THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
September 
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thoinsolvos to circumstances. Those who have leisure, 
and who can command a good microscope, may not 
only amuso themselves in such a field but give us a 
lesson in turn, and thus show that they are neither 
too wise to learn nor too proud to teach. 
Best Species and Varieties.— Thunbergia Goc- 
cinea —flower scarlet; hangs in bunches, smaller, but 
somewhat similar in manner to the scarlet clustered 
passion-flower. Flowers most freely on one-year old 
wood; will stand well in the conservatory in the 
autumn and beginning of winter. Propagated by 
cuttings. 
T. grandiflora —largo flowered; form already ad¬ 
verted to; colour light blue, very beautiful when 
densely dotted with bloom. Should seldom bo re¬ 
move from a stove temperature. Propagated by 
cuttings and divisions of its tuberous-like roots. 
T. chrysops —flower blue and violet; very beauti¬ 
ful; have flowered it only once; gave up its growth, 
most unwillingly, after being fairly beaten. Would 
go some distance to see a good specimen. Grows 
most freely, and is easily propagated by cuttings. 
Would soon monopolize a house for itself. 
T. fragrans —flower white; never detected much 
of the fragrant about it. Flowers and seeds freely. 
Propagated by seeds and cuttings. Will stand in 
the conservatory in the autumn, but it likes heat, 
and will stand more direct sun than the following 
more beautiful species. 
T. (data, or winged—segments of the corolla, buff 
yellow; throat of the tube, dark purple, approaching 
black. 
T. (data alia, or leucantha —segments of the 
corolla, satiny white; throat of the tube much the 
same as the above. 
T. aurantiaca —orange-coloured ; segments of the 
corolla, bright orange; throat of the tube similar to 
the others. 
Although all these of the alala group are generally 
set down as species, I consider them as little else 
than varieties of the same typo, but upon this we 
cannot now enter. All those are freely propagated 
by seed or cuttings, and answer best when, by either 
means, they are treated like annuals, and grown 
afresh every year. They are thus brought within the 
reach of those possessing a cucumber bed, and a 
small greenhouse; as, by sowing in the former, say 
in the beginning of March, and potting and growing 
for some time, they may then bo removed at first to 
the wannest end of the greenhouse, so that no sudden 
check is experienced. Where a heat of from 45° to 
50° can be maintained during winter, it is best to 
put in cuttings now under a bellglass; pot them off 
in the end of the month; preserve carefully during 
winter; pot and repot in spring, until fit to ornament 
any place you choose under glass, for, though I have 
grown them in the open air, it requires a fine shel¬ 
tered place to render them long sightable. The pre¬ 
ference I give to cuttings is owing to their flowering 
earlier, more freely, and not growing so rampant as 
plants from seeds. Those who prefer line foliage to 
masses of bloom will sow seeds. To secure from 
them smaller foliage and more bloom, more peat and 
a good proportion of lime rubbish should be incor¬ 
porated in the soil. For common purposes, equal 
portions of turfy loam and peat, with a little silver 
sand, will grow them admirably, using manure water 
at the first sign of weakness. 
General Management.— There are two essentials, 
without which you will never have them long worth 
looking at, grow them where you will, but miserable 
leaf-spotted, red-spider-inhabited specimens, will be 
your reward for all your labour. The first essential 
is watering not merely at the roots, which must not 
be neglected, but over the foliage with a fino syringe, 
once or twice every day; the second is shade from 
the noon-dag sun, without which the leaves will lose 
their rich green. After starting them in spring, they 
thrive admirably under the shade of vines. When 
removed to the greenhouse or conservatory, let tlio 
same principle bo attended to. Even in a cold glass 
case in which I flower them in summer, I find they 
must not stand near the back wall, which being of a 
white colour, the reflection or heat and light from it 
is too powerful for them. They will flower freely 
in any place under glass, from June to October, if 
these matters are attended to. They may bo trained 
to trellises, stakes, branches, or young trees, as re¬ 
commended for the Torenia. If you disapprove of 
making cuttings, you may cut down the old plants, 
shako most of the soil from the roots, repot in small 
pots, and place in bottom heat, and thus get the plants 
to break afresh before winter, when they may be kept 
over the same as young plants raised from cuttings. 
If you sow the seed in spring, soak it for a fow hours 
in water of 100° temperature, and plunge the seed- 
pan into a good bottom heat. R. Fish. 
THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. 
Celery. —Those who liavo now any ground to 
spare should make another planting of this vegeta¬ 
ble, so that a good succession may be kept up until 
the spring. Finish earthing up the earliest planted 
celery now for bleaching, and keep the suceessional 
plantings free from suckers previously to the earth 
being applied. Keep the surface of the ground well 
stirred, and give liberal soakings of good manure- 
water to all growing plants. Celery seed should 
now bo collected, and those who may wish to savo 
their own for next year should now select the best 
and most perfect plants, and put them out for that 
purpose in any spare airy corner. If the slightest 
symptoms of the celery fly appear at this season, 
water immediately with a mixture of soapsuds and 
chimney soot. 
Carrots. —If these are now sown on a dry, shel¬ 
tered border, they will be found very useful, early in 
the spring, to succeed the winter stored roots. The 
Early Horn is the best for this purpose. 
Lettuces and Salads. —Lettuce plants should be 
early pricked out, and the groiuid often surface- 
stirred around them. If any symptoms of canker 
appear about the plants in the seed bed, this opera¬ 
tion should be performed with a stick, or a small 
hoe, and a little dry dust shaken occasionally over 
them. In close weather, too, the plants are very 
subject to mildew, which a dusting of flowers of sul¬ 
phur will effectually cure. The last sowing of chervil 
should now bo made, as well as of curled or Nor¬ 
mandy cress. Attend, also, to the planting of endive 
in succession, and either tie up the early planted to 
bleach, or place slate or thin boards over it for that 
purpose. 
Kidney Beans. —Any one who has a pit or frame 
to spare may prolong the Kidney bean season by 
now planting a crop on a gentle bottom boat. 
Onions and Leeks. — Store onions which are now 
ripe should be drawn, well dried, and harvestod, and 
in the evenings, which are now getting long, they 
should bo bunchod, or roped to a whisp of straight 
straw, so that they may be hung up in a dry loft for 
