OCTOBER 17. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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made to slide will be sufficient; but it will be better to make 
it in two. Air would also be given in front and at the door. 
C. Size of glass according to fancy and price; eight by 
six a good size, and easily mended. Sixeen by seven is also 
a good size for thick glass. Hartley’s Rough Patent will do 
admirably for the roof, and crown glass for the front. 
7. There would be no difficulty in having a stock-hole in 
a space of six feet, and covering it over with a trap-door; 
but as your kitchen range seems so handy, nothing could 
answer better than two small iron pipes taken from it, entering 
into two, three, or four-inch pipes in the house. Pipes one 
| inch in diameter would be sufficient for the boiler, or even 
i less. If your boiler has a moveable lid, your pipes must not 
rise above it, nor so high by a few inches. If your boiler is 
a close one, fed by a pipe or a cistern several feet above it, 
I your pipes in the house may also rise a little above the 
boiler, provided they are below the supply-cistern. Two 
stop cocks would let the heat on and take it off at pleasure. 
Provided you have, iron for a couple of feet next the boiler, 
you may use lead for conveying the water to the pipes in 
the house; and, as mentioned already, the space through 
which the pipes pass may also communicate with the house 
by means of a small chamber.] 
ALLAMANDA VERTICILLATA NOT FLOWERING.— 
SELECTION OF PASSION-FLOWERS. 
“ I have a large plant of Allamanda VerticiUata, which has 
very much increased in growth, but shown no flower; it has 
I been kept at the cool end of a stove, with plenty of pot 
room. Can you assist me inducing it to flower? Some time 
since, I purchased, of a nurseryman, two Passifloras, one he 
; styled Akita sarperba , and the other, Bonapartii ; when they 
came into flower they proved alike. Will you inform me which 
variety of stove Passiflora I had better purchase as a good 
contrast to Alata superba ? The nurseryman has one named 
Decaseneana; but I know nothing of it, and may be again 
! deceived. I have Kermesina. —T. C.” 
[The Allamanda, probably, will not bloom now this season. 
; Keep it in much the same position; but give it as much 
| light as possible. Prune back in March, and without 
potting, plunge the pot in a moderate hotbed, and by 
Midsummer you will have strong shoots and bloom We 
presume your plant is either too young, or has too much 
i pot-room. The whole of this genus, as well as Dipladenias, 
&c., dearly love bottom-heat when growing. 
Much confusion exists as to Passion-flowers. What we 
term the Alata has the beautiful coronet standing almost 
straight out; Buonapartea and Quadrangularis are larger, 
and the coronet more resembles a flattish cup ; the last we 
consider the most handsome and sweet of all Passion¬ 
flowers, and hosts of our young lady friends confirm us in 
our opinions. As contrasts, and variety, we would recom¬ 
mend Loudonii, purple, and Coccinea, scarlet. In many 
places the latter is found under the name of Princess ; the 
flowers hang in bunches something like grapes.] 
RASPBERRY-SHOOT GRUB. 
“ Amongst the many queries sent to your valuable work 
for information, I have not as yet seen any article on the 
injury done to that valuable fruit, the Raspberry. I have a 
bed of about three dozen of this shrub (some old ones), 
which generally throw up from six to eight fresh canes 
during the season, kept in good order and pruning at the 
appointed time; but, after all my care, I cannot find out 
this singular cause of injury to the plants. Now, for the 
last four or five years, when the canes are in full leaf, and 
just in flower-bud, or sooner, I find that nearly all the plants 
are more or less affected, either from the ravages of an 
insect, or some hidden disease in the plant; the effect of 
which is to cause the fruit and other stalks or shoots from 
the parent tree, for three or four inches, to be, as it were, 
bit at a joint, and the point of the stalk is fallen down in a 
pendulous state, and, of course, dies away, fruit and all. 
I have tried all means, by examination, and by digging in 
soot at the roots, but of no avail; and shall be obliged by 
any information at your convenience. I have inserted new 
canes at different times, which have been somewhat affected. 
The aspect is S.E. by S.; and I have added loam to the 
soil, with manure.—A Subscriber.” 
[The soil has nothing to do with this injury to your 
Raspberries. The stalks and shoots are eaten through by a 
little red grub, hatched from an egg deposited there by a 
very pretty little moth, called Xamproma corticella, the s ame, 
we believe, as Tinea corticella of some Eutomologists. We 
know of no remedy.] 
POULTRY. 
WET ROUP IN PIGEONS. 
“ We had a Fantail hen Pigeon, which, one morning, we 
found lying on the ground, unable to stand. From its 
mouth was running a thick white liquid: it frequently 
gasped. 
“ Being as yet inexperienced pigeon-fanciers, we had to 
rely on books; and from comparing the symptoms of the 
bird with those recorded in the books, we thought it most 
like the wet roup, and so gave it peppercorns Would you 
kindly tell us, through the medium of your paper, what you 
think of its death ?—G. H. Tf.” 
[In the disease termed “ Wet Roup,” the nostrils dis¬ 
charge a thick feetid liquid, and the attack is seldom so 
rapid as to prostrate the bird at once, as in your case. Some 
disease on the brain, causing paralysis of the limbs, would 
appear to have been a more probable cause of death. But 
in neither case should we have anticipated the slightest 
benefit from the administration of peppercorns.—W.] 
BEES. 
“ A Novice in Bee keeping is anxious to know what is to 
bo done with a very small swarm of bees which she has in 
a rather large box-hive. They were brought from a distance, 
and the greater part of the comb was broken in the carriage. 
Another hive of the same dimensions stands near the one 
alluded to, and ‘ A Novice ’ has been told, that the bees will 
unite if the hives are placed close to each other. Is this 
probable? In the commencement of June, 1853, a swarm 
of bees were bived in a wooden (box) hive; they yielded no 
honey either that or this present summer, neither have 
they sent ott’ a swarm ; but, about a month back, after the 
massacre of the drones had taken place, the bees made a sign 
of swarming; they, however, returned again to the hive. 
About three weeks afterwards, a queen bee was found at the 
entrance half dead. Is this anything unusual? ‘A Novice’ 
will be glad to find a communication for her in The Cottage 
Gardener. 
“ She has placed a feeding trough, containing sugar and 
beer, boiled together, where the bees can easily obtain 
access, but they will not take the food at all; probably they 
have been frightened by finding wasps in the trough.” 
[Your “very small” swarm of bees will not unite with the 
stronger one by placing them side by side. Finding a queen 
bee at the entrance of the hive is not an unusual thing. 
Feed your bees at the top of the hive, and give them sugar, 
water, and honey, as directed in The Cottage Gardener. 
It will be better not to disturb the bees in the full hive, but 
unite the weak stock to another weak one.] 
SENDING BEES TO THE MOORS.—SIZE OF 
PAYNE'S HIYE. 
“ In corroboration of your remarks in The Cottage Gar¬ 
dener of the 20th, on the advantages of removing Bees to 
the Moors at the proper period, I beg to state, that I sent 
thirteen hives, my entire stock, on the 5th of August, to the 
vicinity of the Heath, a distance from my residence (New- 
castle-on-Tyne) of about twelve miles. I had them brought 
back September the 10th, and found that together they had 
increased in weight 2901bs., or, on an average, about twenty- 
two pounds each. 
“ I have in two instances tried the plan of taking hives by 
means of chloroform, as recommended by your correspon¬ 
dent, ‘ J. R. N.;’ the result has not been satisfactory; numbers 
of the Bees having never recovered from the stupor induced 
by it. I shall, however, give it further trial. 
“ Will you kindly favour me with the dimensions of the 
hive Mr. Payne now uses. Mine are of the size recom¬ 
mended in his work—twelve inches diameter, by nine inches 
in height, measuring inside. I believe he has changed from 
the above shape and size.—A Constant Reader.” 
