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JOtT?'!iAL OP HOKTICULTUKE AXD COTTAGE GAEDENER. 



March 21, 18SJ. 



The next best position and the best for strong plants 

 that need no forwarding, and where less trouble is an ad- 

 vantage, is a cold frame or pit to which glass or other pro- 

 tection can be given. In this case a hard bottom must be 

 secured, and a couple of inches of rough leaf mould or other 

 mould placed over it ; on that pack the turves with their 

 sides all bnt touching each other, water, strew a little rough 

 soil all over between the plants, and besides protection and 

 air when the sun is very hot, and now and then a dash from 

 the syringe, such plants will need little or no watering or 

 other care until they are taken with roots all through the 

 turves and in the light earth round them, and transferred 

 at once to the beds. 



VTe meant to have followed with a few words on cuttings 

 and potting, &c., bnt we must close for the present, merely 

 stating that in a mild sweet hotbed cuttings of Geraniums, 

 Calceolarias, Verbenas, Ac, will strike in as many days as 

 they will require weeks generally in autumn. — E. F. 



COTENT GAEDEN ilAEKET.— Maech 18. 



The snpply of ouUdior vegetables is still very short ; Sea-kale, Rhabarb. 

 EidnejBean.s and other forced vegetables are quite 6u£cieDt for thedoiuand. 

 Pines are ftill scarce, aDO command a high ptice, but old Grapes ire toler- 

 ably plentiful and still very good ; new Black Hamburghs are also to be had 

 at from ^Is. to 30*. oer pound, but the retarded Grapes being so ?rood, are not 

 in much demand ; .\pples are t-till abundant, but good dessert Pears are now 

 chiefly confined to Beurre Kance. Laster Beurre, and Bergamotte d'E>peren. 

 Con«ipiimenta of Salads. &c., from the continent are well kept up, and include 

 Asparagus, and Peas selling at aboat a guinea a quart. New Potatoes are to 

 be had iit 35. 6d. per pound. There is a heavy supply of Cucumbers, but the 

 demand for them being very good prices are fully maintained. Of JPoCatoes 

 the stock is very heavy. 



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TEADE CATAXOGUES EECEIVE.T). 



Francia i. Arthur Dickson & Sons, 106, Eastgate Street, 

 and Upton Nurseries, Chester. — New and Select Agricultural 

 Seeds, 



G. White, 3, Moss Street, Paisley. — CaUdogue of Florists' 

 flowers, Qreenhouse, Herbaceous, and Bedding-out Plants, ^"c. 



John Morse, The Nurseries, L»ursley, Gloucestershire. — 

 Catalogue of Culiinga of Dahlias, Fuclisias, Chryianlhenmms, 

 Verbenas, Pelargoniums, S(c. 



Ambroise Verschaffclt, 50, Une du Chaume, Ghent, Bel- 

 giom. — Prim Couramt pour le Prinlemps el Eti, 18G5. PlanUs 

 NoitveHes. 



3. Bruce A Co., Hamilton, Canada West. — Descriptive Cata- 

 laytu of Seeds for the Farm, Kitchen Garden, and Flower Garden, 

 Boots, t(e. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Zxa.t Ara-UUVXU KiOWKT roTATO 'A Sulj>rribrr).—lt by "chit" JOU 



mMtt eye thin Potato certalnW bat not ** a black " on«, nor do wc know any 

 rarietj that hsi. ScTcral emit dark purple sprouU. 



Sowing CKt.osi\ SPIC^T.^, Prhtstumoss, and Salvia AZURRACOonfraaw- 

 //wn), — Sow them all in pans in a compost of turfy loam two-thirds, and 

 ^vell-rotted leaf mould one-third, with a free admixture of sand, just cover- 

 intr the seeds with fine soil, and nftfr watf'rinjr place in a frame on a gentle 

 hotbed. Keep the pans in the frame until the plants are up and have shovs 

 thfir roush leaves, then prick off into small pots, especially the first and 

 last, pritkinp the Pentstemons into a pan — an inch or so apart will do. 

 Continue the whole m the frame until the Pentstemons and Salvia azorda 

 have made cood growth, removing them, howevi^r, before they become 

 drawn to a cooler situation, where they can be hardened off for finally 

 pliiiting out in the Ust week in May or flretof June. If strong the Pent- 

 stemons may flower in autumn, tloy bein? hardy perennials, and the SalTl* 

 :;ztirea will probably flower also, it beioir a lial '-hardy perennial. It should 

 t>e taken up in autumn after the first I'rost. the roots potted, and kept rather 

 dry during the winter in a creenhouae from which fro^l is excluded. The 

 Ci'ln^ia spicata seedlings t^houid be repotted as soon as the roots reach the 

 sides of the pots, and continued iu the frame until May, when they c-honld 

 be removed to a warm greenhouse, or a vinery at work, placing them on a 

 sbel.' near the glass. When the flower-head Is just visible in the heart of 

 the le^ives pnt them in their blooniing.pots, which may be fiom 6 inchea in 

 dlaraeter for tlio small plants, up to 9 inches for the large plant*. Employ 

 \\ie compost already named, with the addition of well-rotted cow or stable 

 mauuie one-fourth of the whole. Provide i^uSiclfnt drainage and keep 

 well supplied with vralcr, occasionally sprinkling the plants overhead with 

 tepid water through a syringe. Continue near the glass in a warm green- 

 hou-e or vinery, and when the pots are filled with roots every alternate 

 watering may be of weak liquid manure, wh ch will increase the size of the 

 spikes of bloom. It is a highy ornamcnt;-.l pl:int for the lutumn decora- 

 tion of the greenhouse or sitting-room, and very useful for bouquets. 



SuALL YisBRT, Yestilatisg AND PLANTING (/demj.— We do uot notlcB 

 anything in your arranuementj to hinder your planting the Vines in front 

 within the house, providing them vith a border inside. We think that with 

 the sharp incline of the roof the Vines would not do well trained down the 

 sjshesi from the back. It is not necessary to have front lights, there bein^ 

 no objection to there being none, nor to the sharp full of the roof. The 

 ventilation provided is ample. Six Vines, with two ro^s from each, planted 

 4 feet apart, the rods trained 2 fe-t apart, would be sufficient. 



CoiTAhK Gabdeseks" Dictiosart. He. (B. B;).-T"Uhid better inqolre 

 of Mr. Bohn, the publisher, whether a supplement ia intended ; we have no 

 interest in the work. We do not know the date of the last edition of Don's 

 Catalogue, nor its price. Your Conifer is often cilleJ Cupre^a'is filiformis, 

 but it is now usually de-sciib-d by botanists under the name of Biota pendula. 

 Lambert named it Thuja peudula, and Thunberg Cupressus pendula. 



FLOWER-OAnms PuNTiso 'S. O. jr.).— -is you ask our advice, we would 

 be inciiiied to plant the wheel on both sides of the second terrace with the 

 same c ilours. The I'etuuias will not harmonise with your other things in 

 height, unless jou have .such a dwarf variey as the old smill-flowered 

 splcndens. E ich of these wheels consists of a circle for centre, and eight 

 oblong beds round it. Tiiese beds may be made more artistic and of many 

 shapes ; but your straight solid clumps as so inanr spokes will just look as 

 well when planted as the most artistic scroll. The ulanting ol the centre 

 c'rele is with Ueliotrope pegged down, and edged with Flower of the Day 

 Geranium, the p'-gglng being done not to intercept iho view of the baskets 

 raised on the third terrace. Now we have no fault to find with this ; many 

 adopt the p an ; but we do not think ihat Heliotrones and Geraniums make 

 a good combination. We would then fill that bed with Heliotrope, and a 

 broad edging of dw rf Agcratums, as you seem to have tbem; or if tall 

 kinds, they could go in the centre, and be pejiged down. In either case you 

 would need no more blue. Better than that, we would prefer making the 

 clrcla entlrelv of Klower of the Day, and the opposite circle ol Alma or 

 Lady Plymouth. This would give white either with or without the flowers 

 of the Geranium. Then you propose to plant four of the spokes of your 

 ^lieel—that is, each alternate bed with Ceiastium. Two with Scarlet ver- 

 benas, and two with Guzania.s would, we think, bo making too much of a 

 good thing of the Cerastium. Now thougii we like the Ceraslium, we do 

 not think it is qaitj right to have such l.irge teds of it. Wi'h the centre 

 bcl white, a very .-implo arraniieinent would be to have these eight beds 

 alternately filled with scarlet and yellow. They would al»n look very nice 

 to be planted with -scarlet, blue, yellow, and purple, the match or pair beds 

 crosr-ing each other. A very pretty arrangement would be to mike the 

 centre wh'te-kaved Gersninms, as Alma, with the flowirs removed, bordered 

 with Lobelia specioaa. nnd ihen have four scarlet bo<is of dwarf Geraniums 

 or Verbenas, edged with Cerastium, and four beds of a dwarf yellow Calceo. 

 laria, edged with purple Verbenas. This last would make each beJ complete 

 in Itself, and yon would have a beautifol contrast and shading of co.onr. 

 You mav u.se different tinu for the two sides, but the more the two groups 

 of nine clumps resemble each other the more pleasing th.y will be. we 

 cannot quite moke out about the raised bed or basket on the right-hand sitle, 

 but we would docidedlvnsc scarlet Geraniums in.stedd of Cuphea for tJie 

 centre. Por the two four-tltred baskets wo would do as you propose, but 

 fir the high central basket wo would prefer a droopinc Fuchsia, as Banks s 

 Glory, to the Di-lphiniuin. or even ^uch climbers on a tough trellis or the 

 top of a tree us .Maurandva or Lophospormum. The edging might be ver- 

 bena pnlchella. Your other arrangements on the third terrace will do rety 

 well. 



Stove Aqiiatics pon T»au [A /.^di,).— These plants are grown by very 

 few, the diflicully not conshting in the price, but where to meet with them. 

 .Vcluir.blam specloKum, .N. jama ceime, N. Tamam, N. caspiooui, and 

 N. lut'om; Nymyibloa cmrnlea. N. ateilata, N. versicolor, and N. bl»nd» ; 

 llcteratiibera reiiiformis. Kurya'o ferox, and Viilirt-ia indica— these have 

 floating leaves. I'ontcacria a'zurea. Alisma cordifolia, Jusdeua nauns, 

 J. suff,-utlco»a, J. repens, Hcrpesles stricta, Sagittaria aiigusllfoUa, Datna- 

 sonlnm indlcum, and Papyrus odoratus. 



Acacia ahmata LKAms Tntt-ow (Rather PuizM) —The shooU enclosed 

 in your letter arc quU« yellow, which might be oceawoiieil by a variety of 

 causei ; but, in the absence of my data whatever, wo cannot undertake to 

 give an opinion. Th': root.s are probably defective. There is, however, • 

 trace of t; rips having been on the foliage, and they may have been the catiss 

 of tho mlwhicf. Komlgatlng with shag tobacco two nights cansecuUvely> 

 taking care to have the loliagc dry, would exiirpate ihcai. 



MinTi.KToi Sziin.-Mr. W. Oath, Bradford. Torkshiie, *iU be Back 

 obliged by any one sending him a few seeds of the Mistletoe. 



ABDSjns (£. if.).— Messrs. A. ft S., 371, Boston Uoad, 2^W. 



