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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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roots are quickly formed, and by the beginning of March the rooted 
plants are ready for placing into 3-inch pots. Late layers made in 
i;he same way in October will be well rooted at the same time, or 
perhaps a few weeks earlier. These may either be grown without 
■stopping, when they will flower in late autumn or winter, or the 
points may be taken out and three to six of the strongest growths 
^ft, which will furnish plants for flowering in early spring. Pots 
■v to 8 inches diameter will be required for these.—N. B. 
(To be continued.) 
EMIGRATION OF GARDENERS. 
(^Continued from page S3.') 
Sight-seeing, like everything else, comes to an end, and so our 
■friend went to work, carrying cotton bales seven days at dol. 
per day with the “darkies.” Hard work on a sugar plantation, in 
'the boiling houses, at 1 dol. 75 cents, per day for five weeks proved 
its unsuitability for the white man ; consequently he sailed up the 
Mississippi to Memphis, walked forty miles along the bank, getting 
work on “levy”— i.e., raising the banks of the Mississippi,to prevent 
inundations, at 2i dols. per day without board. At the end of 
eight weeks he was seized with ague or malarial fever, and went 
into a hospital at St. Louis, paying 12 dols. per week for board and 
'medical attendance. After eight weeks he was ordered north, 
therefore made for Chicago, and thence to New York. It is needless 
to say that the western fever and the malarial visitation made 
■speedy end of the 500 dols. intended for a trip home. A precarious 
-existence had to be maintained by picking up work in Long 
Island and New Jersey, finally drifting to Philadelphia, having 
'to enter a hospital, receiving every medical attendance and the 
kindest care from sisters of mercy for months in-and-out ; in 
the intervals working at odd jobs, chiefly among farmers, and 
•only getting enough to make ends meet. This brings us to the 
■ end of August, 1889, when medical men advised a change to n.itive 
.air ; no remedy so effectual, except Sir Walter Raleigh’s heads¬ 
man’s axe—“ sharp medicine, a cure for all diseases.” Baltimore 
was reached with scanty means, and in proof that no man can 
know too much, the experience of the sea, even oyster dredging, 
secured a passage home in the steamship “ Baltimore,” bound to 
“Glasgow with a general cargo, including 743 head of cattle, the 
farming experience securing in addition to the working passage 
10 dols. wherewith to land on native soil. After a very rough 
passage of fifteen days he landed at Glasgow, with clothes all 
-spoiled and 10 dols. of the United States of America money to get 
^ “ rig out.” The idea was to get work of any kind to subsist, and 
throw off the malarial effects of the Mississippi swamps, then to 
see the old folks at home, and retnrn to America. This, good as 
lit might be in inception, was not so easy of execution. In fact it 
failed, and we are glad, as it tends to confirm our conviction that 
■the horticultural horse has been ridden too fast aud too long in 
f;his country to last. Our friend tried Glasgow, the gardens of 
Edinburgh, and trudged along by way of Berwick, Newcastle, York, 
Peterborough, &c., to London, trying for work all along the route, 
•and only had four days harvesting with a farmer near Hexham, 
and one day machine threshing near Ware, in each case at 23. Gd. 
per day and drinking, which our friend declares to be the worst 
practice under the sun, the master taking advantage of the weak¬ 
ness of the men to get more work done than is paid for in cash. 
Work was tried for all round London, then Birmingham, 
Dudley, Wolverhampton, Leeds, and Sheffield. A return was made 
to London. The missive came, “ I should like to see you before 
I return to America, for I am heartily sick of England, convinced 
from what I have seen that the unemployed gardener and agricul¬ 
tural labourer can do better in America than here; the field is 
larger, and the opportunities greater. I think I am cured of 
the ague, and making Liverpool shall work my passage out and 
smuggle myself in, as pauper labour is not allowed to land by the 
United States Government ; but that will hardly be necessary, as 
I have many friends there who will be pleased to welcome me 
back again.” There is little more to tell, only of matters horti¬ 
cultural, which are reserved for another paper, something may be 
said. Suffice it to state that our friend sailed from Liverpool 
JTanuary 4th, 1890, in the Guion Line mail steamer “Wyoming’’ 
as a passenger. —Utilitarian. 
TECOMA JASMINOIDES. 
Greenhouse climbing plants are always in demand, and it is 
sometimes a source of difficulty to secure sufficient diversity in roof¬ 
covering occupants of this character. Few novelties are added to those 
suitable for the purpose, and we have to hark back amongst those 
introduced during the present century to find sufficient to make up a 
good list. In some gardens the Tecomas, with their near relatives the 
Bignonias, are known and valued, but this is by no means generally the 
case—yet easily grown plants like these should not be neglected. 
Tecoma jasminoides is particularly worthy of a place, yet when it is 
exhibited, either in the metropolis or the provinces, it is comparatively 
new to the majority of the visitors who admire its elegant flowers and 
delicate colour. The flowers are produced freely, and vary from white 
with a rosy centre to a uniform pink hue, differing in the brightness of 
tint, and some of the best marked of these variations have received dis¬ 
tinctive names. 
The plant succeeds in a compost of turfy loam, peat, and sand, or 
fig. is,—TECO ilA JASMINOIDES. 
good leaf soil can be substituted for the peat if more convenient. Planted 
out it grows freely, but it also succeeds in a pot, needing thorough 
drainage in any case. _ 
CULTURE OF THE MUSCAT GRAPE. 
(^Continued from gmge 92.') 
Muscat Grapes generally require careful cultivation and good light 
houses, so that they can obtain a large amount of heat from a natural 
source, as well as being supplieil with sufficient means to obtain the 
same artificially. Lean-to houses with a south aspect I consider best, 
although good Muscats are grown in different style of houses and aspect, 
Muscat Hamburgh, Madresfield Court, and the Frontignans might be 
grown well together. They will succeed with rather less heat than the 
Muscat of Alexandria. 
In the arrangement of the hot-water pipes in vineries I strongly 
advocate the equal distribution of the pipes through the house. It was 
formerly the system to place them altogether .along the front of the 
hiuses, and I have invariably observed that the bunches of Grapes 
