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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ July 18, 1878, 
started into growth. Cattleyas when growing freely require 
plenty of moisture, which will enable them to make good plump 
pseudobulbs. Ventilate the houses at about seven in the morning, 
closing at about four in the afternoon. As many plants will have 
completed their growth they should be removed to a cooler house 
with an average temperature of about 60° without sun heat, it 
being less charged with moisture and heat than that in which the 
growths were made. When continued in their growing quarters 
a majority of the plants start into second growth, which, as a 
rule, does not become properly matured. Afford weak liquid 
manure to Calanthes and keep the leaves freed of red spider, 
thrips, and scale by sponging with soapy water and afterwards 
with clear soft water. Thunia Bensoniz and Thunia albus come 
in about this time when flowering plants are waning, and are 
therefore the more valuable, and being of easy culture should be 
grown in every collection. They require similar treatment during 
growth as Calanthe vestita. Sobralias are subject to red spider, 
and should be frequently sponged and syringed. Syringe all 
blocks and plants overhead, especially after a hot day, giving 
plenty of air to all pseudobulbous plants to enable the growths 
to become ripe and solid. Anzectochiluses when growing and in 
good health should have plenty of water; those under bellglasses 
should have a crock placed so as to tilt the glass to admit air, 
which if not attended to the plants are liable to damp off. It is 
a good plan to remove the glasses eyery morning early for two or 
three hours. 
Stove.—Plants of Eucharis amazonica that flowered early will 
now have made a good growth, and should have water withheld 
until the leaves commence flagging, then give a little to restore 
the foliage, keeping the plants in a light cool airy house for about 
five or six weeks, when if returned to heat and moisture they will 
soon throw up the flowers. Anthurium Schertzerianum atter it 
has ceased flowering should, if required, be shifted into larger 
pots. Being a surface-rooting plant it does not require a great 
depth of compost to grow in, but must have very liberal drainage, 
as the waterings require to be abundant. Good fibrous peat in 
lumps as large as eggs, some sphagnum and charcoal or crocks 
moderately small and a free admixture of sand, removing all the 
earthy portion from the peat by shaking ina sieve, form a suitable 
compost. Attend to climbers with water and liquid manure, 
especially those planted out, as when the borders are dry red 
spider thrives famo usly upon the foliage notwithstanding that it 
be syringed. Fires may for the most part be dispensed with, but 
in a dull cold period they should be called into requisition ; for 
notwithstanding that the plants may not immediately show any 
of the effects of cold, they will do so all the more markedly when 
subjected to warmth again, whether it be natural or artificial. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Jules de Cock, Faubourg St. Lievin, Ghent, Belgium.—Cata- 
logue of Specialities of Hardy and Tender Ornamental Plants and 
Trees. 
George Brunning, St. Kilda Nurseries, Brighton Road, near 
Melbourne.—General Catalogue of Plants, Flowers, and Trees. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
*,* All correspondence should be directed either to‘ The Editors,” 
or to “The Publisher.” Letters addressed to Mr. Johnson or 
Dr. Hogg often remain unopened unavoidably. We request 
that no one will write privately to any of our correspondents, as 
doing so subjects them to unjustifiable trouble and expense. 
Correspondents should not mix up on the same sheet questions 
relating to Gardening and those on Poultry and Bee subjects, 
and should never send more than two or three questions at 
once. All articles intended for insertion should be written on 
one side of the paper only. We cannot reply to questions 
through the post. 
CARNATIONS BURSTING (Amatewr).—They are too well fed. 
soil and less water would enable all the parts to develope equally. 
ROSES (A Lover of Rose Shows).—There would-be no difference in the 
hardiness of the plants. 
BEAUTY OF TROWBRIDGE FUCHSIA.—We are informed that it was raised 
by Mr. J. Smith of Trowbridge. 
GREENHOUSE ASPECT (7. K.).—Facing the south with one end open to 
the east will not be objectionable for your greenhouse. 
BEGONIAS (7. B.).—The varieties are a legion and not nameable. 
SOWING SEED OF ECHEYERIA SECUNDA GLAUCA (Cif. B. S. D.)—Sow 
the seed immediately upon fine well-watered soil in large pans, which cover 
with some opaque substance to exclude light, and place in a pit or green- 
house. Inspect the pans occasionally, and as the seed vegetates admit light, 
and prick-out the seedlings thinly in other pans as soon as they are large 
enough. You do quite right to shade your Geraniums sent by post. The 
loss of the foliage is attributable to the exhaustive effects of such a method 
of transit, 
VINES FOR A SMALL VINERY (IV. C. B.).—According to the common 
method of procedure three Vines would be planted in a house 12 feet long’; 
but as your house is only 8 feet wide we advise you to rest content with 
your one Vine of Black Hamburgh, planting it in the centre of the front of 
the house, and training three rods or canes from it up under the roof, and 
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thus secure a much more vigorous root-action than you could do if more 
Vines were planted. If your light, rich, friable loam is well drained, you 
may plant your Vine in it next November without any other preparation 
than a dressing of manure to be forked-in just as for a crop of Cabbages. 
Afterwards when the Vine is established and its roots have traversed the 
border from back to front, as they are quite certain to do in a year or two, 
apply surface dressings of manure, but avoid forking the border or the roots 
will sustain serious injury. 
TRANSPLANTING RASPBERRY CANES (Jdem).—Do not attempt to trans- 
plant your old Raspberry stools, but select stout young offsets in the autumn, 
cutting them back to 2 feet and planting them about 2 feet apart in well- 
manured soil. Retain the old bed till the young plants throw up strong 
canes, which they will do the first season in very rich soil. Plentiful water- 
ings of sewage or liquid manure tend materially to promote that early strong 
growth which is so desirable. 
YOUNG GRAPES WITHERING (J. Williams).—Remove 3 or 4 inches of 
the surface soi], then apply mulch, keep it on during the growing season, 
and water so as to keep the soil moderately moist. Your object must_be to 
encourage by every possible means the emission of surface roots, and when 
you achieve this your Vines will improve. Perhaps your Vine border 
requires draining. 
KITCHEN GARDEN FOR A SMALL FAMILY (S. S.).—Under good culture 
a dozen square perches of ground would afford you the quantity of Potatoes 
you require. Figures may be made to prove anything. Here are some for 
you. <A bushel of Potatoes weighs 66 lbs., and land that is moderately 
rich will yield 2 bushels of large Potatoes from a square perch. A quarter of 
an acre of ground would probably supply you with other vegetables. So 
much depends, however, upon the nature and condition of the soil, upon the 
treatment it 1eceives, and upon your requirements that it is impossible to be 
more explicit, for if you require a large supply of vegetables and a succession 
of such as are usually grown in large gardens double the area of land would 
not be too much. 
DISEASED CUCUMBERS (New Subscriber).—Some notes on Cucumber cul- 
ture are in course of preparation, and will shortly be published. 
VINE LEAVES DECAYING PREMATURELY (C.D.).—No doubt the prema- 
ture decay of your Vine leaves is owing to imperfect drainage. Why your 
border is so much below the level of the garden surface you do not state. If 
this cannot be altered and the border raised, then sink ashaft or make a tank 
close outside. the lower end of the border, into which drain all superfluous 
water. The small size of the leaves you sent us betokens want of vigour, 
apply therefore a heavy top-dressing of rich manure from the stable or farm- 
yard immediately ; see also that no more time is lost about the drainage, and 
then you may reasonably look forward to a better state of things next year. 
ROSE FOR. AN EAST ASPECT (H. F. C.).—As you require a Hybrid Per- 
petual for your fence we suggest climbing Countess of Oxford, but Gloire de 
Dijon is much preferable ; no Rose is more hardy, and few are equal to it in 
robust vigour of growth and the still more important merit of continuity of 
flowering from early summer till late in autumn. 
JAPANESE ROSE (Somerset)——Yours is the true Japanese Rose, Rosa 
rugosa Regeliana. 
MAIDEN BLOOMS FROM SEEDLING BRIAR (A Lover of Rose Shows).—W® 
think that they are not equal to those of the standard or Manetti. They 
come later and are very large, but not of so good form as the others. We 
see no advantage in having standards 5 or 6 feet high, though often some of 
the best sorts of Teas are budded on them. They require longer stakes and 
are less secure in gales of wind. They certainly are very fine when budded 
with varieties which, like Maréchal Niel, are inclined to weep. Perhaps the 
buds usually grow more freely on the high standard. 
COLEUS LEAVES EATEN (J. C.).—A very small caterpillar often attacks 
Coleuses. It is very difficult to find, being nearly of the colour of the leaves. 
Shake your plants sharply over a sheet of paper, or examine them closely by 
candlelight, and you may find the marauder. There are so many varieties 
of Coleus so much alike that we cannot with certainty name from leaves 
only. As to form of plants for exhibition thatis entirely a matter of taste. 
Adopt the form which you can best carry out. 
NAMES OF PLANTS (J. H.).—Lilium umbellatum, 
THE HOME FARM: 
POULTRY, PIGEON, AND BEE CHRONICLE. 
MEETING or tor ROYAL COUNTIES (Hants & BerEs)} 
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ar SOUTHAMPTON. 
(Continued from page 38.) 
HORSES FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES.—Class 17.—This is an 
important class for the conductors of home farms, and whether 
the horses are reared for sale or for work on the farm, it is of great 
consequence that the best style of animal stould be selected. 
The first prize for the best cart stallion foaled before the year 1876 
is awarded to a powerful Clydesdale belonging to Messrs. Stan- 
ford Ashurst, Steyning, Sussex ; Mr. Stratton of Chilcombe, near 
Winchester, being a good second with a beautiful well-bred dark 
grey. In this class there were twelve entries. Class 18, for 
younger stallions, the first prize is taken by Mr. G. Newland of 
Micheldever, Hants. Class 19, for the best gelding or filly the 
Messrs. Stanford are again first with a capital Clydesdale filly, 
descended from his celebrated horse “Duke.” Classes 20 and 21, 
for the best entire cart colt and filly respectively, were well 
contested by well-known breeders with superior animals. Class 22, 
for the best mare and foal, eight entries—This was a splendid 
