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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
February 2, 1907. 
unless it were too strong for the roots of 
plants, and that would be worse than the 
evil. 
MI<*CELL* NEOUS . 
1495. Old Flues for Forcing. 
The floor of our greenhouse is hollow. 
At one time we had brick flues under the 
floor, but we have just lately had hot water 
pipes in. Could the old flues 'be used for 
raising anything in. By just taking up 
one flagstone there is room for a good many 
pots. Could it be used for forcing? (Snow¬ 
drop, Essex.) 
We understand front what you say, after 
lifting a flagstone that you would merely 
stand pots inside the old flue, but that 
being so, you would not get very much 
heat, as it would really be the coldest part 
of the house. It would not be so cold as 
the outside atmosphere, but all the coldest 
air in the house would sink to the lowest 
part, which would, of course, be the flue. 
By paitiy filling the flue with fermenting 
manure, you could certainly raise the tem¬ 
perature, but at the same time you would 
create a great amount of moisture or vapour 
in the atmosphere of your greenhouse, -which 
would be detrimental to the plants in 
winter, when the temperature is low. An¬ 
other way of using the flue would have been 
to leave it intact and burn fuel in' the old 
rurnaoe that is to say, if it is separate 
from the one which heats the hot water 
pipes. Then you could have stood pots or 
boxes on the top of the flues, utilising the 
heat in that way, as used to be done when 
greenhouses were more generally heated by 
means of flues. Under the circumstances, 
the only thing you can do would be to stand 
bulbs in such a place until they have made 
some growth and require light, or you could 
put m Rhubarb and Seakale, which wou’d 
come slightly in advance of plants in the 
open air, but we should scarcely look upon 
it as forcing. 
1496. Discouraging Cats. 
Can you suggest any way of discourag¬ 
ing cats ? they will, I am afraid, do much 
mischief with the seeds when planted. (Te 
Pense Que Non, Middlesex.) 
1 he domestic puss is a very optimistic 
animal, and is very hard to discourage from 
making inroads in the garden. The feet 
are, however, very sensitive, and you could 
prevent cats from laying or scratching be¬ 
tween the plants by laying down some pieces 
of thorn or Corse between the plants, until 
the latter cover the ground. Of course, 
before the plants come up you could lav 
some branches of Spruce or any other shrub 
over the ground. In our experience, they 
like newty raked or newly hoed and soft 
ground m preference to that which is hard 
After it has become solidified they do not 
trouble it much, so that we should use 
branches on the ground until it gets sol id i- 
ned, for by the time the seeds appear the 
cats do not trouble it. Even after the 
plants have come up, it may be necessary 
to stick in pieces of some thorny shrub 
m the rows between the plants, and that 
keeps them to the pathways. We have also 
used wire netting on the top of the fence, 
and they do pot care to climb over that or 
find it impossible, especially if the top part 
of it >s left swinging rather loosely. After 
the plants get to some size, the cats prove 
most troublesome to those things with scen¬ 
ted foliage. The best prevention is to stake 
such plants, if tall or capable of beino 
tied up. 
1497. Place for Hot Bed. 
Returning to the back yard, where would 
be the best place for a hot bed’ and a frame ? 
Mould that under the west wall, as marked 
on the plan in my last, where the manure 
heap is already, be suitable? (Tf. Pense Oue 
Non, Middlesex.) 
The pijace marked “Road sweepings” 
would be as suitable as any we can see in 
that back garden, or the space just beyond 
it before coming to the rcckery, if there is 
sufficient space for the frame. If there is 
any chance of sunshine striking upon the 
frame we should turn it round s6 as to face 
the south. Whether there would be any 
sunshine (or not depends as to whether 
there is a house on the space next to yours, 
and which is not marked on the plan. 
Judging from the length of your garden, 
however, you cculd get sun upon the frame 
for a certain part of the day, so that facing 
the house would be the best position of 
the frame, in the spot above indicated. 
1498. Insurance Oil. 
In your issue of The Gardening World 
for 15th December there is an article on in¬ 
sect pests in which “ Insurance Oil ” is 
mentioned in conjunction with laundry soap 
as a means of killing scale. Could you 
kindly tell me what insurance oil is, and 
where procurable ? Also what is meant by 
laundry soap. (Interested, Sutherland, 
N.B.) ' 
Insurance oil is merely paraffin diluted 
to one-third. Laundry soap is merely the 
ordinary bar soap. 
1499. January Numbers of “ G.W.” 
I should be much obliged if you will tell 
me in the next number if you can -supply 
me with the four January numbers of 1906, 
as I want them to complete the 1906 volume 
for binding. (Cathay, Surrey.) 
Only the number for 20th January, 1906, 
is now in stock, all the others for that month 
being out of print. You can, however, ob¬ 
tain the number for 20th January. 
1500. Insurance Coupon. 
Re your motto for the week, “ Our mis¬ 
fortunes are often lightened by relating 
them.” Is it the misfortune of the readers 
of your valuable paper in not finding your 
insurance coupon as usual, or is it that too 
much room is taken up by the new competi¬ 
tion ? A reply through your columns will 
oblige. (J. S., Walthamstow.) 
By some oversight the insurance coupon 
for the previous two weeks had been left 
out, but it will appear regularly in future. 
NAMES OF PLANTS. 
(J- f - Melrose) The Laurustinus (Vibur¬ 
num linus).—(E. M. R.) 1, Erica carnea; 
2, Berberis Aquifolium; 3, Olearia Haastii; 
4, Prunus lusitanica; 5, Ligustrum ovali- 
folium.—(C. Warwick) 1, Ceropegia Woodii; 
2, Aralia elegantissima; 3, Peperomia me- 
tallica; 4, ■ Ficus pumila (commonly known 
as I. repens in gardens); 5, Oxalis cernua; 
6, Caiathea zebrina.—(IV. Russell) 1, 
Daphne oleoides; 2, Daphne Mezereum; 3, 
Lonicera fragrantissima; 4, Azara micro- 
phylla.—(Remembrance) 1, Lippia citrio- 
dora ; 2, Fuchsia microphylla ; 3, Eupatorium 
weintrannianum ; 4, Bouvardia Vreelandii. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
W. J. Unwin, Histon, Cambs.—Giant- 
flowered Sweet Peas. 
Blackmore and Lang.don, Twerton Hill 
Nursery, Bath.—Catalogue of Begonias, 
Carnations, etc. 
Hobbies, Limited, Norfolk Nurseries, 
Dereham.. — Seeds and Plants. 
M, IT. Sinclair, F.R.H.S., 156a, Linion 
Street, Aberdeen. — Selected Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds, Plants, etc. 
The Craven Nursery, Clapham, Lan¬ 
caster.—Catalogue. 
Thomas S. Ware (’02) Ltd., Feltham, 
•Middlesex, England.—Ware’s List of 
Flower and Vegetable Seeds and Miscel¬ 
laneous Bulbs for Spring Planting; also 
Ware’s Price List of Begonias. 
Horticultural Societies’ 
Diary 
of Forthcoming Meetings. 
Abbreviations used. 
A.—Association 
Am.—A mateurs 
Chy.—Ctu-y. authemum 
c.m.—Committee meeting 
Uott.—cottage or Cottagers 
D. —Di.-triet 
G.—Gardening or gardener 
Tims :—me Templeum G. Am. and ott. M.I.H.S 
Gardeners, Amateurs' and cottagers’ Mutual Improve 
ment Horticultural Society. 
H.—Horticultural 
M.I.—Mu.ual Improve 
ment 
m.m.—Monthly meeting 
S —Society 
w.m.— Weekly meeting 
NOTICE TO SECRETARIES. 
Will secretaries of horticultural societies 
kindly send us at their earliest convenience 
dates of shows and meetings to be held 
during iqoj ? 
1 - ebriiary. 
4th.—Horsforth G. M. I. S. (w.m.); Wal¬ 
sall Florists’ S. (m.m.); Kirkby Mai- 
zead H. and Ag. S. (m.m.); Mansfield . 
H. S. (m.m.); Four Elms G . S. (m.m-.). j 
5th.—R. H. S. (bi-m. Exhibition and Meet¬ 
ing); Dundee H. A. (m.m.); Crawley 
and D. G. M. I. A. (bi-m.m.); Croy¬ 
don and D. H. M. I. S. (bi-m.m.); j 
Sevenoaks G. and Am. M. I. S. (bi- 
m.m.1; Barking and Ripple Chy. S. 
(m.m.); Bournemouth and D. G. M. I. 
A. (bi-m.m.) ; Yeovil and D. G. S. 
(m.m.); Addlestone, Chertsey and Ot 
tershaw G. M. I. A. (m.m.); Profes¬ 
sional 'Gardeners’! Friendly Benefit 
S. (m.m.); Loughborough G. M. I. A. 
(bi-m.m.); Dulwich Chy. S. (bi-m.m.): 1 
Rotherham Chy. S. (m.m.); West Lon¬ 
don (Hammersmith) H. S. 
6th.—Sheffield FI. and H. S. (m.m.); New¬ 
port (Mon.) and D. G. M. I. A. 
(m.m.); Ipswich and D. G. and Am. A. 
(ibi-m.m.); Bideford and D. H. S. 
(m.m.J; Wood Green and D. Am. H. 
S. (m.m.); Terrington and Marshland 
H. S. (m.m.); Wargrave and D. G. A. 
(bi-m.m.). 
7th.—Batley and D Chy. and Paxton S. 
(m.m.); Wootton G. M. I. S. (m.m.): 
Greenstreet and D. G. and Cott. S. 
(m.m.). 
8th.—Caterham H. S. (m.m.). 
9th.—Leeds Paxton S. (w.m.); Preston and 
D. G. M. I. A. (m.m.); Isle of Wight 
H. A. (m.m.); Blackburn and D. H. 
S. (m.m.). 
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Register of Nurseries and Markei 
Gardens.— The issue of this publicatior 
for January contains an account of numer 
ous nursery businesses and market gar 
dens to be let or so'.d in various countie: 
of England, though the larger number o: 
them are confined to the southern coun 
ties, including London and the Channe 
Islands. Each business to be let or sole 
is described as to acreage, amount o: 
glass, and other details which intending 
buyers require to know. The register i- 
issued by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris 
67 and 68, Cheapside, London, E.C. 
Odontioda Bradshayvae. —In this we 
have a very striking hybrid betweer 
Cochlioda noetzliana and Odontoglossuir 
crispum. The flower is two inches across 
and orange-scarlet with pale spots at the 
base of the -petals. The lip is scarlet witl 
a brown spot like an apron in the centre 
surrounded by a border of white lace 
The lip, as a -whole, has a fanciful re¬ 
semblance to an old lady. It is quite dis 
tinct in appearance from the cross pro 
duced between O. Pescatorei and Coch 
lioda noetzliana. A First-class Certifi¬ 
cate, and the only one was given by the 
R.H.S., on January 8th to Messrs. 
Charlesworth and Co., Heaton, Bradford. 
