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JOUENAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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Kose, it was not quite full, nor can we expect Rosea to be full on aucli 

 weak stocks. I have observed 'that Roses whicb are not full enouiiih on 

 weak stocks often become fall on stronf^ stocks, ami tbat Roses which 

 nppear to be the very thing on weik stocks, become stuffy and hesitating 

 bloomers on strong stocks. Buy Marie Rady, Edward Morren, Perfection 

 de Lyon, and Madame Chirard. Baroness Rothschild is a beautiful 

 Rose. In the delicate linn. Marquise de Mortemart is extra beautiful, 

 but not a strong grower.— W. F- Radclyffe. 



EcDDiNG Roses (Amateur).—! am nnt aware tbat there is any difference 

 in the growtb of Roses budded iu July and August. Roses may be 

 budded on the Manetti stock any time between May and September. In 

 fact, success depends greatly ou the flappiness of the stock and slice. 

 July is probably the best month in the year for budding. Briar Roses 

 may be budded as soon as the bark of the stocks will run, until the end 

 of August. After budding the stocks, if the sun is strong, put a leaf over 

 the bud. If the weather be dry, water the stocks well before budding.— 

 W. F. Radclyffe. 



Pansies (Mrs. B.).— If our correspondent will furnish us with some 

 dvatnils as to how she loses ber Pansies and when, we will endeavour to 

 assist ber. There are various causes from whicb they sometimea fail, 

 and unless wa have something more definite, ouradvice might be utterly 

 useless. Are they cultivated as directed in our " Florists' Flowers," 

 whicb can be had free by post from our oJHce for five postage stamps ? 



Bedding-out Plans (X. Y. Z.}.—Oar " Flower-Garden Plans " will suit 

 you exactly. You can have it free by post if you enclose 53. 4d. with 

 your address. 



Melons not Setting (A Young Gardener).— li is a very common cause 

 of fflilui-6, and chiefly arises from imperfect root action, oftpn occasioned 

 by a deficiency of bottom heat. Let that be kept at 70- to 75", and when 

 the fruit is setting maintain a rather dry atmosphere, but have the soil in 

 a moist condition ; indeed we water plants in houses or pits j ust the same 

 whether they are in or out of flower, only when in flower we do not water 

 overhead. The main points are to keep the flowers dry when open, to give 

 abundance of air, to impregnate the flowers on a fine day, and after the 

 corollas close to syringe or maintain a moist atmosphere. You do not say 

 your soil is good strong loam, and that you make it very firm. We tread 

 ours bard, and we have short-jointed wood, the plants not growing so 

 freely nor going bo much to wood. Your treatment wa should consider 

 good. 



Charles Lefebvre Rose Buds not Opening (A Friend^.— \7e think 

 the cause is the cold spring and the removal last winter. You can only 

 mulch with short manure, and water copiously both overhead and at root 

 in dry weather. 



Select Scarlet and Salmon-flowering Zonal Pelargoniums (Idevi). 

 — Scarkt —Coleshill, Thunderbolt, and Pbcebus. Saimoit.— Sunnyside, 

 Eenown, and Herald. Lime water applied frequently to Geraniums would 

 injure them. It is of no value as a liquid manure. 



Mr. Radclyffe's Strawberries and Roses ( ). — I have not mea- 

 sured nor weighed any Strawberries this season. Cockscomb is not in 

 crop this year at all, I have just planted out (July 6tb) runners of it ; and 

 Eliza, Dr. Hogg, and Mr. RadclyfTj have been extra fine. They are first- 

 class fruits. The finest crop ot all— all being good— is on Wonderful. Ln 

 France is a strong Rrower and a good conservatory Rose ; it is very hardy, 

 fcut soils in bad weather. Occasionally a bloom is grand. I greatly prefer 

 Baroness Rothschild. Marguerite de St. Amand, Marquise de Mortemart, 

 and Madame Emile Bovau. Alfred Colomb is a free grower, but has limp 

 wood. It is one of the finest Roses. Marie Baumaun is also one of the 

 very finest-shaped Roses, quite perfect, but it is a sby grower. I have 

 never till now proved Madame Fillion ; it is a good grower, distinct, beau- 

 tiful, and a free bloomer. — W. F. Radcliffe. 



Geranium Leaves Red (W. E. TT.).- The Geranium leaves are not, as 

 you suppose, infested with a red fungus ; they are sound, and the powder 

 on them is the pollen (orange-coloured) of some plant, probably some 

 overhanging flower. The leaves have the edges destroyed owing to the 

 sun's rays falling on them whilst wot, or from syringing the edges are 

 kept constantly wet. 



Tulip Bulbs with Spli- Seins (H". G. Jlf.).— The Tulip bnlbs will not 

 be any worse. Allow the skins to remain, and place the bulbs on shelves 

 in a cool dry place. The salt sprinkled over the Cabbages so as to destroy 

 the young heart leaves will, we should say, have destroyed them, and we 

 do not think they will recover. The haulm of the Potatoes blackened by 

 the same cause will not, we fear, bo reproduced in time for the formation 

 of a good crop of tubers. Without haulms the tubers will not swell. 



Urceolina Culture iT. C.).— It ie the same as U. pendula, and is a 

 beautiful, half-hardy, bulbous plant, bearing an umbel of drooping yellow 

 Sowers tipped with green. It requires to be kept dry in winter and in a 

 cold pit. Our correspondent says, " I have had Lilium giganteum in the 

 open border three years, the last two winters without protection. This 

 spring it sent up a flower-stalk, and is now beautifully in bloom. Vallota 

 purpurea flowers with me year after year iu the open air, with no other 

 favour shown it than being planted rather deeply just outside the 9-inch 

 wall of a cool house." 



Camellias after their Buds are Set (G. S. H.).— Keep them in a 

 cool airy house, and water them as required so as to keep the soil moist. 

 A house with an east aspect is best from the present time up to October ; 

 but if you have not that, afibrd a slight shade from bright sun. We are 

 unable to account for the Currant bushes dropping the fruit before ripen- 

 ing, but should attribute it to attacks of aphis, for which there is no 

 better remedy than syringing with 1 02. of soft soap to the gallon of water. 

 The seeds for sowing in the greenhouse to bloom next winter and spring 

 are Primulas, Cinerarias, Calceolarias (herbaceous), and Mignonette. 



Vine Leaves Yellow {E. R. P.j.— The yellow leaves on the Buckland 

 Sweetwater, in a cool house where no artificial heat is given, we attribute 

 chiefly to a stoppage of circulation in the footstalk of the leaf, which 

 might partly be the result of a sudden check or too much shade. We 

 have frequently seen a few leaves on a Vine thus affected, and. as we 

 judged, from similar causes; but when the leaves are generally healthy 

 this may give no more uneasiness than finding a few yellow leaves drop 

 from a deciduous tree out of doors in June. There are marks on the 

 leaves that show signs of blotching before they became yellow; and as 

 you say these yellow leaves are found at the top of the house, we would 

 exercise greater particularity in early air-giving. See notes at pa-'e l**. 

 No means, however, will make these yellow leaves gresn again. 



Vine Leaf Warted (Inquirer). — The eruptions on the lower side of the 

 Vine leaf are a sort of warts, which are apt to make their appearance when 

 the atmosphere is close and moist, or when there is a want of free reci- 

 procal action between the roots and leaves. Your repotting the plant 

 lately might be the ciuse. We once kne\7 half a dozen Vines in pots 

 begin to show this warty appearance after pottiag and being otherwise 

 well attended to ; but on soma plants being turned out it was found the 

 plants had been potted with the ball dry, and the moisture escaped through 

 the new soil without soaking the roots. If this is not the case with you 

 giro more air, and keep the atmospherd less moist. 



Early Cabbage (Cabhage Seed). — Little Pixie is a nice early little 

 Cabbage. For thrift, however, where you do not mind the heads being 

 small, provided you obtain a great return iu little room, nothiog we think 

 beats Veitch's Matchless. This kind will do well iu rows 16 inches apart 

 and some 10 or 12 inches in the row. As we lost so many of oar Cabbages 

 last winter we sowed this under glass in March, pricked out and planted 

 out, and towards the end of June we cut fiue-he-irted little Cabbages, 

 green, and just showing blanching at the heart. Larger, really when up 

 to the mark regubir fillbasket kinds, raised at the same timo, wo have cut 

 few from at the beginning of July. This Matchleas was first brought out 

 by Mr. Atkins when he was a nurseryman at Northampton. We think 

 the Messrs. Veitcb have improved upon it. The beads are more compact 

 and upright, and therefore perfect themselves in little room, and there 

 is no waste of large paraeol-like leaves where there is nothing to eat 

 them. In favourable winters this little hardy kind yields nice heads 

 early in spring. 



Gardener's Cottage (B.).— You will find good examples of lodges and 

 gardeners' cottages in Loudon's " Eucyclopjeiia ot Architecture." Very 

 good plans of cottages have been given in oar pages, as the gardener's 

 house at Trentham, at Lough Crew, Ireland, and that of Mr. Robson at 

 Linton Park. A gardener's house should, to be comfortable, have at least 

 six rooms— three bedrooms above, and a parlour, sitting-room, and kitchen 

 below, with an outbuilding for scullery, wash-house, &c. It is often de- 

 sirable to keep lodges low — all the rooms on one floor, and in that case it 

 is desirable that the walls should be dry, with plenty of ventilation given. 

 It is very undesirable to use soft porous bricks, however desirable in 

 colour, for such a building. It is often advisable in such cases to consult 

 a good tradesman in the neighbourhood. 



Panes of Glass in 100 Feet (G. TT. S.).— Cut into sizes of 20 inches 

 by 14. the number we think could easily be found by multiplying 20 by 14 

 together, and making the product the divisor of the number of square 

 inches in 100 square feet. We make the number of panes fifty-one and 

 three-seventh^ of a pane. Fifty-one panes would be near enough. 



Wire worms in Strawberries (C. Z.). — They are not wireworma but 

 snake millipedes, Julus pulchellus. In beds of loug-bearing Strawberries 

 they often abound. We know of no remedy but paring off and burning 

 the top spit of the soil. 



Insects (TT. H. M.).— Your Rose insect was completely smashed in the 

 post. It was evidently the larva of one of the Saw-flies, probably Cladius 

 difformis. Powder the leaves with fine lime powder. — I. O. W. 



Name of Fungus (M. C, Salterbrldge). —The fungus ia Scleroderma 

 vulgare, certainly not edible. 



Names of Plants (Georf;*-).- Corydalis lutea, Yellow Fumitory. (A. C). 

 — Hemerocallis flava. Yellow Day Lily. (R. H. FT.).- ElEeagaus angusti- 

 folia, the Oleaster. It is, so far as we know, quite innocuous, and we see 

 no reason why you should not plant it as proposed. It has no aflluity 

 whatever with Cotoneaster. (A. F. £.).—!, Dlctamnus Fraiinella ; 2, Cam- 

 panula persicitolia alba. (Thos. Pearson). — I, Polyatichum angulare, var. 

 lineare ; 2, Adiantuni hispidulum ; 3 and 4, SelaginellaKraussiana (S.hor- 

 tensis) ; 5, Microlepia novie-zelandias. (Truro). —3, Linaria Cymbalaria ; 

 4, Sedum aizoideum variegatum ; 5, Leptospermum bullatum. (H. J.). — 

 1, Fabiana imbricata; 4, Tradescantia virginica ; 5, Liatris squarrosa ; 

 6, Astrantia major. (R. C.). — Your Fern most decidedly is not A, Farley- 

 ense. It is A. tenerum. (Lilium). — Perhaps Lilium candidum, but the 

 scent Is quite strong enough fur L. auratum. No one could tell the 

 name precisely from such a specimen. 



POULTRY, BEE, AND PIGEON CHRONICLE. 



valuable pigeons stolen from 

 exhibitions. 



It lias now become imperative on all true and honest poultry 

 amateurs to aid the authorities in exposing, and, it possible, 

 placing in the hands of justice those mean and dishonest indi- 

 viduals, be they who they may, who would personally in the 

 first instance either literally steal, or who afterwards would 

 knowingly receive when stolen, a Pigeon of great original coat, 

 and one that perchance, in some cases at least, the defrauded 

 owner could not replace, even if anxious to do so, by an outlay 

 however liberal. I allude, of course, to the absolute theft of 

 choice and valuable Pigeons at public shows as brought by Mr. 

 F. Waitt before your readers in last week's Journal. Sach 

 practices appear now to be sadly on the increase, although 

 most poultry committees are at the present hour making use 

 of an amount of vigilance that would augur well for future pre- 

 vention. There are amateurs who express their decided belief 

 that these thefts are carried on by persons having no especial 

 predilection as amateurs, but " who steal for stealing's sake," 

 or, as they style it, from simply a spirit of " kleptomania." I 

 confess my liking is to call such practices by their well-known 

 appellations. Theft is theft. I believe every person can be 

 honest if he is inclined to be so, and I also regard the selection 

 of the beat birds as a cogent and decisive proof there is at 



