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there is abundant opportunity for rendering dessert fruits the most 

 elegant of all the adornments of the table, and we suggest to culti- 

 vators that mucli of the credit due to good cultivation is lost when 

 fruit is inelegantly presented. S. H. 



MESSES. JACKMAN'S NEW CLEMATIS HOUSE. 



THE subjoined figure represents a new and handsome 

 structure Messrs. Jackman, of The Nurseries, Woking, 

 have had put up for the accommodation of pot plants 

 of Clematis. It is interesting as illustrative of the 

 increasing demand for the splendid Clematis Messrs. 

 Jackman have exhibited, and also of Rendle's method of construction, 

 this house affording an elegant and substantial example of the capa- 

 bilities of llendle's patent. It will be seen by the figure that the 

 modification of the customary span reduces considerably the thrust 

 on the side-walls, increases head-room over the side-borders, and 

 secures a more perfect ventilation at the ridge-line than is obtained 

 in a house of the ordinary span-roof pattern. The abundance of 

 light and air renders such a structure admirably adapted for cle- 

 matis, and it is not the less suitable for pot-roses, chrysanthemums, 

 or for a summer show house for pelargoniums, heaths, and tender 

 rhododendrons. For a winter heath-house a more suitable structure 

 could not be desicrned. S. H. 



THE GAEDEN GUIDE EOR JANUARY. 



Tlien came old laniiary, wrapped well 



In many weeds to keep the cold away ; 

 Yet did he quake and quiver like to quell, 



And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may ; 

 For they were numb'd with holdino; all the daj-, 



An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood, 

 And from the trees did top the needlesse spray : 



Upon an huo;e great Earth-pot Steane he stood, 

 Prom whose wide mouth there flowed forth the Romano Flood. 



Spexser. 



January is the coldest month of the year, and one of the dryest. 

 In London the average mean temperature is 37^'2, the range of the 

 thermometer being from 10' to 52\ The mean of the barometer is 

 29°"92 ; the mean rain-fall is 1'48 inches. The prevailing winds are 

 S.W., W., and N.W. The weathercock rarely points E. for any 

 length of time, but whenever it veers that way a keen frost may be 

 expected ; the frosts of longest continuance usually occur with the 

 wind N.AV. If the wind goes back to W., snow may be expected, 

 to be followed by rain with every movement towards S., when a 

 thaw and a clear-up may be hoped for. If, on the other hand, the 

 wind goes round by way of E., S., W. to N.W,, and there becomes 

 steady with a rising barometer, a long, clear, dry frost may be looked 

 for. If from this point the wind goes round (that is, the way of the 



