June 6, 1SG5. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOKTICULTXTRE AND OOTTAaE GARDENER. 



437 



DooBLE Boles in Van Thol Tulips (.4 Suhscriber, o/(>o).— We have 

 liitle doutpt but that tbe bulbs hid tiet-u plunted loo deeply, auit too richly 

 treated. Tlic yiimll bulbs yrowinj? had better be treated in a reserve-bed 

 for anothtir season. We i-hould not expect many to bloom well. 



BoRi.KR UNDKR NoRTH Wai.l (5. B.).— Good-3iz6d Scarlet Geranlums and 

 Calceolarias would do very well in such a border. To have something out 

 ol the common way, Cinerarias, and the herbaceous Calceolarias, would 

 bloom well in such a boroer all the summer, when they would be done 

 Howeiing in a (jreenhouso, ur in places more exposed lo the sun. ^Ye once 

 had a Kpleudia show of such on a north border all the summer. All the 

 -leartsease tribe would do well there all the summer, with rich nourishment. 



Flos [C. P.). — The Figs are not diseased. Our iinpresaion is that the 

 plants {ret dry at one time, aud ure soaked with water at another, and the 

 Figa with dryish roots have been caught by the sua whilst the fruit was 

 in a damp btftte, and tbe scildinsr has produced a rusty appearance. Pro- 

 bably the IVuit that are so atfocted will not swell. Plenty ot air early woaid 

 prevent it, with judicious watenn,;,'. 



P^:^CH Lkavks Falling (F. H. iat';).— There is a trace of white red 

 apwler on the leaves— that is, spider too young to be red ; and the remedy 

 IS plenty of the ayiing:e, especially late in the iifternoon. The chief cause 

 of the spots on your leaves is the sun shining on them before air has 

 been givtn freely in your orchard-house, or some spots in your glass. We 

 nave a little Cherry tree alt .^potted the name wny, from two rough scars in 

 the glass, which we bad puttt^'d the year previously. We drew the end of 

 a small paint brush over the blister and scar in the glass, and there has 

 been no more blutehins and burning. Some of the cheap glass is well 

 supplied with these little scars and blisters, and each is apt to act as a 

 coucentrutinj? burning glass. We think this will prove your chief remedy. 

 A little paint, or glue, or putty rubbed over such places will avert the 

 danger. 



Weeus tn Paveo Yard — Fumigating {A Beginner).— The best thing 

 for destroying gr.tss between stones in a yard is to sow the space oyer with 

 salt, so as to make nil white, and brush it among the stones; but it will not 

 be safe to sow it wirhin 4 feetot any building. No substitute is better than 

 tobacco smoke; there is tobacco water. I'or a cleanly wash nothing is 

 better or simpler than qua^--ii i water. The strength has often been given. 

 Azaleas are easily propagated by cuttings, 



Geraniums Ill-managed (Ti/nor-amus). — We are afraid that your cutting 

 down late in autumn, and repotiing them in vegetable mould, which you 

 found in the Willow tree, has pretty well done for yuur plants, and you had 

 better obtain a fresh stoi;lc ior your windows. If you had merely pruned 

 your Fuchsias a little in aui:umn, and left them alone in winter, and fresh 

 potted them as soou as fresh growth took place in the spring, all might have 

 been well. The same as to the Geraniums, if you cut down after the begin- 

 ning of September. To make the most of your protegees now, we would 

 advise ahakinir the sour Willow soil from them, washiut; the roots, and then 

 placing them in much smaller pots, in light aandy loam, and shading a little 

 until they ure routing freely. We mean such loam as you could obtain by 

 the side of the jmut. with a quarter of rough sand with it. You could give 

 richer nutriment afrerwards. 



MuLcai.NG CALCEOLARfAs {F. T. C.).—\i youf Calceolarias are growing 

 treely, and ihu groiitul is moLst, you miy mulch them at once with rotten 

 dung. If they are not large, and the ground is still cool, and not so moist 

 as you wish, you may deliiy for a fortnight. We would do our own at once 

 if we could command the miiterjal. We pub'ish a full index for each volume; 

 therefore the weekly index is only of importance for that week. 



Adelaster albivknis Leaves Spotted (Sinf/^ci/).— There are spots on 

 the leaf as if scale had been resting on it, but none on it now. If so they 

 must be washed off with soap and water, and then well syringed with clean 

 water. There are other marks that denote scalding, and the remedy is to 

 give air early, so as to have the leaves dry before the sun reaches them. 



Crop OF Ghkeno AGES in Pots(C, P.).— From two to three dozen of Plums 

 will be sufficient on a tree If you wish them tine, and not to injure the 

 trees for another year. 



Brown Turkey Figs Falling (/t^gm).— We are surprised that jour 

 Browu Turkey sheds its fruit, whilst the White Marseilles stands so well, 

 as it forces quite as well as the White Marseilles generally. The best of the 

 latter is flivers's variety, and that does well with or without heat. Are you 

 sure you have the Brown Turkey'.' With plenty of water, and yet no 

 stagnant water, no Fig stands better than the Brown Turkey. We have 

 seen several fine trees throw their fruit from being too dry when swelling. 



Shelves IN a Hothouse (.1 Htimhle and Co7istant Reader),— SYQh&ye no 

 doubt what you propose will answer ; but our opiniou is that, for a span- 

 roofed house 1() feet wide, the best plan is to have a stand In the middle, 

 and a walk and broad shelf at each side. All the plants could then be 

 easily reached, but that would do away with your one central path. In 

 looking more closely over your letter we are in doubt if your houses are 

 span-roofed ; for, a^ to the second house, you speak of the back wall, and. 

 the expediency of having plants agamst it, and having a pit in the middle. 

 Well, not to interfere with your pit, you could have a narrow border iu 

 front of your back wall, if it is a lean-to house, a walk between the border 

 and the front, and in the pit you might shut ofi' some pieces 2^ feet square 

 for creepers for the roof ; but if you take our advice you would make the 

 curb of your pit level all round; and in such a house we would not have 

 the shell more than 2J feet or 2^ feet above the level of the pathway. This 

 will enable the observer to see all the plants from either pathway. You can 

 fill your pit with plunging material, or you can use rough stonis, and then 

 line gravel, for setting the plants on. As to slate or gravel, or small washed 

 pebbles, both are very good. Slate is very good, with an edging to hold 

 water ; and it is also very good covered with clean gravel to let in a little 

 moisture. Your creepers and Vines ought to be 15 inches from the glass. 

 If in the third house, which you mean for an early vinery, and to force 

 Vines, a pit in front would be more useful than a stage. In the house for 

 bedding plants every place may be supplied with shelves, and then, in the 

 dark months, many things will stand on the floor. In such a house we 

 have frequently something like three tiers of plants; but then they must 

 be managed according to what they want. Of course the plants would do 

 better in three houses, and give less trouble than so much storing and 

 moving ; and we would all like to do so if we could j but many are situated 

 as we are— turn out many thousands ot plants every year, and by the first 

 week in June it would not be easy for a stranger to say where such myriads 

 of plants came from. 



Names op Plants {Qensing Lodge).— \, Phlebodium aureum ; 2, Cyrto- 

 mium falcatum; 3, Asplenium lucidum. {J. F., Coveiitry)—!, AsplemMTO. 

 Adiantum-nigrum; 2, too little developed; 3, Polypodinm Dryopteris; 

 4, Polystichum angulare. {A£. D.}.— It is Allium Moly, Yellow Garlic or 

 Moly. It is quite hardy. [A. M. 1I.).— 1, Pteris tremula; 2, Polystichum 

 capense. We cannot undertake to name varieties of the Pelargonium from 

 tingle flowers. [C. -F.)-— R-hodouendron javanicum ; Enca ventricosa 

 superba, (An Old Subscriber).— Loniceia. hispida, and the young shoot 

 sent without flower is probably a species of Spireea. (Leigkton).—H.edy-' 

 sarum coronarium. (T. J.). — The large-flowered Myosotis is M. alpestris, 

 and the other is probably a variety of M. arvensis. 



METEOROLO&ICAL OBSEEVATIONS in tlie Suburbs of London for tbe Week ending June 3rd. 



Date. 



BAnOJIETER. 



THERMOMETER. 



Wind. 



Kaln 



in 



inches. 



General Eemarks. 



Air. j Earth. 



Max. 



Min. 



Max. 



Min. 



1 ft. deep. 



2 ft. deep. 



Sun. 23 

 Mon. 29 

 Tnes. 30 

 Wed. 31 

 Tliuvs. 1 

 FriUiiy 2 

 Sat. 3 



Mean 



- 29.943 

 29.925 

 29.902 

 20,593 

 29S.5S 

 29.015 

 30.071 



29.834 

 29. 1172 

 29 7H 

 29.S53 

 2D. 730 

 29-577 

 23.773 



74 

 71 

 69 

 71 

 63 

 66 

 74 



48 

 44 

 40 

 41 

 50 

 48 

 42 



63 



62 



62 



62 



61J 



61 



60J 



59 



59J 



59 



59 



69 



88J 



58i 



S. 



S. 



S.W. 



s.w. 



E. 



sw. 

 s.w. 



.00 

 .00 

 .00 

 .00 

 .76 

 .19 

 .02 



Densely clouded ; Terv fine ; overcast and warm at night. 

 Overcast; warm south'wind; cloudyandfine [winds; o'rcasl 

 Cloudy and fine ; boisterous ; low white clouds ; whirling 

 Lightly overcast and fine; very fine; cloudy; overcast at 

 Fine ; overcast ; rain ; showers, heavy rain at night, [night. 

 Densely overcast; slight rain ; overcast; rain at night. 

 Uniformly overcast ; slight rain ; fine ; very fine ; cloudy. 



20 387 



29.737 



70.43 



44.71 



61.57 



58.93 





0.97 



POULTEY, BEE, and HOUSEHOLD CHEOHICLE. 



EFFECTS OF COLD SPEING WEATHEE— 



bonijstg fowls. 



" The Wind of late breathed gently forth— 



>'ovv .shifted east, and east rjy north ; 



And Destiny, which sometime.s wears 



.^n aspect stern ou man's affairs, 



Not altogether smiled on theiis." 

 Too true ! bitter cold nights— colder mornings ! CMokens 

 looking for sbelter. Some that had gone weU through the 

 tertian snowstorms of the winter months, and in the fine 

 weather of a fortnight ago grew while you looked at them, 

 these have begun to give up. Cold wind, cold rain, and no 

 sun, aU withm thirty-iive days of the longest day, when (the 

 Idea is like going into an ice well) tlie days will be drawing 

 in. We went once with a very close observer to see an 



execution. It was at the Old Bailey, and our friend said, 

 " Do not look at the scaffold, it is horrible, but tui-n your 

 back to it, and watch the women at those windows." It 

 was the house looking up Giltspur Street. "Which shall 

 we look at," said we ? " The maid servants at the upper 

 window, they are the most unsophisticated and impression- 

 able." They were cheerful and almost meiTy till the clock 

 was on the stroke of eight, then they became quiet and their 

 mouths were set. Then they grasped each other (there 

 were four of them), their brows were knitted, and while a 

 visible shudder passed over them, each closed her eyes for 

 an instant. 'Twas but an instant, and we were then borne 

 along by the crowd, which hurries away the moment it is 

 over. The features of the girls told aU the history, and 

 just so, we fancy, our man looks out for us in the morning. 

 Our bedroom window looks out on the chickens. We like to 

 see them stretching all over the field, finding food among 

 the dewy grass, chasing unwary flies, taking stock of an 

 adventurous frog, or drawing an incautious worm out of the 



