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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



pendrium vulgare. " Moore's Haudbook " is 

 the best cheap illustrated work on British Ferns : 

 the author is one of the leading authorities on 

 the subject. 



EooT-HonsE.— iJ. T., Oasington. — Your queries 

 shall l:;ive attention; the subject w.U keep for a 

 mon'.li. If we attempted to deal with it while 

 we art; just making up the present number, we 

 could not possibly do so in a way to be useful to 

 our reiider.-< generally. 



Vahious. — M. Maltbi). — You can obtain any quan- 

 tity of Spergula seed or plants of Messrs. E, G. 

 Henderson, St. John's Wood, Loudon. Wil- 

 liam Glover. — Thanks for your land note. C. 

 Sedgicick, Jun. — The specimens of wireworm 

 sent are larvse of JIemir!i!p/:s lineatus in the 

 first year of its growth. It is most destructive 

 in newly-broken pastures, and laud recently 

 recovered from a WListe condition. There is jio 

 wholesale method of destroying them known, 



nor is there any specific to counteract their 

 ravages. All that can be done to thin their 

 numbers has been stated in recent numbers 

 of the Floeal Wokld. C. JI. Aiisdell.—The 

 rose moss is probably a Sedum of some 

 kind, which we shall name and figure shortly. 

 JE. L. L. C. — Knowing nothing of the circum- 

 stances under which the vines are tirown, we 

 cannot hope to form a correct opinion. We 

 suspect the border is too poor, perhaps too dry, 

 and as the Cannon Halt Muscat requires a. 

 liberal amount of heat, that also may be defi- 

 cient. We should be inclined to write " starved" 

 upon them, especially as the foliage is poor. 

 "Sanders on the Vine" is the best. G.Marris. 

 ■ — Almost anything will strike now -without bot- 

 tom heat, or rather with the heat naturaUy sub- 

 sisting in the earth. Be quick about it ; cover 

 with hand-glasses, and take up as soon as rooted. 

 Y'oung fleshy shoots usually strike quickest. 



AVERAGES FOR THE ENSUING MOMTH. 

 2^'iglit frosts are not frequent in September, and when they occur they do little h-jrm except to the 

 most tender plants, owing to the warmth of the earth and tlie general robustness of vegetation. In 

 September, 18.b8, the lowest temperature near London was 35^, the highest 77^. A ver_y remarkable 

 reading occurred on the 11th, 1828, when the thermometer rose to OS''. S. and SW. winds prevail, 

 hence the usual mildness of the weather in this the most agreeable mouth of the j-ear. The highest 

 and lowest temperatures observed during the past 32 years occurred as follows : — Highest, 25th, 1832, 

 82'; 12th, 1841, 81^; 1st, 1843, 85'; 11th, 1828, 9.5'. Lowest, 7th, 1855, 38'; 4th, 1850, 30'; 17tb, 

 1810, and 20tb, 1856, 29'; 27th, 1828, 24'. 



PHASES OP THE M00^' FOE SEPTEMBEE, 1859. 

 5 First Quarter, 4th, 4h. 5m. a.m. J Last Quarter, 19th, lOh. 14m. p.m. 



O Full Moon, 12th, 8h. 31m. a.m. New Moon, 26th, Ih. 56m. p.m. 



MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS, SEPTEMBER, 1859. 

 1st, British Pomological ; Horticultural of Ireland, Dublin; Liverpool Horticul- 

 tural ; 2nrl, Bishop Auckland ; 6tb, Hereford ; Huntingdon ; Alnwick ; 7th, Gainsbo- 

 rough; Cheltenham; York Horticultural; Leicester; Colchester; Norfolk and Norwich; 

 7th and 8th, Newcastle ; Swindon; Crystal Palace ; 8th, Towcester ; Dumfries Horti- 

 cultural Society Floral Committee ; West Bretton ; 9th, Exeter, Leeds, Saffron 

 Walden; Bath; 12th, Islington Amateur Dahlia Society; 13th, Whitby; 14th 

 Leyton and Walthamstow ; Weston ; 14th and 15th, Brighton and Sussex ; Oxford ; 

 15th, Roystou ; Aylesbury ; 20th, Horticultural Society Fruit Committee ; National 

 Dahlia, Aston Hall, Birmingham ; 22ncl, British Pomological ; Horticultural Society 

 Floral Committee ; 29th, Welliuborough. 



*^* Secretaries iv'dl oilige by forwarding Announcements, Schsdules, etc.^ of 

 forthcoming JExhihitions. 



