Jose 13, 18GS. 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE OAEDENER. 



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near the Peas, at the risk of injuring some of the best roots' 

 The stakes should be fully 1 foot or more from the row, so 

 aa to give room for sun and air to enter freely. And again, 

 most persons place the stakes so as to incline inwards to 

 each other, and even to cross each other at the top, so that 

 when finished the staked row would look like a steep span- 

 roofed house. This plan has neatness rather than utility to 

 recommend it. The higher part of the Peas will pass 

 through and receive but Uttle support from the stakes. The 

 better plan is to place the stakes upright, or rather with 

 their points bent outwards, so as to form a wide-mouthed 

 funnel for the Peas to ramble in. As generally done, the 

 stakes, when finished, have the appearance of a sharp- 

 pointed sugarloaf. We would advocate the same appear- 

 ance, but with the wide part uppermost. ^^^__^____^ 



FKCIT GARDEN. 



Much the same as last week, nipping and thinning shoots, 

 thinning fruit, gathering green Gooseberries for jam, though 

 for ourselves if we use any, we are old-fashioned enough to 

 prefer the ripe fruit ; exposed Peaches ripening to the sun 

 and air ; kept the vinery drier where the fruit is ripening, 

 and as soon as possible will clear out all plants, so that there 

 shall be less moisture in the atmosphere. Removed from 

 the same house many laterals, but not too many, to let more 

 direct light into the house. Have taken but few away yet 

 firom the later house, as in moderation they increase root- 

 action. No syringing has been given since the Vines broke, 

 and in one large house no syringing was given at all. 

 Sprinkling a little water on the paths and borders seems to 

 give all the necessary moisture. The syringe is a fine thing, 

 but it is possible to make too much of it. As yet no spider, 

 &c., has made its appearance. 



OBNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT. 



Were we to detail the minutise of the week, we would re- 

 quire an almanack. Proceeded with rolling, mowing, and 

 machining lawn. Planted groups of beds as we got oppor- 

 tunity, preparing the beds beforehand, as alluded to some 

 weeks ago, a matter of more importance than early planting. 

 As yet have watered but little, but as the soil is now pretty 

 warm proceeded with loosening the surface with a small 

 Dutch hoe, or the points of a fork. Would mulch Calceo- 

 larias if we had the material ready. Tied up herbaceous 

 plants needing that attention. Fine Auriculas and Poly- 

 anthus should now have the advantage of an open shaded 

 place on the north side of a wall. Drip is their abomination. 

 Carnations and Pinks need secui'ing neatly. Removed most 

 of the Cinerarias from conservatory, and set part on a north 

 border, on a little fine soil, where they can self-sow them- 

 selves. Sowed also some pans of the best for early flowering. 

 These plants will also flourish all the summer planted out on 

 a north border. To obtain early plants of favourite kinds, a 

 good plan is to cut them down, water well, and then plant out 

 in a shady place. They wOl then throw up lots of strong 

 suckers, which can be divided separately. Azaleas sadly 

 want attention to cutting off all the old flowers, seeds, &c., 

 and giving them a good washing. They ought now to have 

 a house to themselves, so as to give them plenty ot heat and 

 moisture to finish their growth. It is thus that commercial 

 establishments can beat the small gardener. They have a 

 suitable place for everything. We often have to make one 

 house answer for everything, and yet it is thought that 

 everything should be first-rate. Vineries are capital places 

 as makeshifts for these purposes; but then if a single 

 thrips should be on the Azaleas you will rue placing them 

 in your vinery, and so the contest goes on. Those that 

 were forced will now want more light, and air, and coolness 

 to firmly set their buds. Moved young Fuchsias into cooler 

 places. _ Potted lots of Feathered Cockscombs, Balsams, 

 fine-foliaged plants, and gave water and shade to Ferns, &c. 

 To have Caladiums in fine colour we find they should never 

 be exposed to direct sunlight. No syringing should be given 

 them unless the water is pure and clear. We find that 

 with our clearest water, unless filtered, we require to sponge 

 them; a sediment so soon forms, and this disfigures the 

 leaves. Water, heat, and plenty of pot-room are their de- 

 light. Whilst growing they may pretty well be treated as 

 a marsh plant. In their younger state, especially, they 

 dearly delight in bottom heat. But all plants that like 

 heat will also benefit by bottom heat. The most striking 



results are accomplished by its help. No great thing can 

 be made of the old-fashioned Cockscomb without its aid at 

 the earliest stages. Even flower-beds do all the better ia 

 proportion to the amount of heat from sunbeams stored up 

 in them before the foliage keeps the heat out. — R. P. 



TEADE CATALOGUE KECEIVED. 

 James Backhouse & Son, York. — Catalogue of Stove, Green- 

 house, and Bedding Plants, Ferns, Alpines, S(c. 



COVENT GAEDEN MAEKET.— Juke 10. 



Supplies continue very plentiful. Strawberries from the open ground 

 have come la in greater quantity; and of new Potatoes heavy consignments 

 have come to hand from Cornwall and abroad. Of old ones there is yet a 

 very heavy stock, which day by day becomes more nuBaleable* 











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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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

 partmental writers of the " Journal of Horticulture, 

 Cottage Grardener, 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 Soriicvl- 

 ture, S(c., 171, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 

 Wo also request that correspondents wiU not mix up on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those 

 on Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get them 

 answered promptly and conveniently, but write them 

 on separate communications. Also never to send more 

 than two or three ijuestions at once. 

 Seeming Fochsia {George Bensiead).—A very fair light-sepaled va- 

 riety with purplish corolla, but in the slate in which it reached ns no especial 

 merit was discernible. 



Rose (/. C. C.).—Jt is, we believe, a Noisette Rose, and called Ophiria ; 

 but the petals were all shed. 



■Worms [A Subscriber, Brighton) .—the common earth-worm is not in- 

 jurious. Its casts disSgure the lawn. Lime-water, poured plentifully upon 

 any spot, will eifectually banish them from it. 



Feoth Insect (Robert Proctor}.— It is so-called popularly, as it also is 

 "Cuckoo-spit" and " Froth-hopper." Entomologists have named it Tetti. 

 Konia apnmaria. It is injurious to plants by extracting their sap. The froth 

 is the insect's excrement. The quickest mode of destroying the insect is by 

 the finger and thumb, but we think dusting them with Scotch snuff would 

 incommode them. 



Rhododendeons »t the Botai. Botanic Gaedens, Regent's Paek.— 

 Allow me to correct an error which occurs in your Number of June 6th m 

 your report of my Rhododendrons now exhibiting at the Regents Park. 

 Ton commence your notice " The Knap Hill plants at the Regent's Park, 

 instead of which it ought to have been "The Bagshot plants, &c. '—John 

 Wateeke. 



Insects on Cheebt and Coeeant Teees (An Amateur Gardener).— li 

 they are aphides syringe them with tobacco water. 



