THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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January 12. 
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thf; yolks, and rub them through a coarse sieve into a basin ; 
add two table-spoonfuls of olive-oil, a tea-spoonful of salt, 
the same quantity of mustard, half the quantity of ground 
black pepper, a tea-spoonful of soy or essence of anchovies, 
and two table-spoonfuls of vinegar; incorporate the whole, 
and pour this sauce down the side of the salad-bowl. The 
whites of the eggs will serve to garnish the salad. 
“Summer Salad. —Wash very clean one or two heads of 
fine lettuce, divide it, let it lie some time in cold water; 
drain and dry it in a napkin, and cut it small before serving. 
Mustard and cresses, sorrel and onions, may be added. 
“ Winter Salad. —Wash very clean one or two heads of 
endive, some heads of celery, some mustard and cresses; 
cut them all small, add a little shredded red cabbage, some 
slices of boiled beet-root, an onion, if the flavour is not dis¬ 
liked; mix them together with salad sauce. In spring, add 
radishes, and also garnish the dish with them. 
“ Vegetable Salad s made of roots which have been boiled, 
also make good winter salads, amongst which potato and 
beet root salads are perhaps the best. Cut the roots into 
thin slices, season them with pepper and salt, and pour over 
them the salad mixture, to which may be added, if the 
flavour be not disapproved, a few slices of raw onion. 
“ French Salad. —Chop three anchovies, a shalot, and some 
parsley, small, put them into a bowl with two table-spoonsfuls 
of vinegar, one of oil, a little mustard, and salt. When well 
mixed, add by degrees some cold roast or boiled meat in 
very thin slices; put in a few at a time, not exceeding two 
or three inches long. Shake them in the seasoning, and 
then put more; cover the bowl close, and let the salad be 
prepared three hours before it is to be eaten. 
“ Italian Salad is made by picking the white portion of a 
cold fowl from the bones in small flakes, piling it in the 
centre of a dish, and pouring a salad mixture over, enriched 
with cream; make a wall around with salad of any kind, 
laying the whites of eggs, cut into rings, on the top in a 
chain. 
“ Spanish Salad. —Take whatever salad can he got, wash 
it in many waters, rinse it in a small net, or in napkins, till 
nearly dry, chop up onions and tarragon, take a bowl, put in 
equal quantities of vinegar and water, a teaspoonful of 
pepper and salt, and four times as much oil as vinegar and 
water : mix the same well together; take care never to put 
the lettuce into the sauce till the moment the salad is 
wanted, or it loses all its crispness and becomes sodden. 
For Vinaigrette. —Take any kind of cold meat, chop it 
finely, and lay it in a dish; chop the whites of the eggs 
employed for the salad very finely with small onions; add 
any kind of herb, and pickled cucumbers, all chopped 
finely: make a garnish round the meat, serve it with salad 
mixture, but do not stir it together, as it would spoil the 
appearance of the dish, which looks very pretty with the 
eggs and herbs in a ring. 
“ Chicken Salad. —Boil a chicken that weighs not more 
than a pound and a half. When very tender, take it up, cut 
it in small strips; then take six or seven fine white heads 
of celery, scrape and wash it; cut the white, part small, in 
pieces about three quarters of an inch long, mix it with the 
meat of the fowl, and just before the salad is sent in, pour 
a dressing made in the following way over it. Boil four 
eggs hard; rub their yolks to a smooth paste with two table¬ 
spoonfuls of olive oil; two tea-spoonfuls of made mustard ; 
one tea-spoonful of salt; and one tea-cupful of strong vine¬ 
gar. Place the delicate leaves of the celery round the edges 
of the dish. White-heart lettuce may be used instead of 
celery. Any other salad dressing may be used, if preferred.” 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
William Adams (C ).—Both your very kind enclosures have been 
received, and applied as nearly as possible as you directed. The Authoress 
of “ My Flowers” will explain more. 
Diseased Gesner.e (A . L. C .).—The leaves of your JEschynanthus 
and Columnea are diseased ; the inner substance of the leaf appears to 
be destroyed. You wish to know how to restore them to health. The 
diseased leaves cannot be restored, and, therefore, they may as well all 
be cut off at once, and if the shoots are thereby left quite naked it will 
he advisable to shorten them in also freely. The plants should have 
fresh compost to grow in, and a brisk heat to start into fresh growth. 
Vo this well, and disease will disappear. Did you ever observe a little 
insect, or grub, in the interior of your leaves ? The disease is very likely 
caused by such a grub. Celery leaves are often destroyed in apparently 
a similar manner to the leaves of your Columnea, See. j and the mischief 
is certainly done to the Celery by a little mining grub. 
Trailing Verbenas (Verax ).—There are verv few of our modern 
Verbenas that have the trailing habit of Verbena melindris. The only 
ones are varieties of that species—namely, V. melindris major anil 
V. melindris alba. There is an old sort named Hendersonii that creeps, 
and it has dark purplish-crimson flowers. Ormsby Beauty, also, lias a 
dwarf habit, and is a pleasing light blue j but it is none of the melindris 
breed. 
Chrysanthemums {Homo). —You ask more than we can tell yon. 
We should suppose there are no Chrysanthemums that are hardy enough 
to blow out-of-doors as far north as Lancashire. Have you ever seen 
any? The following is a list of the best now grown, arranged in the 
colours you mention : — Rase —Amazon (Salter), with orange border ; 
Fortune, ditto j Agcnor (Salter), Barbette. White— Diamant de Ver¬ 
sailles, Errine, Fleur tie Marie, Gem de Versailles, Lady Talfourd. 
Purple —Leon Laquay, Armand Tessier—there are very few of this colour. 
Bright Scarlet —The nearest approach to this colour is Atrorubens, raised 
by Boulanger, of Paris. Mount Etna is a red. There is not a bright 
scarlet in existence. Yellow— L’ingot d’Or, Annie Salter, Cloth of Gold, 
Nandee. Orange— Poudre d’Or, La Reine d’Or, Plutus, Gluck, Temple 
of Solomon. Dark —Rantonette, Comte de Rantzon, Madame Poggi, 
Phidias. The price of the above would he, on an average, about 12s. the 
dozen. We cannot recommend dealers. Any respectable nurseryman 
would supply you. Your other questions will be answered shortly. 
Rock-work in Fernery ( D. E.). —You are erecting a house for 
Ferns, and intend planting them out against the walls, in a kind of rock- 
work, and wish to know the material to be had. If you can get rough 
sandstone, that would answer well. It might be placed irregularly 
against your walls, with spaces left to hold soil for the Fern-roots. There 
is a Fern-liouse at J. Anderson’s, Esq., the Holme, Regent’s Park, 
London, where the Ferns are planted against the walls in a kind of 
rustic basket, or nest, made with Roman cement. If stones are scarce 
with you, you might make a similar arrangement, having the largest 
spaces towards the bottom, and the smaller upwards, to grow in each 
Ferns of proportionate size. Read Mr. Appleby’s papers on Ferns ; he 
describes the height each grows to. In the meantime, we give the list 
below, agr"eable to your request. None of them are expensive, but all 
require moderate heat:—-Adiantum assimile, medium size; A. concinnum, 
medium; A. formosum, large; A. trapeziforme, large; Acrostichum 
alcicorne,large ; Aspidium coriaceum, large; Aspleninm auritum, small; 
A. ebeneum, small; Blechnum intermedium, small; B. occidcntale, 
medium ; Ciessaheeria hastata, medium : Cheilianthes lendigera, me¬ 
dium; C. repens, large; C. tenera, small; Csenopteris cicutaria, medium; 
C. viviparum, medium; Cyrtomium falcatum, large; Davallia canariense, 
medium; D. pvxidata, large; Doodia aspera, small; Gymnogramma 
calomelanoB, large ; G. chrvsophylla, medium ; Pteris chinensis, me¬ 
dium ; P. sagittsel'olium, small, in addition to these, you should have 
all the Lycopodiums. 
Hen Dead on tiie Nest (T. S .).—In this case, in which the hen 
was fed on Indian meal and bran twice a-day, with corn and dry rice, 
the del th, doubtless, arose from apoplexy, which is not unfrequent in 
fat laying hens. Indian meal and bran both contain a high proportion 
of fat-forming food, and being largely supplied, no doubt conduced to 
the attack. A little raw, dry rice could not have had any ill effect, 
although, if much were given, it might swell to so great a degree as to 
cause the bird to become crop-bound. Under any circumstances, rice is 
better given after having been cooked.—IV. B, T. 
Cock with malformed Tail (A Dorking Fancier). —The occur¬ 
rence of soft quills filled with blood in the tail of a cock, in the place of 
well-formed feathers, depends evidently on some irregular action of the 
parts which form or secrete the feather; and as these are situated deep 
in the skin it is difficult to suggest a remedy. It would, perhaps, he 
most advisable to trust to the restoration of the natural action at the 
next moulting time.—W. B. T. 
Diseased Rabbit.— Can any of our readers give Ascut information 
on the following case ?—“ On examining a rabbit of the Lop-eared breed 
to-day, I found one ear completely filled with a hard matter resembling 
scurf; on touching the ear the rabbit screamed out. I then took as 
much of the hard stuff off as I could, and bathed with warm water; after 
that I greased the ear well. I took two pieces as large as a man’s finger 
from the car, which seemed to reach quite 10 the farthest extremity. 
Can you tell me the cause of this, and a remedy for same ? ” 
Cocoa-nut (Linda). —The end of the nut, which has the three cir¬ 
cular marks or sears, “commonly known as the monkey’s face,” is the 
base, or that next the stalk. It is not generally known that these three 
marks indicate the places through which the three embryos each nut 
contains would sprout forth if each was completely developed. Two, 
however, are constantly abortive ; and which is the fertile may be ascer¬ 
tained by trying to thrust a pin into each scar. Those two which the 
pin cannot pierce are those over the undeveloped embryos. 
Exchange ( W. Nicholas). —We cannot insert such a proposal. When 
we have seen a specimen of your communications wc can decide whether 
they are suitable. 
Vinegar Plants ( Bayswater ).—We cannot undertake such nego- 
ciations. You had better advertise. 
Taunton Show (J. E. M.).—\Ve are much obliged; but as the com¬ 
mittee did not think it of sufficient interest to our readers to advertise it 
in our columns, we cannot allow ourselves to shew we differ from them 
by inserting their prize list. 
Insect on Cinerarias (An Enquirer). —It is the thrips which has 
attacked them. Dust over the insects frequently with Scotch snuff, and 
syringe the leaves when the weather permits. 
Hall’s Garden Nets.- — Mr. J. Meuchum , Lichfield, wishes to know 
where these can be obtained. 
London: Printed by Hakry Wooldridge, Winchester High-street, 
in the Parish of Saint Mary Kalendar ; and Published by William 
Somerville Orr, of Church Hill, Walthamstow, in the County of 
Essex, at the Office, No. 2, Amen Corner, in the Parish of Christ 
Church, City of Loudon.—January 12th, 1854. 
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