November 15, 1364. 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



399 



this also for another purpose, and that is the nest to use- 

 lessness of sending such large root plants to a distance. 

 They will be valuable chiefly for the slips that could be taken 

 from them, and these would have come more safely in small 

 parcels in paper. We have also a lot of old Scarlet Gera- 

 niums by the sides of sheds, as well as inside ; and as we 

 cannot get at them yet we have covered them over with dry 

 litter until we can do so ; then we will strip and treat many 

 of them as we did last season, making faggots of them in 

 large pots or boxes, or placing them thickly in a cold pit 

 when we can make room. Tree leaves will soon be down 

 now. — R. F. 



COVENT GAjRDEN MAEKET.— November 12. 



The supply both of fruit and vegetables is well kept up. Of the former, 

 hothouse Grapes are in better demand; and the supply of Pines has im- 

 proved. A few Dutch Peaches are srill to be had. Walcheren Broccoli, 

 Brussels Sprouts, Savoys, and other Greens are abundant and good ; and of 

 Potatoes large quantities have arrived both coastwise and by rail. 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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

 partmental writers of the " Journal of Horticulture, 

 Cottage Gardener, and Country Grentleman." By so 

 doing they are subjected to unjustifiable trouble and 

 expense. All communications should therefore be ad- 

 dressed solely to Tlie Editors of the Journal of Horticul- 

 ture, $c. y 171, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 



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

 week. 



Growing Fruit for. Sale {Profit).— Our Covent Garden Market report 

 gives the retail prices. It is quite impossible to forecast prices, they are 

 so depei,dant on seasons and other contingencies which influence the sup- 

 ply. Call on Messrs. Webber, in Covent Garden, and ask Mr. Taylor to 

 give you eome hints. Hamilton's book on Pine culture was published by 

 Mr. Masters, Aldersgate Street. 



Oak Leaves {An Irish Subscriber). — The numerous scale-like ex- 

 crescences are a parasitical fungus ; the white ball was crushed, but prob- 

 ably was a gall caused by the puncture of an insect, some species of Cynips. 



Planting Terraces (M. O.).— From your description we do not quite 

 understand the position of the terraces. Neither oi your figures is sym- 

 metrical as a whole The repetition on the other side of wa'k will give more 

 balance. The terrace on gravel and Box will look very well, but there will 



Grey Velvety-leaved Plant— Trop^olum elegans Colture {E. (?. 

 H.). — The plant is Gnaphalium lanatum. It does well for edgings, and may 

 be permitted to grow 18 inches in height or more, or be nipped to a few 

 inches in height. It is not hardy, as most likely the recent frost will tell 

 you. It is easily propagated by cuttings. Round large beds and, therefore, 

 a sort of hedge, it will bloom and produce its rather sweet everlasting 

 flowers. The Tropceolum elegans is best kept on by cuttingu, it should not 

 have much less than 45° in winter to keep it healthy. It may be planted 

 out the last week of May. To produce abundant bloom the soil should 

 be poor, or vigour arrested by pulling off the strongest foliage. Tom Thumb 

 Yellow and Tom Thumb Scarlet are yet as good as any. Fireball is 

 brighter than Tom Thumb. In strong soil you must disleaf. By this 

 simple process we can make any kind a mass of flowers. 



Intermediate Orchids for Plant Casr {An Amateur). — You do not 

 state the width of the rase; but for one 7 feet long, 2 feet in height, and 

 heated by a tank beneath, we would choose the following .— Cypripedium 

 insigne and venustum, Odontoglossum grande, Dendrobium specio3um and 

 grande, Neottia plantaginia, Bletia hyacinthina, Oncidium leucochilum, 

 at least for a commencement. From 50° at night would be ample for 

 these if it suited your Ferns, with a rise of from 5° to 10° during the day. 

 Less would do. But you can easily add or diminish by u3ing a cloth cover 

 at night for your case in severe weather, and putting hot water in your 

 tank the last thing at night. 



Protecting a Fig Tree {An Old Subscriber). — The Fig having lost its 

 leaves, unnail the branches from the wall, and tie them together, to as to be 

 conveniently covered with straw. The large Figs may be removed, but the 

 small ones must be carefully retained, and the branches, having been 

 brought close together, should be tied with strong mat, and covered with 

 straw to the thickness of about 6 inches, fastening it with tarred string 

 tightly round the Fig-shoots, iather in front of them, and down to the root. 

 This will be sufficient to protect them from the rigours of an ordinary 

 winter. The s^raw should be taken off" in May, covering the tree then with 

 a mat or two on frosty nights, until well hardened. They should be fas- 

 tened to the wall again by the time they begin to grow. 



Vine Planting (Wm. Holland). — We consider the first half of March 

 would be a very suitable time to plant a fresh Vine in an outside border. 

 Prune the Vines of which the leaves are now falling by the middle of 

 December, or about a fortnight after the leaves are all fallen. The Peach 

 trees, to afford fruit in July, should be placed in the vinery by the 1st of 

 March. "The Vine Manual," price 25. Gd., will be published this week, 

 and it contains all that is necessary to know on Vine culture. 



Preserving Achimenes Roots— Wintering Lilidms {Elizabeth).— T£epj> 

 them in the pots in a dry part of the greenhouse. If placed on the floor 

 under the stage, free from drip from the plants above, they could not have 

 a more suitable posi'ion. Lilium lancifolium may be wintered in a cold 

 frame, plunged to the rim in coal ashes, with a slight protection of mats in 

 very severe weather. The Amaryllis, we presume a greenhouse kind, 

 should be kept in the pot in a dry, light, airy part of that structure, without 

 any water until it begins to grow in spring. Lilium giganteuin, also L. lanci- 

 folium, should not be allowed to become dust dry, but, nevertheless, be 

 kept rather dry in the pots in any part of the greenhouse, except under 

 stages and on flues. If the pots are on a damp floor they will need very 

 little, if any, water during the winter. 



Various Shrubs (H. iV. E.). — All the shrubs named require the pro- 

 tection of a cool greenhouse. They will not bear exposure, so far as we 

 know, in anv part of the kingdom, except in very favourable localities, as 

 those from which you had them. 



Altssdm saxatile Seedlings— Virginian Stock Transplanting {A Sub- 

 striker).— The seedlings sown last June ought to bloom next April ; but as 

 they are small, and probably have not been pricked out, they very likely will 

 not flower until the year following. The Virginian Stock may be transplanted 

 to the beds now, taking care to remove and plant with a ball of earth to the 

 roots. It must be done in mild weather, and is best deferred, if the soil be wet 

 and heavy, until March. Lobelia speciosa is a half-h*rdy plant, requiring the 

 protection of a cool greenhouse ; it will not, therefore, live out of doors all 

 the winter. The Roses in pots may remain out of doors, plunged to the 

 rim in coal ashes, in a sheltered situation. 



Potting Strawberries for Forcing— Crinums not Blooming— Drying 

 Fuchsias {3. E.).— Strawberries for forcing ought to have been potted some 

 months ago. The grand secret in growing Strawberries in pots is to have 

 the plants well established before autumn, the pots full of roots, and the r 

 crowns plump and well ripened. As you mention potting now, we presume 

 the plants are, as yet, in the open garden, and not in pots; if so, take up 

 those with the most prominent crowns, and not more than a year, or at most 

 two years old, by ibrusting a trowel down on all sides about 3 inches from 

 the centre, and pot such, with the ball entire, in seven-inch pots, using rich 

 lotm, and pressing the soil firmly around them. Water and place in a cold 

 frame. If you have materials, as leaves, or litter, with which to make a 

 bed about 2 feet thick, do it by all means, and half plunge the pots, but keep 

 the lights off. This warmth to the roots will cause the plants to fill the pots 

 with roots, and the heat being gone in a short time, if the lights are put on 

 during frostv and wet weather, the plants will ripen their crowns ; air, how- 

 eter, must be freely admitted when the weather is mild. In this case the 

 plants, after being cleared of their bad leaves, may be placed on a shelf 

 about 15 inches from the glass, in a cool vinery, by the beginning of March. 

 Failing the frame and materials to raise a little warmth, place the potted 

 plants in a sunny sheltered situation, close to a south wall or fence, and 

 have tbe shelf fixed forthwith, then place the Strawberries thereon, giving, 

 until March, no more water than is sufficient to prevent the latter flagging, 

 and air on all favourable occasions. Such plants very frequently give a fair 



be a degree of sameness from having a white or lfght colour to all the bed* ? rop ' b J ut not , * qua i t0 tho3e reared for the P u TP 0Be - 3 The Criauma may be 

 exceptl7. This, however, In some critics' estimation would be an advantage! I lnduced to .bloom by planting them m a sunnier an . wiiru.c-r situation in 

 We had some square gardens of Verbenas all edged with CerasUum, which 

 looked very well, and will look well in winter. When tired of that arrange- 

 ment, you miffht in another year edge 7 with white, 9 and 10 with purple, 

 and 13 and 14 with blue, and the 17 might have a white edging. As to 

 terrace garden — Does Golden Mint keep colour with you? With us it 

 goes back, and so does the Golden Ground Ivy. In 9 and 10, we 

 think you had better omit the Heliotropes, as they will not match with the 

 Troproolum in habit; 17 and J 8, Cloth of Gold; Heliotropes, purple, kept 

 low; and Cerastium. We would, however, prefer dark Heliotropes for 

 centrp, and Cloth of Gold for edging; then 21 as now, 13 and 14, mix the 

 Alyesum or Cerastium with a little Lobelia. 



nd warmer situation in 

 soil not liable to become wet during the winter. They do not bloom because 

 the growths are not perfected. Tnere is such a thing as a double Cineraria, 

 but it, with many of its predecessors, are not worth much. As for the 

 Fuchsias, bloom them if you will up to Christmas, and then keep them dry, 

 so as to afford a season of rest. If they are young plants they must be kept 

 gently growing over the winter. 



Protecting Shrebs (A Very Old Subscriber).— The shrubs named would 

 not be injured by any frosts we have had this season, the injury to the 

 leaders being probably due to the recent removal. You may place a mat 

 round them in severe weather, removing it in mild periods, but such protec- 

 tion is of little avail, and does quite as much harm as good. 



