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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ July G, 1876. 



variety is the most hardy sort we have and flowers very freely. 

 It would be very beneficial to the plants if we could give them 

 all a good watering, and then mulch the surface of the ground 

 with decayed manure. Asters also suffer from the attacks of 

 insect pests. The beds have been well watered and mulched, 

 and if this does not start the plants into healthy growth they 

 will be Byringed daily with soot water. This causes the foliage 

 to become of a darker green, and soot is obnoxious to most 

 insects. Pinks are in splendid bloom. The plants never were 

 more healthy or the flowers better laced than they are this 

 season. Each plant has about a dozen well-shaped flowers on it 

 at one time. Carnations and Picotees are also coming freely 

 into flower, and it seems as if there would also be a good Bhow 

 of them. Auriculas are very quiet behind a north wall. The 

 plants are carefully watered, they are kept clear from green fly 

 by brushing it off ; there are always a few withered leaves at this 

 season which are picked off, and the weeds are not allowed to 

 remain in the pots. 



Herbaceous borders require frequent attention at this season, 

 else the stronger-growing subjects quite destroy the more 

 dwarf and tender species. Each plant ought to have its allotted 

 space, and must not be allowed to grow beyond it. Many persons 

 complain that certain tender alpine plants do not succeed with 

 them. How can they unless they have space to grow? The 

 reason is not alwayB the unsuitable soil and situation, but 

 simply that the weaker plants are smothered with their robust 

 neighbours. — J. Douglas. 



TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



William Clark, The Nurseries, Wallington, Surrey. — Cata- 

 logue of New and Choice Greenhouse and Hardy Pla?its. 



Ant. Roozen & Son, Overveen, near Haarlem, Holland. — 

 Catalogue of Bulbs, Aquatics, Terrestrial Orchids, Gesneri- 

 aceous Plants, d-c. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. 



Secretaries will oblige ns by informing us of the dates on 

 which exhibitions are to be held. 



Ipswich.— July 6th, and September 17th. Sec, Mr. W. B. Jeffries, Henley 



Road, Ipswich. 

 Frome (KoBea). July 6th. Mr. A. R. Baily, Hon. Sec. 

 Newabk (Roses). July 6th. Mr. F. R. Dobney, Sec. 

 Nottingham. July 6th to 10th. Mr. A. Kirk, 'Municipal Offices, Sec. 

 Sandown Pake. July 7th and 8th. Mr. Wills, Royal Exotic Nurssry, Onslow 



Crescent, South Kensington, Sec. 

 Alexandra Palace. Roses, July 7th and 8th. 

 Wellingborough. July 7th and 8th. Mr. W. B. Parke, Hon. Sec. 

 Reiqate (Roses). July Sth. Mr, J. Payne, Treasurer. 

 Ealing, Acton, and Hanwell. July 11th (at Fordhook). Mr. R. Bean, 



Ealing, Sec. 

 Enfield. July 12th. Mr. J. T. Rofe, Bloomfield Nursery, Sec. 

 Helensburgh (Roses). July 12th and 13th. Mr. J. Mitchell, Sec. 

 Wimbledon. July 12th and 13th. Mr. P. Appleby, 6, Linden Cottages, Hon. Sec. 

 Highgate. July 13th. Mr. W. M. Biirck, 6, North Road, Highgate, Sec. 

 West of England (Hereford). Roses. July ISth. Rev. C. H. Bulmer, 



Credenhill, Sec. 

 Clifton, Bristol (Roses, &c). Jaly 13th. Mr. J. T. Jackson, Sec. 

 Leek (Roscb). July 18th. Mr. S. Cartwright, Sheep Market, Leek, Stafford- 

 shire, Hon. Sec. 

 Kilmarnock. Rosea, July 18th and 19th. General Exhibition, September 



14th. Mr. M. Smith, 11, King Street, See. 

 Tonbridge. July 19th. Mr. W. Blair, Hon. Sec. 

 Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington. July 19th and 20th 



(Roses, &c). November Sth (Fruit). 

 Thornton Heath. July 21st and 22nd, and September 1st and 2nd. Mr. 

 W. Raines, 10, St. John's Villas. Bonsham Manor Road, Thornton Heath, 

 Hon. Sec. 

 Tewkesbuby. July 2oth. Mr. P. Moore and Mr. H. J. Cochrane, Hon." Sees. 

 Wrexham. Jaly 25th. Mr. J. B. Shirley, Hon. Sec. 

 Huntingdon. July 26th. Mr. J. Dillev, Market Place, Sec. 

 Headingley. July 26th and 27th. Mr. T. Atkinson, Burleywood, Head- 



ingley, Leeds, Sec. 

 Aberdeen (Royal Horticultural Society). July 26th, 27th, and 28th. Mr. 



Archibald J. Rennie, 123J, Union Street. 

 Brighouse. July 29th. Messrs. C. Jessop & E. Rawnsley, Hon. SecH. 

 Saltaire. July 29th. Mr. G. A. White, Hon. Sec. 

 Kilsby (Flowers). August 1st. Mr. C. E. Bracebridge, Sec. 

 Heworth (Horticultural). August 2nd. Mr. R. H. Feltoe, Hon. Sec. 

 Rawtenstall (Rosendale). August 4th and 5th. Mr. M. J. LonBdale, Sec. 

 Southampton. August 5th and 7th. Mr. C. S. Fuidge, 39, York Street, 



Sec. 

 Finedon. August 7th. Mr. G. C. Mann, Sec. 

 Taunton Deane. August 10th. Mr. F. H. Woodforde, M.D,, and Mr. 



Clement Smith, Hon. Sees. 

 Filey. August 11th. Mr. Walter Fisher, Hon. Sec. 

 Otley. August 12th. Mr. Alfred Suttle, Hon. Sec. 



Clay Cross. August 15th. Mr. J. Stallard, Clay Cross, near Chesterfield, Sec. 

 Weston-super-Mare. August 15th and 16th. Mr. W. B. Frampton, Sec. 

 Preston. AuguBt 16th and 17th. Mr. W. Troughton, Hon. Sec. 

 Shrewsbury. August 16th and 17th. Adnitt & Naunton, Hon. Sees. 

 Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees. August 18th. Mr. C. Turner, Sec. 

 Mlrfield Hortiooltural. August 19th. Mr. George Senior and Mr. John 



Rushforth, Hon. Sees. 

 Calne (Wilts). August 22nd. Mr. H. Blackford, Sec. 

 Newbury. August 22nd. Mr. H. Seymour, Hon. Sec. 

 Chepstow. August 23rd. Mr. R. Thorn, Hon. Sec. 

 Seaton Burn. August 26th. Mr. R. Richardson and Mr. W. Eliott, Sees. 



Carshalton, Wallington, and Beddington. August 24th. Mr. J. 



Baines, Leicester House, Carshalton, and Mr. W. Clark, the Nurseries, 



Wallington, Hon. Sees. 

 Isle of Thanet (Margate). August 30th. Mr. C. D. Smith, 8, Marine 



Terrace, Margate, Sec. 

 Montrose. September 1st and 2nd. Mr. Alex. Burnett, 2, High Street, Sec. 



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 unavoid-' 

 ably. We request that no one will write privately to any 

 of our correspondents, as doing so subjects them to un- 

 justifiable trouble and expense. 



Correspondents should not mix up on the same sheet questions 

 relating to Gardening and those on Poultry and Bee sub- 

 jects, 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. 



Books (I. F.).— "The Elements of Botany," by Thomas Moore, published 

 by Longman, will suit a young lady " anxious to begin the study of botany." 

 (GUnmore). — Any bookseller in the town near you can obtain the hook you 

 need. 



Compost for Cyclamens {J. T.).— Three parts fibrous loam, one part leaf 

 soil or well-decayed manure, one part sandy peat, and a part of silver sand, 

 well mixed and broken-up fine but not sifted, will be suitable. Brain 

 efficiently. 



Forming Boof for Greenhouse (E. M. P.).— We know nothing of the 

 house you allude to, hut if we understand your sketches aright the supports 

 for the glass in the present case are lengthwise of the house, glazed without 

 putty, and that you wiBh to convert it into an ordinary roofed house glazed 

 with putty. You will require rafters, and these need not be more than 

 2 inches thick and 4£ deep, rebated half an inch wide and three-quarters of 

 an inch deep for the glass, and between each of those you will require gash- 

 bars 2i deep and l£ inch thick, rebated the same as the rafters. These may 

 be morticed and tenoned into the ridge the depth of rebate below the ridge, 

 and a piece of wood half an inch wide and three-quarters of an inch deep 

 placed on the ridge between the rafters and sash to form the rebate for the 

 glass. The rafters may be secured to the plates at bottom, and a fillet let in 

 between the rafters and sashbars, bringing up the front level with the rebates, 

 which should al^o project and form a nosing. You ought to have an opening 

 for ventilation 18 inches wide the whole length of the house. Doing the 

 work yourself it ought not to cost more than hall of the sum you name. 



Weevils on Raspberries (A Subscriber). — The insect yon have sent is 

 Rhynchitea alliariaa, which in some seasons attacks fruit-bearing trees of all 

 sorts. It is very different from what is familiarly known as the Raspberry 

 beetle, Byturus tomentosus. Evidently the visits to the young shoots are 

 for the purpose of depositing eggs, and the only way by which it can be kept 

 under is by the plan often pursued successfully with other weevils — spreading 

 sheets under the Raspberries at night and gently shaking them. Also all 

 twigs should be at once removed which appear to have been touched. The 

 bark of the Vine sometimes affordB a shelter to small companies of these 

 weevils, and should be looked to wherever the species shows itself. 



Vines Mildewed (A. B. P.). — Apply flowers of sulphur to all the parts 

 affected — leaves, shoots, and hunches, admitting air more freely, repeating 

 the sulphuring if necessary. Dress the border with guano, making the sur- 

 face quite yellow, and wash-in with water at a temperature of So to 90 c . The 

 mildew has probably arisen from a too moist and close atmosphere. 



Composts for Plants (R. A. C). — The " Cottage Gardeners' Dictionary" 

 gives the compost required for every description of plant. It may he had 

 through any bookseller. If you only require a work treating of greenhouse 

 plants, our " Greenhouse Manual " would suit you. It may be had from our 

 office for lQd. 



Melon Culture (A Young Gardener). — You may grow the Melon in a 

 light part of the " moderately cool vinery," giving the plant or plants 18-inch 

 pots, well drained, and using a compost of Btrong or yellow loam, firming 

 well, keeping the neck or collar of the plants rather high in the centre of the 

 pot, and leaving a couple of inches space for watering and top-dressings of 

 manure after the fruit is swelling. Had yon a frame on a hotbed of dung we 

 should put out the plants, one in the centre of each light, with 10-inch depth 

 of soil for the plants to grow in. 



Marechal Niel Rose not Thriving {A Subscriber). — The plant has not 

 grown from the soil being so wet as to hinder the formation of roots. It is 

 likely to do better in a bed of fresh soil, and will not he injured by the 

 removal, only shade until established. We do not, however, advise this or 

 any Rose to be grown in a house employed for Cucumbers. It will not long 

 remain healthy, the atmosphere being too warm, close, and moi3t. Give it a 

 chance in a cool airy house planted in a border of good material — turfy loam 

 rather stiff, with a fourth of manure. 



Plant and Strawberry (S. £.)•— The box was smashed. We oan only 

 say the plant is a Peutstemon. 



Geranium Leaves Spotted (A. Bland). — The an* of the house is too 

 moist. More ventilation will check the present spots, and prevent more 

 appearing. 



Fuchsias and Geraniums not Flowering (G. H. H.). — Having only 

 top light is the probable cause, and if so your only remedy is to placo the 

 plants on shelves close to the glass. 



Drying Grasses and Flowers (K. and J. B. A.). — Take some fine white 

 sand (that called eilver sand is the best), wash it repeatedly until all dirt is 

 removed and the water remains clear. Next dry it thoroughly, and fill a 

 vase, a stone flower-pot, or a glass half full of the eand; in this stick fresh- 

 gathered flowers in their natural position, and afterwards cover them gently 

 with the sand, taking care not to damage the petals. Now place the vessel 

 in the sun or in a room where a constant fire is kept, and let it remain until - 

 the flowers are perfectly dry. Then remove the sand carefully, and clean the 

 leaves with a feather brush. You must gather your flowers for this purpose 

 when they are dry— that iB, after the dew has evaporated. The process suoceeds 



