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JOUBNAL OF HOPTIODLTUBE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ July 12, 1877. 



then it is not necessary that the fourth part of Mr. Turner's 

 flowers should be in to place him in a favourable position. At 

 Larkhall Rise, Clapham, is to be seen the largest and choicest 

 amateur's collection in the south, owned by E. S. Dodwell, Esq. 

 No doubt this will also be about right, although its owner was 

 some time ago rather anxious about having the flowers in at 

 the time of the exhibition. Earwigs are a serious enemy to us, 

 and we have to watch for them every night with the aid of a lamp. 

 They eat the petals at the base, and one will spoil a bloom in a 

 single night. The flowers should be exposed to the light until 

 they are nearly expanded, afterwards it is necessary to shade 

 them to prevent their being injured by sun or rain. Roses have 

 flowered very freely with us this season, and the blooms have 

 been of excellent quality. Pipings of Pinks have been inserted 

 urider glass in a shady position. The growth was rather too 

 stroDg; we would much rather have taken it when it was younger 

 and more succulent. Pansies are flowering most profusely and 

 well. Hollyhocks and Dahlias must be attended to by having 

 the growths trained to the Bticks as they advance. — J. Douglas. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



%* All correspondence should be directed either to "The 

 Editors, 1 * or to " The Pablisher." Letters addressed to 

 Mr. Johnson or Dr. Hogg often remain unopened unavoid- 

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

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

 justifiable trouble and expense. 



Humeas.— G. "Walsh, Rockbeare Court, Exeter, wants some small plants of 

 Humeas. 



Hybridising (G. B.). — We know of no good work on the subject. There 

 is an excellent essay among Mr. Knight's horticultural papers. 



Plums Deformed (Irish Subscriber). — They are destroyed by a parasitic 

 fungus, the spores of which are wintered in the bark and soil probably. 

 Scrub the stem and branohea with brine. Pare off the soil in a circle ex- 

 tending beyond the circuit of the branches and burn it. 



Grapes Spotted (3. B.) — Your Grapes are attacked by the disease called 

 "spot" It arises from a defective supply of sap. The roots require a sup- 

 ply of liquid manure, and more water probably; ventilate also sufficiently 

 yet carefully. 



Late Strawberry (H. C. P.).— Try the Elton. 



Coleus not Coloured (R. 3. P.). — We can only advise you to allow the 

 rootB of the plants to become pot-bound, yet affording plenty of water and 

 growing the plants in the full sun. Coleuses are sportive, and some plants 

 do not colonr well. The beBt plan is to select the cuttings from the best 

 coloured shoots. 



Seedling Coleus (E. R., York).— We think it sufficiently distinct to he 

 worth growing. 



Propagating Euchaeis (A. M. AX— This is a very free-growing bulbous- 

 rooted stove plant, and it increases at a very rapid rate. It is propagated by 

 dividing the bulbs when they have increased too much for the size of the 

 pot in which they are growing. Pot in turfy loam, a little leaf soil, and 

 decayed manure, with sand added if the loam is of a clayey nature. The 

 plants require considerable supplies of water when they are growing freely, 

 and after bloomiDg less water is required for about two mouths, when they 

 may be started to grow again, and they will flower as freely as they did before 

 their season of rest. The temperature best adapted to their wants is a 

 minimum of 55 n in winter and 65° during the summer months. 



Cheap Orchids (Rev. A. K. C). — Many cf the finest species of Orchids 

 are imported in large quantities at uncertain intervals, and after large impor- 

 tations they can be purchased at a cheap rate, and those who wish to pur- 

 chase should put themselves into the hands of some of the large firms who 

 import, asking them to advise them of any fresh importation. By watching 

 the advertising columns of this Journal it will be seen that large importa- 

 tions are frequently sold at Stevens's rooms, Covent Garden. The trade 

 growers do not send out the plants until they are established, but even then 

 the choicest species may often be obtained at from 3s. Gd. to 7s. 6d. per plant. 

 At Stevens's rooms they are sold in bundles as imported, and occasionally at 

 very cheap rates. It is quite another thing if a gentleman wishes to form a 

 collection of Orchids and orders them from the nursery, irrespective of the 

 Btouk in hand; he may require to pay a couple of guineas for a plant that 

 might have been purchased the previous season for three half-crowns. The 

 reason is very Bimple — the stock has been nearly sold out, and there are no 

 fresh importations expected just at that time. 



Seedling Fuchsia (A. B,). — The flowers are fine, and so peculiar that we 

 think it deserves cultivation. The other specimen we think is only a variety 

 of the common Ribbon Grass, bat cannot be certain without seeing a spike of 

 its flowers. 



Transplanting Large Yucca and Escallonia (C. B.)— If you are careful 

 to have a ball of earth undisturbed about the roots you may remove the 

 plants safely. 



Partitioning Greenhouse (A Constant Reader). — It will answer to 

 partition-f ff part of your house, which including the pipes will be a warm 

 houee, having lights to open, so as to allow the warm air to pass into the cold 

 division in case of necessity in severe weather. It will be "necessary to 

 partition -(>ff under the stage as well as above it," but this part may be of 

 wood or other opaque material, whilst above the stage should be glass. 



Impregnating Cucumbers (Idem). — It is quite unnecessary unless you 

 require seed — the fruit swells just as well without impregnation as with it. 

 If seed be not wanted the fruit is impaired for use by the formation of seed. 



Vine Unfruitful (Idem). — We should say your Vine is unfruitful from 

 the wood of last year being imperfectly ripened, but in the absence of data 

 we are unable to say with certainty. Keep the laterals well stopped and the 

 principal shoots rather thin, fully exposing the foliage to light and air. 



Thinning Branches of Forest Trees (J. B.). — All those you mention 

 may have their branches moderately thinned now, but if large or numerous 



branches have to be removed, mark them now and cut them off at the end 

 of October. 



Pelargonium Seedlings (C. Bilson). — All the petals bad fallen. We 

 cannot select from the legion of new varieties. Go to a flower Bhow and 

 select those you admire. They can be bought of the floriBte. 



Rockery (Mrs. W. H.).—Any of the chief florists in London could supply 

 the plants. 



Double Geraniums and Fuchsias (T. M., Huddersfield). — Six good 

 double Geraniums are — Wonderful, scarlet; Madame Thibaut, magenta 

 rose; Madame iEmilio Baltet, white; Louis Boutard, salmon; Auguste 

 Villaume, oraDge scarlet; and Depute Saflize, purplish scarlet. Six large 

 double Fuchsias are Mrs. H. Cannell, Avalanche, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Miss 

 Lucy Finnis, Marksman, and, having the largest flowers of all, Champion of 

 the World. 



Piping Required for Span-roofed House (Cnost).— You do not give the 

 height of the house, but we conclude from the width that it will be about 

 9 feet. About 44 feet of 4 inch piping will he required to maintain a green- 

 house temperature, and a length of 90 feet to secure stove heat. 



Worms (R. T. F.}.— We know of no trap for them. A poker thrust into the 

 ground and moved backwards and forwards will bring them out of their holes. 



Ants (M. E. P.). — You may drive them away by sprinkling Scotch snuff 

 over their haunts, and repeating the sprinkling until they depart permanently. 



Names of Plants (P. M.). — A variety of Aspidium aculeatum. (Mrs. 

 Holmes). — 1, Iris sibirica; 2, Arnica montana; 3 and 4, Astrantia major ; 

 5, Veronica Teucrium. (Juvenile). — Metrosidaros tomentosa. (A. C. B.).-~ 

 Cornus sanguinea. (G. 0. Sx — 1, Geranium striatum; 2, Erigeron bellidi- 

 folium; 3, A species of Sidalcsea; 4, Ranunculus acris. (IF. L. L. Kx — 

 1, Helichrysum marginatum; 2, A spacies of Heuchera. (F. Taylori. — Stan- 

 hopea tigrina. ( W. D. R.). — Spireea Filipendula, Dropwort. (W. D. Hx— 

 Spiraea Filipendula flore-pleno. (B. Smyth). — Tilia europcea fol. laciuiatis. 

 ( W. H. Manser ). — We cannot name the Bose, but we think yoa have been mis- 

 informed as to its origin. Make further inquiries on that point and inform 

 us of the result of them. (R. B. L.). — We regret that we cannot name the 

 Rose. 



POULTRY, BEE, A1TD PIGEON 0HE0JSU0LE. 



A BATCH OF SCHEDULES.— Pakt 1. 



They certainly are coming on thickly. We never remember 

 a longer list of forthcoming meetings, and nearly every schedule 

 which cornea to hand has some peculiarity. It is eitber fearfully 

 behind the times, or gives some class which is not commonly 

 found, or has a preposterous entrance fee, or holds out some 

 bait to trap unwary exhibitors. We have a very large bundle 

 before us ; some great cumbrous sheets, others elegant little 

 pamphlets with pink or green covers, on which are engraved a 

 happy farmyard family or an impossible-looking Cochin, or a 

 Poland with a wooden sort of appendage upon its head to re- 

 present a crest. 



Picking out some of the best got-up of these schedules we find 

 a few facts worthy of note, and in mentioning them we do so 

 more to show any peculiarities than to give a general sort of 

 rechauffe of the whole. We will take them in no order, but 

 Belect from a batch which the last fortnight's post has brought 

 to us. 



On the top we find, in a cream-coloured cover, the schedule 

 of the first meeting at Cardiff. To be held in the Drill Hall, 

 when the Rev. G. F. Hodson will award the prizes.. There 

 are fifteen silver cups or pieces of plate, and we find one of 

 them is for Sultans. This is something novel, and we wish the 

 new venture much success, and hope it may tend to finally 

 prove whether the breed should be bearded or not. Black 

 Cochins here have a class, and Malays two classes, both of 

 which facts their breeders should note. Nest in order comes 

 Whitchurch. This Exhibition is to be held in connection with 

 the agricultural Bhow, and we find on the Committee of five 

 three such well-known names as Messrs. Tudman, Darby, and 

 Etches. The Judges again are announced — viz., Messrs. Dixon 

 and Lane, the latter for Game and Bantams. There is one 

 chicken clasB, but the other classes are all " for any age." We 

 wonder Mr. Darby allowed the Polands to go to the Variety 

 olass. 



On the same days as the last-named comes the Cambridge- 

 shire Society's meeting at Ely, where the wife or daughter of a 

 tenant farmer in the said oounty has only the opportunity on 

 this occasion of winning Lady Elizabeth Adeane's annual dona- 

 tion. No Judge's name is announced, but we imagine, all well, 

 we shall find Mr. Hewitt here. In the schedule nothing calls 

 for much comment. Leghorns have a class, but the rest of the 

 breeds are not well subdivided at all. On July 19ch there is to 

 be a Show at Bedford. The schedule is in many ways very fair. 

 Game have four classeB, one of them being for siogle oocks. 

 White Cochins have also a class, and there is a £5 5s. cup for 

 the best pen in the Show. Mr. Tegetmeier is to judge. There 

 are also some good local prizes with another £5 5s. cap. Next 

 the schedule for Ormskirk is good. There are prizes for chickens 

 and adults. At this time of the year, and for the next two or 

 three months the awards in old birds are mostly mere lotteries, 

 for the birds in the beat plumage generally win before others in 

 ragged feather of however much merit when in full condition 

 they may be. Here there are two classes for White Dorkings, 

 which are in honour of Miss Fairhurst we Bhould imagine. We 



