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CLIMBERS FOR NORTH WALLS. 



Stauntonia latifolia. 

 Jasminnm officinale. 

 Clematis Montana. 

 Common Fig. 

 Irish and variegated Ivv 

 Virginian Creeper 



ROSES. 



Filicite perpetuelle, and any of the 

 Ayrshires. 



Cotoneaster mycroyhylla, 

 Chimonanthes fragrans. 

 C. Grandiflora. 



The three last named are the least hardy, and will only do in a north 

 aspect in the south of England, or in positions well sheltered. 



METEOROLOGICAL CALENDAR FOR JANUARY. 



AVERAGES FOR THE ENSUING MONTH. 

 During the past sixteen years, the average temperatures near London have been : — Max., 43° ; 

 min., 33°; mean. 3S a ; the average reading of the barometer, 29,907; and the fall of rain 1.9 inches. 

 The highest temperature observed during thirty-two years past occurred on the 19th, 1828, when the 

 thermometer registered 60 s ; and the lowest on the 14th, 1838- 4°. 



PHASES OP THE MOON FOR JANUARY, 1858. 

 C Last Quarter, 7th, 12h. 47m. a.m. C New Moon, 15th, 4h. 28m. a.m. 



J First Quarter, 22nd, 4h. 57m. p.m. O Full Moon, 29th, 8h. 49m. a.m. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Preserving Fruit. — B. B.— Your plan of packing 

 apples and pears in damp hay, and shutting 

 them close down in a box, caused a brisk fer- 

 mentation, and it is not surprising that the 

 greater part are now proved to be rotten. Sort 

 them over at once, set apart for immediate use 

 those that are only partially spoilt, and pack the 

 rest in some dry straw, out of the reach of frost 

 and light. Fruit should be quite dry when stored, 

 and the cooler the place assigned to it the better, 

 so that it is safe against frost. 



Names of Plants.— Since naming plants gives 

 much trouble, and the replies occupy space for 

 information uselul only to the parties Bending 

 them, we beg our readers not to expect us to 

 assist them in a task which a reference to a 

 botanical work would, in most cases, render un- 

 necessary. 



S. E. D. Burnley. — Heating by Gas, Training the 

 Raspberry, and Improving Collections of Fruit, 

 next month. 



Keeping out Frost. — Harry. — You may keep 

 the frost out of your pits by a free and judicious 

 use of matting; thatched hurdles are very con- 

 venient for the purpose, because easily lifted off 

 and on, and creating no litter. We have many 

 a time put a lighted rushlight into a small pit, 

 on a sharp night, and with a mat or two kept all 

 safe. In a greenhouse, or small conservatory 

 without a flue, a large stone bottle, painted 

 black, and filled at night with boiling water, will 

 be found to radiate sufficient heat to keep tHe 

 temperature from sinking to freezing point. 



Frozen Plants.— Hyacinth.— To recover plants 

 touched with frost, it is best to thaw them as 

 slowly as possible, and in the dark. Light and 

 moisture at such a time are ruin to plants of 

 delicate constitution, and, if they recover at all, 

 it can only be by thawing them gradually, as in 

 a cool cellar, or some place only one or two 

 degrees warmer than freezing point. 



* # * Our readers will please to consider all coloured illustrations as gifts. 

 We do not pledge ourselves to give them at any time, though we hope 

 occasionally to do so, 



