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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [Ma y 2 4,i88j. 
seedlings, and do not cost any more. They might be struck easily 
enough upon any shady border, but in our parching east winds 
we find it better to cover them and keep them continually 
moist by sprinkling twice a day. If we have sufficient cuttings 
of our favourite sorts we shall insert 20,000 this year; last year 
we only put in 5000 as an experiment.— Peter Ferguson, Monk 
Wcarmouth. 
CANKER IN FRUIT TREES. 
I hereunder send you the list of fruit trees which do not 
canker with me in extreme North Wilts, and not far from Bath ; 
soil lpam on sandy clay. Apples Entirely dree from Canker .— 
Dumelow’s Seedling, Duchess of Oldenburgh, Irish Peach, Em¬ 
peror Alexander, Cox’s OraDge Pippin, Loddington Seedling, 
Annie Elizabeth, Winter Hawthornden, Keswick Codlin, Ecklin- 
ville Seedling, Stirling Castle, Peasgood’s Nonsuch, Tower of 
Glamis, and Yorkshire Beauty. Apples which Canker to a very 
Small Extent. —Gravenstein, Worcester Pearmain, Lord Suffield 
where the soil is well drained, Summer Golden Pippin, Sturmer 
Pippin, Warner’s King, Margaret, Betty Geeson, Juneating, and 
Margil. Apples which Canker very Badly. —Cellini, Striped 
Beefin, Bed Astrachan, Old Hawthornden, Old Golden Pippin, 
Beauty of Kent, Cox’s Pomona, Lord Suffield on undrained soil, 
Bedfordshire Foundling, and Alfriston. Pears Entirely Free 
from Canker. —Williams’ Bon Chifitien, Soldat Esperen, Beurre 
Hardy, Beurrd d’Amanlis, Josephine de Malines, Summer Doy¬ 
enne, Madame Treyve, and Catillac. Pears which Canker to a 
Small Extent. —Winter Nelis, Bergamotte Esperen, Napoleon, and 
Jargonelle. Pears which Canker very Badly. —Beurrd Die!, 
Seckle, and Louise Bonne of Jersey. Plums Free from Canker .— 
Kirke’s, Rivers’ Early, Green Gage, and Victoria. Plums which 
Canker and Gum. —Orleans, Coe’s Golden Drop, and others, 
names unknown. I have other fruit trees which I have not 
classed, inasmuch as they are too young to be judged of properly. 
In regard to what “ Canker ” says of the salt-laden gale of 
April, 1882, it was felt severely here from the Bristol Channel, 
the deposit on the windows beiDg distinctly saline to the tongue. 
Hence, I imagine, is the failure this year in the blossom of every 
Plum out in the open, even to Bullaces and Damsons, and on 
walls unless something intervened. Thus I have a Kirke’s and a 
Coe’s Golden Drop, both partly protected by a thick Privet hedge 
54 feet high. Below the hedge there is a good blossom, above it 
none at all.— Wiltshire Rector. 
CRINUM KIRKII. 
This plant (fig. 95) has been seen several times at exhibitions 
within the past two years, but when shown by Mr. B. S. Williams 
of Upper Holloway recently at the Royal Botanic Society’s Spring 
Show it received special attention, and the award of a first-class 
certificate for it signified the judges’ opinion of its merits. It is 
one of the West African species, having been found at Zanzibar 
and introduced thence in 1879. The flowers are of moderate size, 
but are borne in good heads, and their chief beauty consists in 
the broad distinctly marked rosy crimson stripe in the centre of 
each petal, which shows up well on the white ground. It is as 
easily grown as other species of this genus, succeeding best in a 
stove temperature, and requiring plenty of water when growing 
and flowering. 
NOTES FROM MY GARDEN IN 1882.—No. 4. 
AN AMATEUR’S GREENHOUSE. 
A record of what I have been enabled to do with my small 
span-roofed house of 20 feet by 10 may be useful to others. It is 
supplemented by a small lean-to adjoining, containing a couple of 
Black Hamburgh Vines, and is most useful as enabling me to 
place Camellias, Azaleas, &c., in when they had done flowering, 
also for placing Hyacinths in before they come fully into bloom, 
A correspondent recently gave a useful hint of training his Vines, 
where he says that he had, instead of spurring them all back, only 
done so with alternate shoots, shortened them, and allowed the 
crop to be produced from these shoots. It is, however, even 
here true that there is nothing new under the sun. I remember 
a few years ago, when paying a visit to the remarkable garden 
of a remarkable man—my friend the late Dr. Samuel Newington 
of Ticehurst—noticing that this method was very largely and suc¬ 
cessfully used by him, and had been for many years. 1 described 
this in the Journal at the time, and now often wonder why I had 
not tried it myself. I have to thank your correspondent for 
reminding me of it, and I am adopting it this year, and shall 
report on it if all be well at some future time. 
I am not a little proud of the management of my greenhouse, 
and I think there are few similar structures out of which so much 
has been obtained. I do not attempt, as I do in Auriculas, Gla¬ 
diolus, and Roses, to grow a collection of anything. My object 
is to never have it without something in flower, and something, 
moreover, from which I can cut for the house, and it is very 
seldom that I cannot do so. It is true, people with large houses 
might say that my plants were not what they ought to be, that 
the stages were too crowded. Well, to a certain extent 1 am 
willing to admit this. I know, for instance, that some half dozen 
of Mr. C. Turner’s Pelargoniums would fill the house, but I am 
contented with smaller efforts so that I can secure the object 
which I have in view ; and yet when my Azaleas or Camellias 
become too large for my house I have no difficulty in disposing of 
them, so that they cannot be so very bad after all. Let me, then, 
detail the changes through which it has passed during the year. 
I do not grow any Primulas, for as I cannot grow everything, 
and as Primulas are not good for cutting, I leave them out and 
go in for Cyclamens. These are invaluable ; they make a house 
gay, and the giganteum strain especially gives a good supply of 
long-stalked flowers for cutting. These with Camellias, of which 
I have about a dozen and a half, commence my year. There are 
always some of the Zonal Pelargoniums which flower all through 
the winter, and their bright flowers always tend to lighten up the 
house. During this time the Show Pelargoniums are placed on 
a shelf which is suspended over the path and runs down about 
two-thirds of the house. They are consequently close to the light 
and do not get drawn. As the Camellias are going out of bloom 
they are taken into the lower house and placed under the Vines, 
while Hyacinths which have been plunged out of doors are then 
brought in for flowering. I need not say while these are in the 
house it looks very bright and gay. The Hyacinths do not last 
very long, and when they are out of bloom they are removed and 
more space is given to the plants that remain. I should add that 
all through this time several pots of the very pretty Schizanthus 
papilionaceus are placed at the back, and not only supply a mass 
of very light and pretty-looking flowers, but that they do admirably 
for cutting and placing in the top portion of a dinner-table stand. 
After the removal of the Hyacinths the contents of my house are 
these : On one side I have some well-formed plants of Azaleas 
about 18 inches to 2 feet high, and of the better sorts, such as 
Mrs. Turner, a most lovely bright pink and one mass of bloom ; 
Flambeau, deep crimson, the deepest yet raised ; Empress of 
India, salmon, semi-double ; Madame L. de Kerchove ; Marie Van 
Houtte, salmon ; Apollon, very large white, &c. There are two 
or three fine plants of Libonia floribunda in full flower and not 
without foliage, although it was stated lately in a contemporary 
that in a cool house the flowers and foliage were not produced 
together. Here also are two or three pots of the old white Calla. 
I prefer to calling it thus than to giving it its grand scientific 
name. On the other side of the house the back row is occupied 
by the plants of Schizanthus, and some lovely plants of Tropreolum 
tricolor trained on trellises one mass of bloom, the rest of the 
stage being occupied by Show and Zonal Pelargoniums, with a 
few odd plants interspersed, such as the curious Boronia mega- 
stigma and the exquisite and deliciously fragrant Friesia refracta 
alba and Leichtlinii, also Lachenalias, useful for cutting, and 
Primula Sieboldii. Each side of the stage is edged by the Cycla¬ 
mens, the greater number of them raised from seed, with large 
and well-shaped flowers ; while close to the door I have a pan of 
the lovely Gentiana verna in full bloom, a gem which, alas ! I 
cannot manage out of doors, clearly proving that it is our wet 
and changeable climate that hinders its well-doing, for in a cool 
frame it grows a merveille. When the Azaleas have done flower¬ 
ing they are transferred to the lower house, and then the Pelar¬ 
goniums have still more room to stretch themselves. The Tropae- 
olums have done flowering and are laid on their sides under the 
staging. The Arums are removed out of doors, and some Fuchsias 
which have been kept dry during the winter are started into 
growth. Tuberous-rooted Begonias, which have now started in a 
Cucumber frame, are brought in, and the house looks very gay 
and bright. When the Pelargoniums are over it might be thought 
that its glories were at an end ; but no, I still have a reserve force 
—my Lilies. These have been plunged under a light in cocoa-nut 
fibre, and are brought in as they show signs of bloom. Auratum, 
Batemannii, Hansoni, Kreutzrei, Brownii, Krameri, &c. These 
with the Fuchsias, the ever-blooming Zonals, Begonias, and Salvia3 
keep the house gay until the declining year bids us look to the 
Chrysanthemums for aid ; and this through the dreary months of 
November and December keeps my lower house gay with bloom 
and offers a large supply of cut flowers. Such is the routine of 
the last twelve months, and 1 think I may safely feel a little 
proud thereof. 
