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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
October 23. 
by age, and the old plants require only to be kept from the frost while at ( 
rest; no light is necessary. Cut your two plants to ten or twelve feet ! 
1 each, take off the leaves, and train them up behind the window curtains, 
or in any corner of the sitting-room, or, indeed, in any dry place away 
from the frost, and do not let the pots get quite dry; no plants are more 
I easy to keep. 
Gable Ends (B. C.). —Plant the best evergreen climbing Roses against 
the gable ends in that “ cold draught.” You will find the names in pre¬ 
vious numbers. You may also plant Cotoneuster microphylla, ‘‘which 
no cold can impair.” It makes a fine evergreen clothing to the ends or 
back of a house, or north wall. The Pyracantha thorn ( Cratcegus pyra- 
cantha) is another useful thing for your purpose. For the five-feet walls, 
plant China Common Roses and Ivy, then bud a selection of Chinas on 
the Rose. 
Tree Onion. — N. S. Hodson, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds, says:— 
“ Should any of the readers of The Cottage Gardener wish to cul¬ 
tivate this desirable esculent, I shall have pleasure in forwarding bulbs, 
on receipt of four postage stamps.” 
Churns. —A correspondent says:—“ I have used for several years a 
J block tin churn, on which is a plate, with this inscription—“ Registered 
| Metallic Chum. Attwood, Wimble and Werner, manufacturers, Lewes.” 
It is very simple, makes a large quantity of butter in a very short time, 
: and though in constant use, has needed scarcely any repair in six years. 
I Price according to size, from 25s. to 42s. Can any of our readers furnish 
j us for our correspondent, with a recipe for French bread. 
Bacon Curing. — R. M. will find the following an excellent mode : — 
For every 14lbs. of pork, take l£ oz. of saltpetre, 31b. of coarse brown 
sugar, 31 b. of common salt, and 31 b. of bay salt; pulverize them finely, 
and mix all well together; rub the pork in every part thoroughly with the 
moisture ; heap what remains upon the meat, leave it until the following 
day, and then rub it in again. On the third day after the pickling com¬ 
mences, pour a pint of strong vinegar to each 14lbs. of pork, and keep 
this turned and bathed daily with the pickle for a month. It will then 
be fit for drying. 
List of Apples for Standards ( R. L. -, Thame). — Dessert. 
Ashmead’s Kernel, Kerry Pippin, White Joaneting, Ross’s Nonpariel, 
Adam’s Pearmain, Lamb Abbey Pearmain, Golden Reinnette, Ribston 
Pippin. Kitchen. —Alfriston, Keswick Codlin, Mank’s Codling, Dume- 
low’s Seedling, John Apple, or Northern Greening, and Hawthorden. 
Cottage Gardeners’ Dictionary (A Young Beginner). —You will 
find it “ far more useful for practical gardening purposes, than Paxton's 
Dictionary.” 
Working Beer (Malt cum Sugar). —You are quite right in putting 
the barm into the wort the day this is made, provided you do not do so 
until the wort is about as warm as new milk. You are also right in 
tunning the next afternoon, if the beer has worked well. A small tea¬ 
cupful of yeast will be enough for twenty-four gallons. Boil the Chamo¬ 
miles for five minutes. 
Hardy Fruit for Espaliers (A Constant Reader). — Dessert 
Apples —Pearson’s Plate, Kerry Pippin, White Joaneting, Hick’s Fancy, 
Margil, Sturmer Pippin. Kitchen Apples —Gravenstem, Hawthorden, 
Boston Russet. Dessert Pears —Aston Town, Beurre Diel, Dunmore, 
Easter Beurre. Stewing Pears— Catillac, but it must be a standard, 
i Plums —Precoce de Tours, Smith’s Orleans, Greengage, and Golden Drop. 
Cineraria maritima (S. II. H. IF.).—Can any of our readers say 
where this—the Sea-ragwort—can be purchased? Your other question 
next week. 
Preserving and Cultivating Ginger ( L .).—There is along recipe 
for preserving it at page 155 of our last volume (No. 140). The following 
for cultivating ginger is from The Cottage Gardeners' Dictionary :— 
Green ginger may be easily cultivated two ways, either in pots, or in a 
deep pit. If in pots, take the plants, shake them out of the pots when at 
rest in February, divide them, and pot each piece into a pot six inches 
across ; plunge them, as soon as the heat is temperate, in a bark pit, or a 
frame heated with dung like a cucumber-bed, the surface being covered 
with tan deep enough for the pots. As soon as the plants come up, give 
a small supply of water, gradually increasing the quantity as the plants 
advance in growth. By August they will be fit to take up and preserve. 
If a large quantity is required, a deep pit of two or three lights will be 
necessary, the bottom to be filled with rich soil to the depth of a foot; 
plant the roots in this soil, and line the pit with hot dung, renewing it 
as the heat declines. The time for planting in the pit is February or 
March. Water whilst growing, give air in hot weather, and in September 
you will have a large supply of fine ginger roots, equal to foreign. 
Rambling Sailor.— 2'. M. W. says, that he finds that this name is 
applied to Linaria cymbalaria, a species of Toad-flax. 
Salt and Soot (C.). —Fifty bushels of soot, and ten bushels of salt, 
mixed together, or sown separately, are a good dressing for an acre of 
land to be planted with potatoes. Sow them over the land just previously 
to digging it. One hundred weight and a half of Epsom Salt (Sulphate of 
Magnesia) is a good dressing for the same space of ground, but this 
should be sown over the field when the potatoes are growing, in the 
spring, about May. Soot is composed of Carbon, 371 parts : Salts of 
Ammonia, 426 ; Salts of Potash and Soda, 24 ; Oxide of Iron, 50 ; Silica, 
65 ; Alumina, 31 ; Sulphate of Lime, 31 ; Carbonate of Magnesia, 2. 
Himalayaii Pumpkin. —Any one desiring new seeds of this pumpkin 
will receive a liberal supply if they send their address, on a stamped 
envelope, with two stamps enclosed, to Mr. D. Farage, County Gaol, 
Oakham, Rutland. 
New Plants (G. H.). —Your plant, as near as we can judge from the 
specimen sent, is the Tecoma Australis, a native of New South Wales ; 
probably it was not able to flower in the greenhouse for want of root and 
head room. ( Hester L.). —We have no doubt your plant is the Iris 
Chinensis, a very beautiful one; you may venture to turn it out in a warm, 
moist situation, where your strong plants will flower next year. Should 
the weather set in very severe, a little protection may be useful or neces¬ 
sary, as plants of it have been killed during some of our very severe winters. 
Error. —At p. 37, col. 2., line 3 from top, for Styphelia, read Stapelia. 
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