March 7, 1865. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOETICULTURB Al!fD COTTAOE GARDENER. 



201 



Wabdian Case (C. JE. 5.)-— We do not know who makes these now. Mr. 

 "West has left Surbiton. 



L0PHOSPKR.MBM iiAGN'iFiccxi CcLTDBE ( \ — Torfy sandv loam two- 

 thirds, leaf mould one-third, with a free admix'-ure of sand. Three plants 

 will sooner fill a basket, but one wonld do better in so small a basket, 

 stopping the shoots to make it branch. It will crow to a height of 2(* feet, 

 but is oftener seen 6 feet high. Seedlings now in the second leif may flower 

 this season with liberal treatment. Pot them singly in srpall pots; keep 

 in a frame on a mild hotbed nnti! the pot'' are filled with roots, th-^n transfer 

 to a jyreenhouse, after hardening off, and in the first week of June plant 

 out some of them ag^iinst trellises iu sheltered parts of the open garden, 

 taking out the points 01 the shoots when they have made !«ix. leaves beyond 

 the seed leaves, and stopping them again at IS inches high if they do nc. 

 prodnre so many shoots as required. Train the ?hoots regularly, and this 

 is all they require in the way of pruning. Any that are wanted, to train 

 on treliises or wires in the greenhouse, should be potted a^ soon after as 

 the pots become 31!e4 with roots, or potted into a 9 or 12-inch pot at once, 

 just as large or small plants are d sired. Such plants require the same 

 treatment as to stopping the shoots where more are wanted, or when they 

 are inclined to become lesgy. Distribute the shoots regularly, thin them if 

 crowded, and keep near the glas*. 



Ipom<e\ HTBEiDA mkrginata CrLTURE ( ).— Sow in a compost of 



light turfy loam, with about one-third of leaf mould added. Place in a 

 hotbed frame, and. when the plants are in the rough leaf harden off. and 

 keep in a greenhou-se until the last week in M^y, then pUnE them in the 

 parden, giving them a tall stake to twine round, or, if desired, put three 

 in a 12-inch pot, and train to the rafters of the greenhca;e. 



AMAR<.N-THrs irei-ANCHOLicrs CcLTcnK ( ). — Sow early this month, 



in the soil recommended for neirly all annuals— light loam and leaf mould, 

 in the proportion of two parts of the foi-mer to one of the latter. Place in 

 a mild hotbed, and, when the p^.ants are large enough to handle, pot them 

 off singly in 60-pot3, or three round the sides of a 4S. Keep in the franie 

 until the plants have made roots to the sides of the pots, when more air 

 may be given, and the plants hardened <,ff. As large plants are wanted, 

 pot in a size larger, and grow on in the frame or a v;ner>' ar work until the 

 middle of May ; then gradually admit more air, so as to have them hardened 

 off by the beginning of Jtme. 



FisE PrcE*. pixsAPO. — Ir your Number of Feb. 2Sth "A ScBscaiBER" 

 speaks of a specimen of the Picea pinsatio at Luton, being ■42 feet in circum- 

 ference and 14 feel high. I beg to sav I have one 44 feet round and 19 feet 

 higii, very healthy and well grown. — F. W. C, Woodlands^ Red Sill. 



"BofyKS iWigan) .—YoT a field naturalists' club, of ** books eithernew or 

 old," we recommend Smith's *' Enslish Flora." Hooker & Amott's "British 

 Flora," Hogg's "Vegetable Kmgdom," "The Wild Flowers of Great 

 Britain,'* and Seemaa's "Journal of Botany." The two last-named are 

 monthly pubiicaiions. 



■Wall or Paling fok Fruit Trees (TT. 7>*rrterl.— Build a wall by all 

 means, having it 7 feet high, and glaze the front, as represented in our 

 columns to day. You may th^-n grow Peaches, Xect,irines, Apricots, and 

 Black Hamburgh Grapes in defiance of any Liverpool gales. 



CrjiRHARTA Seedling (T. Cair\. — A showy border flower, but will not 

 compete, as a florists' flower, with many of the same colour. 



Waltonias Case {T. A. 5.). — Mr. West, the maker, is gone, and we 

 know of no one who now makes it We employ the Bijou plant case, made 

 by >tr. Stocks, cabinet maker, &c., Archer Street, Nottiag Hill. London. 



Dwarf Hoses is a Bed (Z*ceiAam).— We have no doubt that Gi5n^rat 

 Jacqueminot will make a very good bed, and the plants may either be 

 pegged down or allowed to grow bush fashion. If the latter, cut out the 

 most robust and coarse shoots as they are produced, and the bed may be 

 made to assume a tolerab'y even appearance. We have this and other 

 Roses, grown on their own roots, in beds, and prefer such plants to those 

 on Manetti stocks, when the kinds will succeed ia this way. Baronne 

 Prevost, G^ndral Jacoueminot, Jules Margoltin, and others do remarkably 

 well. 



Oak Trees not Tsetvin'g {A ^'-•nstant Subscriber).— VTe fear there 15 

 some'hiog ra-iically wrong with jour Oak trees, whicU you say are growing 

 in a field on a dry clayey bottom, so very dry that, after a dry season, the 

 soil is so dry and hard that it is late in autumn before it becomes wetted 

 through, if the trees sre not very old they might be benefited by the 

 surface being partially removed, and light soil, containing more sand or 

 gravel iu its texture, substituted for it. We hardlv recommend watering, 

 as nature generally supplies moisture enough for all kinds of trees, excepting 

 those newly planted, which yours are not. 



Apple Trees kot Prospering (J. C.\— There must be something the 

 matter with the roofs, or your trees, planted three years, ought to have 

 grown some considerable size ere this. We hardly know how to advise 

 you, in the abspnce of more information about the situation and kini of 

 soil. Ribston Pippins are not by any means the best thriving of Apples, 

 but Xonsuch ought to do well. Cutting back will not aff^^ct their general 

 health much, and will not certainly improve their stunted growth, which 

 either ari.-es from the soil or climate, orperhaps both. Write again, stating 

 your locality, and other particulars. 



Xaites of iKniAX Azaleas (Juno).— The colour was too faded before we 

 saw the blooms to give us a chance of identifying them - but had they been 

 fresh the varieties are too numerous to justify naming ffithout seeing the 

 plants. 



Xames of Plasts (IT. C). — 1, Asplenium bulbiferum; 2, Asplenium 

 flaccidnm — two species which are closely connected by intermediate forms. 

 3, Pteris longifolJa. {D. B.). — 1, Asplenium cicutarium ; 2, Blechnuin 

 occidentale ; 3, Pteris tremula. {John Sryan]. — 1, Onychium lucidum ; 

 2, Adiantum capillus- Veneris. The insect is the common Mite (Acarus), 

 and it feeds only on decayed vegetables. (B. C.).— Tt i? Lveopodium cla- 

 vatura, or Club Moss, sometimes called Wolf's Claw. It belongs to the 

 Natural Order Cryptoa-amia Lycopodiaceae. (C. P.). — Tour Mosses are— 

 1 and 3, Hypnum rufcibulum : 2, Hypnura coin plan atum, and, mised with 

 it, H. cnrvatum : 4, Hypnum prrelongum and H. denticiUatnm ; 5, Bryum. 

 ligulatum j 6, Polytrichum unda'atura ; 7, Bryum hornum or B. stellare ; 

 S, Torcu'asubulata ; 9, this has no frmr. but it is either Dicnmum bryoides 

 or D. tasifolium. probably the latter; ID, Jungennanuia asplenioides var. 

 minor, mixed with Hypnum trichomanoides. 



ilETEOEOLOGICAL 



OBSEETATIOJTS ia 



the subtirbs of London for the week ending MareL. 4tL. 



Date. 



BASOUETBB. 





■Wind. 



Bain 



in 

 inches. 



GeNEEAL P.EilAEKS, 



Air. Earth. 



Mas. 



Min. 



Max. Min. 1 ft. deep. 



2 ft. deep. 



Snn. 2S 



Mon. 27 



Tnea. 2S 



: Wed. 1 



: Thnis. 2 



■ Fri. 3 



Sat. 4 



1 



Mean 



29.947 

 30.121 

 29.524 

 29.696 

 29.941 

 30 249 

 30.235 



29.SS3 

 29 391 

 29.449 

 29. 535 

 29.671 

 30.207 

 29.695 



47 29 ■ 42 



52 39 43 



53 , 87 ! 44 

 51 37 1 44 

 59 27 1 44 

 50 21 1 43J 

 47 27 j 43 



41 



4H 



42" 



43 



43 



43 



434 



S.W. 



S. 

 S.W. 



w. 



N.W. 

 S.W. 



.16 



.00 



.01 

 .10 

 .04 

 .00 

 .10 



Kain- 



Fine; overcast at night. 



Densely clouded ; fine ; overcast. 



Cloudy; showery; overcast. 



Rain; boisterous; fine. 



Uniformly overcast : dusty clouds ; frost at night. 



Hoar frost ; heavy clouds ; rain at night; boisterous. 



29.9.39 



29.754 



oO.uO 31.00 43.36 



42.29 





0.41 



POULTRY, BEE, and HOUSEHOLD CHROKICLE. 



POrXTEY-EEEPI^-G FEOil A CO^iIilEKCTAL 

 POIXT OF VIEW. 



This subject is one of real importance, and should he 

 fairly and good-humouredly discussed. The promoter should 

 be prepared to answer every reasonable objection, and 

 " C. S. J." has stated nothing unreasonable. I never heard 

 of the profit of a large number of hens averaging more 

 than 5s. per auniun per hen, and surely it it most ample, 

 considering the commercial value of theauimal to be about 

 2s. 6(2. When you come to recton your hens by thousands, 

 if you get from each 120 eggs in a yeax you wiU have no 

 canse to complain. Their wholesale value in summer I 

 cannot determine, though I have never bought a new-laid 

 egg in London for less than lid.; but we aU know that 

 retailers look for enormous profits,,so I incUne to the opinion 

 of " C. S. J.," that 5s. per 100 wotild he about the summer 

 wholesale price. As to the value of chickens at six months 

 old, it depends on the season, supply, demand, and quality ; 



hut I cannot conceive how a bird is to be fed and made so 

 fat at such an age for dd. 

 j If llr. Geyelin wants to form a company to carry out such 

 an undertaking he should show how it is to be done. His 

 unsupported statement is fairly liable to be questioned, hut 

 facts and figures can-y conviction. A mere Dr. and Cr. eal- 

 ' culation on paper will not do, we must be governed by the 

 markets. It is my own opinion that, taken as a whole, the 

 profits estimated by " C. S. J." are considerably above what 

 would be realised in practice, yet he allows only ^£2153 : 

 whereas Mr. Geyelin's nett profit is ^£7326, both on a capital 

 , of d£3000. To be really safe all such calculations should be 

 based on a minimuin, while I fear Mr. Geyelin has taken a 

 mcuL-imum scale. Some minds are naturally very sanguine, 

 and can view things only in a favourable hght. This may 

 lead to great mental happiness, but monetary disturbance. 

 It may be very fairly questioned if such an undertaking 

 could be properly managed by a company, for its success 

 must entirely depend on individual energy and attention. 

 To earn a dividend for the shareholders the directors should 

 do as the higglers do in Sussex — they should devote all their 

 time to the business. I incline to think a partnership, where 

 all the partners would divide the work fairly between them- 



