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THE GARDENING WORLD. January 7, 1893 
Balderson, H., Corner Hall, Hemel Hempstead. 
Bates, W., Poulett Lodge Gardens, Twickenham. 
Bennett, W , Rangmore Park Gardens, Burton-on- 
Trent. 
Burrell, L, Claremont Gardens, Esher. 
Cheal, Joseph, Crawley, Sussex. 
Coleman. YV., Eastncr Castle Gardens, Ledbury. 
Cummins, G. W., The Grange Gardens, Wallington. 
Dean, A , Richmond Road, Kingston. 
Divers, W. H , Ketton Hall Gardens, Stamford. 
Dunn, Malcolm, The Palace Gardens, Dalkeith, N.B. 
Goldsmith, Geo., Leonardslee Gardens, Horsham. 
Hogg, Dr., LL.D , F.L.S., 99, St George’s Road, 
Pimlico. 
Hudson, J., Gunnersbury House, Acton. 
Iggulden, W., Marston Gardens, Frome. 
Laing, J., Junr., Forest Hill, S.E. 
Lane, Fred. Q., Berkhamsted. 
Mclndoe, James, Hutton Hall Gardens, Guis- 
borough. 
Miles, G. T. Wycombe Abbey, High Wycombe. 
Norman, G., Hatfield House Gardens, Hatfield. 
Pearson, A. H., The Nurseries, Chilwell, Notts. 
Reynolds, G., The Gardens, Gunnersbury Park, 
Acton. 
Ross, Charles, The Gardens, Welford Park, New¬ 
bury. 
Sage, G. H., Ham House Gardens, Richmond, S.W. 
Saltmarsh, T. J., The Nurseries, Chelmsford. 
Smith, James, The Gardens, Mentmore, Leighton 
Buzzard 
Sutton, A. W., F.L.S., Reading. 
Taber, G., Rivenhall, Witham, Essex. 
Veitch, A., King’s Road, Chelsea. 
Veitch, P. C. M., The Royal Nurseries, Exeter. 
Warren, W., Worton Gardens, Isleworth. 
Weir, Harrison, Sevenoaks. 
Willard, Jesse, Holly Lodge Gardens, Highgate, N. 
Wright, John, 171, Fleet Street. 
Wright, S. T., Glewston Court Gardens, Hereford. 
Wythes, G., Syon House Gardens, Brentford. 
Young, A., Abberley Hall Gardens, Stourport. 
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WHAT TO DO IN THE GARDEN. 
Centropogon Lucyanus. —Old plants of this 
subject from which the flowers were cut at Christmas 
should now be cut down and placed on some shelf 
out of the way to ripen, but not to be overlooked or 
forgotten. Many of the plants may yet bear side 
shoots, and if the old plants are properl}' treated, 
they will flower again and prove useful for cut 
flowers later on. In any case some of the plants 
should be kept for the sake of cuttings. 
Rivinas. —These may readily be propagated 
either from cuttings or from seeds, some growers 
preferring the one method and some another. Seed¬ 
lings certainly make nice bushy plants and are not 
difficult to manage. The berries readily germinate 
on the benches amongst the moist gravel or ashes, 
and some growers depend upon such seedlings for 
their stock. This proves very convenient where only 
one sort is grown, but should there be several varie¬ 
ties a due proportion of each kind is rendered more 
certain when the berries of each are collected and 
sown. 
Gardenias. —Plants intended to be brought into 
bloom by forcing should be selected from the main 
batch, picking out those having the most prominent 
and most forward buds. Plunge them in a bottom 
heat of 85° with a corresponding degree of top heat. 
Before putting them in heat see that they are free 
from mealy bug, otherwise the pest soon increases 
and cannot be arrested when the plants are in bloom 
without spoiling the flowers. 
Epiphyllums. —As the plants go out of flower or 
have been spoiled by being used during Christmas, 
they should be placed in a cooler house where they 
may rest for a time. The warmest end of the green¬ 
house will be suitable for them. Keep them on the 
dry side so that growth will be completely suspended 
for a time. They are very liable to mealy bug, and 
if they have been infested while flowering, the 
present is a convenient time to clean them before 
warmer weather sets in. 
Stoves. —The severe weather that commenced on 
Christmas eve necessitated harder firing than has 
been the case during the last three months of the 
year. The careful stoker will however guard against 
excessive firing, which would increase the attack of 
insect pests, owing to the greater aridity of the atmos¬ 
phere. The plants themselves also suffer under such 
adverse conditions, and so that the aim of the 
grower should be to maintain a medium degree or 
oven a minimum degree compatible with safety. The 
plants will suffer less during frost or fog or both 
combined when the temperature is low rather than 
otherwise. 
Peaches.—As the trees in the earliest house come 
into bloom keep the atmosphere drier, cease syring¬ 
ing and maintain the necessary moisture by damping 
the paths lightly. When the blooms get sufficiently 
advanced to be shedding their pollen, the latter may 
be distributed by means of the hair’s tail or by 
tapping the branches during the. middle of the day. 
The temperature need not be kept very high in 
severe weather, but when mild a minimum' of 50° to 
55 0 may be maintained by night, with a rise by day. 
Should brown fly make its appearance, fumigate at 
once unless too many of the flowers are expanded 
If only a few colonies can be detected they may be 
settled with methylated spirits applied with a brush 
so as not to come in contact with the flowers or leaf 
buds. Some gardeners use paraffin for the same 
purpose, but it must be employed with great 
caution. 
Strawberries.—Where ripe fruits are required 
about three months hence, a batch of plants must be 
started now. See that the drainage is perfect, then 
after removing some of the upper soil, give a top¬ 
dressing of loam and horse-droppings in equal parts, 
or of the latter alone. They must have lain for some 
time so as to get well decayed and easily crumble 
up with the fingers. The shelves of an early Peach 
house will meet their requirements for a time at 
least. 
Cauliflowers.—The practice ofsowingCauliflower 
in heat for the earliest supplies is now becoming 
more common than it was. Growers consider it a 
better plan than sowing in autumn and wintering the 
plants in frames. The boxes containing the seeds 
may be placed in heat at first, but they should be 
well exposed to light as soon as the seedlings are up, 
and soon afterwards transferred to a cooler house. 
The seedlings should be prevented from getting 
crowded by thinning or transplanted into other boxes 
as they grow Early Snowball or Early Forcing may 
be used for the first supply. 
General work.—While the ground remains 
frozen, manure should be wheeled on to ail the 
squares and bare ground intended for vegetables, 
flowers and even fruit trees. When work of this 
kind is accomplished during frost, the walks are 
neither cut up nor rendered dirty by soil carried on 
to them by the barrows and feet. Stakes of various 
kinds may be prepared for next summer’s work, both 
for outside and inside use. Uprooted trees and 
prunings may be burnt, and the ashes wheeled on to 
the ground, while the charcoal is preserved for pot- 
work. The cleaning and pruning of vines, Peaches 
and other trees under glass may also be prosecuted. 
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Questions sod snsuieRs. 
% * Correspondents are requested, in order to avoid delay, 
to address all communications to "The Editor" 
or “ The Publisher,” and not to any person by 
name, unless the correspondence is of a private 
character. Telegrams may be addressed " Bambusa, 
London." 
Fruit Districts.— Sub. : 1, Vineries :— Finchley in 
Middlesex, The Lea Valley in Hertfordshire, and 
Worthing and Bognor in Sussex. 2, Fruit 
Orchards:—West Middlesex from Chiswick to 
Staines, and Mid and West Kent. Strawberries :— 
Chertsey in the Thames Valley, and the Swanley 
district in Kent. 
Winter Moth.— A.B. Williams'. The freezing of 
the cart grease on the bands is of no consequence, as 
there will be no moths to catch while the frost lasts. 
The frozen ground would prevent their escape, but 
the cold is not even injurious to them in that respect, 
for it merely prevents the change into the perfect 
form being effected so rapidly, and the result is that 
their appearance is merely delayed by natural causes. 
All you have got to do is to be on the alert when the 
thaw comes and have the grease bands in readiness 
then, as some of the pupae will rapidly change into 
the perfect form, and proceed on their mission. 
Potatos in Store Room.— H. C. : Potatos must 
often get frozen hard when left in the ground all the 
winter, as some people intentionally do in seasons 
when badly diseased and considered hardly worth 
the trouble of digging up. When the ground is dug 
in spring, the Potatos that were sound in autumn 
would be sound in spring and come out of the 
ground clean and fresh. A little consideration of 
this fact will show you that Potatos may be frozen 
and afterwards be fit either for planting or cooking. 
The inference is that they only want to be kept cover¬ 
ed up from the atmosphere, so that they may thaw 
gradually and naturally. Our advice, then, is to give 
the Potatos a good covering of dry straw, hay or 
bracken, leaving it upon them for sometime after the 
thaw comes. Some of the tubers that were the more 
exposed to the action of air and frost previous to 
covering up may be injured and soft, and should be 
removed from the general stock as soon as they are 
seen to be injured. 
Names of Plants. -G. C. Minty. Cyrtopera 
sanguinaria. 
Communications Received. —J. R.—S. & S — 
J. S. H —L. L.-G. W.—H. B. M.—G. F.—H. & S 
A. H.—A. J. B. 
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TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
Wm. Cutbush & Son, Highgate and Barnet.— 
Flower, Vegetable, and Farm Seeds. 
Robert Veitch & Son, Exeter.—Kitchen Garden 
and Flower Seeds. 
H. J. Jones, Hither Green, Lewisham.—Chrysan¬ 
themums. 
John Downie, 144, Princes Street, Edinburgh.— 
Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
A. Finlayson, 42, Above Bar, Southampton.— 
Spring Seed List, 1893. 
David W. Thomson, 24, Frederick Street, Edin¬ 
burgh.—List of Garden Seeds. 
Dobie & Dicks, 66 , Deansgate, Manchester.— 
Descriptive Price List of Seeds. 
John Smellie, Busby, near Glasgow.—Pansies, 
Violas, etc. 
Tom B. Dobbs & Co., 32, Queen Square, Wolver¬ 
hampton.—Spring Catalogue of Seeds. 
William Etherington, Swanscombe, Kent.— 
New and Select Chrysanthemums. 
John S. Ireland, 81, Princes Street, Edinburgh 
—List of Garden Seeds. 
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LONDON SEED TRADE. 
January 2nd, 1893. 
Messrs. Hurst & Son, 132, Houndsditch, and 
39, Seed Market, Mark Lane, report a moderate 
trade in Agricultural Seeds. English Red Clover 
and Cowgrass do not find buyers at present high 
figures. Foreign Red Clover dearer. White Clover 
easier. Alsike and Trefoil steady. Italian Ryegrass 
advancing. Perennial Ryegrass firm. 
CO VENT GARDEN MAkKE F. 
January 4th, 1893. 
Fruit.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
d s. d. 
Grapes.per lb. 06 20 
Kent Cobs ...100 lb. 120 o 125.0 
Peaches ... per dozen 
Melons. each 
Vegetables. 
s. d. 
Pine apples. 
—St. Michael’s, each 2 6 
Apples...per J sieve 1 0 
[ Plums...per £ sieve 
Average Retail Prices. 
s. d. 
Lettuces ...per dozen 1 6 
Mushrooms, p. basket 1 3 
Onions.per bunch 0 4 
Parsley ... per bunch 0 6 
Radishes... per dozen 1 6 
Seakale . perbktao 
Smallsalading,punnet o 4 
Spinach ... per strike 1 6 
Tomatos. per lb. 0 9 
Turnips.per bun. 0 6 
s.d. 
6 o 
3 6 
r. d. 
2 0 
2 o 
o 6 
3 o 
s. d. s. d. 
ArtichokesGlobedoz. 30 60 
Beans, French, perlb. 1 o 
Beet.per dozen 20 30 
Cabbages ... per doz. 16 2 & 
Carrots ... per bunch 1 o 
Cauliflowers, Eng.dz. 30 50 
Celery.per bundle 2 6 
Cucumbers .each 09 16 
Endive. French, doz. 26 30 
Herbs .per bunch 02 06 
Horse Radish, bundle 20 40 
Potatos. —Kent Regents, 80s. to 100s. per ton ; Kent Kidneys 
80s. to toos. per ton ; Champions, 70s. per ton. 
Plants in Pots.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
s. d. s. d. 
Azaleas ... per doz. 36 o 48 0 
Cyclamen per doz ... 9 o 24 0 
Cyperus .per doz. 40120 
Cineraria ...per doz. 8 o 12 o 
Dracaena term., doz. 24 0 36 o 
Dracaena viridis,doz. 9 o 18 o 
Erica Hyemalis, doz. 12 o 18 o 
Evergreens,invar.doz 6 0 24 0 
Ferns, invar.,per doz. 4 0 18 o 
Ferns, small, per 100 6 0 10 0 
Chrysanthemum, doz. 
Cut Flowers.- 
s. d. s 
Azalea doz sprays. 09 1 
Arum Lilies, i2blms. 408 
Bonvardias, per bun. 06 1 
Carnations, 12 blooms 204 
Chrysanthemum,dz bn6 o 15 
— .doz. blooms 106 
Camellias doz blooms 104 
Cyclamen doz bloomso 6 o 
Eucharis ...per doz. 506 
Gardenias 12 blooms 9 0 12 
Heliotropes,12 sprays 060 
Hyacinths Roman 
doz. sprays 061 
Lilac, White, F'rench, 
per bunch... 506 
Lilium Harrisii, 
doz. blooms 6 o 
LilyoftheValleydz.sps.i o 
MaidennairFern,i2bs. 6 0 
Margueiites, 12 bun. 4 0 
Mimosa (French)p.bh. 1 o 
s.d. s. d 
Foliage Plants, doz. 12 0 60 0 
Lily of theValley doz. 
pots iS o 30 0 
Marguerites, perdoz. 6 0 12 o 
Palms in variety,each 2 6 10 o 
Palms, Specimen ... 15 0 63 0 
Poinsettia...per doz. 10 o 15 0 
Primula Sinensis 
per doz. 40 60 
Solanums.perdoz. 9 0 12 0 
4090 Tulips—various. 8 0 12 o 
Average Wholesale Prices. 
d s. d. s. d 
6 Mignonette... 12 bun. 20 40 
o Pelargoniums, 12 sps. 09 r 0 
0 —scarlet.12 bchs. 6 0 12 0 
0 Primula, double, bun. 06 r o 
0 Or chid Bloom in var. 
o per bloom, from 0 3 
o Roses, yellow, dozen 3 0 
9 — French, per bnch 1 6 
— French, 100 blnis 6 o 
— Red.doz. blms. 1 0 
— Saffrano...per doz. 2 0 
— Tea.per dozen 1 o 
Tuberoses, per doz 06 
Tulips, red, per doz. 0 g 
— White, perdoz. ... 1 6 
— Yellow, per doz.... 1 6 
Violets, Parma, French 
per bunch ..6 6 
—Czar, French, bun. 2 0 
6 6—Small ,, doz. bun. 2 o 
1 6 | 
9 o 
2 6 
9 0 
1 
6 
4 
12 
2 
3 
3 o 
X o 
I o 
3 0 
200 
7 o 
4 0 
3 ° 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Apple American Mother ...294 
Asparagus retroflexus.294 
Cattleya labiata alba.295 
Christmas Tree, the .289 
Chrysanthemums, dwarf ...292 
Crotons for cutting.292 
Cypripediums . ...293 
Damsons.2b8 
Dracasnas .293 
Eternal Round, the.288 
Eucharis always growing...290 
Fruit Notes..291 
Gardeners in Council .290 
Gardeners’ Calendar.296 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevo¬ 
lent Institution.294 
Grass, a Scented .... .294 I 
page 
Heliotrope Hedge .293 
Laslia anceps Dawsoni .294 
Marguerites, large .294 
Nemesia Strumosa Suttoni 2S9 
Orchid Growers’ Calendar 295 
1 Primulas at Reading.292 
Primulas double Chinese...292 
Rochea falcata.294 
Roses, lifting... .292 
R.H.S. Committees.295 
Science Gleanings .291 
! Show boards.288 
I Ptens tremula variegata ...294 
I Unseasonable growtn .294 
[ Vegetable Garden, the ......291 
Vegetables for Exhibition 290 
Winter, real .287 
