December 22, 1887. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
549 
admi.xhSrp’ t f e V me aI1 ^ he 8ame - If soil be of a light nature an 
shoX-1oLt^ C wo 7 nI ^ Wil ‘ impr ° Ve the Staple > te nd to encourage 
2™ wood, and increase the size and quality of the fruit. 
the months t mUSt ^ made for P roducin g ripe fruit during 
and cZrlotfe V ^oothdeaved Ca yeune, Black Jamaica” 
an 1 xr 1 , 11 Rothschild, which failed to show fruit durine October 
£esSoT. 1 :K t DOt now UP in time t0 ripen at the^period in 
less time ’ such fa? mugfcPe directed to such as attain perfection in 
those nla’nt lht A Queen ’ ® nvdl f» ; Providence, &c. Choose at once 
the centre siVns nf base, with a tendency to open at 
S t ; " f I' 16 /™ 1 , being shortl y visible, placing them in a 
R to® bottom heat of 850 to 90°, a top heat 
conditions arc m to /° b y day, and 10° more when the external 
but not°to nrn,f l° U f% le - 7 genial atm °spbere should be maintained, 
piir as ^rin^ AL ? m f eam 7 es ^ lting of syringing the hot-water 
Ld then 7erv pL \ S ov f erhead onco °r twice a week is ample, 
the soil is in a n? ht y ’ 0n ?.“? aft ernoons damping the house. See that 
a dash of m‘ln PCr condlt ' onas t0 moisture, using tepid water, with 
tiyT ? ' yms ii “ pio “ ,, whe ° 
but hcreT a fv!'~ The 7 Cather “ a y not have necessitated sharp firing, 
weak a tel * .° f - sun > which is generally resultant of a 
the n ^ growth. Light is very important in the cultivation of 
as cllan as mssihlcw^n and now ‘ he da ys are so short keep the glass 
manure too 1 ? . b both .“ Slde and out - Do not apply strong liquid 
them un Wv 1 '^ 7 ’ a !. lt 18 i! 10 reverse of good treatment to stimulate 
be rich Sw! a f Dy T V me ' sod ’ however, applied to the roots should 
allow sweet. Be careful not to overcrop the plants, and do not 
S S g“*» *«> ^ng too Ion,. They keep fresh 1 several days after 
Remove snLr h fl heels ar .® mserted in saucers of water in moderate heat, 
sarv Red^t t? OU8 n rU ij S 7' S tley appear, and tie the growths as neces- 
with a wlat SifT 6h ° U c d subdued b y syringing the infested leaves 
but car^mn !°L ° f soft60a P ( 2ozs - to the gallon)—a safe remedy, 
dust the Sfcfcf b i° taken . n ° fc a to damage the leaves. If mildew appear, 
SDher e mo^ r d P n Wlth flowers of sniphur, and reduce the atmo- 
them w,?l? 7 i Ule ‘ Gree ! 1 or black aphides may be destroyed by dusting 
evenim^fn tobacco powder, or fumigation on two or three consecutive 
evenings moderately. An overdose may do irreparable injury. 
heated'f 7 Cucumbers and -Melons are obtained from frames, or pits 
bltw, y f f rm ®ntmg materials, some fresh Oak or Beech leaves should 
b! t ° gether > with one-third of stable litter, and, if necessary, 
warme f+n ed S< ?. ^7,° lnduce fermentation. It should be turned when 
warmth t , hro , ugh ’. alike to sweeten, to bring all into a genial state of 
inenmnror ^ inside, and to induce thorough 
incorporation of the materials. 
PLANT HOUSES. 
Allamandas.— Where these are required in bloom as early as possible 
in the season plants that have enjoyed a good rest in a temperature of 
00 may be started. These plants may either be repotted before they 
are introduced into a warmer house or after they have broken into 
growth. \\, e have potted them at both periods, and have found no ap- 
preciable difference in the results, and therefore prefer doing it before 
they are started. The plants should be turned out of their pots and the 
roots reduced, being careful to preserve as many fibry roots as possible. 
Ihe soil should afterwards be soaked in tepid water and allowed to 
dram before potting. If the plants have been in large enough pots the 
same size may be used. If necessary to increase the size of the plants 
do not reduce the old ball so liberally, and transfer them into pots one 
or two swes larger than they were resting in. They should be clean 
and liberally drained. The soil may be pressed as firmly as possible, 
a ^d the plants then placed into a house with a night temperature of 65°.’ 
“ c ? n be plunged in leaves or other fermenting material so 
much the better. The plants should be syringed twice daily, but no 
water will be needed at the roots before they start into growth. Use 
for a compost rich fibry loam and one-seventh of decayed manure. 
Rlants that are growing in borders should have the surface soil removed 
and top-dressed with equal parts of loam and manure. 
, . glabra .—If the earliest plants have not been pruned 
this should be done at once by the removal of unripe and all puny 
shoots. Nothing is gained by crowding the plants with weak wood that 
will not produce shoots strong enough to flower. When pruned the 
plants should be moderately thin, and a number of shoots of equal 
strength encouraged sufficient to furnish the plants with flowers after 
they are tied down. Plants that are not pruned should not be started 
for at least a fortnight afterwards. Those already pruned may be 
started in the same temperature as advised for Allamandas. They can 
either be repotted or top-dressed with rich material. If the former do 
not reduce them more than one-third, use the same soil as recommended 
for Allamandas, whether for potting or top-dressing, and press it firmly 
into the pots. This plant will do in the same size for years if the 
drainage is good and they are liberally treated. 
Clerodcndron Balfourianurn .—This plant will not bear disturbing at 
its roots so much as either of the preceding. When once they have 
been given their largest size they will do in the same pot for years, pro¬ 
vided they are top-dressed with decayed manure and fed freely during 
the growing season. When confined at their roots they are induced to 
make firm short growths all over the plant, which flower with greater 
freedom than long shoots that are freely made by young plants or those 
with ample root room. Soak the soil with tepid water before intro- j 
ducing them into brisk heat. Plants that are declining in health may | 
be recruited by turning them out of their pots and carefully reducing 
he old roots one-third, and then repotting them into the same sized pot 
in a compost of fibry loam two parts, one part of peat and one of leaves 
or old Mushroom bed ref use. To this may be added charcoal and coarse 
santk In the case of old plants this should not be done before they 
break into growth. Much the better plan is to throw them away and 
bnng on young healthy plants to replace them, which in three years 
tb « cut *. m g will cover very large trellises. When giving,young 
plants their final shift into 11 -inch pots add one 6 -inch potful of half- 
mch bones with the fine amongst them to every bushel of the compost 
^ “ ay be f . eeded ; 0 ^ants still at rest must not be kept in a lower 
temperature than 60 , for if starved they are very liable to die 
Stephanotisfloribunda ,—Plants that were well ripened, pruned, and 
kept for the last month in a temperature of 50° may now be started with 
the plants enumerated above. Soak the plants thoroughly with tenid 
water, and after they have drained place a good layer of manure on the 
surface and arrange them where they can remain until they come into 
flower. They should be moderately close to the glass, so that directly 
growth commences strings can be secured to the trellis and under the 
roof, upon which to train the young growths. Considerably more 
flowers are produced by this method than if the shoots were tied to the 
trellis as they extend. 
Gloxinias .—These may be started by Laying the tubers amongst leaf 
ould, in pans or boxes, until they commence growth, when they can 
be carefully lifted and placed into pots according to the size of the 
ubers. They may be stood on the surface in the forcing house amongst 
large stove plants that are being started. 
Achimines. Place these thickly together in pans of light sandy 
son and arrange in the forcing house. If the soil is moderately moist, 
the pans plunged, and their surface covered with cocoa-nut fibre 
refuse, they will need no water until growth is visible. A few Cala- 
lighTsandysoff 80 beStarted plaC “ g them in sma11 P° ts amongst 
THE FLOWER GARDEN AND PLEASURE GROUND. 
Selection of Botes .—Roses may be planted whenever the weather is 
mild and the ground in a good working condition. Let the weather be 
what it may, however, no time should be lost in ordering any that have 
to be bought in, or the chances are a difficulty will be experienced in 
procuring strong plants of the varieties needed. If received when the 
ground is in an unfavourable state for their reception, lay them in care- 
fuHy by the heels till they can be planted, taking care to protect them 
with strawy litter in the event of severe frosts being threatened. 
Hybrid Perpetual *.—As we have previously remarked, standards or 
those with an exposed stem of any length are the most unreliable, being 
he nist to suffer from frosts, and at their best are not often very orna- 
mental. If the Briar stems or stocks are protected with hay bands, 
f ern fronds, or straw, it must be a very severe frost that will cripple or 
destroy the Rose, but such protections are unsightly and very few care 
to adopt the plan. It is the dwarfs that live the longest, and these also 
usually thrive the best. They may be bought either worked on the 
seedling briar or Manetti stocks, and in either case if the point of union 
is buried slightly below the surface the Rose also emits roots freely be¬ 
coming in time equal in every respect to own root Roses. It is either 
the neglect of this precaution or ignorance of the value of the practice 
that leads to so many dwarf-worked Roses being planted too high these 
in time becoming miserably stunted and seldom last long. It’is not 
advisable to plant deeply where the soil is of a heavy or clayey nature 
moulding up the stems heavily being a preferable proceeding. We shall 
give a list of thirty-six varieties that can be depended upon, and if less 
m number are required the first twelve or more may be taken as well- 
varied selections. These are Alfred Colomb, A. K. Williams, Baroness 
Rothschild, Captain Christy, Charles Lefebvre, Comtesse de Chabrillant, 
Comtesse d’Oxford, Duke of Connaught, Etienne Levet, General Jacque¬ 
minot, La France, Mons. E. Y. Teas, Countess of Rosebery, Duchess of 
Bedford, Duke of Wellington, Ulrich Brunner, Dupuy Jamain, Francois 
Michelon, Her Majesty, John Stuart Mill, Jules Margottin, Merveille de 
Lyon or White Baroness, Madame Eugenie Yerdier, Marie Baumann, 
Abel Grand, Beauty of Waltham, Boule de Neige, Charles Darwin 
Duchess of Connaught, Edward Morren, Harrison Weir, Mdlle. Annie’ 
Wood, Senateur Vaisse, Camille Bernardin, and Annie Laxton. 
Teas and Noisettes .—Sunny walls are the best positions for these, 
where, if treated as liberally as they deserve to be, they grow vigorously 
and flower abundantly early and late. The Teas also thrive admirably 
in the open, more especially in the more southern districts; but even in 
favoured localities they ought to be grown as dwarfs, and be roughly 
protected during the winter with a good depth of strawy litter or dried 
bracken. Frequently these and other dwarf Roses are killed down to 
the snow line, or to where protected with litter; but supposing a few of 
the lower buds are well covered, they recover, and are all the better for 
this severe shortening back. The following are all worthy of a place 
in any collection :— 
Teas .—Catherine Mermet, The Bride, Marshal Niel, Etoile de Lyon, 
Gloire de Dijon, Comtesse de Nadaillac, Alba rosea, Madame Lambard’ 
Marie Van Houtte, Souvenir d’un Ami, Madame Hippolyte Jamain’ 
Adam, Isabella Sprunt, Homere, Niphetos, Perle de Lyon, Rubens’ 
Souvenir de Paul Neyron, Madame Falcot, Devoniensis, Anna Ollivier’ 
Sunset, Grace Darling, and Belle Lyonnaise. 
Noisettes .—Celine Forestier, Cloth of Gold, Lamarque, Jaune Desprez, 
Madame Caroline Kuster, Reve d’Or, William Allen Richardson, and 
Triomphe de Rennes. 
