October 11, 1861. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



: 299 



Climbers foe House Wails ((?. C.).— Wo suppose Ton wish to cover the 

 wa.ls on every asseet with suitable shrubs and climbers, and other plants. 

 Xtorth aspect : Hedera (Ivy) algeriensis, Rcegneriana, latifolia maculata, 

 paimata, and silver-edged; Virginian Creepers; Jasminum nudiflorum, 

 nowering in January ; and Cotoneaster microphylla. East and west aspect : 

 Jierbens Darwimi ; Clematis azurea grandiflora, Sieboldl, lanuginosa and 

 its variety pallida, flammula (sweet scented), Heudersoni, viticella atro- 

 rnora; Atragene austriaea ; Chimonanthusfragrans; Cratoagus pyracantha 

 U-vergreen Thorn) ; Pyrus japonica, red and white; Jasminum revolutum, 

 wnite and sweet; Honeysuckles— viz., flexuosa (scarlet), Trumpet, Dutch, 

 «iriy and late ; and of Boses— Ayrshire, Spleudens, Dundee Rambler, 

 uueenof the Belgians, Alice Gray, Ruga, and Thoresbyana; Evergreen, 

 J-nncess Mane, Myrianthes, Williams's Climbing, Princess Louise, Felicite 

 ^erpetue, and Adelaide d'Orleans; Hybrid, Madame d'ATblay and The 

 Ajanana; Boursault, Inermis, Amadis or Crimson, and Gracilis; Multi- 

 Jim a, Lanre Davoust, Tricolor, Purpurea, and Rnsselliana. South aspect : 

 Aristolochia sipho ; Lonicera anreo-reticnlata. fragrantissima, and braehy- 

 poaa ; also evergreen Honeysuckle ; Eugenia TJgai ; Wistaria sinensis and 

 lis variety alba; Passiflora ccernlea and grandiflora; Periploca graca ; 

 magnolia grandiflora ; Jasminum Wallichianum ; Hypericum nepalense : 

 tseallonia pterocladon and montevidensis; Ligustrum japonicum ; Ceano- 

 tnus intermedins, azureus, and hvbridus ; Bignonia radicans major and 

 grandiflora; Banksian Roses, Jaune vif, Fortuniana (white and yellow), 

 and Jaune serin ; Noisette, Jaune Desprez, Cloth of Gold, Solfaterre or 

 Augusta, Tnomphe de Bolwyller, Ophirie, and Lamarque. 



Maubandya Barclayana Wintering (An Amateur).— We fear this 

 creep er wou i,j not tear the Ti g 0nrs of an or(linar y winter in the West 

 ■Kiaing of Yorkshire if matted np. If yon mat It up. covering with a good 

 tmcKness of straw, and then with Russia mats sufficient to prevent frost 

 penetrating, there is no doubt that it might be kept over winter as you 

 propose. We have no experience in the matter, and are content to take 

 cuctmgs in autumn, keeping them over the winter in a cool greenhouse, and 

 ■letting the old plants take their chance. Why not try to keep it over the 

 winter matted up ? and so settle a question in horticulture for yourself. 

 J.I yon do, and succeed, we shall be glad to hear of it. 



,-„?>T AC , rNTHS IN Wateh C"- ff - 0.\— Ton placed the Hyacinths too earlv 

 in tne glasses, October being quite early enough, and the bulbs themselves 

 might not be over sound at the base to begin with. Too ranch care cannot 

 pe taken in selecting bulbs that are sound, and it is a point requiring some 

 juogment and experience. When Hyacinths are placed in water early they 

 wf'V 00 s inaotlTC ' or are liable to rot at the base, the main point 

 Deing to secure a speedy protrusion of roots after the bulbs are placed in 

 ine glasses; for if they remain any length of time over water in a dormant 

 state the base must rot, from the moisture at that part. It is best, there- 

 lore, not to place them in water until October, when we may calculate on a 

 speedy growth The grubs in the water are probably the larvm of the gnat 

 Which is plentiful in most soft-water tanks. It is not likely that they would 

 he able to leave the water and go on to the bulb unless it touched the water, 

 When they might, and they would then do irreparable mischief. If you 

 -nam the water through a piece of muslin you mav keep such insects out 

 oi the glasses. V\ e know of nothing that will kill them and vet be harm- 

 l"f Si, ,y e S etab ' e llfe - Having changed the water, place a piece of charcoal 

 at the bottom of the glasses, and place them in a dry cupboard. 



Constructing a Pit (F. T. O.-Tou may do as you propose, but you 

 will act wisely if yon dispense with your holes in the wall (pigeon holed 

 wall), and build it solid. This will enable von to dispense with any very 

 secure platform of boards, &c, and the more open the boards, &c, are, the 

 better will the heat rise. With your holes in the wall there would be 

 Ganger of steam, and moisture, and damp from the dung. In severe weather 

 you would have to pack up to the top of the frame or pit with litter, or tie 

 w W a S i? 3 l nst ■ * To11 wU1 flnd such a P lace answer well also for hardening 

 on. All that is necessary, provided there should be a little heat against the 

 _walJs, would merely be giving abundance of air. In most cases where there 

 is noi abundance of litter you would find a brick Arnotfs stove and some 

 mats the cheapest and best mode. However your plan, but with solid walls, 

 Will do admirably. If open-walled your platform must be secure against 

 steam from the dung. The distance of the platform from the glass must 

 depend on the size of the plants. For rather small plants 20 inches would 

 tie a good distance. If the pit is deep provision should he made for altering 

 .the platform, and the best mode would be to have two-inch ledges of brick 

 formed inside m building, say at 20 and 30 inches from the glass. 



Failure of Black Frontignan Geape (F. F.).— Tour Black Frontig- 

 rian would be improved by placing glass over the border. The White 

 irontignan would do well grafted on it, and is not liable to shank or shrivel 

 Ihe Muscat Hamburgh will do well inarched on the Alicante, and Lady 

 Bownes will do as well as the Hamburgh and keep rather longer than 

 West's St. Peter's. 



Vines Failed in Pots (J. 0., Bradford).— Unless we saw and knew 

 What the Vines had done we could not say what they would do next year. 

 As they did little good this season thev might do well next year if the wood 

 is good and well ripened. If the wood is weak and not firm we could hold 

 out no great prospect of success. When Vines in pots once bear heavily 

 they do little good afterwards. If they bear only moderately, and the wood 

 is moderately strong and firm, the same Vines will produce for years. As 

 you have the plants they would be worth trying. In neither case -will it be 

 worth while to place them out of doors, unless in front of a south wall to 

 harden the wood. The pots must be protected. If you want to force early 

 as soon as the leaves colour the pots might be placed on the north side of a 

 ience to rest the Vines before again exciting them. 



White Water Lily Planting (A. K. JX.).— The best time is in April 

 when growth is commencing. Take them up carefully with as much of the 

 thick fleshy stem as possible, and if kept some time out of water, pack in 

 damp moss and keep from the drying influences of the atmosphere. The 

 plantB cannot be too soon planted in their permanent positions after thev 

 are taken out of the water. If the pond bottom consists of mud, or the 

 DOttom is a strong loam, nothing will be required but to tie a stone to the 

 loot of the plant, and having fastened it firmly drop the whole in the place 

 desired. The depth of water should not be less than 1 foot nor more than 

 3 feet. If there is no mud and the bottom is gravel, place the plant on the 

 miderside of a thick sod, tying it fast with wire, and then drop it into the 

 place desired, taking care to place it with the crown upwards. If the above 

 modes cannot be adopted you may pot the plants in strong loam, fastening 1 

 them with stones to prevent them rising, and then place pot and all in the ( 



Oenamental Boeber Shrubs in Pots (Ve Foix). — We are promised 

 6ome notes on this subject, and will publish them forthwith. 



Blue Wood Anemone Roots.— A Subscriber would be much obliged by 

 being informed where these can be obtained. 



Names op Fbuit.— (/. Rust) Tour Apple is unknown to us. (Mr. Porter). 



—Fears.— 2, Beurre de Capianmont ; 3, BeurrcS Bosc ; 1, Easter Beurre 1 ; 

 5, Beurre" d'Aremberg. Others not recognised, (if. B.).—l. Reinette du 

 Canada ; 2, Boston Russet ; 3. Not recognised ; 4. Franklin's Golden Pippin ; 

 5, Herefordshire Pearmain; 6. English Codlin ; 7, Lady's Finger; 8, Kerry 

 Pippin. (T. S.I. — 1, Marie Louise ; 2, Kerry Pippin; 3, Birmingham 

 Pippin; 9, Bedfordshire Foundling; 10, Early Nonpareil; 11, Vaughan's 

 Pippin ; 13, This seedling is a good summer cooking Apple, but is already 

 past. Others not recognised. (67. R. Bigge).—A, Hullandbnry ; B, Golden 

 Pippin; C, Devonshire Quarrenden ; D, Yellow Ingestrie; E, Fearn's 

 Pippin. (Fruit-eater).— Pears.— 1, Auchan ; 2, Gansel's Bergamot; 1, a 

 very small Beurre Clairgeau. Apples.— 6, Trnmpington; 4, 5, and 7, are 

 alike and unknown; 8, Vaughan's Pippin. Others not recognised. (Iago). — 

 Pears.— 1, Quite decayed; 2, Quite rotten; 3, Louise Bonne of Jersey; 



4, Gansel's Bergamot ; o, Beurre Diel ; 6. Quite decayed. Apples.— 1, Kerry 

 Pippin ; 2, Du'.ch Codlin ; 6, English Codlin ; 9, Winter Codlin ; 12, Brookes' ; 

 13, Braddick's Nonpareil ; 15, Carol's Seedling ; 16, French Crab. Others 

 not recognised. {C. R. P.).— 1, Margil; 2. Keeping Redstreak. (O.O.),— 

 Your Apple is Pearson's Plate. (O. 31,).— Emperor Alexander Apple. (J5.)o 

 — 1, Glou Morceau ; 2, Marie Louise ; 3, Ne Plus Meuris ; 4, Flemish Beauty ; 



5, Glou Morceau; 6, Napoleon. (J. P., Longford).—!, Beurre Kennes; 

 3, Napoleon ; 4, Louise Bonne of Jersey. (W. A.). — 1, Vicar of Winkfield ; 



2, Easter Beurre" ; 3. Autumn Pearmain ; 4, Blenheim Pippin ; 5, Dumelow's 

 Seedlinff ; 6, French Crab ; 7, Hampshire Yellow ; 8, Golden Winter Pear- 

 main ; 9. Russet Pearmain ; 10, Scarlet Nonpareil. (A Young Pomoloqist), 

 —I, Cellini; 2, Beauty oT Kent; 3, Reinette du Canada; 4, Blenheim 

 Pippin; 5, Golden Reinette; 6, Margil; 8, Franklin's Gollen Pippin; 

 9, Cockle Pippin; 10, Golden Noble? (R. C. S.).— Your Grape is Early 

 Malingre (see Hogg's "Fruit Manual"), certainly not White Frontignan. 

 It has no Muscat flavour. 



Names of Plants (A Flintshire Subscriber).— 2, Cheilanthes radiata; 



3, Pteris longifolia ; 4, Asplenium cicutarium ; 5 and 7, Adiantum pubes- 

 cens ; 6, Some imperfect Adiantum ; 8, Blechnum occidentale. Henslow's 

 " Dictionary of Botanical Terms " is what its name indicates, hut it does not 

 translate the names of plants. The " Cottage Gardeners' Dictionary " 

 translates the names. (W. H. M.) — We cannot detect a plant's name from 

 such a dead mashed leaf. Good specimens should be sent. 



POULTRY, BEE, and HOUSEHOLD CHRONICLE. 



ISLINGTON AGRICULTURAL HALL POULTRY 

 SHOW AND THE BRAHMAS. 



I am not going to inflict on your readers another analysis 

 of the leading shows as to relative entries, but I should 

 like to draw the attention of the advisers of the grand- 

 mother of poultry shows to certain facts, illustrated by the 

 Show just held at the Agricultural Hall. 



Thanks to the proceedings of the Crystal Balace authori- 

 ties, the Show just held has been the first opportunity that 

 has occurred for gauging the various breeds as regards the 

 produce of 1864, and I venture to say that not a few per- 

 sons who examine the catalogue will be exceedingly sur- 

 prised, not the least, I suspect, those who have cast on the 

 Brahma the stigma of impurity. "What are poultry breeders 

 about, when so many pwre breeds are to be found, that such 

 an increasing number should pet this despised race ? Could 

 it have been supposed a year or two ago that at the first • 

 great chicken show in 1864, Brahmas would have held the 

 position they do ? 



Setting aside Bantams, the prizes for which were certainly 

 too small, Brahmas enter more largely than any other breed, 

 in proportion to the prizes offered. The Dorking alone 

 approaches them. True, there were ninety-three pens of 

 Game to fifty of Brahmas, but the former had nearly three 

 times the amount of prize money offered, setting aside the 

 much greater facility for making up pens, now generally 

 conceded to Game — viz., that only one lady is exhibited. 



Brahma breeders owe a deep debt of gratitude to the 

 authorities at the Agricultural Hall. Through evil report 

 and good report they have befriended the Brahma. They 

 have consistently dealt liberally towards them, more libe- 

 raUy, in fact, than any other schedule-framers, and I think 

 the result must have proved to every one the justice of their 

 deeds. At any rate, they must have this satisfaction, that 

 at no previous show has there ever been an exhibition of 

 Brahma birds equal to that just held. I am not now speak- 

 ing of the quality, but from the high commendations be- 

 stowed, 1 imagine that was not lacking. All success then, 

 say I, to Islington, and its promoters. Never mind, whether 

 it is the " Poultry Club " or not, the old proverb says that 

 " Handsome is that handsome does," and that Islington has 

 acted handsomely to us despised Brahmas there is no doubt. 

 I would ask those who malign us to look at the Begu- 



