 
1 Water in a fairly warm room (55° to 60). 
— of em for а crop has been 
e though consolidated 
2 once between this date and February, the 
^ — 1 been placed in the house twenty-four 
B, W. Ward, ing used, to become alightly warmed. 
FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 
MARGUERITE CARNATIONS. 
May I be all 
о words used in the above quotation 
asa “all”? Dealing with the last 
one first, may I venture to ask if yellow and orange 
с ёе Р sented? So far, I have not 
observed flowers of these tintr, nor, indeed, anything 
like so many beautiful shades of colour as may 
found in a bed of seedlings of our own old- fashioned 
border Carnations. 
far from perfect—but this does not detract from 
such merits аз they possess; but these merits are 
very much obscured when the seed 
est 
nations are in full beauty. In summer tte blooms 
of сө hag eio are extremely fugaciour, and the 
flowers not being very double, pollen is a plentifa’, and 
tertilisation takes place as soon as the blocms oper, 
sael 
САР= 
за 121.—COCOS AUSTRALIS. (SEE Р. 737) 
A, B, fru orange - yellow; С, vertical — 
showing p ўар: — and seed, with a 
D 
causing them to fade the next day. Of course, if 
seed saving is the main o!j с“, that is attained. 
Tae best time to sow Marguerite Carnation seed ie, 
I consider, the last week in March or the firat in 
April, and the plants if well managed will produce 
of bloom in October, November, and 
December. I have hundreds of the plants which 
have afforded cut blooms since early in the month 
of October, and the plants look as if they would 
continue in bloom till March or April. I recom- 
mend them for the reason that their flowers are the 
very opposite of what the florist terms perfect, being 
mostly fringed. То compare with these, there ar 
seedlings raised at the same time of winter-flowering 
varieties, viz, Uriah Pike (a good seeder), Ме. 
Carle, Miss Јо», and others of that type 
Азу a matter of taste 
or panr, 
ged in bottom-heat of 75°, and in 
May, or early in the following month, they ma y be 
planted in large 607, and into 32's about the end of 
Jaly or early in August. The plants are kept ou'- 
of- Send all the time, and are freely syringed and 
t r of plants will not show flow de, 
sa” the gin pried ty en late "e vit eontinns 
о flower unti n flower, the 
дема Aa be а" a ya air, per a tempera- 
ture of about 50? at nigh’, the ventilators bein: 
[A fairly rich sandy loam suits кт Carnation at all 
seasons; and when making its growtb, an occasional 
pinch of salt strewn on the soil Sil aid them pe 
Never let the plants get drawn by any of the ш 
always stand the pota on coal-asher, orin some other 
way endeavour to keep worms out of the pote. Ер | 
FORESTRY, 
PRICES OF BRITISH-GROWN TIMBER. 
can be little doubt from carefully - compiled 
of th 
boat-building, and to other minor causes which need 
ever since the memorable “ Tay-bridg 
placed on the market, har, per 
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now 
ing from 4d. he large 
acreage of this Pine as well as Sprace in the middle 
„acts too asa erful 
means of keeping the pr ice of the timher at 
the lowest possible ebb, aided of 
has been laid low by 
of the past few dog tire ing 
demand, and but little grown 
speaki 
price, and from 1s. to 1 
the Larch is not planteó, especially in Ireland, 
where the fell disease is [at present] quite unknowr, 
and where thousands of acres of waste land, pecu- 
1 1nited for its culture, could be profitably 
ised in wth of the tree, Good Oak timber 
— fetches readily enough from ls. 3d. to 2s, per 
foot, and the demand is brisk; though, in years 
gone br, when the wood alls of old England 
, the price was ert tree times 
what it is at present for the best trees. The cultiva- 
, pays well enough at present, far 
the 
Larcb, and it has never, 
s the market. Sycamore, if large and 
to locality trom 3a 64. down to ls 64. aes It 
3 of rapid growth, wonderfully free from 
e, and by no means exacting as to the quality 
2 qus in which it is planted. Even . 
field specimens out surprisingly good 
tained 90 feet, and fetched 2s, 6d, per foot. 
