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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
{ October 3, 1878. 
a gallon of water in a jar and two table-spoonfuls of sulphur | tubes carmine streaked with white ; neck encircled with a dark 
inatin. The sulphur is set fire to and the whole is kept close 
until it is consumed, when the fruit is taken out in a state that 
will remain perfect for two years. It isan American discovery, 
and as it is well known that sulphur has a great power of 
killing the germs of disease there may be something in it, and 
I would be pleased to hear the result from anyone who may try 
the experiment, as I intend to do—A KITCHEN GARDENER, 
CAPE HEATHS.—No. 9. 
Ir will be well now to place these plants under cover. Many 
growers prefer to repot their young specimens at this particular 
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Fig. 40.—Erica verticillata. 
season, and we would recommend it to be done now at once. 
Use good sandy peat, and above all things drain the pots well. 
Do not break the soil too small, and in potting press it very 
firm. The plants should be kept a little closer directly after 
potting, but avoid keeping them too much confined. Keep a 
sharp look-out for the great bane of Ericas—viz., the mildew. 
Upon the slightest sign dust with flowers of sulphur, but keep 
it carefully away from the roots, 
Erica verticillata (fig. 40).—Leaves arranged in fours, linear 
acute and brilliant green. Flowers pendant, tubular, flame 
colour, produced in pairs from the axils of the leaves, forming 
long racemes, Very showy. 
band ; segments large and spreading. 
EL. taxifolia—An elegant species belonging to the arborescent 
section, which are very difficult to raise from cuttings. Leaves 
arranged in threes, linear, smooth, and bright green. Flowers 
in terminal clusters, globose ; both calyx and corolla rosy pink. 
L. Turnbullii.—A superb autumn-flowering variety. Flowers 
produced in umbels of about six, tubular ; tubes 14 inch long, 
reddish pink, becoming much darker when fully exposed to 
the sun's influence; neck encircled with a dark band ; seg- 
ments white, large and spreading. 
LE. tricolor Holfordii.—A robust-growing variety. Leaves 
densely clothed with long woolly hairs. Flowers tubular, very 
large, and produced in many-flowered whorls; tubes soft flesh 
colour, with a darker circle round the neck, 
E. tricolor coronata.—This variety often flowers earlier than 
the present month, but we have seen it very fine at this season. 
Less robust than the preceding. Flowers large and tubular ; 
tubes rosy pink, with a band of green round the neck; seg- 
ments of limb white, spreading. 
E. tricolor flammea.—Leaves blunt, recurved, and densely 
furnished with long woolly hairs. Flowers upwards of 1} inch 
long, much swollen at the base, fiery red, changing upwards to 
white with a green band round the neck ; segments spreading. 
E. Marnochiana.—A very fine hardwooded variety. Leaves 
spreading, fringed at the edges with light hairs, and armed at 
the point with a stiff bristle-like hair. Whorls many-flowered, 
tubular, swollen at the base, destitute of the gummy matter 
so Common to this section ; tubes deep rich blackish purple ; 
segments small, spreading, white. 
£. sulphurea—Yellow Heaths are not plentiful at this 
season, and therefore this is a very welcome species. Leaves 
arranged in fours, hairy. Flowers tubular, also hairy, forming 
long racemes near the apex of the principal branches, pale 
yellow. 
E. pyramidalis (fig. 41, page 261)—A very ornamental 
species, both in regard to its mode of growth and to its pro- 
fusion of flowers. Leaves pubescent. Flowers funnel-shaped, 
rose-coloured, with a protruding style. 
NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 
WE regret to hear that the ToMATO HARVEST in Ful- 
ham has turned out a comparative failure. Many cartloads 
of diseased fruits may be seen in some of the market gardens, 
The disease is of a very bad type; the plants are taken in the 
morning and in some cases are perfectly black before sunset. 
The only chance of securing the fruit from diseased plants is 
to gather it immediately the disease is seen, and ripen them 
under glass. In many cases more than half the crops have 
been thrown away. 
—— ANexcellent judge says that one of the best FLOWER 
BEDS he has seen this season is at Pendell Court, the seat of 
Sir G. Macleay, under the care of Mr. Green. It is oval in 
form, and is strongly suggestive of a bright gem judiciously 
set. The centre is planted with Tuberous Begonias, leaving a 
broad band for the purpose of toning and contrast. This is 
effected to perfection by Centaurea ragusina, Coleus, Ageratum, 
and variegated Ivy-leaved Pelargonium, the whole trimmed 
off with a margin of Alternanthera. The leaves of Tuberous 
Begonias out of doors are often bronzed to a degree that does 
not suit the flowers, but at Pendell Court they had the brightest 
green colour, 
— Mr.G. MuRRAY, Peniarth Gardens, North Wales, writes 
to us as follows on MANDEVILLA SUAVEOLENS :—“ With me 
this climber has flowered twice this summer, and from the 
first flowering there are seed pods from 12 to 16 inches long 
hanging on the plant. It is growing on the south side of the 
mansion, and has attained the height of 30 feet. Ishould be 
pleased to know if it has seeded with anyone before in the 
open air.” 
— Mr. P. BENNETT, Colebrooke Park, Tunbridge, in reply 
to “A KITCHEN GARDENER,” writes as follows on TOMATOES 
KEEPING WASPS OUT OF VINERIES :—“ Tomatoes planted on 
the back wall.of the vinery have produced a large quantity of 
good fruit, and I have never seen one wasp in the house, though 
the Grapes have been ripe for six weeks, The cottage I occupy, 
which is not 10 yards from the vinery, is and has been swarm= 
4, Austiniana.—tThis is a very fine hardwooded species. | ing with wasps and flies ; and other fruit trees are much in- 
Leaves spreading, smooth, and dark green. Flowers produced | fested with them. I am at a loss to account for the wasps 
in large whorls, nearly terminal, tubular, nearly an inch long ; | keeping out of the vinery except for the presence of Tomatoes,” 
