470 
THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CRON aeli. 
[OCTOBER 10, 1874, a 
capabilities. Stephanotis Pannen 
touched with the knife at this season, 
ma ch injured. Wit » this 
system for insuring bloom is to leav 
through the winter, = unless it 
form a t 
should not be 
tha: 
oof, after wiii if too large, to cut it well in, 
and afterwards encourage fresh growth for the ensuing 
year. 
of Spates Res pe a few plants should now be 
placed i 
bet oy erin, g 
of 55° wil be enough kept t 
drawn both in leaf and 
have not nearly so good ana 
ri conservato: 
at, be kept near 
plies of air, 
or roomy pit especi: 
rt 
winter-flowering stuff has to bel ‘brought out in the -= 
A night temperature 
they become 
oo warm 
flower, from which cause they 
ce, and do not so 
ry, or elsewhere, 
akpi is kept up ; to secure e this 
esirable dwarf condition, they should also, whilst in 
oderate su 
eae 
CUCSSAI 
e compla 
natural i inability m ea if treated 
property. A few 
now be put in ; it isalwa 
go blind, a 
will be the rae AR bo toe 
Ariese ‘flow 
aa 
end of the house, an 
will just keep the leaves poih i 
is continued thro 
_Sorrwoone Caine OUSE 
P, ms of the show varieties 
yet shaker out and iter. 
n pots 
so as to ad their 
and pow as L posibile 3 only g 
to keep the soil 
come ed in 
EER Ere ren 
e 
in the voller jas require 
ie ` it pey 
bottom 
y; the 
light = on 
a ttom, mpose rs) 
will hold enon moisture to keep 
te wh they 
a rats 
a magnifica is a ni that requires 
it 
in, and 
we 
he arii petied. Plants in their winter 
h should be 
a little eee fon if ons 
matt 
the 
7 
, moistu 
eakly and 
thing but Caledlated to 
welling one where, at the season 
equired, the temperature is low 
a wa 
ts of Lily ie the Valley should 
the 
crop of leaves 
m- head? wi ith 
e larger 
h the remainder io the season this 
severed from the lant o TB Baines, South- 
— Any 
that “have not 
should at once 
a size smaller 
putting them 
mic 
e ae 
all 
must by all means 
where there 
ak Sebi = eo tatiana blocs nt 
alwa 
ane y 
Hiner be Kept fari Ae rit a 
= 
sake ich 
the Maito 
eei humid, Zzřes. Pais Single varieties 
of these plants, cultivated po are mostly 
of easy ced ar yet, pric ack is " the case, they 
are much papasi = meag o i grown than 
otherwise ; n Lili peciosum, 
which a proverbially eee i in a growth a atid flower 
seldom the condition wh ich it can with 
ordinary ae be brought to. These plants will p pro- 
e from fifteen to twenty-four flowers on a strong 
me À yet they are more eemeney ai il less than 
half the number. :The principal ca often 
e in poe cases = a 
time. ere 
is 
ed F 
plants that have a greater objection to Dek fects 
ing interfer hen active, than the whole 
stems die down, a considera e portion of their roots 
nually die, those remaining alive being at the same 
time preg “ape is re. rece a —— be 
pott pr top re- 
mo ah taal 5 ‘bulbs “that = gue 
up stem gr and above 
prin flowering bulbs, sed potting them several 
together in small pots. If they are ae mov 
they crowd the plants too much, and the unle ss 
e 
flower-ste n; throws up, 
ee splitting it in tw re g, remove 
ch of the old soil as pa without disturbing the 
mass of bulbs, which will adhere her in a ball 
These should be replaced in their p ith new soi 
hen the pots be oo crow proportion to 
their size, turn them out, and simply divide the mass 
vito inipmsiieg them individually more than can 
be avoided, 15-inc 
bulbs ‘wel. 
both and 
when i ia fal ll grow 
which should consist of good yellow loam, with a 
one-tenth of s added. Lilies r not like the soil 
made too li ht rt e of si sand ast 
ung may al e , but this should have been 
previously well ed, so as to destroy worm 
These, like other plants, never do so 1l 
if the soil is infested with them. Place 
roots, without which ed is impossible to secure a 
healthy head of flow: 
fine 
FRUIT HOUSES, 
ll young growing plants ne ak are to be 
subjected to ordinary treatment should now b 
ran as to obtain eos Talles oya attains from 
As mata eans a in 
pay particular attention to 
ering at the roots, = t places where Pine- 
apples are cultivated part of the stock is plu 
in fermenting beds 5 such materials naturally 
e e. roots 
mportant opera- 
tion, watering, especially with reference to pot culti- 
wy 3 bu safe under an ms can be 
b ing a weekly i inspection, and whenever 
y 
r plant Eas water, supplyin 
e same temperature as that of th If former 
advice pn iting pla: 
out, these will now be altogether in a suitable 
for the purpose, where proper treatm 
plied. its are ntly h ough 
midwinter and the spring months of Pine-apples cut- 
7 black at the centre; this undoub y is owing to 
n insufficient supply of heat much moisture 
at the roots. As this fect does not usually occur 
in a fruits which ripen under a 
hig sekar aa Ae temperature, = fully indicates 
both at the roots and the surface os pe ed ee om 
tinue 70° as the minimum here at night, with 5° monéin 
temperate te TER "artificially i in the day-time, and 
ranging from 83° t —otherwise shut up the house 
=g. —_ apply the means to produce a g 
mospheric condition in the house by spitting E 
when the surfaces of the pathwa ways are become dry, 
= 
with an occasional syringing over the plants on fine 
sunny afternoons ; keep the bott pere cgay at 85° 
90°, G. T. Miles, Wycombe Abb 
AND NECTARINES.—In thi 
e the trees wi 
the trees are prun 
If the borders are found to 
sory dressing o 
; but some leaf-mould in the sil 
as the beginning of the mischief in my case. 
Tillery, Welbeck. 
VINES.—Late houses ke were aa 
in the spring by the of fire-heat will n 
mu 
Former oat raj been follo 
house will hay 
ready for laying on the 
before fire-heat is Sopit = the — and a sup 
ern—where the common Bracken is plentifu 
tem mit w shutting off the 
heat and opening aA pse e by night. W. es 
man, E 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Continue to clear hausted er? s0 ash 
ging 
P3 
anbi 
g 
oO 
O 
clean and white 
Cabbage should now 
q "The lantin t of Lettuce to S 4 
sera hep be snr red: ove best and batdes | 
Bath Cos (blac a 
— erm geee a Hardy 
of the 
"qp0 wine “and “flavour. vi 
fidin Coke -= 
The latter 
very early, 
Madresfeta, 
