JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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them to throw out laterals. In all cases of earthingup crops 

 in dry weather, give them a good soaking with water previously _ 



5L0WEB (JAEDEIT. 

 The Roses should now receive particular attention, the stand- 

 ards to be well staked, the shoots disbudded and stopped, and the 

 roots mulched or supplied with liquid manure as they may re- 

 quire. Budding to be commenced on all stocks from which the 

 bark will rise freely, and Buch as are more sluggish in their cir- 

 culation to ba excited by a copious supply of liquid manure. 

 Do not be afraid of thinning the free-blooming sorts of a Per- 

 petual character. The old Bourbon Queen and the Crimson 

 Perpetual, for instance, will produce twice as many blooms as 

 they can permanently maintain. By a judicious and constant 

 attention in thiB way, fine blooms will be insured until the frost 

 sets in. Take up Tulip-bulbs whenever the weather will permit. 

 We do not imagine that the late excessive rain has been of any 

 service to them. When lifted do not separate the onsets from 

 the parent bulb, or remove the roots or skin. These had better 

 remain to a later period. Tie carefully the spindling shoots of 

 Carnations and Picotees, not too tightly. Lay Pinks and Cloves 

 for potting. Russian Violets may be separated and fresh plant- 

 ations made. Remove all decayed flowers and seed-vessels lrom 

 American shrubs. This will not only give them a neat appear- 

 ance, but will in a great degree add to their strength, and as a 

 result of this, an abundant bloom next season will be secured. Now 

 is a fine time for layering Rhododendrons, Belgian Azaleas, &c, 

 just as they are coming into full growth. Push Dahlias on by 

 watering freely when the weather is dry ; also, assist them by 

 mulching the ground with decayed stable-manure. Take care 

 that the plants do not chafe where attached to the blooming- 

 Bticks. The present is a favourable time for putting in cuttings 

 of all the most showy herbaceous plants, selecting for the pur- 

 pose the small shoots not furnished with bloom. A north border 

 is a suitable place to strike them, and a hand-glass will facilitate 

 their rooting. Pansies for autumn-blooming may be treated in 

 the same way. Attend to the Btaking such of the herbaceous 

 plants as require it before they get blown about and injured by 

 high winds that sometimes occur about this time, and do not 

 huddle the stems together as is too frequently done. Give plants 

 infested with green fly a liberal washing with the engine, or 

 syringe them with tobacco water. Mildew sometimes becomes 

 troublesome after this season ; iD may, however, be kept in check 

 by applying sulphur to the parts affected the moment it makes 

 its appearance, first wetting them wi'h water in order that the 

 sulphur may Btick. 



FBTJIT GARDEN. 

 Proceed with nailing-in the young wood of wall trees, and see 

 that they are perfectly clear of insects ; also stop any gross shoot, 

 and endeavour to secure a fair supply of bearing wood all over 

 the tree. Gross Bhoots that were stopped early in the season 

 should be divested of all the laterals if not wanted to fill up 

 vacant spaces. Strawberry-runners to be procured for new 

 plantations. Those who cannot spare ground for a new planta- 

 tion may prick them out in prepared beds about 6 inches apart, 

 and remove them with balls in October. Also complete as 

 quickly as possible the layering of runners for forcing next 

 season, bearing in mind that one week now is worth two at the 

 end of the month, and that strong well-matured plants are only 

 to be obtained by early layering and good after- culture, and that 

 no amount of care next spring will compensate for late, and, 

 consequently, badly-rooted plants. 



GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 

 Should these plant-structures require repairs or cleaning, the 

 stock may be removed with greater safety at this than at any 

 other period ; it is injudicious to leave the completion of such 

 work until late in the season. This is generally a critical month 

 with greenhouse plants out of doors. The fervid heat is some- 

 times so great as to produce the tropical winter of vegetation 

 when the parching heat of the sun acts upon and produces in 

 some degree a dormancy in the system of plants, and at other 

 times when showers fall and we see the surface of the soil in the 

 pots moist, we are satisfied until the drooping or withering 

 foliage upbraid ub for our neglect, and, perhaps, with Heaths, 

 New Holland, and other such plants it is noticed when too late 

 to save. These ill effects may be avoided by plunging the pots 

 in coal ashes, and by syringing the plants overhead of an 

 evening, and examining them when doubtful on the subject by 

 gently turning one or two out of their pots to see the state of 



[ June 30, 1863. 



the ball, as it requires some experience to distinguish whether a 

 plant wants water or not from the ring produced by rapping 

 the knuckles against the Bide of the pot. W. Keane. 



DOINGS OF THE LAST WEEK. 



Much the routine of previous weeks, such as stikii g Peas, 

 hoeing ground, pricking-out as well as planting-out Celery, 

 Broccoli, Cauliflower, &c, earlhing-up slightly Po atoes to pre- 

 vent the tubers being greened, cleaning Mushruoin-bed, spawn- 

 ing fresn piece, regulating Cucumbers, and giving manure water 

 to Capsicums, Tomatoes, &c, 



EiiUIT GARDEN. 



Went over trees aB much as we could get at them ; thinning 

 and fastening-in Apricot and Peach shoots ; ditto fears againBt 

 walls; thinning shcots and picking the poims off from dwarf 

 standard Apple, Pear, and flum trees; washed and engiued 

 Cherries and Plums against walls, using rather strong clear soot 

 water; put the litter closer up to rows of Strawberries, and 

 netted them from birds. Crops pretty fair, single specimens not 

 bo magnificent as usual. Those in iront of an orchard-house 

 are still rather the best for flavour. Have never seen, however, 

 Black Prince liner out of doO'B, and what is better, many house- 

 keepers are thanking Mr. Cutiull it has proved sucli a firm good 

 preserving Strawberry, and though darker in colour, yet superior, 

 on the whole, tu the old scarlets generally so used. Eeens' Seed- 

 ling used to be very much in vogue for preserving, but it is 

 much inferior to the Prince, being much more soft and juicy. 

 Some late kinds, as Elton and Eleanor, preserve well, if not too 

 much ripened. These do well whole in Currant juice. Find 

 that from strewing the ground slightly with soot auu lime, there 

 is little probability ot trouble from slugs or other crawlers. 

 Planted-out forced plants as room could be found, as such plants 

 turned out last year are by far the finest and moat fruitful now. 

 Was obliged to smoke the Peach-house, though the fruit is ripe 

 and ripening, and we would have avoided it if possible, as the 

 fruit will last us for some weeks yet. We, therefore, pulled all 

 that were ripe, that they might not be tainted with the laurel 

 and tobacco smoke ; we found we could not keep the Aphis 

 persicre, that horrid brown and black insect, in check without it, 

 as some of the fruit was getting discoloured from their excrement. 

 Had to do the same with the orchard-house, alter being pretty 

 well beaten with the dusting and washing process. The orchard- 

 house was kept in smoke lrom two to three hours, but the smoke 

 was chiefly from burning laurel leaves that had previously been 

 well bruised. Smoke lrom tobacco alone for that period would 

 have been dangerous. Last night we could not find an insect 

 alive, but to-day a lew have revived, and lots of small ones have 

 appeared, so that we shall smoke again to-night. Some that 

 were put into a close vessel, seemingly dead, appear so this 

 morning, with the exception of a very tew very sickly, but there 

 also appear a number of small dots of young ones that were not 

 there the night before, no doubt viviparous productions. We 

 never had this aphis before last year, and thought we had got---, 

 rid of it in the autumn; but if spared another winter we will 

 look after it even more sharply. All other insects we have met 

 with are trifles to it. The hot weather, and being busy else- 

 where, enabled it to reproduce itself quickly, and its powers of 

 increase aie almost fabulous. 



In the Peach-house we syringed well where we could do so 

 without displacing the fruit, as the few r aphides left alive were very 

 sickly; and as that springing would briug them to the floor, 

 strewed the floor with lime and Boot, and watered slightly all 

 over with hot water from a rose. Watered Jfig trees heavily, as 

 we knew we could not make the water stagnant. Late ones in 

 orchard-house are showing well, and were also watered. If a 

 Fig in a pot gets at all dry when it has very young fruit, they 

 will drop to a certainty. This is one reason why without this 

 care Figs in pots are more uncertain than those planted out. 

 With this precaution, comparative dryness to ripen the wood in 

 autumn, and more dryness and freedom from severe hosts in 

 winter, water gradually given until all the ball is moistened in 

 spring by the lime the fruit bIiows, and regular moisture at the 

 roots afterwards, without stagnant water, no tree does better in a 

 pot than the Fig. Without these cares it will be better planted 

 out, and stubby shoots secured by confining the roots, and 

 pinching the shoots. Went over the trees in orchard-house ; 

 and as respects Peaches, Nectarines, Plums, &c, gave them 

 pretty well their final thinning of fruit, as most of them are set, 



