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amplexioaulis. In a damp dripping season, it would have 

 been magnificent. As it is, it has given us a line of yellow 

 since the beginning of June. Could we foretell the seasons 

 we might plant better. Calceolarias delighting in moist 

 <lripping summers, and Scarlet Geraniums rejoicing in such 

 a season as this, so far as the south is concerned. We do 

 not believe that deluging with water would have improved 

 Scarlets on the whole. No doubt, if soft, warm, and rich, 

 the individual trusses would be finer, but the foliage also 

 would be larger. We observe that, owing to the dryness, 

 the trusses are coming smaller. It is scarcely possible to 

 have all advantages ; but we may accommodate ourselves to 

 circumstances if we cannot bend these circumstances to our 

 will.— R. F. 



COVEJSTT GAEDEN MAEKET.— August 27. 



Out-door produce" is plentiful, except Cabbages, which the long drought 

 and the recent frost have rendered very scarce. Apples, Pears, and Plums, 

 are coming in in large quantities, and Peaches and Nectarines are likewise 

 abundant, though generally not equal in size to those sent in ordinary 

 seasons. Of Grapes and Pine Apples there is a good supply, but Oranges 

 and Lemons are very scarce. Imports from abroad only comprise Green 

 Gage and other Plums, and Pears, the consignments of the latter being 

 heavy, and realising but a low figure. The principal dessert Pears now to 

 be had are Jargonelle, Bon Chretien, Beurre d'Amanlis, and Duchesse 

 d'Angouleme, of which last only a few have as yet made their appearance. 

 Filberts and Walnuts are beginning to arrive in large quantities. 





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TKADE CATALOGUES EECEIVED. 



John Cranston, King's Acre, near Hereford. — Descriptive 

 Catalogue of Selected Moses. 



B. S. Williams, Paradise & Victoria Nurseries, Holloway. 

 — General Bulb § Fruit Tree Catalogue. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



*#* We request that no one -will write privately to the de- 

 partmental writers of the " Journal of Horticulture, 

 Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman." By so 

 doing they are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and 

 expense. All communications should therefore be ad- 

 dressed solely to The Editors of the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture, Src. t 171, Fleet Street, London. E.C. 



~N.B. — Many questions must remain unanswered until next 

 week. 



Books [A Constant Subscribe?-). —The "Fern Manual," which may be 

 had at our office for 5*., or free by post for sixty-four postage stamps. 

 (T. L. K.).— The "Science and Practice of Gardening," -which you can 

 have from our office by sending your address and forty postage stamps. 



Drying Specimen Ferns (D. If.).— The best paper for the purpose is 

 very thick blotting-paper, -which you can obtain of any stationer. 



Flower Garden Plan {S. B.).—We think your planting would do very 

 well. Did we make a cUange it would be to transpose the planting of 5, 6, 

 and 7, 8, making 5, 6, Cineraria maritima, and 7 and 8 Stella, and altering 

 the outside ring accordingly. The reason for this would be the having light 

 and dark colours alternately. The main features of the group are similar to 

 those of one given in No. 157 as existing last year at Putteridge, only the inner 

 circle of clumps are more curved, and there are four smaller and four 

 larger clumps in the outside circle. We will mention the planting this 

 year, as it may give you some hints. 17 is tall Geranium in the centre, 

 fringed with Eccremoearpus scaber ; round the Geranium a fringe of white 

 Pentstemons ; then a broad band of light Heliotrope Triomphe de Li6ge, 

 followed by a ring of Cuphea strigillosa ; then a band of Lobelia Paxtoni, 

 and the outside like yours ; round the dial a band of Cerastium tomentosum. 

 In the first circle of eight clumps, each is centered with a tall dark 

 Fuchsia, with Convolvulus major peeping through them ; and four are filled 

 up with scarlet Geraniums— say 1, 2, 5, 6; and four with Calceolarias— say 

 3, 4, 7, 8. Of the Geraniums, two are Boule de Feu» and two Stella, and 

 the four are edged with Lady Plymouth Geranium. The four Calceolaria- 

 beds consist of yellow Aurantia multiflora, with a dense margin of the dark 

 Victory. The four smaller outside beds, alternating with the four larger 

 ones, are each centered with a Honeysuckle, and Canary Nasturtium 

 running through it. A chain of three links is made in the centre of the 

 bed, a larger link round the Honeysuckle, and a smaller one at each end. 

 The links are formed of Yellow Trince of Orange Calceolaria in one line. 

 Inside, the links are filled with dark Calceolaria, as Crimson King, Victor 

 Emmanuel; outside, with Lobelia specios;i, and a small band of Cerastium 

 next the grass. The large beds have a chain of three equal links along the 

 middle, the chain formed of Bijou Gerauium. The centre link is centered 

 with a large old plant of Tom Thumb Geranium, surrounded by Prince of 

 Orange Calceolaria. The two end linkshave each a white-flowering Fuchsia 

 in the centre, and surrounded with a dense mass of Christine Geranium. 

 Outside the bijou chain the bed is filled with the lilac Verbena pulchella, 

 which beautifully softens down the whole. 



Ward's Cases [R. Bagge).—We do not know any one who keeps these 

 cases for sale. You can have the Bijou plant case of any size you like, and 

 can obtain particulars from the maker, Mr. Stocks, Cabinet- maker, Archer 

 Street, Notting Hill. They are precisely on the same principle as Ward's 

 cases. The Trichomanes radicans can be grown in a glass pan covered by a 

 well-glass quite as well as in a case. 



Amaryllis formosissima {Jacobeea Lily). — We are not aware that this 

 bulbous plant has been proved hardy in thi3 country, and we do not recol- 

 lect the statement by Mr. Beaton as to its hardiness. It might do planted out 

 in the open borders in April, and would no doubt flower in May or June if 

 the flower-scape had been formed in the previous year ; but it is very ques- 

 tionable whether the heat of our short summer would be sufficient to induce 

 and mature a strong growth, so as to keep the plants year after year in a 

 blooming state. It is certainly worth a trial, but we have no experience on. 

 the subject. Deep planting of bulbs may protect tbem from frost, but we 

 do not recommend such treatment, and the Amaryllis family are the last 

 that we should try it with. 



Culturk of Plants [Ignotus).— Only the treatment of eight plants 

 asked for at once, any one of which if fully described would occupy at least 

 one page ! Bougainvillcea splendens requires a stove temperature when 

 growing, with that of a greenhouse when at rest, and a dry state of the 

 soil, which should be turfy loam one-half, turfy peat or leaf mould half, 

 with a liberal admixture of sand. Medinllla magnifica, a stove plant, re- 

 quires a compost of turfy sandy peat two-thirda, turfy loam one-third, with 

 a free admixture of silver sand. It blooms in May or June, and should 

 then be repotted and cut back if necessary, but both operations should not 

 be performed at the same time. Cut back after flowering, and pot when the 

 shootshave pushed an inch or two. Campylobotrys refulgens needs a warm 

 close stove, a compost of sandy turfy peat with a little loam and sand, 

 abundant drainage, and slight watering, with a moist atmosphere, but no 

 syringing overhead. Hibiscus Cooperi; soil, loam two-thirds, leaf mould 

 one-third, with a little sand incorporated with it, and the temperature of a 

 stove. Eriocnema marmorea, the same treatment as for Campylobotrys. 

 Cissus porphyrophyllus, a stove climber, requires slight shade, abundant 

 space, and a soil composed of peat two-thirds, loam one-third, with a little 

 sand. Miconia pulverulenta, a new plant, succeeds in a compost of peat 

 and turfy loam in equal parts, with about one-sixth of sand added. It, too, 

 is a stove plant, and a fine one, impatient, as all plants with fine foliage are, 

 of much syringing. Aglaonema commutatum, is another of the flne-foliaged 

 plants that are all the rage just now. It i8 a stove plant, requiring a com- 

 post of turfy peat two-thirds, loam one-third, with a free admixture of sand, 

 abundant drainage, a moist atmosphere, and copious waterings when grow- 

 ing vigorously, but about half the quantity at other times. 



Seedling Rose (J. Cranston).— We regret that we did not see your Rose 

 "King's Acre " in the season, for when such beautiful flowers are produced 

 now, after such a drought, we may well ask what must it have been then? 

 Those you sent were very fine, globular, and of a colour much wanted— 

 purplish rose, with the reverse of the petals light. It is a really fine flower ; 

 and if, as you say, vigorous, having withstood the season of 1860 as a seed- 

 ling, it will be a valuable acquisition to our English -raised Roses. 



Ivy Detached from a Wall [Old Dee?-).— Vie advise you to try and 

 fasten the Ivy to the wall with iron holdfaste, and if this can be done with- 

 out breaking the main branches it may be allowed to remain over the 

 winter, and then be cut in the April of the following year; but if that be 

 impracticable we think you would do well to cut away all the stubborn, 

 branches that cannot be fastened to the wall, and to train in the weaker or 

 smaller ones. We should do it forthwith on the score of neatness; but if 

 you do not mind the appearance you may train the small branches to the 

 wall now, and defer cutting away those which are strong until March, when, 

 on their removal, a large amount of nutriment will be thrown into the 

 small branches, which will cause them to become exceedingly vigorous in 

 the following summer. 



Vine Shoots Diseased (G. E. T.).— We never saw any so badly gan- 

 grened. The roots we think must have descended into an ungenial sub- 

 soil. If so, the only remedy will be to lift them to within 18 inches of the 

 surface, and to tempt them to remain there by keeping the surface. mulched 

 in summer with long stable manure. The fern you enclosed is N'ephro- 

 lepis pectinata. 



Name of Insect (J. W. Anjield).~~1\ie insect was too crushed to be 

 certain, but we think it is only what is usually called " the Harvest Bug." 



