THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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obliged, last year, to bend down its branches, and 
confine them with strings leading downwards, either 
to the stem or to pegs driven into the ground: in this 
way, some of the branches became nearly horizontal. 
— Rev. Charles Roys, Wing, Rutland. 
Results of Potato Planting from October to 
May (December and February excepted) :— 
October. —Planted Knapsacks; leaf-mould as ma¬ 
nure. Taken up in July and August. Crop, good 
in quality but indifferent in weight. 
November. — Lancashire Pink Eyes; old stable 
manure. Taken up in September. Crop, bad both 
in weight and quality. 
January. — Forty-folds; salt and lime. Taken up 
in August. Crop, both heavy and excellent. 
March (first week).— Ash-leaved Kidneys, Walnut- 
leaved Kidneys, Painted Ladies, and Fox's Seedlings ; 
stable-dung and leaf-mould, and the sets covered 
with charred refuse before turning the soil on. Taken 
up in June, July, and August. Crop, most excellent, 
both in weight and quality. 
April (first and second days).— Large Late Asli- 
leaves ; fresh weeds and walk sweepings. Taken up 
in August. Crop, most excellent in quality, and the 
enormous return of 10-| bushels to the rood. 
May (first week).—Planted a large breadth of soil 
with Blues and Reds; stable-dung and leaf-mould. 
Crop, not worth taking rqi as to quality, but the 
weight heavy. 
The above statement of the enormous return from 
the potatoes planted in April may possibly require a 
word or two. This (the Large Late Ash-leaved) is a 
noble white tuber, a few roots of which I had from 
a friend two years back; he had no name for it; I 
gave it this appellation from the similarity of the 
leaf to the Early Ash-leaved kind. The liaum grows 
fully 36 inches high, consequently it requires a con¬ 
siderable distance from row to row. The return, 
however, entitles it to a first place among the seconds 
potatoes. I have taken up several roots which have 
had as many as 50 tubers, 30 of them weighing more 
than half a pound each in the aggregate.— Leighton. 
A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF CAMELLIAS. 
(Continued from page 271.) 
scarlet and deep red. 
Poivhattan. —Globular form, deep carmine colour. 
Servi, d’ltalie. —Perfect form, colour of port-wine ; very 
pretty. 
Strombio. —Superb flower ; same colour as the last. 
Sylvie d'ltalie. —Deep blood red ; superb flower. 
Sophia d’ltalie. —Very grand ; of a lively red. 
Turnbullii. —Deep scarlet, 2s 6d. 
Vauxii. —Superb form ; scarlet crimson, 2s 6d. 
Wallichii. —Imbricated ; deep crimson, 5s. 
Zeffiro. —Imbricated; fine crimson; first order, 2s Gd. 
salmon-coloured. 
Bellini Major. —Very large ; half imbricated; salmon- 
striated with white in the centre; very fine, 2s Gd. 
Brownii. —Very grand flower; poeny-shape; deep sal¬ 
mon, 2s 6d. 
Cinzia. —Anemone-flowered ; rose salmon, 3s Gd. 
Cooperii. —Superbly imbricated; rose salmon, 2s Gd. 
Fordii. —Middling size; delicate form; imbricated 
round petals, very numerous; rose salmon, 2s Gd. 
Globosa coccinea. —Globular flowered; satin salmon- 
colour ; beautiful form, 2s Gd. 
Henri Favre. —Imbricated; rose salmon, 2s Gd. 
Murrayana vera. — Shaded rose salmon; very large, 
2s 6d. 
Mutabilis traversii. —Bronzed rose salmon, with one 
white line down the centre of each petal, 2s Gd. 
Rubescens striata .—Very large round petals; salmon 
red, edged with white, 2s Gd. 
Superba (Palmer’s ).—Very large flower; dark salmon; 
anemone-flowered, but very regular and thickly petalled. 
T. Appleby. 
(To be continued.) 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
*** We request that no one will write to the departmental writers 
of The Cottage Gardener. It gives them unjustifiable trouble 
and expense ; and we also request our coadjutors under no circum¬ 
stances to reply to such private communications. 
Stove Plants (R. Green). —Having a constant bottom heat in 
your stove, furnished by a hot-water tank, with 12 inches of compost 
on the slates, you ask, what plants may be kept plunged in this bot¬ 
tom-heat? You may have Ixora coccinea, Aphelandra of sorts, Ron- 
deletias, Stephanotis, Allamanda, Clerodendrons, Lisianthus, Poinset- 
tias, Justicias, and many others; but Mr. Appleby will soon give 
detailed lists of the best stove plants, and will distinguish such as do 
best with and without bottom-heat, and also whether of woody or of 
soft growths, and whether climbers, &c. 
Scarlet Geraniums left in Beds (W. X.). —You have left 
some scarlet geraniums in beds, as mentioned by Mr. Beaton, page 5 
of the present volume, thatching them to throw off the wet, &e., but 
are told by some gardeners that you will fail as they did. If your 
scarlet geraniums are safe from the frost, we have no doubt of your 
success. Your neighbours having failed is no argument; their plants 
very likely “ went to leaf ” earlier than usual; on rich or damp soil 
they do so more or less every year. But we believe Mr. Beaton in¬ 
tends to offer the best remedies against this ; and we all wish to hear 
and learn the garden difficulties of our subscribers. Meantime, cut 
away all dead parts from your plants, stir the soil among them as 
deep as three or four inches, and expose them to the influence of the 
weather as much as the frost will allow; and as soon as they begin to 
get overgrown in summer, with a spade raise them up a little on one 
side, so as to snap some of the roots, which will check their growth 
and promote their blooming. 
Brugmansia Sanguinea ( G.K. ).—Yours and all large specimens 
of this that have been kept in a cool dry place over the winter, should 
now have a regular spring dressing ; if they have made any fresh 
growth in January or February, such should now he cut off; and also 
all the young tops made since last August should now he pruned in 
to a couple of eyes; the plants will then appear stag-horn fashion ; 
stir the soil in the pots, and give one good watering; after that, let 
them go on according to the warmth of the season, and not by forcing 
or any" kind of confinement. The result ought to he, that buds would 
start from all parts of the head, and form a thick bush next summer. 
Fuchsia Corymbiflora Culture (W. H .).—This should now 
have the green wood of last autumn cut down to the old brown wood, 
or nearly so; hut the mode of training the plant must guide the pruning 
in part. It succeeds best as a' standard, and for a succession of them 
these standards should be pruned close like a rose standard, at inter¬ 
vals of two months, from October to May, and they never want forc¬ 
ing, nor are they improved by it. 
Eccremocarpus Longiflorus (Ibid). —This climber will do for 
many years in a large pot, and to he cut down to the surface every 
year and kept nearly dry all the winter. Scrape away the old soil from 
the surface of the pot, and add fresh, and see that the plant is not 
forced, or in any way confined from the air. 
Cuttings and Seeds (S.). —In a very dry room over a boiler- 
house connected with machinery, and with a temperature of from 50° 
to 60°, you may root all the common kinds of cuttings on its win¬ 
dow-sill, with a’tliin transparent blind to keep the bright sun from 
the cutting-pots; and for this purpose, even a few sheets of writing- 
paper placed against the lower panes would do. Place the cuttings 
m very small pots, and plunge them inside larger ones, with a little 
moss between the pots. Keep this moss damp, and lay a piece of 
glass over the large pot, and turn the glass upside down every morning, 
else the drops from the under side will damp the cuttings. You can 
get little squares of glass at the glazier’s, from a farthing to a half¬ 
penny a piece, that will answer this purpose, and he as good as new 
glass when done with. 
Name of Insect (W. S., Dalston).— Your insect is the true wire- 
worm, or grub of an elater beetle. 
Raspberry Suckers (A. A. Clericus). —You do not state your 
whereabouts, hut if you reside even in South Devonshire, it is very 
early for you to have “ young canes springing up as thickly as a crop 
of peas round each parent stool, and now (March 4) half an inch 
above ground.” Cut all of them down immediately, well within the 
ground, except two or three nearest each of the old stools ; and if in 
so doing you sever a root or two, you will not render the old canes 
less fruitful. Continue to cut down all but the two or three reserved, 
as often as they appear. 
Black Barley ( Pastor Rusticus). —We are informed that Mr. 
Page, Nurseryman, Southampton, has a quantity on sale. 
Quincunx Order ( J. Abbott).— This means five of anything 
placed one at each of four corners, and one in the middle, thus:— 
* * * You may obtain the Black Prince 
* * Strawberry of any nurseryman or 
* * * seedsman advertising in our columns. 
