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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 27, 1858. 
outside of them, and yet protected from rain, &c. We have 
seen double sashes for this purpose, the outer ones opened, to 
give air to the Vines when necessary, when the inner ones were 
shut to keep the Pines all right. In such a position, the Vines 
could be kept comfortable, and heat admitted to them from the 
inside, until they had fairly broken, when the stove heat would 
suit them. Something of the means of resting Vines grown 
in Pine stoves, must be resorted to, if great and general 
success be expected. Pines will stand a comparative low 
temperature, if rather dry in winter, but if long at, or below 
45°, the fruit that shows will be apt to be weak and deformed. 
These conditions secured, fine Grapes will be obtained in Pine 
stoves. If the Grapes are grown on Vines in pots, of course 
there will be no trouble in getting them out and resting them. 
ENCLOSING PART OF A VINE WITH GLASS. 
In answer to our correspondent (Vine), there would be 
more force, as to your idea of want of reciprocal action 
between the roots and branches, if you had been going to 
force early the enclosed part, and more especially if the stem 
of the Vine was not placed inside the house : but the house 
you intend to place over the Vine, now on the wall, being 
merely a greenhouse, in which the Vine will not break more 
than a fortnight or so, before that on tire wall, there will be 
no difficulty from the quarter alluded to. It will, however, 
be decidedly advantageous to have the stem of the Vine in 
the enclosed part. If the Vine is such as you approve, and 
in good health and vigour, we would advise so enclosing it, 
in preference to cutting part away and planting a fresh one. 
It is no uncommon thing to see a tree having a succession of 
fruit, by its branches being in two places, and these of a 
different temperature. Your question shows us that there is 
thought and consideration in you practice, and, in such cases, 
the practice is more apt to be right. 
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BREEDING GLOWWORMS. 
<{ I am endeavouring to breed some glowworms, in a large 
vivarium arranged with damp, moss-covered branches, and 
stones, and earth, and my doubt is, as to what the glowworm 
feeds upon ? I have ransacked several works on insects to no 
purpose, or I would not trouble you.”—C. M. M. 
[The larva of the glowworm, as well as the perfect insect, 
feeds on snails of different kinds, and, we believe, on small 
worms. Its history is to be found in any good modern work 
on entomology. It is sometimes two years in coming to the 
perfect state. We shall be obliged by any information on this 
subject.] 
THE POTATO CROP. 
In consequence of the long continuance of dry weather, I 
fear on light, sandy soil the tubers will be small; but, on the 
whole, I never saw crops look more healthy and promising. 
I have about two acres and a quarter under my care, and on 
looking over them on the 17th, I could not discover the least 
symptoms of disease. My early potatoes, grown in the garden, 
are this season large and productive, some roots of the Bond's 
Kidney having upwards of forty good-sized tubers. The 
Early Sydenham is very fine this season, and I think A 1 in 
early round Potatoes ; although at the Malvern Exhibition, 
the leading Exhibition of this county, the Judge only allowed 
| the Sydenham to play second fiddle to Bond's Kidney. But, 
in favour of the Sydenham, I must affirm, I have never seen 
i the least symptoms of a bad one. 
There is some talk of the disease in this neighbourhood, 
but I have seen only four bad tubers during the whole season. 
Two of these were brought from a distance to show me, and 
seemed to be taken as much care of by the man that found 
them as though they were nuggets of gold; for, when he had 
shown and explained the circumstance to me, he carefully 
placed them back again in his pocket. 
I shall take the earliest opportunity of communicating a 
few remaks respecting the culture, &c., of the Potato, as 
practised very successfully by me for the last ten years.— 
Edward Bennett, Per diswell. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Woodlice (C. B.). —These, which you call “ cheeselogs,” are great 
pests in gardens, and every year we have numerous inquiries as to how 
to destroy them. Boiling water poured into their haunts, and baits 
set to entrap them, are the only remedies. Pi’ay refer to page 169 ef 
our 481st number. You Avill there find all we can advise upon the 
subject. Burning sulphur in your frame was a most destructive error. 
The fumes of burning sulphur (sulphurous acid) are most fatal to all 
plants. We cannot say whether your Melon plants are likely to re¬ 
cover, so much depends upon the extent of the injury they have sus¬ 
Seedling Gloxinias (TV. 0. B .).—They are very good, but not 
distinct from, or superior to, others already in cultivation. 
Strawberry Growing. —“ Minna ” intends following the advice of 
“ IT. C. K. S.,- Rectory, Hereford,” in re Strawberry culture, 
“to stand by” and see the plan thoroughly carried out; but she 
wishes to know what is to be done with the crown of the plant, and if 
it is to lie at the bottom of a little pit six or seven inches deep, where 
she imagines it would suffer from want of air and light. 
Name of Rose ( Varro ),—No one can tell the name of a Rose from 
seeing a dry blossom of it, and a dry leaf or two. There are at least 
300 kinds of Roses in cultivation, without any names at all; their 
names having been forgotten. Therefore, there are only two or three 
men in the kingdom who could be sure of the name of a fresh-blown 
Rose, without seeing it on the plant, and the plant in an ordinary state 
of health; and, therefore, again, it is just like fortune-telling, to 
encourage a belief that anyone could tell the name of Roses sent by 
post. 
Name of Cherry (A . J2.). — Your Cherry is not the Black Tartarian, 
but an old variety called Tradescant’s Heart. 
Names of Insects [Chip from the Midland Counties ).—The insects 
which attack the Pear and Morello Cherry leaves, are the larvae or 
grubs of a small black-winged Saw-fly (Selandria Hit Mops). Dust 
the leaves well with powdered lime. The other small insects sent in 
the box are a species of Weevil, belonging to the genus Apion; 
the Celery leaf is marked with a number of minute blotches, about the 
size of pins heads, which may have been made by the rostrum of the 
Weevils; but we cannot believe that they strip the Celery leaves, 
leaving only the stalk. Something else must be at work. Pray send 
us a leaf in process of destruction, or a stalk with the leaves eaten, 
and we shall be better able to judge.—W. 
Names of Plants ( Clericus ).■—Your plants are as follows :— 
1. Gazania tigens, the Great-flowered Gazania. 2. Calystegia pu- 
bescens , the Downy Double Bindweed. 3. Lysimachia nummularia , 
the Moneywort, or Trailing Loose Strite. 4. Cineraria maritime , the 
Sea Ragwort. This is quite hardy, although nowadays made use of 
as a bedding and pot plant. 5. Is certainly Cecmothus azureus. We 
have seen this plant planted against walls in various localities. In 
some we have observed it with beautiful azure blue flowers, whilst in 
other places we have seen it with very pale blue flowers. Soil and 
situation cause the difference. We should say, that if flowered in a 
small pot close to the glass, and, perhaps, half starved, its flowers 
would naturally become poor and pallid, whilst the same plant planted 
out in a favourable warm border in a fertile soil, would have its flowers 
large and highly coloured. (T. S. TV.). —Your plant is the Potamo- 
yeton densus , or Opposite-leaved Pondweed. The Anacharis alsi- 
nastrum has little, oval, oblong, blunt, serrulate leaves, and alwavs 
three in a whorl. (F. S .).—Your climber from East Indian seed is 
Clitoria ternata. (An Old Subscriber). —Your Perns which came with 
the Orchids named at page 245, are—1. Boodia caudata , a very pretty 
little greenhouse species, from New South Wales and Yan Diemen’s 
Land. 2. Pteris Chinensis, or Ptcris crenata, of Moore. A stove 
species, although it does well with us in the greenhouse. 
POULTRY SHOWS. 
August 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th. Crystal Palace (Summer Show). 
Entries close July 10th. Sec., W. Houghton. 
August 17th. Op.mskirk. Secs., Wm. Shawe, and James Spencer, 
Ormskirlc. 
August 18th. Airedale. Hon. Secs., J. Wilkinson and T. Booth, 
Shipley. 
August 28th. Halifax and Calder Yale. Sec., Mr. Wm. Irvine> 
Holmfleld, Halifax. Entries close August 14. 
October 7th and Stli. Worcestershire. See., Mr. G. Griffiths, 7, 
St. Swithin’s Lane, Worcester. Entries close September 23. 
November 29th and 30th, December 1st and 2nd. Birmingham. Sec., 
Mr. J. Morgan. Entries close November 1st. 
December 17th and 18th. Halifax Fancy Pigeon Show. Sec., Mr. 
II. Holdswortli, Woolshops, Halifax. 
January 8tli, 10tli, 11th, and 12th, 1859. Crystal Palace (Winter 
Show). Sec., W. Houghton. 
N.B.— Secretaries will oblige us by sending early copies of their lists. 
TESTIMONIAL TO ME. HEWITT. 
The Managing Committee of the annual Poultry Exhibi¬ 
tion held at Preston, Lancashire, have just presented to Mr. 
Edward Hewitt, Spark Brook, Birmingham, a lasting and 
somewhat costly memorial, expressive of their high estimate of j 
