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JOUENAL OF HOKTICULTTJRE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ February 21, 18G5. 



John Salter, Verstiilles Nursery, William Street, Ham- 

 mei-smith. — CaUiloriite of Chrysaniliemums, Bahlias, Paonies, 

 Phloxes, Yancijtited Plants, <5'c. 



E. G. Hendei-son k Son, Wellington Road, St. John's 

 Wood, London.— Ca(<iJogM(e of Flower, Vegetable, and Agricul- 

 htral Seeds. 



COVENT GARDEN MAEKET.-FEsnrAET IS. 



The supply of out- Joor produce is very short In consequence of the severe 

 weather. Pines continue sciircc ; holliouse Grapes ;\re more than sufficient 

 for the Jemand. The usual contlnfnl,-il supnlins are well kept up, ami 

 Include some very enoil CabbaRe Lettuce. Savoys, Brussels Sprouts, &c., 

 are not over-plenliful, and have advanced considerablv in price. Now Potn. 

 toes are bnogms from id. to Is. per pound ; of others there is still a eooii 

 supply. 



Apples ^ sieve 



.\pncot3 .'...doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Chestnuts bush. 



Currants, Red...^ ^ieve 



Black do. 



Pies lioz. 



Filberts 100 lbs. 



Cobs do. 



Gooseberries ..^ sieve 

 Grapes, Hamburghs lb 



Muscats 



Lemons loO 



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Mulberries .... punnet 



Neclarinea ilo:^. 



Orani,'L'9 100 



Peichen doz. 



Pears (kitchen). „buf*h. 



dessert doz. 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plums i sieve 



Pomejri-iinates each 



Quinces ^ sieve 



H'lipberries lb. 



VValuufc* bush. 



VEGETABLES. 



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Aspara^s bundle 10 



BeansBroad i sieve o 



Kidney 100 2 G 



Beet, Red....« doz. 



Broccoli bundle 



Brussels Sprouts h sieve 



Cabbage T. doz. 



CaDSlcums loo 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cacumbers each 



Endive score 



Fennel bunch 



Garlic and Shallots, lb. 



Herbs bunch Z 



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LPttuce doz. 



Mushrooms ptutle 



Mnatd. & Cress, punnet 



Onions bushel 



pickliiii? quurt 



Parslev ^ sieve 



Parsnips .~, do-^. 



Poos qnart 



Potatoes bushel 



Radi-^hes doz. bunnh**-* 



Rhubarb bundle 



Savoys ...doz. 



8ea-kfilQ bisket 



Spinach siove 



Tomatoes... J^ sieve 



Turnips .bunch 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



%* We request that no one will wi-ite privately to the de 

 partmental wiuters of the *' Joui-nal of Horticulture. 

 Cottage Ganlener, and Country Grentleman." By so 

 doing they are subjected to unjustifiable trouble an-l 

 expense. All communications should therefore be a'l- 

 dressed solely to The Editors of the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture, 4-c., 171, Fleet Street, London, E.G. 



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

 week. 



Karly Kino Pot.^to. — It has bpon In mv pO'<3e3«ion two years. It in nnt 

 Btrictly a round Potato, as " R. W." terms it. as both round and kidney 

 shaped tuber" are frrq icnfly to he found i.ttached to ihe name rl^mt. It Is 

 not a first early, but a (food second eiuly nn our lif^ht -oil. It is a very 

 handsome Porato. jm excell- nt cropper, nnd ha-* a smooth yellow skin with 

 very few eyes. For fxliibitinn purposes t know of no rouid Potito to 

 match St, biit it requires a eoorl bre^.dth to pick from for the reawon staled 

 above. It is o' very trood fluvonr and kccpt* well. Should vour eorre-pnn- 

 dent feci disposed to forward his address to me. en recfici of it I shall bn 

 happy to forward him a few sctM.— Thomas Lockik, Culham, Oxford. 



CoTTAcr GAitDF.NKas' DicTio-^ART {H. jr.).-ThHt publlHlie.l by l\ G 

 Bohn IS the B;ime as that published previouniy bv K<nt <t Co. You are quite 

 wronR in thinking the writer ynu name not *' prarticul," for hn is u hend 

 gardener at a pood eftthlishment. The others vou mention still write f(pr 

 a« thftofrh. for pnvuie reasons, they assume flctitions names ; and manv able 

 men besides, whose nnmei. have never uppcarcd, aid us by their cun'tribu- 

 lions and In answcrlnjf questions. 



B0ITOAIJIVIM..KA, *c. fA'. 5.).— Bouiratnvilla'a speclo-a Is Identical with 

 B. ■pcctabilis, a native of Peru and other Dirts of South America. Lomnriii 

 (flbba Is a very handsome Rreenhousp Fern from New Caledonia, with 

 stout, erect, arborcccnt c^udcx, »nd plumy liKht irrcon f^ond^ *2 feet loiiK, 

 divided Into linear, acnt/', undulated st-trmpnts, which arc iribbouBly dccur- 

 rent at the base ; the fertile fronds with linear soffments. 



Books 'TT. li ).— Thcc are two supDlomentH to Loudon's *' FneycloproiUa 

 of Plants," Iho last was published in IH.'i.'i. Mehsrs Longman will tcU tou 

 abont price, nnd whether they can he supplied. There is no recent edition 

 of either Paston'a *■ Botanical Dlcllonary " or of the " Cottaee GarUenoiH' 

 Dictionary." 



R»«ovi!»o Tiir Dead FROifDS or HAntiv Fkrns {A Subscriber) — The 

 decayed fronds ar«- better not rnnoved in winter, for they act to tho crowns 

 aa a protection from froai. Such protection from acvcro weathoi* is ad- 

 Tantaff ooa to tho more dcUrato kinds; but for tho common klnda it does 

 aot mocb matt«r whether the frondi art remorcd or not. 



CoNcuETK Walks (^ Constant Sithscriki'r). — \ layer of stones, brick- 

 bats. ahellB. or clinkers, 6 inches deep, to fonn u dry bottom ; a layer of chalk, 

 ov linio. in the proportion of one to ten of the utoiies or other foundation, 

 Hud well rolled nnd watered, to the thieknesi of 3 inches, with a rise of 

 2 Inches in the centre ; over thi^ half an inch of gravel and lime, or fine 

 chalk; water nnd roll well again; add (me-eiehth of an inch of the best 

 coloured gravol, and again roll until (pilte s^'lid. Have tbo walk 2 inches 

 wider on each aide than you desire, as this checks the turf and weeJs from 

 encroachinfT. and prevents the rain waier petting to the foundation of the 

 wiilk. We do not know what book you refer to. 



Transplanting Roses (Three-years' Strbscriber). —You may remove Koses 

 planted last Noveinber from now until the het^inninH; of IMnv. Take them 

 up carefully and wrap the toots in dnrai) mos-; or hay. Plant as soon after 

 removal as prnctlnable, watering well iifterwirds. U not removed before 

 the shoots have made some growth, it would be well to wrap the stems and 

 also the rnois and h- ads in damp hav, not too much, but a little to keep 

 them fresh. Wafer copiously af;er plantlnc:, dnily or i-very other day at 

 the roots, and Rvrincre the heiids ni[,'ht nnd raorniuR-, shiirlinR- from bripht 

 sun for a few h mrs in the middle or" tho day until the idants become eata- 

 b ishod. In this way you will bo enabled to remove the Roses; but thoy will 

 not do .<"o well this summer as if they wei-e not removed. 



Kekping Vkruenas Through thk ^VINTEa i 'Ferbt'un).—'VhG best way 

 of kfepinff Verbenus ovt-r thu winter is to insert the cuttings in pots or puns 

 nnd not too close logether. in the last; week in Aug:iis^ or the boirlnningr of 

 September, in order that they may be struck before dull dump weather seta 

 in. Keep them in the same pots or p;in3 over tlio \vinti'r, placiui; them ou 

 a ?helf near thi tjlass in a cool, dry, airy piirt of nny stiuuUire from which 

 frost is just excluded. To pot or prick them off in autumn is unnrcessary, 

 as it wastes room, and many are Uilied in couscq it-nce o' the waterings 

 uf'cussary to keep them from flatrginpr. We h;ive them, fifty or more in 

 l2-inch pans, any cutting in which will now furnish half a dozen cuttings, 

 which we will pat insojii in gentle heat to strike, for we find an early spring'- 

 struck cutting every w.iy be'ter thin one inser'ed in autumn and potbound. 

 In winter they should h;ivo no more water than is necessary to keep 

 them alive. Verbenas and Lobeliiis :iro rather mi>ro tender than Cal- 

 ceolarias, the latter hearing more moisture than Verbenas. We think your 

 want of success is due to keep ng them too damp, both as reeards the at- 

 mosphere and iheir roots, thw transpbintiug into boxes contributing to the 

 evil as much as anything. Wo have tho same idens as yourself respecting 

 tlie preservation of Verbenas in a cold fra-ne darinjf winter, much in the 

 Siime manner jis C ilceolarias, but damp is their greatest enemy, and how to 

 get rid of tliis in a cold frame is a question ditUoult to answer, especially 

 when they ure shut up (as our Calceolarias have been for the laat three 

 weeks), without once removing tho covering-. 



Trimming TTof.i.v Hkuok— SKKns of SxLvrA Ni!Monos\ and ^^ELILOTl'S 

 LKUCANTHA (A. A'. A.). — The most suitable lime to cut back a Holly hedge 

 is from the 1-t to Ihe 2i)'.h of Mny, imd the verv best time is just before the 

 new growths are m;ide. The shoots co:no as freely Irom the old as from 

 the young wood, and nn old thin trc; will become very ornamental by 

 cutting it well back. Wo h ive perfect cones of several of the variegated 

 kinds that but a short time ago were not tit to be seen, but with cutting 

 well In they are afier a year's growth perfect pictures. Any one having 

 an old ihin hedire, or a sp ire uj:ly rrec, will do well to cut it to the desired 

 shape during Miy, and by the autumn of the same year they will find it 

 transformed imo an ornamental object. We do not know where Salvia 

 iiemoioaa is lo be outnined. It Is a most ornamental herbaceous plant, and 

 formsalovelv bed of pale purple, itiinnuiuera')lu b!oR->oms being borne in the 

 greatest profusioi from May to the t-nd o( Sfptember, and its silvery foliage 

 being as bMght as iniiny ribbon ])latits. It is reinurkiible that, being of 

 "ucli value for decoraiive puriiose«, it ahuold not find its wiy intnour li^-is of 

 Imrbaceous plants. Seed^ of Meliloluj leucaniha can be obtained trom 

 Messrs. Sutton of lloading, and doubtless many other seedsmen. Of all 

 the plants iu a garden there Is none which, the bees visit more than Salvia 

 nemorosu. 



rni'NiNo Climbinu Roses— Soil for Rosks {C. Iiond\— In pruning the 

 msjm'lty ot climbing Hoses tho aim should be to ihin-out tho old i-hoot?» 

 and lay in the previous year's well.ri|)ened wood, le.iviuR the shoots at some 

 length ; for if cut close they will only nmko wood mstoad of Howering. 

 Insteid of pruning them to so mai.y eyes, us in the uuse of siaudurd Itoacs, 

 merely thin-out the ol 1 wood, and mke otf a few iutihes of their points. 

 All foreright wood and the shoots that tend to cause irrcgnlarlty should 

 t)" cut cleiLTi out ; but lb'; lebs a climbing Ho-q Is pruned the more abundant 

 will be the bloom. Koscs for t arly blooming should he nrunod in February. 

 The old saying, that a Kose will grow well wherever u Cabbage does is to 

 a certain exl".nt correct, for lUey both llourish in a rich soil. They like 

 a deep, rich, a'ld rather tittoni; loum, but if you muuure your soil liberally 

 with half-rtttten cowdung. or other not very all nulutinjf muuure, Koses do 

 v.ry faii'ly on gr^ivelly soils, having tlu' plmitrton their own roots, or on the 

 Miinetti stock buddud low. On light gravelly Hoils the pi mlis on the Dog 

 lioMc are shoitlived. and nevt-r vigorous. All Hoaua should be planted on 

 ground well manured, aiv.l he kept mulched with short manure. 



Saponarias— Nkmkhia comi-aota {A7i Amateur). ~'Vhv .S,ipon:irla cala- 

 brie I albi, in our opinion, IS not e(|iuU to iho i)lnU calabrica ; tlie white is 

 'lingy, In-tcad of clear. In-tt-ad of miikliig alternate little beds or rings of 

 tlie two saponarids, we would iidvi-ie alteinnting tho pink Suponaria with 

 Noniophilu In»ignls, the white and t.iiie of which would contr.ist well with 

 iho pmk. Thu Neinesla coinpacta is a i)retiy little thing, with various 

 colours. It should be raised in a littlu hi-at, iind planted out about the end 

 of May. They lue mostly low-growing, ii few Incbea in height. Albii haa 

 while fiowers, insignia blue, and La t>uperbu rose ; and coinpacta haa oftoa 

 ull these colouro. 



HlINKWINO ViNK-HORDKR— VlHKS IH PuiH {Au Alliati Ur) . — Yo\l HCOm tO 



have done quite right witn your Vini's. It strikes u.i tbo roots had bccomo 

 too dry. which might be a caui-e of the Grapes 6hanuing. This would also 

 induce tho roots to run down among ihu drainiigc in t-earoh of moiature. 

 I'.u thid 08 it miiy, yon have done iiulle right. Protect your border from 

 thill frost. Tho oasienl pLtn for fruiting your Vines In pots would he to sot 

 ihcm In your vinery, top-dress iliu pots with rieli miinuro, as old cow- 

 dung, and let them breiik gratlually. If you wIhIi to force ihom, thoy will 

 be tiiuch beiiufitcd by plunging the pot^ in u mild bottom heat, beginning 

 lit .'i')", and gradually Ifierea->ing the temperature in live or six weeks to 80**. 

 Ilegin with top heat nt 45", urmlUttHy ln?rvai^ipp U {o (iO* »qtl 70°, with (t 

 riac of W ^rerp anpabine, 



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