30 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
April 13 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
N.B.—Many answers have necessarily been omitted. They will all be 
given next week. 
Heating with Hot-watee (W. F. <?.)._You have started well: 
but why not make your flow and return pipes correspond on either side ? 
On one side, the flow down the pine-bed is towards the outward or 
atmospheric pipes, in the other the reverse ; the former for us. As a 
maxim, take care of that portion towards the walls, and the inside will 
take care of itself. But you have not put down all the data requisite. Re- 
member that you must have some twelve or fifteen inches in depth of rubble 
over the pipes if you are going to plant out like Hamilton. You ask 
if the reservoir at the end will answer ?» Why, there is no need for so 
much expense, Besides, at the hot end an open (?) tank or reservoir 
like that would be destructive—it would be “steaming” with a ven 
geance. Perhaps, however, you wisely cover it. But why not a simple 
round, four-inch flow-pipe, costing a tithe of the expense ? You need 
not care about nicety of calculation as to B. and H.’s boiler See Vou 
have enough piping, and not too much. You may rest perfectly satisfied 
on this head ; but we do not say that your levels and general arrange¬ 
ment of them is particularly superior. Your glass plans are good As 
to soil, you need no rotten manure if you will secuie them depth enoueh 
(nearly two feet) of chopped turf. As to guano-water, apply it subse- 
I quently as the plants demand it. 
’ Vines over Flues {Ashton-under-Lyne). — You may plant your 
! 0T * r the but not touching them. We should have a cavity 
of four to six inches. Mr. Elphinston, by “plenty of bottom-heat,” 
meant from 75° to 80°. ’ 
Pomegranate and Psidium pyrjferum (A Young Beginner).— 
The Pomegranate is fruited much on the principle of the Apricot- it 
flowers in the main on the young side-spurs, and must not be grown too 
luxuriant, It will require a temperature such as the Vine, and as much 
that time they should ho set on hoards, in a shady place, 
out-of-doors, and housed in October.] 
CAMELLIA BUDS DROPPING.—SWEET-SCENTED 
GREENHOUSE CLIMBERS. 
“ Why do my Camellia buds, when half expanded, drop 
off the stems ? 'There is good show for flowers, hut they 
have now done so two years ; and at the same time. Can 
you recommend me two or three sweet-scented, quick¬ 
growing greenhouse climbers ? Evergreens would he pre¬ 
ferred.—M. M. M.” 
[Either the roots of your Camellias are in a had state; 
the wood was not properly ripened last season; the plants 
were shifted too late; there have been too many buds left; 
or they have not had sufficient water. The quick-growing, 
sweet-scented climbers, for greenhouse, may be—Jasminum 
gracile, J. ligustrifolium, Mandevilla suaveolens, all white, 
and Jasminum revolutum, yellow.] 
DESTROYING WIREWORMS. 
“I have tried hand-picking, but to do justice to the work I 
the time occupied is very great, and to delegate to another ! 
the work, from my own experience, I should have little con¬ 
fidence therein. What I wish to know is, whether by ; 
baking the earth to be used for potting, the process is detri¬ 
mental to the future growth of the plants. I have tried the ! 
effect of heating the $oil to 170 degrees, and can assure you 
there are few animals that can stand it. If, therefore, the 
roasting of the soil does not alter its vegetating qualities, I 
will continue the process, but if it does, I must go back to 
the hand-work.—A. K.” 
[There are some people so encrusted in their own hard 
shell, that it is as difficult to get at a tender part, as to 
extirpate a host of these wiry gentlemen from a favourite 
patch of ground or ridge of compost. The most effectual 
mode, on a limited scale, is to feed and entrap them by one 
and the same means. A few slices of potatoes, turnips, and 
carrots, we have frequently found enticed them, and have 
thus destroyed dozens in a morning. In addition to this, 
all composts in which they are suspected should be hand¬ 
picked. 
“Baking soil to a heat of 170°, will it destroy the wire- 
worm?” We would give it 10° more. We have found it 
alive after being some time in water at 100°. Would this 
baking of the soil injure its properties for cultivating 
j plants? We presume not, unless there is something pecu- 
t liar in the process. We should have liked better if, instead 
of baking, it had been charred. In either case, for all small 
plants, it would be advisable to have the soil well aired 
| afterwards, and if very dry, water added to moisten it suffi¬ 
ciently. We have found plants grow vigorously on such 
soil, whenever we could find time to prepare it.] 
exposed to light. The Psidium will fruit well in a comfortable green¬ 
house in large pots. 
Seeds from Calcdtta {\V. A. L.),—' They are tolerably good sorts, 
but of not the least use without a stove, and they are not the sort of 
plants for the present style, if you had one. No. 3, Mimosa pudica, is 
the Sensitive Plant; perhaps some one with a Cucumber frame would 
like it. There is no difficulty in growing it. 
Paving a Farm-yard {Ibid). — A “ mud hole ” of a farm-yard is not 
to be improved by concrete, it would soon make it worse ; to stand 
“ wear and tear,” concrete must be kept dry, and if you could get chalk, 
pound it, and lay it down a thickness of six inches of it, all over the bottom 
of the farm-yard ; why, you would beat Mr. Mechi himself. We cannot 
name the beautiful plant you so admired along the creeks in the 
“ Ovens," in Australia, but republish your description, as some one may 
recognize it. “ It is an evergreen shrub, five or six feet high, with pea- 
green leaves, prickly as a holly, but much smaller, flowers yellow, of the 
exact shape, size, colour, and perfume, of the common Acacia growing 
there.” 
Acacias ( Ghijra ).—Most of the Australian Acacias ought to flower in 
five years from seeds, and some do in half the time. We cannot say why 
yours have not yet flowered. 
Animalized On arcoal (G. W . D.).—We do not know this manure. 
Cineraria Seedling ( J.Kcr ).—Yours is a very good flower; medium 
size ; petals very pure, white tipped with lilac, and imbricate well, but 
the notch is rather too marked ; disk purple ; rather highly-scented. All 
the trusses sent to us had eight pips each ; and if this prevails Octaviun 
would be a good name for it. 
Delphinium sinense (C. and H. and Old Subscriber).— This and 
]>. chinense are the same. Mr. Beaton did not say, nor did he intend to 
say, that Mr. A. was the only one who had true seed of it. It may be 
had of any florist who advertises in our columns. 
London: Printed by Harry 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 London.—April 13th, 1854 . 
StJtm-tts'rmcittsL 
CHOICE AND HARE BARGAINS. - KNIGHT 
AND CO., Florists, Sec ., Terminus ltoad, Eastborne, Sussex, arc now 
prepared to send out^ree of expense by post, the following choice plants 
to any address, on receipt of the amount with the order, without any risk 
of perishing in healthy plants 
Fuchsias, any of the following new and choice kinds of 1853, at 7s 6d 
per dozen—Glory, King Charming, Glory of England, Premier, Won¬ 
derful, King of Beauties, Roi des Fuchsias, Mrs. Patterson, Lady Frank¬ 
lin, Collegian, Perfection, Purple Perfection, Beauty, Lady Montague, 
1 nnceps, Transcendens, Brilliant, Vesta. Ditto, extra choice older 
approved kinds, 6s per dozen, or two dozen kinds for 10s. 
Verbenas, 12 extra choice new kinds, sent out in 1853, for 5s ; 12 
approved older kinds, 4s. Ditto, in separate colours, scarlet, white, 
pink, blue, and purple, for bedding purposes, 3s per dozen. 
Chrysanthemums, extra choice, large^flowercd, show kinds, 12 
varieties, 5s; 24 varieties, 8s. Ditto, extra choice Pompon or Liliputian 
kinds, 12 varieties, 5s; 24 ditto, 8s. 
Puloxs, 12 extra choice kinds, 5s; 24 ditto, 8s. 
Hardy Herbaceous Plants— Knight and Co.’s collection of these 
plants is unrivalled, comprising many hundred kinds ; they will be sent 
free to London, 24 new varieties for 7s 6d; 50 choice kinds, including the 
most ornamental, for 13s ; 100 ditto, ditto, 21s. 
Post-office Orders payable at Eastborne, Sussex. 
FLOWER SEEDS FOR PRESENT SOWING — 
KNIGHT AND CO., Seedsmen, &c., Terminus Road, Eastborne, 
Sussex, are now sending out, post free, Choice Annual Flower Seeds, 
tor present sowing for early or autumn-blooming, fully described, 100 
kinds, 5s; 50 kinds, 3s; 25 ditto, 2s.. Also, in sealed packets, saved 
with particular care, warranted from the best kinds, in 6 d and Is 
packets,—Aster German, Stock German ; Antirrhinum, from 60 kinds • 
Pansey, from 100 kinds; Sweet William, from 50 colours; Calceolaria’ 
Pink, Carnation, Piccotee, Hollyhock, Verbena, Phlox Drummondii. * 
Post-office Orders payable at Eastborne, Sussex. 
FUCHSIA “ TRENTHAM? COLE aniTSHARP, 
Aston Lane Nursery, near Birmingham, have the satisfaction to announce 
that they are preparing to send out the above noble seedling Fuchsia 
winch they feel confident, from its colour, habit, and fine character, will 
he generally regarded as a desideratum, both in the conservatory and for 
exhibition purposes. The following critical remarks upon its merits will 
show the high estimation in which it is held by competent judges: — 
Mr. Charles Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough.—“ Your Fuchsia, isabold 
and distinct variety, with remarkably broad scarlet sepals, and a fine 
purple corolla, of good substance and briliant colour. It may not reflex 
sufficiently for some parties, but its bold properties will, doubtless, render 
it a great favourite.” 
The Midland Florist, October, 1853.—“Your bloom has good broad 
sepals, and is a stout and well-reflexed flower; the foliage is fine. It 
will prove an addition to its class, or we are mistaken.” 
The Censors of the “ Birmingham and Midland Society for the Pro¬ 
motion of Floriculture,” who awarded this Fuchsia a first-class certi¬ 
ficate.—” The blooms are unusually large, well-proportioned, and of 
good substance ; the sepals being of a brilliant scarlet colour, very broad 
and gracefully reflexed. The corolla is of a purplish-mazarene blue’ 
smooth, and velvety. The foliage is fleshy, large, and handsome.” ’ 
Plants 10 s 6 d, with the usual allowance to the trade. Coloured en. 
gravings (mounted) forwarded on receipt of address, accompanied by six 
postage stamps. 
