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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ December 10, 1891. 
eggs, but I change this frequently, and always subject the material 
before using it to as great a heat as it will stand without burning ; 
it destroys the moth eggs and other insects, but it is strange how 
soon the moths find it out.” The above is the testimony of a 
gentleman who is reliable, and who tests things before he 
recommends them to others. He is in short the friend of the 
cottager and of the industrious, hence the greater the value of his 
testimony, and of the effectual way to destroy insect pests. 
Government Aid. 
There has bsen for a considerable time past much clamour to 
influence County Councils to allow portions of the grants to bee¬ 
keeping that has been allocated for technical instructions on rural 
matters. I am informed this has already to some extent been 
granted. Public money should be disbursed by responsible 
individuals for the benefit of the public, and in a judicious and 
economical manner. Bee-keeping can be carried on successfully 
by comparatively few, and it never will be as great a national 
industry, as bee-keeping is associated with horticulture, and cannot 
be well separated from it. So that whatever grants are procurable 
let them go for horticultural and agricultural purposes, of which 
bee-keeping is but a part. It is to be hoped that County Councils 
will think the matter over as seriously as they possibly can before 
they grant any aid to bee-keeping separated from horticulture and 
•agriculture. 
An Explanation and Correction. 
I, in common with many others, were well pleased with your 
admission of a supposed fault, as we were equally so with the 
correction made by you at page 485, as decidedly called for by the 
circumstances of the case.—A Lanarkshire Bee-keeper. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
J. Carter & Co., 237and238, Holborn .—List of New Chrysanthemums 
for 1892. 
Norman Davis, Lilford Road Nurseries, Camberwell, S.E .—Catalogue 
of New and Old Chrysanthemums. 
Dicksons & Co., 1, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh .—Catalogue of Forest 
Trees. 
®*®A11 correspondence should be directed either to “ The 
Editor” or to “The Publisher.” Letters addressed to 
Dr. Hogg or members of the staff often remain unopened 
■navoidably. We request that no one will write privately 
to any of our correspondents, as doing so subjects them to 
unjustifiable trouble and expense. 
Correspondents should not mix up on the same sheet questions 
relating to Gardening and those on Bee subjects, and should 
never send more than two or three questions at once. All 
articles intended for insertion should be written on one side of 
the paper only. We cannot reply to questions through the post, 
and we do not undertake to return rejected communications. 
Cutting- Down Something (A Subscriber ).—If you will be so 
good as to make clear what you desire to cut down your question shall 
be answered. No one here can decipher the word on your postcard, and 
printers can decipher almost anything. 
Pipe Sockets Splitting (J. R — You will no doubt find the 
cause of the mishap indicated in a short article on page 493 from 
a correspondent who has had great experience on the subject on which 
ilia writes. 
Chrysanthemum IVIrs. Norman Davis (II. Prosser ').—Your 
blooms arrived just as we were preparing for press. The florets are dis¬ 
tinctly bristled, like many we have seen of Charles Gibson. Those 
additions, in our opinion, deteriorate from the merits of incurved 
blooms. 
Seed Pans (W. P. Dennis ).—We have no doubt your seed pan 
is very good, but it seems to us that if the water trough were glazed, as 
you suggest, its utility as a slug barrier would be destroyed. Manu¬ 
facturers who wish to increase the sale of meritorious goods keep them 
before the public in the usual business way that ha3 proved so profitable 
to many. 
Chrysanthemum Etolle de Lyon (W. D .).—We have seen scores 
of blooms nearly white like those you have sent, the consequence mainly 
of variation in the character of the buds ; but we believe there is one, if 
not more, white sports of the variety established. Yours may either be 
a natural sport or artificial production, and next year’s experience will 
determine the point. 
Emigrating (H. J.). — We would not advise you to go to either 
America or Australia to seek work in gardens if you have no friends to 
go to, or without testimonials from well known nurserymen and horticul¬ 
turists, recommending you to persons who would be likely to assist you 
in your object. In reply to your question for an address that will 
enable you to obtain information, the most reliable we can give is 
that of the Secretary Emigrants’ Information Office, 31, Broadway, 
Westminster. 
Forcing House (W. P.). — The illustration cut from Mr. 
W. Cooper’s catalogue represents a very useful house indeed, and numbers 
of gardeners would be glad to possess one. It is not ornate nor costly 
in character, but essentially serviceable, and one of many such houses 
in which are raised and grown thousands of plants of various kinds and 
FIG. 93.— FORCING HOUSE. 
sizes sold in Covent Garden. Such structures are moreover just as suit¬ 
able for growing Cucumbers, Melons, and Tomatoes as ornamental 
plants ; indeed, not a few persons grow such crops as those in the 
summer, and different kinds of plants in winter and spring. 
Anemone bland a from Seed (L. R .).—The Anemone you name 
can be raised from seed, and if the seeds you had were properly matured 
they should, if the soil and situation were suitable, have germinated 
before this. If sown too deeply, or in a dry exposed place, they may be 
lost, but seeds of the Anemone family vary greatly in the time required 
for germination, and it is possible that some young plants will appear in 
the spring. If you have any seed now sow some in pans of light soil, 
and place them in a cool moist frame, or any position where they can 
be protected from frost and rain. Flowers would probably be produced 
the following season. 
Haemanthus, Pancratium, and Eurycles (J.T .).—Hremauthus 
Katherinm belongs to the same section of the genus as H. multiflorus, 
and is easily cultivated. It requires a stove temperature, and no doubt 
like others of its relatives would flower at different periods, which could 
be regulated by starting the bulbs at intervals. If it is potted now 
and placed in heat growth would shortly commence, and flowers might 
be expected in the spring months. The most suitable compost consists 
of peat and turfy sandy loam in equal parts, with a small proportion 
leaf soil and a little sand added if the loam be heavy. Good drainage 
will be needed, and plenty of water during growth, gradually reducing 
the supply afterwards, and placing them in cooler quarters for the 
resting period. Pancratium Sickenbergi is a native of the desert region 
of Egypt and Arabia, and Mr. Baker describes it as possessing “the 
leaves of Pancratium tortuosum with the flowers of P. maritimus.” 
Try the effects of a good season of rest, possibly this may assist the 
production of flowers. The Eurycles should be treated similarly to the 
Pancratiums—namely, grown in a stove temperature, employing good 
loam as the basis of the compost, supplying water freely during growth 
and flowering, and a little assistance with liquid manure may be 
beneficial. 
Aralia Veitclii (T. S .).—The stock upon which Aralia Yeitchi is 
grafted is A. reticulata, which is freely increased from cuttings. Plants 
that have grown tall should be cut up into lengths of about 2 inches, and 
inserted singly in small pots. January is a good time to cut up the 
stems, which soon form roots in sandy soil if they can be placed in a 
close propagating frame, where they can enjoy moderately brisk bottom 
heat. We have inserted pieces of Aralia reticulata rather longer, and 
when well rooted have applied the grafts of A. Yeitchi. But we prefer 
to allow the stocks to be well established, and have grown some few 
inches in length. These are then cut nearly close to the base, and the 
scions of Aralia Veitchi placed on to them. Side shoots from a large 
plant from which the top has been removed soon become united to the 
moderately soft wood of the young stocks. By this means few grafts 
can be applied at once, and therefore cut up the stem of A. Veitchi into 
lengths of nearly 2 inches, and join them to stocks with firmer wood. 
Side grafting is the best to adopt, and they can be worked as near the 
soil as possible, so that after the stock and scion have united and the 
plants are placed in 5-inch pots the UDion will be practically buried 
in the soil, so that the young plant of A. Veitchi will be furnished from 
the base. The scions should be tied on in the usual way, and then kept 
practically air-tight by the aid of grafting wax. As the stocks are 
grafted they should be returned to the propagating frame, and kept 
close shaded and moist until they are united and have commenced 
growth, when they must be gradually hardened. 
