October 28. 
THE COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 
57 
is its grittiness, and, however well-grown they may he, 
this is a characteristic which they invariably possess. 
If any of our readers are desirous of possessing an ex¬ 
cellent stewing or baking pear, there are none which 
I will give them greater satisfaction than Bellissime 
! (I’lliver, FUminh Boti Ohretien, and Vicar of Wahefielcl; 
of the latter there have been some very fine specimens 
exliibited in the market. 
V'^EGETABLES. —These continue plentifiJ. Cabbages 
do not vary in price from last quotations, ranging from 
Cd. to Is. per dozen. Cauliflowers furnish a good 
supjdy, and some are of excellent quality, which make 
2s. (id. per dozen, but inferior examples are as low as 
Cd. Brussels Sprouts about Is. Gd. per half-sieve. 
CoLEWoRTs, Is. to 2s. iiei' dozen hunches. Carrots, of 
which tliere are some very fine samples of the Long 
Surrey and Altriiigham, make from 2s. Cd. to 5s. per 
dozen bunches. Turnips, Is. to Is. Cd. per dozen 
hunches. Onions are plentiful and fine, chiefly of the 
White Spanish, or, as it is sometimes called, Reading 
sort; tliey make from 2d. to 4d. per hunch. Scarlet 
Eunners are freely sold at 2s. per half-sieve. Endive 
is very fine, large, and well-hlanched, of the Green 
Curled variety, and was selling at from Is. to Is. Cd. ]ior 
score. Cucumbers continue plentiful, at from 2d. to 
Cd. and Cd. each. Potatoes are rising in price. Eine 
Regents cannot he had, well picked and free from 
disease, under .£7 per ton. 
Plants and Flowers. —The near approach of winter 
has banished flowers in pots, and their place is taken 
by grim, cemetrean-looking “ greens,” wherewith the 
Londoners may, for the next six months, adorn their 
halls and balconies. Of these we may enumerate nice 
bushy plants of Laurustinus, Aitcuha, Siberian and 
Chinese Arbor vita, Cotoneastcr microgrhjlla and buxi- 
folia, adorned with red berries, Exmouth magnolia, and 
Tree Box. The few Floivers there are consist of Erica 
hyemalis and gracilis, Trachelium cccruleum, Sedum Sie- 
boldii. Primula sinensis, fine, large, fringed varieties, 
both red and white; Yelloio Pompone Chrysanthemums, 
and Ivy-leaved Geraniums. Cut Flowers consist of 
Camellias, Ceanothus azureus, Cinerarias, China Roses, 
Bignonia venusta. Verbenas, Clone Carnations, Snow- 
berries, Fuchsias, Heliotropes, and Scarlet Geraniums.— 
11 . 
The following is a list of the Horticultural and 
i Poultry Shotvs of which we are at present aware. We 
i shall bo obliged by any of our readers sending us ad- 
i ditions to the list, and giving the address of the Se- 
j cretaries. 
i nORTICULTURAL SHOWS. 
I Bury St. Edmunds, Nov. 20 (Chrysanthemums). (See. 
G. r. Clay, Esq.) 
Cai.edonian (Inverleilh Eow), Edinburgh, Doc. 2. 
Hampshire, Nov. 18 (Winchester). {Sec. llov. E. Wick¬ 
ham, Winchester.) 
London ELORicuLTUR.m (Exeter Hall, Strand), Nov. Ct, 
20, Dec. 11+. 
North London, Nov. 20, Chrysanthemum. 
South London (Eoyal), Nov. lit, Dec. Uf, 10. 
t For seedlings only. 
poultry shows. 
Birmingham and Midland Counties, 11th, 15th, ICth, 
and 17th December. 
Bristol Agricultural, December 7th, 8th, and 9th. 
{Sec. James Marmont.) 
Cornwall (Penzance), January 10th, and 11th. {Secs. 
Eev. W. W. Wingfield, Gulval Vicarage, and E. H. 
Kodd, Esq.) 
Dorchester, Nov. 18th. {Sec., G. J. Andrews, Esq., Dor- 
Chester.) 
Honiton, January 12th. {Sec. H. K. Venn.) 
Winchester, December 1st. {Secs. G. W. Johnson and 
J. Colson.) 
PINES: THEIR CULTURE. 
{Continued from ‘page. 20.) 
Our readers will remember that in the preceding 
papers on this subject the matter was brought up to the 
point of structures, interior fittings, heating, ventilation, 
atmospheric moisture, shading, &c. Cultural matters 
come next, and we must begin with the sucker, which is 
the favourite mode of propagation. Space will not 
permit us to indulge in verbose details, neither are they 
needed ; we may merely observe, that the sucker makes 
a good plant iimre speedily than the crowns or gills, and 
that it takes less room. Those who have dined at public 
tables ill a crowded condition, and have thereby been 
well elbowed, will readily understand tbe difierence 
between them; the crown, in consequence of its highly 
recurved foliage, is much given to elbowing; and were 
our good friend Beaton’s Yuccas to produce crowns as 
well as suckers, ten to one he would prefer the latter, 
for their habits bear a great resemblance. For the in¬ 
formation of those who do not well understand the 
technology of horticulture, it may be observed, that the 
sucker is a reproduction from the root, or lower portion 
of tbe stem; the crown, of course, surmounts the fruit, 
and the gills are little excrescences, which nature, in her 
sportiveness, causes to assume the character, and, indeed, 
possess the functions of real plants. 
Now, as not every one who reads these observations 
can build a house at once, and plant these suckers'out 
in soil, we will show how these suckers are cultivated in 
ordinary practice. Of course, they come to hand at 
various periods under ordinary circumstances—the 
greatest bulk generally when the fruit is cut. If this 
happen any time between October and Febmary, many 
cultivators leave them on the mother plants, termed 
“ stools,” in this condition, until February. Many come 
to hand, however, through other periods, for some 
plants produce more suckers thau it is expedient to have, 
and as these come at diflerent periods, it is the practice 
with some to dibble them in the tan at the front of the 
pit or frame, just like a cabbage plant. Here they will 
speedily root, and may remain until there are enough 
to fill a frame, a pit, or a portion of such, or until some 
ro-arrangement of the stock takes place, when it becomes 
the cultivator to work them in with his system. On 
these occasions they are mostly potted, and if good 
plants, will require seven-inch pots, well drained. They 
are now, of course, plunged in a bottom warmth of 
from 80° to 85°, and henceforth the usual routine of 
culture is practised They are repotted or shifted, when 
full of roots, into pots a couple of sizes larger, and 
thence into their fruiting-pots, when under pot culture; 
the period of the last shift being partly regulated by the 
time the fruit is required. The latter may generally be 
expected about nine or ten months from the final shift. 
Now, if any one about to commence the Hamiltonian 
system could lay hands on a lot of strong - rooted 
suckers from these seven-inch pots, they would he just 
the thing ; they would be purchased at a moderate 
