THE COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 
OCTOBEE 14. 
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of tlio most highly and peculiarly-flavoured of our old 
English varieties. The Brown Beurre is also among 
tho arrivals of the week, and is now just coming into 
perfection. Many of our readers may not know, and a 
great many have never heard of this line old pear. It 
is a French variety, which has been held in high estima¬ 
tion by the horticulturists, both of this country and the 
Continent for the last two centuries; but as it requires 
the protection of a wall to bring it to perfection, it is 
not so generally cultivated, nor so widely known as it 
would have been had it been better adapted to general 
cultivation in this country. The prices which pears 
have made last week are also considerably in advance 
of the former. Tho cold weather is now driving our 
Ijondon population from their summer to their winter 
quarters, and consequently the demand and consump¬ 
tion becomes every day greater. 
There is nothing new in the way of PLUvrs from what 
was recorded last week, except a few Heine Claude 
Violette or Purple Cage, a fruit, which some of our 
readers will perhaps be astonished to find mo say, I 
prefer to the green gage. Whether grown upon a wall, 
or as a standard in a suitable situation, and allowed to 
hang till it is “ dead-ripe,” that is, till it begins to 
shrivel, it is one of the most delicious sweetmeats 
which the most delicate palate could desire; but it must 
not be confounded with the “blue gage,” a very different 
and inferior variety. 
There have been some very fine Geapes exhibited 
during the week, and particularly a few bunches of 
large well-grown Canon Hall Muscats, which were sold 
at 5s. and Os. per pound. The Black TIamhurglis con¬ 
tinue at last week’s quotations. 
CucuMBEEs have been very plentiful, and some of 
them very good and cheap. I observed a lot varying in 
length from twelve to eighteen inches, from 2d. to Gd., 
and 9d. each. Filbeets plentiful, at 9d. per pound. 
Tomatoes, 4s. to 53. per half-sieve, or 8d. per punnet, 
containing eight or nine large ones. Capsicums, long 
red, 6d. per dozen. Musheooms are very plentiful and 
very large, and fetched from 3s. 6d. to 5s. per bushel. 
Cut Ilow'ees are, of course, not so plentiful now as 
they were earlier in the season; they consist of both in- 
and-out-door plants. As an illustration, I shall give the 
following constitution of alarge and handsome bouquet;— 
Double White Camellia, Double Chinese Primroses, Oera- 
niums. Scarlet Geraniums, Azalea indica alba. Migno¬ 
nette, Heliotrope, Gardenia, Verbenas, Pinks, Saffrano 
Rose, and fringed round the outside with leaves of the 
Oak-leaved Geranium. Of the common kiuds there are 
lots o( Dahlias, China Asters, French and African Mari¬ 
golds, Fuchsias, Sc. 
Again we must leave much of what we should like to 
have noticed till another week. TI 
The following is a list of the Horticultural and 
Poultry Shows of which we are at present aware We 
shall be obliged by any of our readers sending us ad¬ 
ditions to tho list, and giving tho address of tho Se¬ 
cretaries. 
HOETICUI.TUEAI, SHOWS. 
Buev St. Edmunds, Nov. 20 (Chrysanthemums). (Sec. 
G. P. Clay, Esq.) , 
Caledonian (Inverleith Kow), Edinburgh, Dec. 2. 
Hampsiiiee, Nov. 18 (Winchester). (Sec. Ecv. E. Wick¬ 
ham, Winchester.) 
London Eloeicultueal (Exeter Hall, Strand), Nov. 9t, 
23, Dec. 14+. 
Noeth London, Nov. 28, Chrysanthemum. 
South London (Eoyal), Oct. 14+,Nov. 11+, Dec.Ot, 10. 
POULTEY shows. 
Biemingham and Midland Counties, 14th, 15th, ICth, 
and 17th December. 
Beistol Ageicultueal, December 7th, 8th, and 9th. 
(Sec. James Marmont.) 
CoENWALL (Penzance), about a week after the Bii-ming- 
ham. (Secs. Eev. W. W. Wingfield, Gulval Vicarage, 
and E. H. Eodd, Esq.) 
Doechestee, Nov. 18tli. (Sec., G. J. Andrews, Esq., Dor¬ 
chester.) 
fFor seedlings only. 
PINE-CULTURE — HAMILTONIAN MODE. 
(Continued from page 0.) 
In tho last paper the subject was brought up to the 
matter of glass; heating being merely pointed at. We 
here resume it; and having stated Mr. Hamilton’s 
amount of piping for a house to fruit one hundred 
plants, we may oifer a few observations. It will be 
remembered that Mr. Hamilton uses a flow and a 
return pipe all round the pit, with the exception of the 
end farthest from the boiler, and these exclusively to 
warm the atmosphere of the house. Each five-feet bed, 
too, has its flow and return pipe; and if we understand 
Mr. Hamilton’s observations correctly, the flow and 
return in each bed are totally unconnected with each 
other, or with the flow and return round the exterior. 
It may also be observed, that the latter is in two divi¬ 
sions,—tho one passing along the south side, and the 
other along the north, unconnected; a flow and return 
to each ; the only bond of connection being the boiler, 
or, rather, the iron pan before described, where it would 
appear all the pipes meet. The two delivery pipes for 
the atmosphere proceed out of the two sides of this ])an, 
near to and parallel with the end of the house, and the 
two delivery pipes for the bottom-heat proceed from ttio 
front of the pan, aud fall at once into a similar parallel, 
and thence turning right and left into the chambers, 
the return pipes being, of course, beneath them. It 
will be seen that by this arrangement there must, per¬ 
force, be a great preponderance of heat at the boiler 
end, which, indeed, is the casein most houses, and so 
far generally leaves in the mind an idea of incomplete¬ 
ness—something to be desired. We stay not here to 
offer suggestions as to the possibility of improvements; 
space will not permit; but merely point, as we proceed, 
to matters deserving farther consideration, aud leave it 
to the mind of the ingenious reader to examine such 
portions of the subject. 
Ventilation. —Mr. Hamilton, in his descriptive ac¬ 
count, has said nothing on this head; not, however, 
because it is unimportant. We must here offer our 
ideas. In all ventilation, as connected with horticultu¬ 
ral structures, it is a practice founded on well-known 
principles, to provide both outlet for the heated air— 
presumed to be of a depraved character—and inlet of 
fresh or cool air, of course, pure; these at distinct levels. 
We need scarcely point to the fact, that such practice is 
based upon the well-known rarefaction of air by heat, 
whereby warm particles have a constant tendency to 
