September 25. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
477 
GRAIN AND SEED. 
Friday, Sept. 21.—There was a very limited supply of Wheat and other 
Grain this morning. The demand has not been large, and prices are 
about the same as on Monday. Barley held for more money. Oats 
meet an inquiry at 6d. to Is. advance. Beans and Peas are fully as 
dear. 
WHEAT. 
Kent and Essex, red, 
per qr. “Is. to 84s. 
Ditto, white . 84s. „ 90 s. 
Norfolk and Suffolk.. 70s. ,, 78 s. 
Dantzic . 80s. ,, Q 2 s. 
Rostock. 81s. ,, 90s. 
Odessa . 73s. ,, 76 s. 
American . 83s. ,, 85s. 
BARLEY. 
Malting .. 35s. to 38s. 
Grinding and Distil¬ 
ling . 31s. „ 33s. 
Chevalier . 33s. ,, 35s. 
OATS. 
Scotch, feed . 31s. to 32s. 
English . 25s. ,, 26s. 
Irish . 24s. ,, 26s. 
Dutch Broo . 27s. ,, 29s. 
Danish . 25s. ,, 29 s. 
Russian. 26 s. ,, 29 s. 
BEANS. 
Harrow . 41s. to 43s. 
Pigeon . 42s. ,, 48s. 
Tick..... 40s. ,, 42s. 
PEAS. I 
Boiling, per qr. 42s. to 47s. 
Common. 36s. ,, 38s. 
Grey.:. 37s. ,, 4()s. I 
Maple. 40s. ,, 42s. 
SEEDS. 
Turnip, White, per 
bushel. . 
Swede. .. 
Rape . 84s. „ 86s. 
Linseed, sowing, qr.. 80s. ,, 83s. 
,, crushing .. 70s. ,, 73s. 
Clover,English,redcwt 60s. ,, 68s. i 
,, Foreign do. 52s. ,, 57s. 
,, White. 68s. ,, 73s. 
Trefoil. 28s. ,, 32s. 
Rye, perqr. 4l)s. ,, 43s, 
Tares . S8s. 
Canary. 58s. ,, 62s. 
Hemp. 50s. ,, 53s. 
Linseed Cake, per 
ton. ^'11 to £12 10s. 
Rape Cake .. £6 10s. ,, £6 15s. 
Indian Corn . 47s. ,, 50s. 
HOPS. 
There has been a good trade doing the last few days, and as the supply 
is now large, merchants purchase freely where the samples are good. At 
Worcester fair, about 2,000 Pockets were pitched, and about half were 
sold at a currency from 80s. to 90s. ; quality generally fine. Our market 
is tolerably active at the annexed quotations. 
Sussex Pockets, £3 18s. to £i ; Weald of Kents, £i to £4 10s. 
Duty, ^300,000. 
HAY AND STRAW. 
Clover, 1st cut per ; Meadow Hay, new 95s. to 120s. 
load. 110s. to 147s. Rowan . . 
Clover, new . 120s. ,, 135s. Straw, flail. 30s. ,, 36s. 
Ditto, 2nd cut .... 90 s. ,, 140s. Ditto, machine .... 28s. ,, 30s. 
Meadow Hay. 90 s. ,, 135s. | 
MEAT. 
Beef, inferior, per 
8 lbs. 3s. 4d. to 3s. 8d. 
Do. middling. 3s. lOd. to 4s. 
Do. prime .... 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. 
Mutton, inferior 3s. 4d. to 3s. Sd. 
Do. middling .. 3s. lod. to 4s. 4d. 
Mutton, prime 4s. 6d. to 4s. lOd. 
Veal . 3s. lod. to 4s. lOd. 
Lamb . 5s. 4d. to 5s. lOd. 
Pork, large. 3s. 8d. to 4s. 
Ditto, small . 43 . to 4s. fid. 
POULTRY. 
The poultry market during tbe week has been dull, and 
the supplies not large. Grouse come very badly, and in 
small quantities. Partridges are plentiful. 
Partridges 1.3d. to Is. 9d. each. 
Grouse 3s. to 3s. 6d. & 4s. ,, 
Leverets. 3s, 
Large Fowls. 5s. to 6s. each. 
Smaller do. 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ,, 
Chickens .. 2s. 3d. to 2s. 9d. „ 
Geese . 6s. to 7s. 6d. ,, 
Ducks. 2s. 6d. to 3s. ,, 
Rabbits .. 
Wild do. 
Is. 3d. to Is. 4d. 
lOd. to Is. 2d. 
PROVISIONS. 
BUTTER- 
-Cwt. 
CHEESE.—Cwt. 
Dorset, fine . 
104s- 
to 108s. 
Cheshire, fine . 
. 74s. 
to 90 s. 
Do. middling. 
90 s. 
,, 96s. 
Gloucestershire, 
dble. 70 s. 
„ 76s. 
Fresh, per doz. lbs. 
12s. 
„ 13s. 
Ditto, single ... 
„ 74s. 
Friesland . 
98s. 
,, 1003. 
Somerset. 
. 70 s. 
a /t)3. 
Kiel. 
94s. 
•> 983 . 
Wilts, loaf. 
„ 78s. 
98S. 
,, 102s. 
,, 78s. 
Waterford. 
98s. 
“ 102s. 
Ditto, thin. 
. Ms. 
,, 64s. 
Cork. 
98s. 
„ 102s. 
Ditto, pines ... 
»> " 
Limerick. 
9‘2s. 
„ 96 s. 
Berkeley, thin . 
,, 66s. 
Sligo . 
HAMS.—Cwt. 
BACON - 
Cwt. 
York, new. 
to 90 s. 
Wiltshire, dried .. 
80s. 
to 84s. 
Westmoreland . 
. 76 s. 
„ 86s. 
Waterford. 
74s. 
,, 76s. 
Irish. 
„ 84s. 
WOOL. 
Down Tegs .... Is 
2s. to Is. 3d. 
Kent fleeces 
Is. Id. „ 
Is. 2d. 
Ditto Tegs and 
Leicester fleeces 
... Is. „ 
Is. ljd. 
Ewes . Is. Id. to Is. 2d. 
Long, heavy do. 
Half-bred Hog- 
Combing skins 
. lO.Jd. to 
la. Id. 
gets . Is. 
3d. to 
Is. 3Ad. 
Flannel wool.. 
Is. Id. to 
Is. 2£d. 
Do. Wethers. 
Is. to 
Is. 2d, 
Blanket wool .. 
. 6d. 
to lid. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Peaks (IE. X. IF.).—The Pears you sent are all unknown. In all pro¬ 
bability the whole of them are wildings. You do not say in what part 
of the country you are located, but you cannot do wrong in grafting 
them with Jargonelle, Beurre de Capinumont, Louise Bonne of Jersey, 
Monarch, and Thompson's. 
Kidney-beans (T. M. IE.).—Both the varieties of Kidney-beans are 
known in this country as the White Dutch Runners, and hence it is you 
have had No. 2 sent you instead of No. 1 ; but No. 1 is also called the 
Knife-case Runner, to distinguish it from No. 2. To make sure, how¬ 
ever, another year, we would advise you to save all the seed you can of 
No. 1, lest you should be disappointed again next year. 
Price op Land (A Constant Render), —The price of land in the 
neighbourhood of Strood and Meopham, as in any other place, will 
depend on the quantity you require. We have known land sold in the 
latter parish as high as £100 per acre, for farming land; hut if you 
want only a small portion, you will, of course, have to pay a higher rate. 
Destroying Ants (/I Subscriber). —Put a shovelfull of Gas Lime 
over their nest at night. 
Glass for Greenhouse Vinery (A Header). —Hartley’s Rough 
Plate is as suitable for the Vine as for the plants. 
Tobacco Drying (IF. Gardiner). —We cannot reprint the directions. 
Grey Rabbits (Rabbit). —We know a gentleman who has a buck 
and doe ten weeks old, which he is willing to sell at two shillings each, 
aud one shilling for the basket. 
CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER. 
ORCHID HOUSE. 
Air ; in fine warm weather, a small opening to allow fresh air to enter 
the house will be useful, both for the keeping down the temperature of 
the house, and changing the air. Bletias should he put to rest by 
withholding water and placing them in a pit or cooler house. Cycno- 
ches, Cyrtopodiums, and Catesetums. These plants should now he 
kept dry a few days in the warm house, and when perfectly so remove 
them into a cooler one. Fire maybe applied to heat the hot-water every 
night, more or less, according to the state of the temperature out-bf- 
doors ; raise the thermometer by day to 70 °, by night let it fall to 60 °. 
Insects, look diligently after ; every one destroyed now will prevent a 
host from coming into life in the spring. Lycastes, and other similar 
plants should go to rest; place them on a shelf where they may be pro¬ 
tected from ever receiving any water. Plants that require to he placed 
in a place to rest may he known, first, by the full, plump, mature pseudo- 
bulbs, and, secondly, by the leaves turning yellow and dropping off. 
When in such a state, it is absolutely necessary to reduce the water and 
heat to prevent them from growing again prematurely. Plants that 
are growing should have their due share of water, and be kept mode¬ 
rately warm, some may require potting, and all will he the better for a 
top-dressing with fresh compost. Staniiopeas will now he at rest; give 
no water till the spring. This month is a suitable, season for providing 
materials for growing Orchids, such as fibrous peat, turfy loam, sphag¬ 
num or bog moss, branches of trees, and broken crocks ; all these, duly 
prepared, and kept dry and warm, will be ready for use whenever they 
are wanted during the wet season. T. Appleby. 
PLANT STOVE. 
TEsciiynantiius, reduce water to; prune in straggling blanches. 
Air, give every favourable day. Achimenes, place in a cooler house, to 
cause them to give over growing and go to rest ; give no water, and put 
them in a spot where no water or dry heat will reach them ; this rule 
does not apply to A. picta, which should now be in flower, and in its 
greatest beauty. Amaryllis aulica will now be showing flowers ; 
remove it. as soon as the flower-buds are visible, from the tan-pit into 
the stove ; all other species of stove Amuryllis should now be at rest. 
Conoclinium ianthkmum, or, as it is now called, Hebeclinium ian- 
thetnum, a winter-flowering, elegant stove plant, repot, and grow on to 
flower in February or March. Eranthemum pulchellum, and B. 
strictum, treat similarly. Erantukmums, water with liquid-manure, to 
induce them to open their flowers freely. Gesneras should all be at 
rest, excepting G. zebrina, which will now be one of the chiefest orna¬ 
ments of the stove. Justicia; several species will now be in flower; 
water them freely, occasionally using liquid-manure. Lucui.ia gratis- 
sima, though not essentially a stove plant, will flower much finer early 
in the season if brought into the stove this month. Medinillas, young 
plants repot; older plants keep partly dry and cool. Passion Flowers, 
trim in freely. Poinsettias water freely, to produce fine head of 
bloom in winter. Rogiera amiena, and cordiflora, repot; place in 
heat, to bloom about Christmas; a new genus of dwarf, free, winter¬ 
flowering, stove-shrubs. Remove stove-plants kept in frames through 
the summer into the stove ; water freely, to compensate for the loss of 
the moist atmosphere of the pit. Water, apply very moderately to the 
general stock. Remove all decaying leaves, and top-dress generally 
GREENHOUSE. 
Air admit freely during the day, but sparingly at night, unless the 
thermometer out-of-doors be about 40°. Alstriemerias, shift, or rather 
pot in rich light soil, and place where they will be secure from frost. 
They thrive beautifully when planted out in a pit or border, where they 
can be covered with glass in winter. Azaleas, remove into the house, 
especially those that bloomed early, as the least frost will discolour their 
leaves. Bulbs, pot for early blooming. Cinerarias, forward ones 
give manure-water, and have secured under gla«s. Very little frost 
injures them. Camellias (See Azaleas). Calceolarias, strike 
cuttings; pot forward plants; prick off seedlings. Chrysanthemums 
for winter blooming, provide with shelter from cold rains and early frosts, 
and water with manure-water alternately with clean. Climbers on 
rafters now prune in, to give light to the plants beneath. Cleroden- 
drons, Gesneras, Lantanas, Achimenes, &c., keep in the warmest 
end of the house preparatory to resting them for the winter, or returning 
to the plant stove. Azaleas, Camellias, Fuchsias, &c., at the 
