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October 3, 1908. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
is not the way to build a good foundation of 
a fruitful Vine. It will probably send out 
several side shoots, but only the top one, if it 
is strong enough, should be allowed to grow. 
This may reach the top of the house the first 
year, but after the leaves have fallen it 
should be cut back again, leaving only 3 ft. 
or 4 ft. of that season’s ■wood. In the second 
summer you should be able to get a few 
bunches on the lower half of the rod. Ihe 
plant with good growers of Vines is not to 
crop too heavily until a good strong rod has 
been secured. When making the border it 
would not be necessary to use farmyard 
manure if the soil is at all good. \ou 
could, however, greatly improve it by add¬ 
ing a bushel of J in. bones to every cartload 
of soil, together with some wood ashes. It is 
not our province to recommend a firm for 
selling Vines, or anything else that most 
nurserymen keep. You will find the names 
of several good growers of Vines for sale 
in our last week’s issue. Any nurseryman, 
however, would procure a Vine for you if 
you order one. Black Hamburgh would be 
the best black Grape for your greenhouse. 
If you prefer a white one, you could have 
either Foster’s Seedling or Buckland’s Sweet 
Water. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
3 271. Fixing a Stove in a Greenhouse. 
I should be greatly obliged if you will 
supply me with information and plans for 
fixing “ Tortoise ” stove in small green¬ 
house (8 ft. by 6 ft.}, as for “ Ivanda,” 
Staffs., in a back edition of about April, 
1907. (Amateur, Beds.) 
The smaller sizes of “Tortoise” stoves 
would be quite able to heat a greenhouse of 
the size of yours. They are made in different 
patterns, some being intended for heating 
dwelling houses, but in all cases they seem 
to be made to stand alcne—that is, they are 
independent boilers and do not necessarily 
require fixing in a brick case. Some of them 
are cylindrical, others have got rectangular 
sides, and whichever of these two forms you 
get the best plan would be to build it into 
the wall of your greenhouse, so that the side 
carrying the flow and return pipes would 
be inside the greenhouse, while the side 
having the opening to the furnace would be 
outside. The chimney or flue is also fitted 
so as to be on the outside when built into 
the wall of a house in this fashion. The 
object of this is to prevent sulphur fumes 
from getting into the greenhouse. The 
firing or stoking is dene entirely from the 
outsi de of the greenhouse, the cleaning of 
the flues likewise, and the chimney stack for 
taking away the smoke. Two flow and two 
return 4 inch hot-water pipes, if carried 
round two sides of the house and one end, 
should heat that house amply. This would 
only mean 44 ft. of 4 in. pipes with con¬ 
nections fitting them to the boiler, and also 
for the corners of the house. A less amount 
of piping would, indeed, raise the tempera¬ 
ture sufficiently high, but as the smallest 
sizes of “Tortoise” stoves heat from 50 ft. 
to 80 ft. of 4 in. piping, this will be a guide 
as to the size of stove you should get. With 
this amount of piping it will not be neces¬ 
sary to fire hard. It is well to be provided 
with ample means of heating in case of un¬ 
usually severe weather. The cylindrical 
stove would answer your purpose admirably, 
but those with rectangular sides are de¬ 
scribed as the slow combustion bailer stove. 
It is’reckoned to burn 10 to 12 hours without 
attention. Independently of these two forms, 
there .is another which is styled the Self- 
l'eeding “Tortoise” Boiler Stove. In that 
case there is an extra piece of apparatus 
which goes on the top and is meant to hold 
a supply of fuel which gradually drops 
down as it burns from below. It does not 
seem to lend itself so readily to be built 
into the wall of the greenhouse as the first 
two we mentioned. When we speak of the 
wall of the greenhouse, we mean to say that 
a portion of it is sometimes built with bricks, 
but if your greenhouse has no portion of it 
built With bricks, .it would be necessary to cut 
an opening in the wood sufficiently large 
to admit of the stove and a row of bricks 
on either side, so as to come between the 
wooden portion of the greenhouse and the 
stove to avoid setting light to the wood. 
This can be avoided in another way by get¬ 
ting a sheet of galvanised iron and placing 
that between the stove and the wood of the 
greenhouse, though we think that bricks 
would be the safest to use. 
NAMES OF PLANTS. 
(}. T.) 1, Black Bryony (Tamus com¬ 
munis) ; 2, 'Common Barberry (Berberis vul¬ 
garis). This is already in cultivation, but 
the Bryony is also worth cultivating. 
(R. M.) 1, Fuchsia Riccartoni; 2, Sym- 
phoricarpus racemosus or Snowberry; 3, 
Cotoneaster Simonsii; 4, Leycesteria for- 
mosa ; s* Spiraea Anthony Waterer. 
(C. D.) 1, Pelargonium Radula; 2, Pelar¬ 
gonium quefcifoliium ; 3, Begonia metallica ; 
4, T.ippia citriodora or Scented Verbena. 
(A. 'M. D.) 1, Thymus Serpyllum citrio- 
dorus; 2, Common Marjoram (Origanum 
vulgare) ; 3, Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) ; 
4, Lavender (Lavandula Spica). 
(Westcote) 1, Liinaria vulgaris; 2, Leon- 
todon hispidum ; 3, Euphrasia officinalis; 4, 
Bartsia Odontites; 5, Mentha Pulegium 
(C. F.) 1, Inula Helenium, popularly 
known as Elecampane ; the dwarfer plant is 
most likely the same thing in poorer soil, 
as we have seen it only 2 ft. to 3 ft. high; 
2, the Sachalin Knot-weed f Polygonum 
sachalinense). 
(A. M. R.) Pledychium gardnerianum, 
not a Canna, though it belongs to the same 
family. (See next issue for Apples.) 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
William Cooper, Ltd., 751, Old Kent 
Road, London, S.E.—‘Twenty-First Annual 
Autumn Clearance Sale 
Horace J. Wright, 32, Dault Road, 
Wandsworth, London. — Sweet Pea Souvenir 
for iqoq; also Questions and Answers on 
Sweet Peas. 
Joseph Robinson and Co., Ltd., 10, 
Grooms Hill, Greenwich, London, S.E.— 
Electroplasm on Protoplasm 
James Mason, 63, Crawshay Road, North 
Brixton, London, S.W. — Catalogue of Bulbs, 
also of Seeds. 
W. Ati.ee, Burpee and Co., Philadelphia, 
U.S.A.—.Special Offer of Sweet Peas; Three 
New Spencers for iqoq, etc. 
Wm. Watson and Sons, Ltd., Clontarf 
Nurseries. Dublin.—Watson’s Carnations. 
Amos Perry, Hardy Plant Farm, Enfield, 
Middlesex.—Perry’s ’ New Catalogue of 
Bulbs and Tubers 
H. N. Ellinson, F.R.H.S., 5 and 7, Bull 
Street, West Bromwich.—Catalogue of Ferns, 
Roses and Bulbs. 
—r 44 * * * * 4 — 
Pink Princess Christian. 
The above is the name of a new per¬ 
petual flowering Pink, which although 
not strictly in agreement with the florists’ 
laced pink, is, nevertheless, a near ap¬ 
proach to it, but possessing the perpetual 
flowering habit. It has branched stems, 
and is apparently very vigorous. The 
edges are laced with crimson-purple, 
sometimes fading to a purple, while the 
centre of the petal is also crimson like the 
florists’ flowers, but the edges are a little 
toothed. Award of Merit by the R.H.S. 
on the 18th August, when shoivn by Mr. 
B. Ladhams, Southampton. 
Cactus Dahlia Rev. T. W. Jamieson. 
The long florets of this variety are 
orange at the base, pink in the upper 
half and tipped with creamy white. They 
are very long, incurved and give the 
bloom a spider-like appearance. First- 
class Certificate by the National Dahlia 
Society on September 3, when shown by 
Messrs. Stredwick and Son, St. Leonards. 
Mr. \V. P. Bound. 
For nearly nine years past Mr. W. 
P. Bound has been gardener to Sir 
Jeremiah Colman, Bart., Gatton Park. 
Reigate, Surrey, during which time he 
has grown and exhibited large groups 
of the splendid collection of Orchids 
now got together at Gatton Park. -Mr. 
Bound is now retiring with the good will 
of his employer to take up the business 
of nurseryman, seedsman and florist, at 
the Redhill Nurseries, 112 and 114, 
Station Road, Redhill, Surrey. He is 
now well known as a very successful 
cultivator, and we feel sure that he will 
be equally successful in growing general 
nursery stock. He commences his new 
undertaking on October 1st, and all who 
know him wish him success. 
United Horticultural Benefit and Provident 
Society. 
The monthly meeting of this society 
was held at the Horticultural Hall, Vin¬ 
cent Square, Westminster, S.W., on Mon¬ 
day, September 14th, Mr. Charles H. Cur¬ 
tis in the chair. Four new members were 
elected, making a total of 52 this year 
to date. The amount of sick pay since 
the last meeting was £39 13s. Mr. A. 
Hemsley resigned his office on the com¬ 
mittee through pressure of business and 
inability to attend the meetings, which 
was accepted with regret, and a vote of 
thanks was accorded him for his valu¬ 
able services for several years past. The 
annual dinner will be held this year at 
the Waldorf Hotel, Aldwych, W.C., on 
Thursday, October 15th, at 6.30 p.m. 
Dr. R. Box all, of Abinger, has kindly- 
consented to preside on this occasion. 
Messrs. Ant. Roozen and Son. 
The catalogue of choice Dutch and 
Cape bulbs of the above firm is now on 
our table, and runs to 95 closely printed 
pages, with an index at the end. It 
deals not only with the more popular 
bulbs such as Tulips, Hyacinths and 
Narcissi, but includes hundreds of the 
less common subjects such as Tricyrtis, 
Rigidella, Sparaxis, Hymenocallis,, Pan- 
cratuim, etc. Plants allied to bulbs and 
special groups of herbaceous and rock 
garden subjects are also catalogued. 
Subjects for forcing and general cultiva¬ 
tion are listed, and their general fea¬ 
tures described. In a word the cata¬ 
logue contains many uncommon or rare 
plants that are seldom listed by seeds¬ 
men in this country and thus gives 
specialists an opportunity of making 
the acquaintance of bulbs and other sub¬ 
jects that one seldom meets with in cul¬ 
tivation. Hardy and tender plants arc 
equally cared for, and those who make 
a hobby of various specialities will find 
much in the pages of the catalogue to in¬ 
terest them. The nursery of Messis. 
An, Roozen and Son is at Overveen, near 
Haarlem, Holland, but tin have agents 
in London, namely, Messrs. Me. iens and, 
Co , 3, Cross Lane, St. Mary-at-the-Hill, 
London, E.C., from whom the catalogue 
may be obtained post free. 
