February 7, 1865. ] 



JOTJKNAL OF HOKTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEE. 



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not a pane would remain fixed. Jolin wisbed his rheumatiz 

 pains 'as unattached to him, as mine seemed likely to be 

 without putty to my greenhouse. Now, the bright thought 

 Ulumes our faces, it's as good as done. At it instanter, 

 knock in a couple of tacks to keep up the first pane, and a 

 little tin or lead hook for each succeeding one. Now, we go 

 a-head, covering so much space that, with full employment 

 at Id. a-foot for glazing, I saw, or thought I saw, clearly 

 how our Kelks and Cubitts had made such fortunes ; and as 

 to seed-selling, being summer time, I must confess I was 

 rather false to my old love, and thought glazing without 

 putty at Id. per foot was the right thing after all. 



Hark, what do I hear? "John, what are you doing?" 

 " Nuthun, zur ! " "What noise is that?" "Ony the glass 

 a-rattling ! " Tes, it was only the glass rattling, but that 

 glass-rattling was on the roof of my new house, and 1 

 then thought, that if it rattled like that in such a trifling 

 breeze, it would surely not only rattle but break with an 

 ordinary wind. What's to be done ? Why, of course, peg 

 each pane down! How? With some nice V-shaped bits of 

 tin. That's it ! Off to BiU Smith's the tinman, who cut 

 'em to a tee, and not very long about it, and charged but 

 a trifle for it too. Eight we were, at least we thought so, 

 so we inserted four of the tin wedges to each pane of glass 

 (12 by IS's), and that day we heard no more rattling of 

 glass. 



Thus far, so good, and oxu- glazing was dgain looking all 

 right, but being about teatime, and as John could go water- 

 ing, I thought a little cogitation on the subject would be 

 valuable, so I weighed the pros and corns, and fancied the 

 latter considerably the heavier, so I stopped the work to 

 try an experiment as to how far glazing without putty would 

 be watertight (supposing I had efl'ectually settled the "' wind- 

 tightness"), so 1 poured water on the roof from a watering- 

 pot with a moderately fine rose, about 4 feet above the glass, 

 and the result was the glazing would not act at all, the 

 water permeated under the edges of the glass and down the 

 inside of the rafters into the house in a continuous stream, 

 not in a drip. This was an experiment, and I must confess 

 not at all satisfactory. 



Glazing without pvitty was now at a considerable discount, 

 so I found John another job for a day or two while I finished 

 (to be sure it was done thoroughly), a small portion of the 

 work with some thick paint, which I well worked in by the 

 sides and on the rafters, and on the glass the width of the 

 rebate, and which answered splendidly for the first or lowest 

 pane of glass, but on the upper panes where each rested on 

 the other it gradually soaked under each and down the under 

 pane in a most provoking stj'le, and no idea would suggest 

 itself this time as a remedy, except to put on dry paint ! and 

 I concluded glazing without putty, except as aforesaid, was 

 a failure for greenhouses. 



Yet I did not give up, but had some thin putty made and 

 placed it on the rebate of the rafters as in the first process 

 of ordinary glazing, placed the glass on this, which with 

 trifling pressure admirably filled up all the little spaces and 

 did not run down the glass, pegged the glass down, used 

 the little hooks and nails to keep each pane in its place as 

 before, and laid on one thick coat of paint well worked into 

 the rebate, and on to the glass about a quarter of an inch on 

 each side. In a fev.' days when a little " set," I took off the 

 putty pressed out on the underside and gave the rafters a 

 coat of paint well worked in up to the glass, and so far all 

 was as perfect in every sense as glazing could possibly be, 

 and was this summer perfectly air and watertight; but I 

 woxdd recommend an annual coat of paint, if possible, to 

 such glazing, as the paint is apt to peel off the glass and 

 look ragn-ed and shabby. All who saw it considered it a 

 good mode of glazing, as I did for some time ,• but two years' 

 experience tells me that so far as I am concerned the old 

 mode of glazing with putty is better, for this reason — glazing 

 in the above mode must be done perfectly and in good 

 weather, and painted as quickly as possible after placing the 

 glass, consequently, the oil, whitelead, putty, &c., combine 

 as it were into a kind of cement, the action of the weather 

 still hardening it, so that I found it almost an impossibility 

 to take oiit broken panes, clean as they should be, to replace 

 with new ones without each time cutting away the wood- 

 work, not to mention sundry panes broken from, the extreme 

 difficulty of "hacking out." Such difficulty I have rarely 



found when they have been glazed with putty, as however 

 hard the top may be, it by excluding sun, and with the mois- 

 ture, &c., inside, keeps the putty under the glass, unless very 

 old and dry, in such a state as to be easily scraped from the 

 wood ; therefore, I am again all right with my old love, and 

 hope to avoid another putty trial, and that my experience 

 may be some guide to your correspondent. — E. H. Potnteb, 

 TaimtoH. 



TouE correspondent can glaze without putty provided he 

 gets glass made with the outside edges turned up — the 

 glass to be in the centre of the astragals. The glass may be 

 any length he chooses. Over the squares of the glass thus 

 met he must have sheet iron bent, with small holes in the 

 sheet iron to allow of small screws being fixed at regular 

 intervals along the astragals, then small nuts to screw 

 down the sheet iron as tight as he pleases. To keep the 

 glass from slipping he must use small zinc hooks hooked 

 both ways.— P. M. M. 



OBTAINING SUPEEIOE PEAS AND 

 CABBAGES. 

 Theee are few crops of more consequence than a good crop 

 of Peas in summer and autumn, and plenty of good sound 

 white Cabbage in winter and spring ; for next to Potatoes, 

 there are, in reality, no vegetables which are more general 

 favourites, a dish of Peas forming as agreeable an addition 

 to the table of the poor man as to that of the wealthy. 

 Like the Potato, Peas requii-e very little to make them 

 palatable, whilst undergoing the cooking process, so there 

 is no reason why the poor man should not enjoy them as 

 well as the rich. 



The season is now nearly at hand when something must 

 be done in the way of providing for another year. I believe 

 there are few that had anything to do with gardening last 

 year, 1864, but found it a very dry season, and all vegetation 

 suffered more or less, especially Peas. A few words as to 

 how I managed to have plenty may not be unacceptable. 



Having entered a new situation, I soon leai-ned that plenty 

 of Peas, early and late, would be called for, and being nearly 

 Christmas, I began to examine the soil of the garden, to see 

 if it had been trenched lately. To my disappointment I 

 found the subsoil as hard as stone, not having been dug 

 above 6 inches deep for many years. Now, common sense 

 told me at once that Peas would not produce a satisfactory 

 crop in such soil. What was to be done ? I had no time 

 for trenching, for other work was going on at the time, and 

 I wanted a few Peas sown at once. I out with a trench 

 IS inches wide and 2 feet deep, partly filled it with dung, 

 well mixed it, and sowed my Peas. I served two rows this 

 way, and two rows were sown afterwards, only digging the 

 ground. The consequence was, plenty of Peas, but only in. 

 the rows where the soil was trenched. 



The sorts sown were Daniel O'Rourke, in the rows trenched, 

 and DiUistone's Eai-ly in the other two rows. I gathered 

 from Daniel O'Eourke ten days earlier than from the DU- 

 listone's. The former variety being strong and healthy, 

 carried a good crop, while the plants of the latter were very 

 weak, and very few pods were taken from them. 



I followed this practice all the summer with other sorts, 

 as Prizetaker, Glory, Champion of England, Hairs's Dwarf 

 Mammoth, and Veitch's Perfection, with excellent results, 

 but only from the rows that were on the ground trenched, 

 mildew attacking the two rows on the ground not trenched, 

 some time before they were in bloom. I had abundance of 

 Peas all the summer and autumn, till the first week in No- 

 vember, when a slight frost came and cut my two last rows 

 when in full bloom. If I had had materials for covering 

 them, such as glass, no doubt I should have had good Peas 

 in December. 



I must not forget to say I mulched the rows with Mush- 

 room dung, and short grass, and gave them a good water- 

 ing twice a- week. 



I served my Scarlet Eunners the same way, and with the 

 same success. 



Before I put in my third sowing of Peas, the weather 

 being so hot and dry, led me to believe that Cauliflowers, 

 and early Broccoli, for winter use, would be scarce, also 



