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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, February 5, 1861. 
GROWING PEACHES AND GRAPES IN THE 
SAME HOUSE. 
I often see the question asked in your columns—Can I grow 
Peaches and Grapes together, and how am I to manage it ? 
As the subject is deserving of attention, I forward you a sectional 
view of what I consider our most productive house. It is an 
old-fashioned lean-to, 30 feet long and 13 feet wide, height at 
back 12 feet, ditto front 5 feet, and it is heated by a flue running 
round the house, the return flue being built in the back wall. 
The front wall is on arches, which allow the roots of either 
Peaches or Vines to ramble at will. 
Fig. 1. 
Peach, and one Elruge Nectarine. 
f Black Hamburgh Vine suspended from rafters. 
The Vine is planted in an outside front border, and in shape 
resembles^. 2. It is furnished with spurs its whole length, 
and has not failed to pro¬ 
duce from eighty to ninety 
bunches of good Grapes every 
season since I undertook its 
management nine years ago. 
The house, also, produces 
fine Peaches and Nectarines. 
The front and ends of the 
flue are covered with a stage, 
and is useful for storing 
Strawberries in pots during 
winter; and this being what 
we call our second Peach- 
house, we get a crop of 
weeks before the out-door 
Strawberries in it a month or six 
crops are ready. 
After Strawberries, Capsicums in pots take their place, as we 
can do but little with them in the open air in this cold district. 
The bed under the front row of Nectarines I find is a capital 
place for Dwarf Kidney Beans in pots. On this bed last year 
I had several Red Currant trees potted in No. 3-sized pots the 
previous autumn for the purpose. They were only three-year- 
old trees, and I trained the young shoots down balloon-fashion. 
They not only looked pretty, but they each produced enough 
fruit for two good-sized tarts, and were six weeks earlier than 
those in the open garden.— John Stevens, Gardener, Malvern 
Mali, Solihull. 
DUMOND’S INSECT POWDER—TEMPERATURE 
OF WALTONIAN CASE. 
The writer having a very large sort of Waltonian Case warmed 
by hot water put in to the false floor, begs to be told the heat 
she should aim at, and the sort of plants considered suitable 
for it. 
May she mention the wonderful effect of Dumond’s insect 
powder in destroying, for the last ten months, every vestige of 
green fly that has appeared on her plants ? Carnations especially, 
and Roses, having been in a frightful state before she used it. 
One dusting has been invariably sufficient for even the worst 
cases; and perhaps to amateurs like herself so easy a remedy 
may be valuable, which leads her so far to trespass on the time 
of the Editors. What becomes of the bodies of the slain she 
cannot imagine; for on seeing the plants a day or two after not 
a trace of them is visible. The plants are perfectly uninjured, 
there is no disagreeable smell, and one of the little sixpenny 
puff-balls has lasted the whole time. It is capital, too, for birds 
if they have any insects about their feathers ; a pair bought in a 
bad way were soon all right.—A Lady. 
[More account of the powder and the number of p'ants a 
certain quantity was applied to would be interesting. Even a 
small box of snuff would go a certain way. The bodies of such 
insects, if not eaten, soon shrivel up. 
The Waltonian Cases are seldom used for growing plants, 
though they would answer well for small Ferns, Mosses, and the 
smaller of pretty-leaved plants. Mr. Beaton chiefly recom¬ 
mended them for propagating; and for such a purpose from 60° 
to 70° bottom heat, and 60° top heat, would do for most things. 
If you give us a detail of what you wish, we would readily 
advise you, and also as to room plants. As respects the latter, 
have you read “ Window Gardening ?” as that gives a gi’eat 
amount of information on the subject.] 
HOYA IMPERIALIS SHEDDING ITS BUDS. 
I have a Hoya imperialis in a pot about eight inches in 
diameter, apparently a strong healthy plant. It covers a pillar- 
shaped trellis four feet high, and is kept in a stove-house with a 
night temperature at this season seldom below 55°, and day 
between 60° and 70°; in summer and with sun, of course, rising 
higher. For more than a year past it has shown an abundant 
tendency to flower. The buds on the blooming-stalks become 
about the size of a pin’s head, when they are thrown off: 
frequently reproduced to be thrown off again and again.—M. S. 
[We can think of nothing except keeping the plant as dry as 
to be safe all through the winter, and thus depriving the plant of 
a portion of its extra vigour. At no time do these plants need 
much water at the roots if in an atmosphere at all moist. We 
believe great vigour of growth is the cause ; but, no doubt, you 
are as well aware of that a3 wo can be.] 
FORCING. 
(Continued from page 224.) 
MOVEABLE BOILERS. 
In these "days of moveable houses a boiler that needs no 
setting will be an advantage. We have seen several small boilers 
made with copper in the conical or cylinder shape answer well 
for this purpose. To look at them you would see little to dis¬ 
tinguish them from the iron stoves you can get at an ironmonger’s, 
only there is a two-inch space, or half of that, for water all 
round the central fire-tube. They are chiefly useful for middle- 
sized houses. They should have feet to stand on. Of course, 
unless they are placed inside of a house, much beat is lost from 
the outside being exposed. I have seen one placed outside of 
the house, and a cover placed over it of wood or asphalt, with 
the exception of a piece of sheet-iron on the side where the iron 
smoke-funnel comes from the stove boilev ; the wood being 
painted white inside and placed eighteen inches from the stove, 
a door opening to enable the processes of cleaning and firing to 
he properly attended to. Where economy and moveability, 
however, are to be combined, such a boiler should be placed 
inside the moveable house. Those who like elegance may buy a 
Riddell’s stove, but supplied with a flue or smoke-pipe. Where 
economy is an object, have an iron stove, like any of those we 
have figured and described ; and, instead of the usual top, have a 
vessel made to fit it that will hold five or six inches deep of water. 
If deeper it will be all the better. Such a vessel will heat a little 
tank nicely, and a good number of feet of piping. With but 
little expense, but with a little care, dry or moist heat may thus 
be obtained from such stoves, or stove-boilers, at once. 
In the case of boilers pretty much on a level with the pipes to 
