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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [ September 20, BBS 



COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— Septembee 17. 



But little alteration has taken place either in the supply or quotations 

 since last week's report. Good Pines are rather scarce, but Grapes and 

 Melons are plentiful. Peaches and Nectarines, though sufficient for the 

 demand, are not so abundant. Of Cob-nuts the supply is rather short, and 

 prices have advanced. The best dessert Pears consist of Louise Bonne of 

 Jersey, Duehesse d'Angonleme, Williams's Bon Chretien, and Marie Louise. 

 Of Apples some very good samples of Ribston Pippin have made their appear- 

 ance from Jersey. Coe*s Golden Drop Plums have also begun to come in. 











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TEADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



E. G. Henderson & Son, Wellington Road, St. John's 

 Wood, London.— List of Bulbs and other Flower Roots. 



Ambroise" Verschaffelt, 50, Kue du Chauine, Ghent, Bel- 

 gium. — Prix- cour ant pour UAutoinne, 1864, et Printemps et 

 EU, 1865. 



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 Jownal of Horticul- 

 ture, <$fc, 171, Fleet Street, London, E.G. 



We also request that correspondents will not mix up on the 

 same sheet questions relating to Gardening and those 

 on Poultry and Bee subjects, if they expect to get them 

 answered promptly and conveniently, but write them 

 on separate communications. Also never to send more 

 than two or three questions at once. 



Hybridised Plants (E. M., Southampton).— -Your inquiries involve too 

 intricate and too uncertain a field for us to reply to in a note ; and to 

 write upon it fully would occupy more time and space than Tve can afford. 

 Practice "will be your best guide. Experiments, presided over by a Bound 

 judgment, led the lamented Mr. Beaton to the success he attained. Many 

 useful communications from him upon the subject are in our back volumes. 



Elementary Botany (H. W. P.).— Henfrey's " Rudiments of Botany," 

 and Macgillivray's edition of Sir J. E. Smith's "Introduction to Botany," 

 will suit you. 



Flower-garden Plan (iV. C, Nenagh).—See what is said in reply to 

 "A Young Gardener." See also many plans in this Journal, and in the 

 cheap manual 'J Flower-Gardening for the Many." We can form no idea of 

 the size of your grass plot, on which these clumps are placed In so thick 

 and heterogeneous a manner. Even with the dimensions given we cannot 

 undertake to furnish plans ; but one of two things we would do, either have 

 a regular plan plaeed in the middle of the lawn, with more lawn at each 

 side ; or, as the house seems to be in the centre, and facing the lawn, 

 we would leave the lawn open, with the exception of a few ornamental 

 trees, and we would run a row of small and less circles alternately all round 

 nest the narrow gravel walk, say 4 feet or so from it. You might then 

 see your flowers as you went round the walks, and be cheered with the 

 green turf between them from the windows. This would be a simple and 

 elegant way of laying out the flower garden. At present there is neither 

 plan, simplicity, nor elegance. 



Directions for Propagating (A Young Beginner).— What do you wish 

 to propagate? We cannot undertake to give, in one answer, directions for 

 propagating all the plants in every department of the garden. 



Flowering Plants for Rochery (Letghton B.). — You must not expect 

 Stonecrops to flourish under the same conditions as Ferns. They are onlyj 

 suitable for light, airy, sunny situations as almost all flowering plants are ; 

 Ferns, on the other hand, luxuriating in shade and moisture. The flower- 

 ing plants should have the sunny, and the Ferns the shady situations. Of 

 Stonecrop or Sedum the best dozen are— Sedum Sieboldi, telephium, obtu- 

 satum, septangulare, Fursterianum, cepcea, Beyrichianum, hybridum,, 

 coeruleum, anopetalum, Ewer*ii, and kamtschaticum. There are numerous 

 Saxifragas, as S. Stansfieldi (a good English variety), oppositifolia, and vars. 

 alba and major, Andrewsii, cotyladon, cuneata, ciliata, granulata, granu- 

 lata flore pleno, polita, rotundifolia, Sternbergii, grcenlandica, and very 

 many others all fine rock plants. Besides the above, the following would be 

 suitable— Helianthemum vu'gare in many varieties; Linutn perenue; Gera- 

 nium sanguineum, lancastriense, and Andrewsii; Iberis sempervirens, 

 gibraltarica, and saxatilis ; Hypericum montanum ; Gnapbalium supinum; 

 Dryas Drummondi and octopetala ; Doronicum caucasicum ; Draba verna, 

 hirta, and hesperidifolia ; Cochlearis officinalis and grcenlandica ; Cephalaria 

 alpina and montana ; Cerastium tomentosum, alpinum, repens, and Bieber- 

 steini; Arctotis breviseapa; Ajuga reptans variegata and reptans alba; 

 Achemilla alpina, moutana, and fissa; Alyssum maritimum variegatum, 

 saxatile, alpinum and its variety variegatum ; Antennaria margaritacea 

 and triplinervis; Arabis albida, stenopetala, procurrens, and bellidifalia ; 

 Vincas, &c. 



Making Ground Impervious .by Worms (V. G. C.).— A floor or bottom to 

 stand pots upon may be made impervious to worms by placing a layer of 

 lime riddlings an inch thick, and then ramming, it firm with a wooden 

 rammer. Repeat this again and again, until a foundation is made 3 inches 

 thick, on which place 6 inches of ashes. The bottom may be made more 

 secure against worms by mixing the second layer of lime riddlings with 

 gas tar. It should be borne in mind that gas tar is death to any roots that 

 come in contact with it. If you place 14 lbs. of lime in a tub, pour thirty 

 gallons of water upon it, stir it well up, let it sfcand forty-eight hours, then, 

 stop the holes in the poLs with clay, and deluge with clear lime water, the 

 worms will come to the surface. Three hours flooding will be sufficient, 

 then the drainage must be allowed to act. You could not have a better 

 place for wintering Geranium cuttings than the room but little used, placing 

 them on shelves, and unless the draught be great they will etijoy fresh air. 

 You must take measures to guard against frost, watering no more than is 

 absolutely necessary to keep the plants alive. A dark place is very unsuit- 

 able : though it will do for old plants, it is not adapted for young. ones. 



Standard Roses (A Subscriber). — Standard Roses are apt to die off in 

 light soils especially when budded on the Dog Rose ; but we have them 

 upwards of twenty years old, and very healthy even now. Cover the roots 

 with manure in November, 38 you propose, and the winter rains will wash 

 the groater part of the nutriment down to the roots. Do not prune until the 

 beginning of March ; and, unless the weather be very severe, the heads are 

 better uncovered, but a little hay wrapped round the heads in frosty weather, 

 to be removed in mild, is a great protection. We fear your thatching will 

 do more harm than good, and we think it totally unnecessary, unless you 

 have Lapland winters. If you do thatch them let Christmas be at hand 

 before doing so, and remove the covering gradually, commencing about the 

 middle of February, so as to dispense with it altogether by the middle of 

 March. 



Dutch Garden (An Old Subscriber). — We think yonr Dutch garden will 

 look very nice. If you wauted more flowers you might double it by filling 

 that end of the mansion to the boundary by a similar plan. We approve 

 of the plan for fruit trees at a. Then, lor the space at b, in front of the 

 house, we could not decide without seeing the ground and the surroundings ; 

 but in this, by way of contrast, we should think a few Pinuses, singly, as 

 Araucaria and Deodar, and two or more circles of Rhododendrons, would 

 suit you best, so as not to interfere with the lawn character of that front. 

 If something of this were done the Dutch garden would be most effective, 

 if shut off from the rest of the ground by a fence or wall. 



Gloth of Gold Geranium. — Will your correspondents state how this 

 variety has behaved this season ? With me the supposed strong-growing 

 Cloth of Gold is no larger than when first put out, and not nearly so 

 healthy ; whereas Golden Chain, the slow grower, has been very satisfactory. 

 —J. A. 



Ferns (Mrs. E.).-~ There is no serial, either weekly or monthly, now 

 publishing on this order of plants. Sir W. Hooker's ''British Ferns" 

 costs two guineas, and his " Garden Ferns'* are of the same price. 



Seedling Panstes (L. F. _F.).— All of ordinary merit except one with 

 white ground, yeilow eye, and pale lilac edging to upper petals, and lilac 

 pencillings of the lower petals. 



Hollies not Thriving (E. C. S>).— It is not at all unusual for a large 

 Holly to look badly for some years after transplanting ; and we are far from, 

 certain that severe pruning would do it any real good. The fact of your 

 Holly hedge not doing well is a proof that your clayey soil is not the proper 

 place for it. We would, however, remark that digging a trench, ur rather 

 ditch, by the side of the Holly hedge, so as to just cut the tips of the roots* 

 and filling that ditch with sandy road-scrapings, will most likely induce the 

 roots to strike into a more genial medium, and produce a healthier state of 

 things. 



Emigrating to New Zealand.— We have received the following in 

 answer to the query of " E. W.'* '* A gardener would do well in New 

 Zealand that would work, dig, mow, sow, or be handy at anything, as the 

 country is rough yet, and gardening there is very different from here. A 

 friend who went nearly five years ago has saved £30 per year, with a small 

 family, but works at anything. The work is BOt harder" than in EnglancV 

 The day is reckoned eight hours for work. What seeds to take, or any 

 other information, I should be glad to give ; but I advise ' E. W.' to thins 

 well before he emigrates, as it is a very serious journey.— W. C." 



Index (Bert).— Vol V. concluded with the year 18G3, and the index was 

 published with No. 146, January 12th, 1864. We suspect you mean Vol. VL, 

 1 the last Number of which was published on the 2Sth of June. By sending 

 your address, two postage stamps, and the number of the Volume, the 

 proper index will be forwarded to you. 



Plants and Hardy Annuals for Spring Blooming (Leighton B., antk 

 W. Browne). — Saponaria calabrica (rosea we do not know) will bloom, in, 

 spring if sown now, but it is not so hardy as many. We intend publishing 

 some notes on annuals, and early-flowering spring plants, for flower-garden 

 decoration Bhortly. 



