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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



OPINIONS ON THREE SUBJECTS : 



Questions asked : — 



1. The most suitable Compost foe Particular Districts ; 



2. The best time to cut down Plants for Grouping 



purposes ; 



3. Cause of Damping of the Blooms, and Remedy. 

 Answers received : — 



BERKSHIRE. 

 W. Pope, Highclere Castle, Newbury. 



1. Three parts loam, half-part fresh horse manure, half-part 

 decayed leaves, half-part wood ashes, quarter-part coarse sand, 

 quarter-part charcoal, half-pound Thomson's vine manure to each 

 bushel of soil. 



2. Late varieties, third week in May ; other varieties, second 

 week in June. 



3. A too free use of stimulants, combined with a cold, damp 

 atmosphere. Remedy : Warm, dry, buoyant atmosphere, and 

 discontinuance of stimulants. 



A. Street, Mount Oak, Enfield Green, Staines. 



1. Half yellow loam, half sandy loam, leaf soil, and mush- 

 room-bed manure. 



2. Late varieties, end of May ; others, first to third week in 

 June. 



3. Excess of stimulants, insufficient ventilation. 



T. Turton, Maiden Erlegh, Reading. 



1. Loam, eight parts ; two mushroom-bed manure, one wood 

 ashes, one bushel of hoof parings, and one bushel of soot. 



BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 

 R. Owen, Castle Hill, Maidenhead. 



1. Loam, leaf soil, lime rubbish, bones, horse manure, and 

 cow ditto. 



2. Early in June. 



3. Too much stimulant, overcrowding, insufficient ventila- 

 tion, damp atmosphere, and fire-heat without air. 



C. Herrin, Dropmore, Maidenhead. 



1. Fibrous loam and bone dust, soot, small charcoal, leaf 

 mould, horse droppings in small quantities. 



