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JOUEN'AL OF HORXICULTCI^E AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



[ May 23, iS6a. 



FKUIT GARDEN. 



Here the chief work has been giving some water from the 

 dunghill to Strawberry plants, and looking after a few insects 

 out of dooi's on Peaches. In the latter case the tomtits 

 have come in as our friends. During the last week we stood 

 at our window at 4 a.k.. and noticed a loving pair as busy as 

 busy could be, peering into every hole and corner for green 

 fly and a chance caterpillar. We mu.^t not sing or cry out 

 uutil we get out of the wood ; but it is so far fortunate, that 

 as yet our trees under glass have shown no trace of insects. 

 We are pretty well obliged to leave them to themselves ; 

 but they sadly want a day for stopping and thinning the 

 branches. With every disposition to get through with work, 

 w8 are more and more convinced, that very long hours are 

 a mistake, a drag to the worker, and no benefit to the em- 

 ployer. Mind we do not take into account exceptional cases, 

 and not often repeated, then a man and men rightly in- 

 fluenced will do wonders, but continue the long hours even 

 with extra encouragement, and extra pay, for a week or two, 

 and you will in the end scarcely have the usual amount of 

 labour done. The human machine cannot go on like a steam 

 engine, however you give material for combustion, in the 

 shape of meat and drink. When no extra pay is given, and 

 a great deal of extra work and late hoixrs are looked for, not 

 only will the exactors be disappointed, but really such cases 

 ought to come under the cognisance of the Society for Pre- 

 venting Cruelty to Animals. Mind this is altogether a dif- 

 ferent affair from a good worthy man, seeing that things 

 want doing, and without even a hint, of his own accord he 

 does it cheerfully after the usual hours. Such work should 

 not be forgotten, and when a j'oung man willingly does such 

 things he should be able to visit a neighbouring garden 

 without breaking in on the rest and repose of the Sunday. 



OBNAMENTAL DEPARTZIIENT. 



Have fairly begun bedding out, at least will before this is 

 in print. Our last cuttings have done wonders in a short time 

 in the slight hotbeds, dibbed out at once without pot or other 

 vessel. Such a plan, and with bedding plants in general, is 

 a great saving where you can plant out near at hand. It 

 would not do for commercial people, or where the plants 

 had to be carried far. The plants grown in pieces of turf 

 turned out so well that we shall be inclined to enlarge the 

 numbers of the plants so treated. We will just for the 

 present aUude to a few points. 



1. Single beds filled with bedding plants will be most 

 pleasing if edged with a shaded or contrasted colour. 



2. Groups of beds if at aU large will be more easUy planted 

 if the beds are edged. 



3. In a regular group, no plan is more satisfactory than 

 planting in pairs, either opposite or crossed. This is just 

 on the principle that like draws to like. Many of ovir readers, 

 merely for variety, do away with all attempts at pairing, 

 and if it please them we have no right to find fault. As wo 

 have previously stated, if they choose to run a black and a 

 white horse in their carriage, if they choose to paint one 

 side of their carriage claret and the other yellow, and have 

 the wheels on one side red and the other side yellow, that is 

 their affair, and we have no right to intermeddle or to rjuaiTcl 

 with their taste. The person that pays has the right to 

 determine, even though there may seem to us to bo a want 

 of balance. 



4. The heights of the plants in a group should be uni- 

 form, or there should be a regular gi-adation of height from 

 back to front, from centre to ends, and vice vers'i. Many 

 flower g.irdens, otherwise beautiful, are often marred from 

 inattention to this simple matter. AVe can recollect ot a 

 fine ribbon-border near London planted on the flat, and the 

 middle row dropped down a foot or more below the rest. 

 The planter considered it an eyesore; bvit next season there 

 were from blind imitation alone some dozens of borders and 

 beds as low in the middle as the bottom of a deep dish when 

 compared with the rim. In bed.^ scattered about it matters 

 lesi". but in a regular group the gradation of heights is a 

 (freat point of success ; and 



Lastly, This gradation of height does much to economise 

 the labour of the future treatment, and, besides, the plants 

 look 80 much better when growing as nature intended them 

 to do, instead of being twisted and layered into all unnatural 

 attitudes and shapes. — li. F. 



TBADE C.1T-\L0GITE EECEIVED. 



W. Cutbush & Sons, Highgate Nurseries, London. N. — 

 General Cataloijue for ISGS-li. 



F. & A. Dickson, 106, Eastgate Strefet, and Upton Nur- 

 series, Chester. — Catalogue of Select Bedding Plants. 



COTENT GARDEN MAUKET.— Mat 20. 



The suoplies have a^ain much increased during the past week, both, con- 

 tineutul and home errovrn, but we have not much variation to report from 

 last week's quotations. 



FRUIT. 



Apples 



ApriciJis, Green 



i sieve 

 , pottle 



8. d. 6. d 1 

 2 to 4 ' 

 10 16 



2 3 

 4 20 



10 

 ,0 60 



3 6 5 

 8 14 

 6 10 

 0, 



VEGETJ 



s. d. «. d 1 

 4 to 6 



4 S 







1 1 G 

 3 4 



2 3 







1 6 2 

 

 7 10 



2 II R 

 2 3 

 16 

 2 6 3 

 3 

 8 

 OS 

 2 6 4 



ilnlberries ... 

 Nectarines 



punnet 



doz. 



100 



«. d. 

 Oto 

 )0 

 <-, 

 

 2 

 

 6 

 

 6 

 11 



s. d. 



3t 



1 

 1 

 2 

 5 



6 



1 



1 II 

 7 6 



2 6 

 6 

 2 

 







1 

 

 11 3 

 



». d 

 

 42 

 14 



Chestnuts 



Filberts 



Cobs 



Gooseberries . 

 Grapes 



..bush. 

 100 lb». 



do. 



J, sieve 

 .r.....lb. 



...100 





....doz. 8 



45 



Pears (kitchen 



) ...doz. 

 .rtoz. 



3 

 



Pine Apples lb. 



Plums i sieve 



Stra^vberrie^ oz. 



Walunt< bush. 



i.BLES. 



Leeks bunch 



Lettuce per score 



Mushrooms pottle 



Mastd. & Cress, punnet 



Oaions bushel 



pickliiiK q'i«t 



Parsley ^ sieve 



12 







1 



Melons 



ArticUokes .... 



Asparagus 



Beans BrDiid... 

 Kidney.... 



Beet, Red 



Broccoli 



BrnsselaSprout 



.. ..each 



....each 

 . bundle 

 ..i sieve 



100 



.... doz. 



. bundle 

 9 \ sieve 



.... d07,. 



2J 



s. d 



6 



2 



2 

 1 

 7 



S 



1 G 



Parsnips 



d07.. 



.... quart 



2 















Potatoes 



Radishes do'. 



Rhubarb 



Savoys 



Sea-kata 



....bushel 

 bunches 

 .. bundle 



doz. 



.. bis<o' 



4 



Cauliflower ... 



Celerv 



Cooumbers ... 



doz. 



,. bundle 

 each 



1 



4 

 

 





... bunch 



Spinach ..bush-I 



Tomatoes i sieve 



Turnips bunch 



VeKetabloMarrows doz 



2 



Garlic and Shallots, lb. 



6 



Horseradish 



., bundle 





TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



* ,* We request that no one will write privately to the de- 

 * partmental writers of the " Journal of Horticulture, 

 Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman." 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, Sec, 171, Fleet Street, London, B.C. 

 ROTAL HoRTlcuLTim«i. Socijity's ScnT.Dlii.KS OF Prizks (F. .Z^.).— Apply 

 to the Assistant-Secretary at the K. H. S.'s offices, South Kensinifton. 

 APVEBTISEMENTS (4 Suhscriher) .—loM can send postage stamps. 

 Nkw I.ate White Bnoocoi.i (IT. Paul, WaUhnm C--o.<.»).— When we 

 received a speciiuen (May 18th), the head was perlectly Arm and close; 

 colour aln-ost as white as ihat of Uie Cauliflower ; and the mcurvinR dense 

 crowth of leaves renders It self-protecting. The head is above the medium 

 size, and almost a slobe, being nearly as deep as it is broad. These auallties 

 render it a very desirable late variety. 



Goosfufrrt rATK.itpii.T.ABs {»«»»«) --DMstinK the bushes with fresh 

 white hellebore powder will kill them. Repeat the dnslinR until they cease 

 to appear, and then syrinse the Irees thoroURbly to wash off the powder. 



Heatino bv One oa Two Boieeus («''"i'!'<-;--'' ^^;I"""'" ^''"'VhTv 

 lots or houses, 30 yards apart, be best heated by one boilcv or t"-"' Jhey 

 ",,. new houses ; two, a vinery and stove in the one place, and there w 11 

 be three or four pUs and houses in the other." In your case «» would 

 decidedly have two boilers, as the extra expense for two boilers and extra 

 fuel will be much less than 180 feet of plpinR applied to no purpose, and 

 th.'> heat thus lost. Besides, it is not safe doinit a great deal wiih one boiler, 

 unless von can have another in reserve. W„ linow some places where 

 the bur'sthiK or leakiuK of one boiler In winter would next lo wreck the 

 inmites of a number of houses, unless all sorts of extempoimed stoves were 

 resorted to. 



VAuifoATEo AoEUA-ruM (//. Ii. C).-The only varieRated Ageralum we 

 know had dirty yellowish white on the leaves, and it sreiv from 1,. to 

 24 inches In lieiihi. Thoucb lo.iklng tolerably well indoors, It was ug^ 

 ou.f doors. The inch yon sent of a vaMeRatod dwart one, a sport from 

 !• noe Mbert, if it keep true seems to bo belter, ,as, thouRb shrivelled, the 

 K ™ t^ the oaf was blotched with a rieU yellow. .So Uir as «» could 

 Ui.iKo from such a morsel, w should say it was worth looking after, but 

 vou had bolter send o whole shoot or plant. 



' Kl OWVR-EPDS OF PKt.AunONIPHS AK» CiNERAl.IAS WlTnEUlNO (Iliquircr) . 



-We should say from want of air and want of water, and then, perhaps, 

 exCf'HS of the latter. 



GaHKsnoosE EvKnoREENs (;!nrf/»,-rf).-Wo cann-it occupy our "pace 



with .och a list OS you require, with direcUons for their culture. We readily 



give iXmation rtdative io any particular plant or subject, ^tor general 



directions you bad better buy " In-door Gardening," which you can havo 



' free by po»t If you enclose twenty postage nUmps with your dirootlou. 



