THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, January 26, 1858. 
and re-shifted as often as they needed it, until they had filled 
large pots with roots, and had ripened their wood by the 
beginning of September. We tried several other experiments, 
such as leaving the old stems—when growing on this succession 
system ; picking out all the buds on it, except one or two at the 
base; and only removing the disbudded stem when the young 
shoot from its base was growing vigorously; and the stem 
itself became dried up. The benefit received from such a 
course might be more imaginary than real; and the thorough 
investigation of such a subject might easily lead us into 
: questions beyond our full comprehension. There can be no 
| question, that Vines in pots, well managed, and very 
| moderately cropped, may produce every year. When cropped 
moderately, or a little extra moderately, there will be little 
difficulty in getting the same plants to fruit one season, and 
produce wood the next, for fruiting the third season. And 
when very heavily cropped, our impression is, that young 
plants grown vigorously, with all the necessary adjuncts of 
bottom heat, &c., will beat the old ones. The growing of 
Vines in pots is chiefly to be looked upon as auxiliary, when 
mere profit is concerned; but when grown on from buds, 
there are few matters of practice more absorbingly interesting.] 
WINTER-FLOWERING FUCHSIAS. 
“ You will very much oblige a ‘ Subscriber ’ by naming a 
third winter-flowering Fuchsia. I have the Serratifolia and 
Dominiana now coming into bloom ; and I am aware there 
is another, the name of which I have forgotten. I am 
surprised that florists do not cultivate more than they do 
this valuable addition to cool conservatories during January, 
February, and March. My Linwm trigynums are in full 
beauty, and are very showy at this season, and are easily 
propagated by cuttings.”—L. J., Woolley. 
[Pendulina and Serratifolia multiflora are two kinds which 
you may add to your stock of winter-flowering Fuchsias. 
But why require others to raise winter-flowering Fuchsias, 
when all might raise them for themselves from the right 
stock, as *we have pointed out more than once in former 
volumes? Get the old Fuchsia corcUfolia with what you 
have ; and next spring procure a flowering plant of Fuchsia 
Coralina , and cross them both ways. The best of the seed¬ 
lings breed in-and-in with the winter-flowering kinds again. 
Then the second generation work both ways again, with 
Coralina only. Keep on so till there is no more room for 
winter flowerers than for the summer ones. Nothing, in 
crossing plants, is more easy than to get a most complete 
family of winter-flowering Fuchsias: and the reason why we 
do not have them is simply because there is no demand for 
them, or such a demand as would “ pay ” for the trouble. 
There is no need for “surprise:” the florists seldom miss a 
hit that would pay. You have only just to go and do it; and 
it will be done as quietly and as quickly as raising a crop of 
seedling Potatoes on Mr. Appleby’s plan. By-tlie-by, we 
raised about one hundred seedlings for our clergyman, from 
i a packet of Potato seeds he had from Germany in 1854; 
and every one of them is alike, or the kind came quite true 
from seeds. Every one of them took the disease in 1850 
and 1857; but they are a splendid mealy lot.] 
GLASS FOR LATE VINERY. 1 
“Is sheet glass, or Hai’tley’s patent glass, the best for 
keeping Grapes under until March?”—A. B., Prescot. 
[We should have very little preference in the matter; 
though, for mere keeping, we would select Hartley’s, as there 
would be less danger of the berries being alternately heated 
and cooled.] 
Grapes prom Espalier Vines. —I omitted in my last 
communication to state, that, amongst other peculiarities of 
the past season, I gathered 23lbs. of ripe Grapes, free from 
mildew, or any disease, from three Espalier Vines in the 
open border of the kitchen garden, which I have never before 
been able to do. Before the frost set in, a few days since, 
several persons in this neighbourhood gathered a number of 
ripe Raspberries; and the Strawberries, and other plants, 
were unusually in bloom. Such a mild autumn and com¬ 
mencement of winter no one seems to remember.—T. M. W., 
Bishop's Waltham , Hants. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Labels for a Pinetum (C. P. C.). —We should make them of gal¬ 
vanised iron only, cut into the shape of a T> anc t of such a size as to 
enable us to write very legibly the name, native place, and date of 
planting, with black paint. The white colour of the metal would render 
the letters conspicuous. The shank of the label should be long, to 
allow it to be fixed firmly in the ground, and yet to hold the inscribed 
part well above the soil out of the way of rain-splashes. 
Garden Plan {G. J. IT.).—We never furnish plans, nor give di¬ 
rections for altering them ; and we have said so repeatedly. No one 
can do so with any chance of giving satisfaction, unless he is on the 
spot. All that we undertake to do, is to point out palpable errors in 
plans intended to be adopted. 
Names of Plants {E. A. C.). —No. 1 is not an indigenous plant. It 
is the small-fl.owe.red Claytonia, Claytonia perfoliata, a native of North 
America. It is an annual; and when once established, is as dillicult to 
eradicate as our own native Chickweed, and, like it, from autumn- 
sown seeds. It is one of the earliest to flower in the spring. Its 
strange-looking, green, little, perfoliate leaves might be used for 
Spinach in the spring months. No. 2 is certainly the true common 
Watercress, Nasturtium officinale. It sometimes happens that the 
tops of the common Water Parsnip may get plucked by persons who 
are unacquainted with the difference. The common Watercress varies 
very much in size and form; and when growing very rampant, it very 
much resembles this common Water Parsnip, the Slum angustifolium , 
and Siam nudiflorum ; which plants are more or less poisonous, as 
are all of the Water Parsnips. No. 3 is the Alisma natans , a very 
suitable plant for an aquarium; and so are Alisma ranunculoides, and j 
Actinocarpus Bamasonium-. (A Subscriber). —Your plants are as i 
follows -.—Mentha gentilis, of Withering. The Polygonum is the 
P. Fagopyrum , or, as it is now called by some, Fagopyrum csculcn tum, 
or the Buck Wheat. The Marsh plant is the Triglochin maritima. 
The two Clienopodium-like plants are Atriplex angustifolia , and 
Atriplex patula. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
February 3rd and 4th, 1858. Preston and North Lancashire. 
Secs., Mr. It. Tecbay and Mr. II. Oakey, 25, Fishergatc, Preston. 
Entries close January 16th. 
February 10th and 11th. Ulverstone. Secs., T. Robinson, and J. 
Kitchin, Esqrs. Entries close January 25th. 
February 25th, 26th, and 27th. Hereford. Sec,, Mr. Thomas Birch, 
Hereford. 
June 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Bath and West of England. Sec., Mr. 
John Kingsbury, Hammet Street, Taunton. 
N.B .—Secretaries will oblige us by sending early copies of their lists. 
LIVERPOOL POULTRY SHOW. 
January 20th—22nd. 
It would seem that, by a sort of understanding, the winners 
of the previous season make this their trysting place, and 
meet to try their last conclusions. 
This Show is peculiarly adapted for it. With only a 
limited space, and with accommodation only for a very small 
number of pens, the Committee fix a high entrance fee, and 
invite the elite of the poultry world to meet. 
This year will also be memorable as the beginning of a j 
new class, viz., a sweepstakes for a number of birds entered j 
at £1 each. It was confined to Came Codes. Those who i 
are at all acquainted with this Show, know that it is held at 
Lucas’s Repository, which is well adapted for the purpose; 
being light, and well ventilated. 
Before we enter on any account of the birds in the different 
classes, we must speak of the noble prizes offered in the 
new class. The entrance money was thus divided: — one 
prize of £40, one of £20, one of £15, one of £10, and three 
of £5. The three principal prizes were tankards of unusual 
size and beauty : the lid of each being surmounted with the i 
best executed models of Game cocks in silver that we have 
ever seen. It has been too much the habit to represent in 
engravings of poultry such fowls as were never seen at any 
exhibition—and never existed. For instance, we lately saw 
some samples of Cups for a Poultry Show in the north of 
England, whereon figured a cock with such comb and gills 
as we should have thought fabulous, had we not a recollection 
of a breed shown some years since, and called Anconas. It j 
seems to us that if a fowl is to be represented, it should not J 
only be like one, but like a pleasing specimen. Messrs. 
Moss and Worrall, seeing that the prizes were to be awarded 
to Game fowls, supplied the drawing from which the models 
were made, and nothing could be more successful. It was 
natural that those who gained them should be pleased with 
them ; but they were not less admired by those who failed 
