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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
October 9. 
Marin, double, white, purple eye; Triomphe Blandinia, double, waxy 
white, carmine eye ; Mtivs, single, carmine; r i ttriplt of Apollo , single, 
pesli • Orondates, single, light blue; 11 illium the First , single, black ; 
Grand Vainqeur, single, white; Prince de Galitsin, single, white. To 
Grow in Pots, the best of the cheap are -.—Acteur, double, deep rose; 
Orootworst, double, rose; A-la-mode, double, blue ; Bleu fonce, double, 
azure • Don gratuit, double, white, primrose eye; La deesse, double, 
white’; Diebits, single, crimson ; Le franc de Berkey, single, rosy pink ; 
Appius, single, dark blue; Emicans, single, blue, white eye; La can - 
dear, single, white; and Voltaire, single, waxy white. 
Pan sey ( Seedling Pansey).— Form good, and contrast peculiar of prim¬ 
rose upper petals, with puce lower petals, but too stained by the green 
leaves between which they were packed, for us to judge whether the 
colours are pure. 
Ivy (T. M. IK.)—Bees, &c., obtain honey from its flowers. 
Concrete Walks (An Incumbent.)— You cannot have cheaper, and 
none either so permanent or free from weeds for your kitchen-garden and 
drive. You must not plant Beans either by ploughing them in or broad¬ 
cast. Have them drilled or dibbled in—the latter is the best mode. 
About Bees next week. 
Wintering Bedding-out Plants (H . S. T.)—Your greenhouse 
will do very well for the purpose. See what Mr. Beaton says to-day, A 
mat over the plants inside the house would be a great help in severe 
weather. Could you not have a small gas-stove ? 
Swiss Cream.— In answer to Sarah’s inquiry we have received the 
following recipes. Becipe 1. One pint of cream sweetened to taste, 
grate in the rind of a lemon, boil it a few minutes, then strain it, when 
cold stir in the juice of a lemon with a teaspoonful of flour, put a layer of 
macaroons in your dish, cover it with the cream, then another layer of 
cakes, putting cream between every layer, ornament to taste with pre¬ 
serve or dried fruit.—L. U. L. Recipe 2. Flavour with lemon rind and 
cinnamon a pint of rich cream, after having taken from it as much as 
will mix smoothly to a thin batter four teaspoonfuls of the finest flour, 
sweeten it with six ounces of well-refined sugar in lumps, place it over a 
clear fire in a saucepan, and when it boils stir in the flour, and simmer it 
for four or five minutes stirring it gently, then pour it out, and when it 
is quite cold mix with it by degrees the strained juice of two lemons. 
Take a quarter-of-a-pound of macaroons, cover the bottom of a glass-dish 
with a part of them, pour in a part of the cream, lay the remainder of the 
macaroons upon it, add the rest of the cream, and ornament it with 
sliced citron. It should be made the day before it is wanted for table. 
—E. S. 
Bulbs in Pots ( L.R. L.). —Tobereadyfor removal in case you change 
your residence in the spring, you may plant your Jonquils, Crocuses, &c., 
in pots, and plunge these in your borders. Take care to have the pots 
deep enough, so that the roots may not be cramped. 
Wintering Verbenas and Heliotropes (R. C. S.).— As you have 
no greenhouse, the only plan we can recommend is one we published 
long since:—Dig a pit, two spades depth, about six inches larger every 
way than the hand-glass or frame you mean to employ; fill this with 
large stones, potsherds, &c., and, at the top, cinders till within an inch 
or two of the level of the soil; then put from four to six inches of very 
sandy soil on the top : in this plant the Verbenas, one in the centre, if for 
a hand-light, and one dozen at equal distances, if for an ordinary two- 
light frame : they should be planted at the same time the stock is 
bedded out (i.e., when the Mulberry leaf is the size of a shilling), and, by 
attention to layering through the summer, the surface of the prepared bed 
will be covered with young plants, which, with the help of a mat or two 
in severe weather, will stand all the winter, and be ready for bedding in 
the spring; the same pits will do for four years at least. 
Wintering Geraniums (Sussex). —The above pit would do for you ; 
but see what Mr.Beaton says to-day. 
Old Plum-tree (T. Hill). —Cut the top off now, and paint over the 
wound to keep out the wet. 
Bees—Barley-sugar for (Ibid). —Put a pound of the finest white 
sugar into a saucepan with a lip, together with half-a-pint of water ; put 
it on a gentle fire and take off the scum as it rises; let it boil five minutes ; 
strain it through a tammy (woollen cloth); return it into the saucepan 
and continue boiling it until the syrup has become thick, and that the 
handle of a spoon being dipped into it, and then plunged into cold water, 
the sugar upon the handle is found to be quite crisp; when this is the 
case the syrup is sufficiently boiled. On a marble slab, or a large china 
dish, well buttered, pour the syrup along in lines of the thickness the 
"sticks are required; take hold of the sticks at each end whilst hot and 
twist them. The lemon flavour is given by dropping into the syrup ten 
drops of the oil of lemon just before pouring the syrup upon the slab. 
Neither the oil of lemons nor the straining through the tammy are re¬ 
quired in making barley-sugar for bees. 
Names of Plants (A. B. C. D .).—Your plant is Cineraria amel- 
loides, novv called Agathcea caelestis, a native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
(S. R., Belchamp Ilall). —Yours is Nicandra physaloides, formerly called 
Atropaphysaloides; it is a native of Peru, and must have escaped from 
some garden. 
Tropceolum tuberosum (Carig Coroll). —Many thanks for your offer 
of the roots of this plant. Please to send them in a basket by railway, 
addressed to Mr. Beaton, Shrublund Park, Ipswich, Suffolk, to be left at 
the Claydon Station. Mr. Beaton wishes to have your address. 
Turf-pit for Wintering Bedding-out Plants (Z. Z. Z.).—A 
turf-pit in front of a south-east wall, with glass, is a good place to winter 
Geraniums in, also Salvias, Calceolarias, and Ageratum. It was a good 
plan to plant the cuttings without pots ; what you will have to guard 
against, is damp, and if the leaves grow too close, thin them out from 
time to time, and pick off every yellow or mouldy leaf as soon as you see 
it; loosen the surface of the soil, now and then, and spread a little very 
dry ashes over it, which is a good preventive against damp ; let no rain 
get at the plants before March, and keep the glass thickly covered in 
frosty weather. The Heliotrope and Verbenas will hardly do in such a 
pit, but you may try some of them ; the rest you ought to pot, and try 
them in the windows. In future, keep a few plants of Heliotrope, and 
some Verbena plants, from the spring cuttings, in small pots, all the 
summer; cut them down in September, like Geraniums, and you will 
have no trouble in keeping them over the winter in j our turf-pit. 
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