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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ October 25, 1864. 



ing for and inserting a great number of Calceolaria cuttings, 

 to the preparation of which we have already alluded. We 

 put in the bottom of the pit as much dryish litter as when 

 well trodden would be a foot or 14 inches deep, then a couple 

 of inches of half rotten leaves, also well trodden, then an 

 inch of leaf mould, as we thought free of worms, mixed with 

 the riddlings of the soil, then 21- inches of sandy loam, and 

 a quarter of an inch of drift sand on the surface. Before 

 the sand was put on the whole was again trodden, levelled, 

 and slightly watered, as the material was rather dry ; the 

 sand was firmly beaten down, and the planting began. This 

 season we plant them in rows 1 inch apart, and the rows are 

 nearly 10 inches from each other. We like little short cut- 

 tings, about 2 inches long, taken off from the older stem 

 with a heel ; but you cannot always depend on getting them 

 all with such qualities. It requires more time to take 'the 

 cuttings olT, and the lads will rather prefer having more time 

 in the shed in making, than at the bed in taking them off. 

 All amateurs who do most of the work themselves, we ad- 

 vise to spend time in the selection of their cuttings. There 

 is Tittle time afterwards required in making them, and though 

 longer pieces, necessarily shortened, will often do well, they 

 require more trouble and looking after than these short 

 stubby pieces from 2 to 2J and 3 inches long. Cleaning 

 the bottom, removing a leaf or two, and shortening one or 

 two more are all that they require. When planted we water 

 to fix them well, and for a long time a skiff from the syringe 

 in a hot day, the glasses close, and air at night when not 

 frosty will be all that they will require, as we would be best 

 pleased if they rooted little until after Christmas. — R. E. 



COVENT GARDEN MAEKET.— October 22. 



Supplies of fruit continue heavy, -with the exception of Pioes, which are 

 rather scarce, and of Peaches, which will soon be over. The principal 

 dessert Apples are King of the Pippins, Ribston Pippins, which are very 

 abundant, and Coe'b Orange Pippin, of which there are excellent specimens 

 to be had. Besides these there is great plenty of nameless Apples, such as 

 are hawked about the streets. Pears for dessert purposes consist of Marie 

 Louise, Crasaane, Duchesse d'ABRouleme, from the continent, and Beurre 

 d'Anjou, a handsome new kind. The supply of Cobs is short this week, 

 owing to holders keeping hack ; and vegetables are not so plentiful as they 

 have been in former weeks. The Potato market remains unchanged. 



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Apples £ sieve 1 



Apricots doz. 



Cherries lb. 



Currants, Red...$ sieve 



Black do. 



Figs doz. 



Filberts & Nuts 100 lbs. 60 80 



Cobs do. 60 81) 



Grapes, Hamburghs lb. 1 6 S 



Muscats 3 7 



Lemons 100 8 14 



Melons each 16 4 



Mulberries .... punnet 



Nectarines doz. 



Oranges 100 10 



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Peaches doz. 



Pears (kitchen). ..bush. 5 



dessert doz. 1 



Pine Apples lb. 4 



Plums £ sieve 2 



Pomegranates each 



Quinces ^ sieve 2 



Raspberries lb. 







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AsparaguB bundle 



Beans Broad 4 sieve 



Kidney | sieve 



Beet, Red.... _ doz. 



Broccoli hundle 



BrusselBSprouts J sieve 



Cabbage doz. 



Capsicums 100 



Carrots bunch 



Cauliflower doz. 



Celery bundle 



Cucumbere each 



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Fennel bunch 



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Leeks bunch 



Lettuce score 



Mushrooms pottle 



Mustd. & Cress, punnet 



Onions bunch 



pickling quart 



Parsley ...doz, bunches 



Parsnips doz. 



Peas qnart 



Potatoes bushel 



Radishes doz. bunches 



Savoys doz. 



Sea-kale basket 



Spinach sieve 



Tomatoes j sieve 



Turnips bunch 



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TEADE CATALOGUES EECEIYED. 



James Veitch, Royal Exotic Nursery, King's Koad, Chelsea, 

 and Coombe Wood, Kingston Hill.— Plan* Catalogue; Cata- 

 logue of Hardy Trees, Shrubs, Coniferce, American Plants, Sec. ; 

 Catalogue of Select Roses. 



Charles Turner, Royal Nurseries, Slough and Salt Hill.— 

 Catalogue of Roses, Fruit Trees, Coniferce, Hardy Trees and 

 (Shrubs, fyc. ; Select List of Pelargoniums. 



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' 

 txire, S(c, 171, Fleet Street, London. E.G. 



We also request that correspondents will not mis 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. 



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

 week. 



Guava (G. S.).— We believe yours to be the Psidium Cattleyanum. The 

 purple fruit you enclosed wa« too bruised to judge of its exact shape, but 

 the perfume and Strawberry flavour were that of the species we have named, 

 P. ferrugineum we never heard of before. 



Fruit (C. IF., 5ojfon).— Write to Messrs, Webber & Co., Covent Garden 

 Market. 



Pear Leaves (C. E. L.).~ They are attacked by a parasitical fungus. If 

 you could collect all the affected leaves now and burn them, and do so when 

 the fungus appears nest year, you would extirpate the plague. It injures, 

 but will not kill your trees. 



Mcshrpoms (Si-las Fixings). — Sowing salt over grass land early in autumn 

 might prevent the occurrence of Mushrooms. We do not know the Elms in 

 the Close of Salisbury. 



Henslow's Dictionary {Marfordie).— You can have it free by post for 

 fifty-two stamps. The flowers were destroyed by the post-office punches. 



Rosery {A Lover of Roses). — It is, as you say, often spelt with an a, but 

 having an English termination, we think the e is more correct. If the 

 word had a Latin termination then it would be otherwise, as in rosarium. It 

 is desirable also to have the spelling distinct from rosary, the name for the 

 Roman Catholic string of beads. 



Dwarf Apple Trees (E. M. IF.).— Tour overgrown dwarf Apple trees 

 are doubtless grafted on the crab stock. No pruning will arrest their 

 growth. The only method of doing so would be to take them up carefully in 

 November, and reduce all their shoots to half their length, making their 

 heads symmetrical. If they commence to make vigorous growth, say in 

 1866, they may in the autumn of that year again be taken up and replanted. 

 Bowling Green (G. £.).— Our correspondent asks whether a bowling 

 green should not rise 6 inches in the centre ? We have always considered 

 that a perfect level wa3 the most desirable. It is so stated in Rees's Cyclo- 

 paedia, where there are very full directions for making a bowling green. 



Heating a Conservatory (T. E. B.).— We have no doubt that Mussett's 

 plan would answer, and that of any other tradesman who advertises in our 

 columns. Candidly, we take with the usudl drawbacks all systems of hot water 

 that are to do so much work at so small a cost. In all the plans we have worked 

 we never found very great difference when continuously worked. A tall, 

 conical, or tubular boiler would suit you and so would a flue along the 

 centre of the house. We do not know the mode of laying out your 

 34 by 22 feet wide house, and whether span-roofed or not; but we have no 

 doubt that the cheapest and most economical plan for merely keeping out frost 

 would be a brick Arnott's stove inside the house. (Stainley Hall). — Much 

 the same answer as to the preceding. Any of those tradesmen who ad- 

 vertise in our columns would do the work for you, or, if preferred, any 

 blacksmith or plumber that has been used to it in your neighbourhood. We 

 have no preference for systems, after having seen and tried most at work, 

 except liking the simplest best. A middle-sized saddle-back, or conical, or 

 tubular-boiler will suit your purpose, and if your house is lofty, span-roofed 

 and you wish to keep a temperature of from 55° to 60° in winter, you would 

 require three pipes all round. If the house is a lean-to and you do not 

 want so high a temperature, two pipes at the ends and front will be ample. 



Inarched Vine (Wattoji).— If you want to give due Btrength to the 

 inarched Muscats you must cut away the head of the original stock. If you 

 cannot well do this at once, take away a good portion of it, and the whole of 

 it next year. As the Muscat shoot is so weak, cut that down to a couple of 

 buds or to. The more strength of the stock you give it the better will it do. 

 The flower was too faded and injured to be identified. 



Araeis lucida variegata. — James Hoade, Addleston, Surrey, wishes to 

 know where he can obtain a supply of this plant. 



Emigrating to New Zealand. — "J. C." wishes to know if Strawberry 

 plants can be packed so as to be taken out ; whether tools should be taken ; 

 whether Quick thrives there ; what kinds of seed should be taken ; and 

 whether settlers there grow their own grass seed?, Answers to these 

 queries, and any other information, will be acceptable. 



Vines not Breaking well tYincry).— We fear you have allowed too 

 much fruit to remain on your Vines, which as you say are very young, and 

 supposing you did the same last year, and then started to force early the 

 pust spring, the evil you complain of was very likely to happen. We fear 

 we cannot give you any better advice than to cut them down below the 

 blank caused by the buds not breaking, or even lower ; but if plenty of 

 canes exist you might let some of them remain as they are in order to pro- 

 duce some fruit next year. Buds that have missed breaking the past season 

 will not break next, although most old wo^d is furnished with sets of 

 embryo buds which only burst forth into leaf on being urged by some ex- 

 traordinary cause — as the heading-down of the plant or other similar ordeal. 

 We certainly caution you againBt allowing the Vines to bear so heavily 

 another season. 

 Direction (S. 23.).— The direction is Stanley Bridge, King's Road, Chelsea. 

 Insects [G. W. 27.).— Send us specimens in a quill or box, so tkitthey 

 cannot be crushed by the post-office stamps, and we will endeavour to tell 

 you the names. 



