January 17, 183^- ] 



JOURNAL OP HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



outside before a fiosty night will be a good preservative 

 before covering. 



It is now very many years since we listened, delighted 

 and instructed, to some of Mr. Keane's literary and scientific 

 essays at the West London Gardeners' Association for 

 Mutual Improvement. We wish he would write just such 

 an essay on the principles of ice-preserving as he would 

 have done then, with just the view before him of such a 

 number of upturned faces, with ears taking in every word, 

 and reasoning and criticising going on quietly until he had 

 uttered the last word. The temperature of the ice is to us 

 far from a settled question. The boUing water used for 

 each foot of ice, see page 29, must raise its temperature. 

 Suppose that ice must absorb some 140° to become fluid, is 

 it not feasible to suppose that the boiling water would help 

 to promote that fi-uidity ? There is a little doubt about the 

 whole question, so much so that we have for years done 

 little or nothing in an artificial way to the ice. There might 

 be a difficulty, too, in getting the boiling water, and it would 

 be easy to err as to the proper quantity. Would our friend 

 give us more insight into this matter ? — ^K. F. 



Cotton'. — In these days of cotton famine, as there are 

 many persons who have hothouses who would like to rear 

 plants for the sake of curiosity, I may state that I have 

 some samples of Sea Island and New Orleans Cotton seed 

 by me, and sometimes I have quite a number of sorts, which 

 I test for the Cotton Supply Association of Manchester. I 

 shall be happy to send a few to any one on receipt of a 

 stamped and directed envelope. — John Hagtte, 36, Mount 

 Street, Ashtcn-xinder-Lyne. 



TEADE CATALOGTTE EECEIYED. 



W. Cutbush & Son, Highgate, London. — Catalogue of Select 

 Vegetable, Flomer, and Farm Seeds. 



C. E. Brydges, St. James's Square, Cheltenham.— S^riiij; 

 Catalogue of Kitchen Garden, Farm,, and Flower Seeds. 



E. H. Poynter, County Seed Establishment, Taunton. — 

 Retail List of English and Foreign Seeds. 



COYENT GAEDEX 3IAEKET.— Janttabt 14. 



The supply, both of out and in-door produce, is, for the season, Trell kept 

 up. Grapes are unus-Jally plentiful; Pines just sufficient to meet the 

 demind; g-ood dessert Pears veiy scarce ; Oranses and Lemons good and 

 abundant Forced vesetables con?i!-t of the same article^ as last week, and 

 the Lettuce fro " the continent is lender and good. Unless very severe 

 ■weather occur, there seems little likelihood of there being much change 

 in quotations for soaie weeks. 













FKtriT. 













Apples JsieTe 



Apncots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Clestnuts bnsh. 



Cnrrants, Red..,^ sieve 



Black do. 



Fies doz. 



FUbert3 100 lbs. 



Cobs do. 



Gooseberries ...J sieve 

 Grapes, Hamburghs lb 



Muscats 



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Peaches 



Pears (kitchen 



dessert.... 



Pine .Apples... 



Plums .. . 



doz. 



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Asparagus bundle 



Beans Broad J sieve 



Kidney 100 



Beet, Red doz. 



Broccoli handle 



BmsselsSprouts ^ sieve 



Cabbage ~ doz. 



Capsicums 100 









Mushrooms ... 

 Mnstd. & Cress 



Onions ,- 



picklinsr .. 

 Parsley ...doz. 



Parsnips 



Peas ., 



...pottle 

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Carrots 



Cauliflower .... 



Celery 



Cucumbers .... 



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Potatoes 



Radishes doz. 

 Rhubarb 



..bushel 

 bunches 

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Sea-kale basket 



Spinach y sieve 



Tomatoes ^ sieve 



Turnips bunch 



VegetableMarrows doz. 





Fennel 



Garlic and Shal 

 Herbs 



, bunch 

 lots, lb. 

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Horseradish .. 







TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*^* We request tfhat no one will write privately to the de- 

 partmental writers of the " Journal of Horticulture, 

 Cottage Gardener, and Country G-entleman." By so 

 doing they are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and 

 expense. All communications should therefore be ad- 

 dressed solely to The Editors of the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture, Scc.y 171, Fleet Street, London, B.C. 



We also request that correspondents will not mis up on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those 

 on Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get them 

 answered promptly and conveniently, but write them 

 on separate communications. Also never to send more 

 than two or three questions at once. 



N.B. — Many questions must remain unanswered until nest 

 week. 



CccDMBEHs FOR EXHIBITION ( W. SrmcTi) — Thcre are no varieties superior 

 to those you mention. . 



Garden Pots (.-1 Constant Suhscriher).— Y ax the smaller sizes the price 

 is about 2s. a-cast ; very large po'.s are dearer. 



Flowers Required. — Can any of your readers tell me ■where to procure 

 some healthy plants of the double blush, double flesh, and double copper- 

 coloured varieties of Primula acaulis, or the double white Hepatica ?— Rev. 

 H. H. C, Rectory, Drayton Banchory, Tring. [Any one able to supply 

 our corre?pondeut should direct to him. We cannot insert answers.] 



WcLFKNiA {J. G.). — " What is the plant mentioned in the following extract 

 from Gilbert and Churchill's ' The Dolomite Mountains ' I "— " Churchill gave 

 an account of his huntinc: among the mountains for WuUenia. a rare and 

 graceful plant, something like a Foxglove, about 18 inches high, provided 

 with a ro-ette of large scalloped leaves, of a Lettuce-like form, and a stem 

 all but bare of leaves, crowned with a spike of deep purple-blue flowers. 

 It grows here in vast masses, or. the mountain side, 6001) feet above the 

 level of the cea, and when sunlight falls upon it its glowiog tiLt is visible at 

 a great distance." It is "Wulfenia carinibiaca. There is a drawing of ifc 

 in Jacquin's "Icones Plantarum Rariorum." Willdenow says it is found 

 in rich soil on the hiphe:jt of the Carinthian Alps. Flowers in July. Root 

 creeping and perennial. Leaves in a tuft, all radical, obovate, 4 inches 

 long, smooth, shining, and creuate. Flowers large, h,andsome, in, a dense 

 cluster, on a slightly scaly stem. 



Gtu^zing without Pdttt— Removing Old Puttt— Tentil-^ting an 

 Orch.ard-house {Live and Learn). — We have no experience in glazing 

 without putty. Perhaps some of our correspondents will favour us with 

 the most approved method of doing this, and also whether it will stand 

 wind and wet. Old putty may be softened by applying to it rags dipped in 

 a saturated solution of caustic potash, leaving them on for twelve hours, or 

 by rubbing a hot iron along ths putty. In ventilating a wall covered with 

 gliss we prefer having the ventilators horizontally along the back throughout 

 the entire length, and this especially when there are Vines or Peaches on 

 the back wall. In addition to this it is as well to have ventilating openings 

 in front, immediately below the roof. We like these be^ter than vertical 

 openings the full length of the rafter at 6 feet or any other distance apart, 

 they being very well for moveable houses, but not desirable for fixed 

 structures. 



Weeds on Gravel Walk {A. B.). — If yon spread salt on the walk in 

 dry weather, so as to cover it about one-eighth of an inch thick, that will 

 destroy most of the gras?. Th s, repeated from time to time, as the weeds 

 present themselves, is, we fear, your only effectual reuiedy. as you do not 

 like the walk to be frequently broken up. Taking off 3 inches of the 

 gravel, and placing a layer of gas lime an inch thick, relaying the gravel 

 over it, and rolling fii-m, would most certainly prevent weeds growing for 

 some time, but th.e smell, we think, would be unendurable. 



Climbers foe, Verandah (An Old Subscriber). — We do not know of a 

 hardy variegated climber except Lonicera brachypoda aureo- reticulata, a 

 variety of the Sweet Jasmine (Jasminum officinale foliis aureis), not yet 

 sent out; and a variety of Vine (Vitis vinifera variegata). Of evergreen 

 climbers there are few suitable for the purpose. The following would 

 answer : — Ceanothus azureus and its variety pallidns, C. dentatus. rigidus, 

 and floribundus; Berberis Darwinii, Cotoneaster Simraonsii and buxifolia. 

 Arbutus procera and Menziesii, Escalloniaglandulosa and macrantha, Garrya 

 macrophylla and elliptica, Eugenia Ugni, Photinia serrulata, Liguatrum 

 japonicam. Magnolia grandiflora, the ExmDuth variety, and floribunda; 

 and Crataegus pyracantha leucocarpus, and crenulatus. Unless yours is a 

 warm locality the foUowingj in addition to the two varieties of Pyracantha, 

 though not evergreen climbers, are, nevertheless, fine flowering climbers, and 

 would answer much better: — Jasminum nudiflornm, Solanum jasminoides, 

 Passidora ccerulea, Glycine sin?nsis and its variety alba, Forsythia suspensa, 

 Jasminum chrysanthum, officinale grandiflorum ; Caprifolium Shepherdi, 

 odoratissimum, sempervirens, Brownii, Toungii, and floribundum ; Bignonia 

 radicans, Clem-itis lanuginosa, florida var. Sieboidi, aznrea and its 

 variety odorata ; Shillingii, and venosa; Aristolochia sipho, and Eccremo- 

 c-trpus scaber. Manetti stocks are the stocks on which Roses are often 

 budded, being rooted suckers or cuttings of the Manetti Rose, a strong free- 

 growing and rootiHg variety. 



Cheilakthes fragrans or oroRA {Filix-mas). — This is very difBcult to 

 cultivate. It is from the south of Europe, and requires an airy yet moist 

 greenhouse temperature. Cheilantbes generally like a moist but not 

 stagnant utmosphere, and are very impatient of moisture on the fronds; 

 syringing should, therefore, be avoided. We found it did best in a well- 

 drained pot, in a compost of pieces of sandstone, the size of a Walnut, one 

 half and the other halt turfy peat and loam in equal quantities, with a free 

 admixture of silver sand. It was kept well watered at the root, and in a 

 light but partially shaded greenhouse fernery, havmg a moiat but airy 

 atmosphere, and it grew fairly. A hot, close, or stagnant atmosphere, and 

 very wet and dark situation, are most injurious to it. 



Pears poa Pyramids iTj/ro). —Doyenne d'Et^, Baronne de Mello, and 

 Urbaniste, saoceed in that form. The other two we never knew to be so 

 trained. 



