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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
July 17, 1897. 
open air, the trees get much more moisture at the 
roots in the autumn when the leaves are falling, yet 
any one would be rash to say that they are injured 
thereby. Deciduous trees develop a large quantity 
of useful roots during the autumn and early winter 
months, and under glass this should be encouraged 
formation may be grown in pots, boxes, or in borders 
where the root run is relatively limited so as to 
repress their excessive vigour. In our experience, 
plants in the open air are more liable to behave in 
this way than those under glass whether planted out 
or otherwise. 
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by keeping the roots sufficiently supplied with mois¬ 
ture. Until your trees regain their vigour again, we 
should advise you to thin the fruits more, so as to 
avoid overcropping. You might thoroughly examine 
the borders in the autumn to see that the roots are 
not suffering from the other extreme of being too 
wet, owing to bad drainage. It is only by vigilance 
like this that you can really determine what is the 
matter with them. 
Converting Vinery into Bose house .—Roses . 
Most of the more useful and serviceable Roses should 
grow in the house you mention ; but any forcing of 
pot plants that you may require should be done in 
some other house or houses. All climbing varieties 
along the front and the back of the house should be 
planted out, because they will give much greater 
satisfaction so treated. Gloire de Dijon, salmon and 
yellow ; Marechal Niel, yellow ; climbing Devonien- 
sis, white ; and Perle des Jardins, yellow, should be 
planted along the back or on the end walls, as they 
attain a considerable height, and well repay the 
space thus accorded them. Along the front you may 
plant climbing Niphetos, white ; Souvenir de S. A. 
Prince, white, and Souvenir du President Carnot, 
flesh, fading to white on the outer petals. The 
latter is new and more expensive than the rest ; but 
it is a fine Rose for early work. By keeping the 
house rather warm in winter and early spring you 
will get a good harvest of flowers from the climbing 
varieties, which may be cut back after the flowers 
are cut to let the light get at the pot plants. The 
latter may include Souvenir de S. A. Prince, Souvenir 
d' un Ami, Niphetos, and various others ; but you 
might state what colours you most prefer. 
Grapes Shanking .—A .C.: This ailment is very 
difficult to determine in many cases and can only be 
traced at times by having an intimate knowledge of 
the treatment the vines receive. We consider you 
have dore right in lifting and placing the roots near the 
surface ; and we take it for granted that you made 
the drainage good, with a proper outlet for the 
water, when lifting the roots. We should recommend 
that you keep the foliage clean and healthy at all 
times whether the vines are in fruit or not; that you 
pinch and prune them in good time, never removing 
a great deal of foliage at any time ; and that you do 
not overcrop the vines. See that the young wood is 
properly ripened in autumn even if it is necessary to 
apply a gentle heat by means of a fire for a fortnight, 
keeping the atmosphere dry and well ventilated all 
the time. It may be that the heavy rainfall of your 
district during winter keeps the roots in a sodden 
condition, thus preventing their ripening. Under 
those conditions it might be advisable to cover the 
outside border during winter, or only a portion of it 
by way of experiment, carefully noting the results 
from the covered and uncovered portions. Madres- 
field Court grape is an early variety and may be 
forced as such ; but it will also answer as a midseason 
variety. We should have recommended Black Ham¬ 
burgh as a stock for it rather than Alicante. 
Roses flowering a second time— A. IV. : The 
Bourbon varieties of Roses such as Souvenir de la 
Malmaison usually flower well during September; 
but a large number will behave much in the same 
way provided the summer is favourable to their 
making a good growth during the end of July and 
the whole of August. Mrs. J. Laing frequently 
flowers very profusely in September. After the 
blooms are out of season you may cut back the stems 
to a good bud. If you can spare some stable manure 
you might loosen up the surface of the soil, give the 
ground a mulching, then give the bushes a good 
watering, using the hose if you can command a sup¬ 
ply of water for the purpose. You may then await 
the results; and if a fair amount of rain falls you 
may count upon a supply of Roses from the young 
shoots or secondary growths. If the weather proves 
dry repeat the watering at short intervals to stimu¬ 
late the roots to activity. Provided the rainfall is 
sufficient the labour of watering may be entirely dis¬ 
pensed with. 
Tomatos with deformed flowers— Bulbs: It is 
no uncommon occurrence for the first flower of each 
truss of Tomato flowers to be large, double and 
thereby deformed. Fruits arising from such flowers 
are mostly very much ribbed and their appearance 
greatly spoiled, especially those fruits which are 
ragged on the top. Many varieties are liable to this 
deformity, which is generally the result of great 
vigour, and not unhealthiness in any way. Large 
fruitirg varieties are more liable to the defect than 
those bearing small fruits ; and the evil is more 
prevalent when the Tomatos are planted out, particu¬ 
larly in the open ground, than when grown in pots, 
boxes, or in limited quantities of soil on benches. 
We should advise you to cut off the double flowers, 
as, unless they are very numerous, their loss will be 
lit'le felt, especially if you cut them off at once. In 
iuture, those varieties which are liable to this mal- 
Names of Plants.— A. Hendrey: i, Sidalcea 
oregana; 2, Sidalcea malvaeflora ; 3, Lathyrus lati- 
folius albus; 4, Achillea Ptarmica flore pleno; 5, 
Campanula rhomboidalis ; 9, Campanula rotundi- 
folia Hostii alba .—James Alexander : 1, Odontoglos- 
sum crispum, a fairly good variety ; 2, Oncidium 
sphacelatum ; 3, Dendrobium nobile, a good variety 
but not D. n. nobilius; 4, Stanhopea Wardii; 5, 
Odontoglossum Rossii majus.— R. D . : 1, Cupressus 
pisifera plumosa aurea; 2, Cupressus obtusa ; 3, 
Salix purpurea pendula; 4, Salix Caprea pendula ; 5, 
Picea excelsa clanbrasiliana.— T. B. : 1, Sibthorpia 
europaea variegata; 2, Senecio Kaempferi aurea 
maculata; 3, Oncidium pumilum; 4, Rodriguezia 
secunda.— J. L. : Rosa spinosissima fl. pi. The 
garden name we do not know. The Scotch Roses 
have been neglected and many of them lost. More 
is the pity for yours was delightfully scented.— 
Sigma : Epilobium palustre ? ; Fagopyrum esculen- 
tum (the Buckwheat). 
Communications received—O. H.—A. H. Smee. 
—W. H.—T. Walls.—J. Mayne.—Omega.—A. E. 
Stubbs.—Salen—T. W.—R. Mins—Joseph K.—T. 
Pestridge—Amateur—F. Ames—L. L. R. — Walter 
Soper—Chas. Nash. 
TRADE CATALOGUE RECEIVED. 
Herb & Wulle, Bulb and Seed Growers, Naples, 
Italy—General Catalogue of Bulbs and Plants. 
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Queer Prizes.—The list of prizes for vegetables 
grown on the borough allotments at Richmond in¬ 
cludes a pair of corsets, and several superfine shoes 
for ladies. If public presentation of these prizes is 
made it will possibly cause some merriment on the 
part of the spectators and some slight confusion on 
the part of the lucky recipients. 
COVENT GARDEN MARKET. 
July 14 th, 1897. 
Fruit.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
t. d s. d. 
Apples.per bushel 
Black Currants J sieve 
Red „ J sieve 
Cherries half sieve... 
Nova Scotia Apples 
per barrel 
Cob Nuts 
per 100 lbs. 
1. d. j. d 
Grapes, per lb . 20 36 
Pine-apples 
—St. Mlohael's each 26 60 
Plums per § sieve. 
Strawberries, per lb. 1 6 2 
| Tasmanian Apples 
per case 
Vegetables.—Average Wholesale Prices 
t. d. 
ArtlchokesGlobedoz. 2 0 
Asparagus,per bundle 2 6 
Beans, French, per 
pound 1 0 
Beet.. per dozen 
Brussel Sprouts, 
per half sieve 
Cabbages ... per doz. 1 0 
Carrots ... per bunch 0 3 
Cauliflowers.doz. 2 0 
Celery.per bundle 1 0 
Cucumbers per doz. 2 6 
Endive, French, djz. 1 6 
1. d. 
Herb3 .per bunch 0 2 
Horse Radish, bundle 2 0 
Lettuces ...per dozen 1 3 
Mushrooms, p. basket 1 0 
Onions.per bunoh 0 4 
Parsley ... per bunch 0 3 
Radishes... per dozen 1 c 
Seakale...per basket 1 0 
Small salad, punnet o 4 
Spinach per bushel 3 0 
Tomatos. per lb. 0 6 
Turnips.per bun. 0 3 
1. d. 
i 0 
3 0 
1 5 
2 0 
1 3 
3 0 
1 6 
3 ° 
2 0 
Cut Flowers.—Average Wholesale Prices. 
>. d. 
Arnm Lilies, isblms. 2 0 
Asparagus Fern, bun. 2 0 
Bouvardias, per bun. 0 4 
Carnations doz.blms. 1 o 
Cornflower, doz. bun. 1 6 
Euoharls ...per doz 3 o 
Gardenias ...per doz. 2 0 
Geranium, scarlet, 
doz. bunches 4 0 
Lilium candidum, 
doz. bun. 9 
Lilium longiflorcm 
per doz. 3 0 
Lily of the Valley doz. 
sprays 1 0 
Mrrguerltes, 12 bun. 20 
Maiienha!rFern,i2bs. 4 0 
Orohlds, doz. blooms 1 6 
J. d . 
Paeonies, French 
doz. bun. 5 0 
Pansies 12 bun. 1 6 
Primula, double, doz 
sprays 0 6 
Pelargoniums,12 bun. 4 0 
Poppy, various, doz. 
bunches 1 0 
Pyrethrum doz. bun. 1 6 
Roses (Indoor), doz. 6 
,, Tea,white, doz. 1 o 
,, Niels . 1 6 
,, Safrano . 1 0 
„ (English), 
Red Roses, doz.2 0 
Pink Roses, doz. 3 0 
Smilax, per bunch ... 2 0 
Tuberoses, doz. 
blooms . 1 0 
s. d 
4 Q 
3 0 
0 6 
3 0 
3 0 
4 0 
4 0 
C o 
18 o 
4 0 
2 0 
4 0 
8 0 
12 o 
. d . 
4 o 
0 6 
I 3 
1 3 
4 0 
1 0 
S. d . 
9 o 
2 0 
0 6 
6 o 
3 o 
3 0 
1 0 
2 6 
4 0 
2 0 
4 0 
5 0 
4 ° 
I 6 
Plants in Pots.—Average Wholesale Prices 
i. d. 1, d. 
Arbor Vitae 
per doz. 12 0 36 0 
Aspidistra, doz. 18 0 36 0 
„ specimen 5 0 10 0 
Diacaena, various, 
per doz. 12 0 30 0 
Dracaena virldls.doz. 9 0 18 0 
Euonymus, var. doz. 6 o 18 0 
Evorgreens.lnvar.doz 6 0 24 0 
Erica, various, per 
doz. 9 0 18 0 
Ferns, invar..per doz. 4 012 o 
Feras, small, per 100 4 0 f 0 
Ficus elastica, each 10 50 
Foliage Plants, var., 
eaoh to 50 
Heliotrope...per d-z. 40 60 
Hydrangeas per doz. 9 0 ii 0 
*. d 
Ivy-leavedGeranium, 
per doz. 4080 
Lilium Harrissii, 
per pot 16 30 
Lycopodiums, doz. 30 40 
Lobelia .per doz. 3050 
Marguerite Daisy doz.6 0 10 0 
Marguerite Yellow, 
per doz. 5090 
Myrtles, doz. 60 90 
Palms in variety,each 1 0 15 0 
Palms, Specimen ...21 0 63 o 
Pelargoniums ...doz. 8 o 12 0 
Spiraea ...per doz. ... 8 o 10 0 
Scarlets .per doz. 26 50 
Roots and bedding out 
plants plentiful and 
great variety. 
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