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JOURNAL OF HOETICTJLTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENER. 



[ Jnno 20, 1865. 



it to see what there is there. Poor things ! at present they 

 must be anxious to find anything to moisten their throats 

 in this parching weather, and did they keep within bounds 

 we would freely let them have their slrnre, but we do not 

 like them having all the produce for which we have toiled. 



Watered and mulched the Straivherries out of doors. If 

 not covered immediately the watering was but of little use. 

 Could we have spared time we would have set about layering 

 Strawberry plants for forcing, and will soon be at them. 

 Seldom have more contradictory accounts appeared than of 

 forced Strawberries this season. With the exception of a 

 few of the earliest ours have done well. Many failures, we 

 have no doubt, have taken place from large luxiu-iant plants 

 and unr'pened buds. In our description of Latimers we 

 especially noted the fine-looking Strawberry plants, in large 

 pots, but as they were not wanted eai-ly, and great care 

 was taken to ripen the buds, we felt pretty sure that the 

 crop would be better than usual. Henco the hint the other 

 week, to which Mr. Donaldson has kindly replied, and s.ays, 

 " I have President, Admiral Dundas. and Sii- Charles Napier, 

 in full bearing, not thinned-out to five or six berries, but to 

 fifteen, sixteen, and even twenty berries each plant. I had 

 President ripe in the larger pots on the 20th of April," and 

 he mentions some mutual friends and others who pronounced 

 them very fine. He also states he had not a blind plant 

 amongst five hundred plants. Those in small pots showed 

 also well, but being placed on the shelves of t'.ie vinery did 

 not swell off so well. Mr. Donaldson adds, " I consider the 

 great points are to get your runners early, so as to fill the 

 pots well with roots, and then the crowns are sure to get 

 hard with flower-buds." We would just add as a caution, 

 that those who imitate Mr. Donaldson in using large pots 

 must not satisfy themselves with the half of the plan, but 

 must follow out the bud-ripening process. These splendid 

 plants, when we saw them last season, were each elevated on 

 the reversed bottom of another pot, and standing a good bit 

 apart, so that sun and air might act on pot and roots, as 

 well as foliage. I'his is a very different thing from placing 

 the pots on the ground, and even in a shady place, and tben 

 expecting the plants to be bristling with flower-buds. The 

 appearance of these plants in autumn, and the crops they 

 produced this spring, i'; just another proof that we must 

 think and plan and work for results. 



Other departments much the same as last week, only we 

 managed to finish mulching with i-otten dung all the fruit 

 trees in pots in the orchard-house. Scarcely any fire heat has 

 been used for a fortnight, except on one or two cold nights. 



ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT. 



Much the same as last week. Owing to the great heat we 

 have allowed a little of our bedding to remain over until 

 there be a change, more especially as other work required 

 doing more, and the plant" are all right where they are. For 

 many years we filled a verandah fronted with glass with 

 vases of flowers, and they had a fine eflect as a background 

 to a sunk Italian garden. For various reasons, and much 

 against our desire, the practice was discontinued, and now 

 it is to be revived, .and wehavejust been getting them filled. 

 Some of these vases were largo and heavy, and not easily 

 moved when full, and some from 5 to 6 feet in height, 

 pedestal and all together. It is not desii-able that the floor 

 should be wetted in watering. Previously we had stands 

 made to go below the pedestals to catch the water ; but then 

 there waR a trouble in moving the vases to get at tliem. 

 Thanks to a hint from the bricklayer, who was repairing 

 some of the vases with cement, we shall now bu able to re- 

 move the water without any difficulty. For the larger vases 

 we had pedestals made of deal, from 10 to 20 inches srinare, 

 and from 4 to B inches deep. The top was covered with a 

 board, and a hole cut out some C inches in diameter, to let 

 the water trickle down. 'Jlic^o we primed and then painted 

 and sanded with yellowisli sand, so as to resemble a dark 

 stone. The improvement eoiiHista in cutting out on the 

 bevel one of the sidee for 10 incliex, in length, but so lunged 

 that we can place a zinc vessel beneath it inches square, 

 and 2 inches deep, and take it out when it is nearly full, 

 without touching the vase or pedcHtal. The arrangement is 

 a Tery simple one, bat it will lie none the loss uHcful. and the 

 plants can be duly attended to ivith watering, without ever 

 lilopping and Kailing the floor. Manyothir matters must 

 wait until next we«k. — K. F. 



COVENT GARDEN' MARKET.— June 17. 



The maikeU are heavily f»iipplie(l, an*! very considerable quantities of 

 poft fruit are coming in frnm viirious p^rt^ of the kingdnm. Great cora- 

 plainta are mude of the lifiht crop« of Siruwberries round London. The 

 trade for old Potatoes is exceedingly dull. 



Apples 



Allricols 



Cherries 



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Filberts 



Cobs 



Gocacberries , 

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MUBcats ., 







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Plums 



Quince's 



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S-rawberrlcs . 

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punnet 

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Beat, Red 



Broccoli 



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Lettuce p 



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Onions 



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Parsnips 



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Potatoes 



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Cauliflow«r ... 



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TRADE CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 

 John Foulds, Hullard Hall Lane, Stretford New Koad, 

 Manchester. — Catalogue of Chrysanthemums, Zonale Geranimns, 

 Fuchsias, Verbenas, c^r. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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

 partmental writers of the " .Tournal of Horticulture. 

 Cottage Gardener, and Country Gl-entleinan." By so 

 doing they are subjected to unjustifiable ti-ouble and 

 eiqjense. All communications should therefore be ad- 

 dressed solely to The Editors of the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture, 4-c., 171, Fleet Street, lonilon, F.G. 



"We also request that correspondents will not mix up on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those 

 on Poultry aud Bae subjects, if they expect to get them 

 answered proraptl.y and conveniently, but write them 

 on separate communications. Also never to send more 

 than two or three questions at once. 



N.B. — Many questions must remain unanswered until next 

 week. 



SnSDINo GERtNluM CiTTlKos TO A DisTANCF, (./. .<?.1.-We put them ipto 

 a bix In ulterniite Uvrrs with d imped mo8< o' damped cocoa-nut romse, 

 and Ihey should be taken out and planted during the cvtiiinB of the day 

 thov are received. 



Rose Lk.vp.s nLOTCHKo (I? C. /l.).-Muloli the nurfsco of Ihe soil above 

 the ranU of the trees. Water libeiMllv every cvonin? durinir dry »oalhor. 

 Give liquid manure once a-weok from your oess-pool, but to each buchotful 



ifitl two buckets of water. 

 lUioK (Wo/(il.— The "Cnltaun Giinleners' Dlcllonnry ' 



contains all that 

 you iiientioTi dovin "lo the dale when it hut was rivincd iiy Mr. .lohnaon. 



OitNirnooAi.i'M Tiiviis.iiiiKB AVTF.n Rloomiso (/Tnn/ei;).— If kept under 

 trbi"! Brudiially withhold water, and keep Ihe foil Just moUt, but rather 

 Inclined 10 be dry lli.m of orw se until OcioImm- ; ih.-n repot, shakluK or taklUK 

 a»av iiiOKt of the oM soil, and imlnK a cnm|.n»t of fundv loam two-lhlrd«, 

 and'llic r<-niamd«r leaf mould and peal In equal parts, with a free admixture 

 of silver SHiirl Wo ^row the plant in ii cold pit, and rcnuive It lo the Krcon- 

 liuUBO lor hloo-n, and when Ihis is nviT plnuBe the pot In a sunny part of the 

 Harden, and lake no furthiT Ironhle .-111001 t <■ plant until It Is taken up and 

 |..iU.-d in iiclober: wi then place It in a cold pit. It U hardy wnh m In a 

 .hell.rrd holder and iimhiblv mi In border- itenorally, but we have not a 

 •ulflclent slock til warrant our Irylnu It in this way. 



.SoAl'-Biins (/7. n. A iiilrnoii).— Si) far 'roin InjiirinK they improve the 



hnu-i'-i'cwaiio lor all Itarden er.ip». As they cmmist chielly of water you 



ne.d not add rn much clear wnKT to the Beware be/ore iiKinit II. as Is necM- 



«ary when composed of contrlbullonH only from the chambers and water- 



•^ cl»»et*. 



