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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Decembeb 21, 1858. 
§§ Fruit heart-shaped. Flesh firm and crackling. 
* Flesh dark; juice coloured .— IIakd-Heaexs. 
Bigarreau de Mezel Monstrous Heart 
Black Tartarian Tradescant’s Heart 
** Flesh pale; juice uncoloured .— Bigaeeeaus. 
Belle Agathe 
Bigarreau 
Bigarreau de Hildesheim 
Bigarreau de Hollands 
Bigarreau Napoleon 
Bowyer’s Early Heart 
Biittner’s Yellow 
Cleveland Bigarreau 
Downton 
Harrison’s Heart 
Elton 
Elorence 
Governor Wood 
Lady Southampton’s 
II. GEIOTTES. 
Branches either upright, spreading, or more or less long, 
slender, and drooping. Leaves flat, dark green, and borne stiffly 
on the leafstalks ; large and broad in §, and small and narrow 
in §§. Flowers cup-shaped, with firm, stiff, and crumpled orbi¬ 
cular petals. Fruit round or oblate, sometimes, as in the Morello, 
inclining to heart-shaped. Juice sub-acid or acid. 
§ Branches upright, occasionally spreading. Lea ves large 
and broad. 
* Flesh dark; juice coloured .— Dukes. 
Archduke 
Duchesse de Paillau 
Griotte de Chaus 
Griotte de Portugal 
Jeffries’ Duke 
May Duke 
Royal Duke 
De Soissons 
** Flesh pale; juice uncoloured .— Bed-Dukes. 
Belle de Choisy Great Cornelian 
Carnation Reine Hortense 
Coe’s Late Carnation Late Duke 
§§ Branches long, slender, and drooping. Leaves small 
and narrow. 
* Flesh dark; juice coloured .— Moeellos. 
Belle Magnifique Griotte de Kleparrow 
Biittner’s October Morello Morello 
Donna Maria Ostheim 
Double Natte Ratafia 
Early May 
** Flesh pale; juice uncoloured .— Kentish. 
All Saints Gros Gobet 
Cluster Kentish 
Flemish Paramdam 
( To be continued.) 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
FLUE FOR A SMALL GREENHOUSE. 
“ I am about to erect a small greenhouse, about ten feet square, 
to be heated by a flue about twenty feet long, and which it is 
only convenient to carry along the front and one end into a 
chimney in the corner. As I may want to plant a Yine or two, 
I am rather at a loss where to plant them, without the flue in¬ 
terfering. What would you advise in this case? Also, do you 
recommend an underground flue; and would the length do for the 
size of greenhouse named ? Or, if you recommend a raised flue, 
what height above the ground will be best; and the size of the 
flue inside ? The house will have about two feet of a brick wall 
along one end and the front; a wall at the other end and the 
back, to the height of the house.”—D. D. 
[If your house is already floored, it would be least trouble to 
build the flue on the surface,—say, a twelve-inch tile for its base, 
two bricks on edge for its sides, and covered with a twelve-inch 
tile. The sides should be well set in putty lime, and thickly lime- 
washed ; the inside not plastered at all. It would be neatest to 
have the flue underneath the floor, the top of the flue forming part 
of the flue : full directions have already been given how to form 
them cheaply. Being quite out of sight, you might then take it 
round the glass end, or the door end, without any trouble. This 
we believe to be the best way for small houses, wherever you can 
sink the stoke-hole enough to have the grate-bars eighteen inches 
lower than the bottom of the flue; but sunk flues do not heat 
a house quickly. A portable iron stove would also do admirably 
in such a house, if you did not mind the extra trouble. In 
either case, the Vines might be planted either inside the house, 
or outside, and the stem outsido protected with a small square 
box, until where it entered the house.] 
PRESERVING TOADS—DESTROYING ANTS. 
“ Can you tell me how to keep toads alive through the whiter ? 
My Peach blossoms were much injured by ants last spring. I 
could not then get a toad for love or money. I got some during 
the summer, but they have a wonderful faculty of making their 
escape from the houses. I tried confining them in pots, but they 
died after sinking into a torpor, that I thought was hybernation. 
When confined, they refused to eat any worms or insects I put 
among them.”— Bueo. 
[Toads like warmth in winter, and access to moisture. If these 
are provided, they generally show themselves early in spring. 
We have placed saucers of water in pits and frames for their use. 
We first did this from noticing them catching the drops of water 
that trickled from the leaves of plants. We do not pretend to 
know much of their history, however, and will be obliged to one 
of our contributors (Mr. Wighton), to give you a more detailed 
answer. When ants so injuriously trouble Peach trees, the best 
remedy is, to water the house with water containing a quarter of 
a pound of true Peruvian Guano, to four or five gallons of water, 
or to sprinkle it lightly, as powder, in their runs. The next best 
is, to mix arsenic with sugar, or honey, put in a saucer with 
another over it, kept apart with a small stick across between the 
two, so that other things, such as cats and dogs, can have no 
access : but the opening should be large enough to let the ants in.] 
HEATING A VINERY. 
“ I have just taken a house, in the garden of which there is a 
vinery, thirty-six feet long (lean-to) against a south-west wall. It 
is not heated in any way. I wish to heat it. Can I do so suffi¬ 
ciently with tan, or dung, to get Grapes early ; or must I resort 
to hot water, or a flue ? Will you kindly give me your advice 
on this point; and what will be the best and most economical 
plan to adopt ? Also, will you tell me which is the best work to 
buy on growing Vines, as 1 am quite a novice ? ”— An Old Sub- 
sceibee. 
[“ Sanders on the Vine ” is a very good book, and well worth 
your attention ; but there is nothing better, or more minute, than 
the articles contained in this work. You will not manage Grapes 
early, in such a house, by tan, or dung, inside alone, because in 
dull, cold weather, you might easily have more moisture than 
would be suitable. A bank of sweet heating material in the 
house, would, however, be a great assistance; but it requires con¬ 
siderable care in management, especially dung; for if not perfectly 
sweet, it will injure the young growths. To force early, we would 
recommend a flue, with three bricks a-bed for the sides, or even 
four, six inches wide inside, and then a twelve-inch tile would 
nearly cover it. For late forcing, brick on edge would do, and 
would heat sooner. For hard work, we prefer brick a-bed, as 
there is then little chance of bursting. If forcing early,—say, 
beginning in November, or December,—the flue should pass along 
the front and the two ends at least.] 
BEE-KEEPING IN DEVON.—No. VII. 
MISGIVINGS—DEAD OE ALIVE ?—NETHEEING versus SUPEEING 
—AN APIAET IN AN UPEOAE—HUNDEEDS AND THOUSANDS 
—MILK AND HONEY—BEETHEEN IN MISEOETUNE. 
Ten days having elapsed since the occurrences related in my 
last two communications under this head, I could not divest 
myself of certain misgivings, as to the fate of those unfortunates 
whom I had expelled from their comfortable habitation*, only to 
place in an empty box, and abandon them in the middle of what 
was now a well-nigh barren and inhospitable heath. It is true, 
that, before raising them on their temporary pedestal, I had pro¬ 
vided for their immediate necessities by depositing a quarter of 
a pound of barley-sugar on the floor-board; but this modicum of 
