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out a plant just received from the nursery at 

 this late period of the season. It is propagated 

 by division of the root. 



Cucumbers. — Tyro. — The gourd family have been 

 playing some strange freaks this season. Your 

 case is the case of hundreds. The cause of the 

 leaves turning yellow, and the fruit falling off, 

 seems to be atmospheric and general, and hence, 

 scarcely admitting of remedy. We see the failure 

 of some particular crop every season, and, this 

 season, the failure is in marrows, melons, and 

 cucumbers. Your management has been good. 

 Thompson's " Gardener's Assistant" is the book 

 for you. 



Humea elegans.— Q. desires us to ask if any of 

 our readers have experienced the effect of this 

 plant in producing an erysipelatous, or rose-like 

 eruntion on the skin? "In several instances 



which have come tinder my observation lately, 

 the handling of the leaves of the Humea, as in 

 removing withered ones from the stem, has 

 caused such an eruption on the face and bands, 

 by contact, or even by the vapour from extra- 

 vasated sap. - ' 



Seedling Potatoes. — 8. Stocks. — You are acting 

 wisely in raising seedlings, and we hope you will, 

 in time, jjet a stock from the best. To prove use- 

 ful, theyought to ripen early, and keep well. 

 Since the disease has rendered the potatoe a pre- 

 carious crop, early sorts have been much in 

 request. Your crop of shallots, thirty-eight to 

 a plant, is good. Of the fuchsia, we can form 

 no opinion from your description. 



Australian Flower. — We cannot name the beau- 

 tiful poppy-like plant sent by a correspondent, 

 and said to be very scarce in Australia. 



AVERAGES FOR THE ENSUING MONTH. 



It was in September, last year, that the unusually high temperature of the season began to show its 

 most decided effects. The second week of the month was lit 8 above the average ; the third week, 2j° ; 

 and the last two weeks, 1°; so that the temperature of the whole month was nearly 2° higher than 

 usual. This following a hot summer, prolonged the growth and blooming of most garden plants, and, 

 on no occasion did the thermometer, even on the coldest nights, sink to 32°, which it frequently does, 

 even in July and August, and in good seasons. During sixteen years past, the averages of September 

 have been as follows : — Average maximum temperature, 67°; minimum, 40°; mean, 56£°. Average 

 temperature of dew point, 51°; which is three degrees lower than the two preceding months. Average 

 barometer, 30.019. Average fall of rain, 2.1 inches; nearly the same a£ July and August. During 

 the past 31 years, the highest temperature observed in the month of September, occurred on the 12th, 

 1846, and the 17th, 1843— thermometer 84° ; the lowest on the 27th, 1828— thermometer 24°. On the 

 26th, 1855, the thermometer registered 26° ; and, on the 7th, 1855, 28°. 



PHASES OF THE MOON FOR SEPTEMBER, 1858. 



New Moon, 7th, 2h. 15m. p.m. 

 O Full Moon, 23rd, 3h. 20m. a.m. 



j First Quarter, 15th, 5h. lCm. a.m. 

 (I Last Quarter, 30th, lh. 51m. a.m. 



MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS, SEPTEMBEE, 1858. 



Wednesday, 1st, Aberdeen Horticultural ; Stoke Newington. — Thursday, 2nd, 

 Dublin Royal Horticultural. — Tuesday, 7th, Alnwick ; Hereford. — Wednesday, 

 8th, Bristol and Clifton ; Colchester ; Crystal Palace ; Hexham ; Stamford. — 

 Thursday, 9th, British Pomological ; Crystal Palace ; Hexham. — Wednesday, 15th, 

 Brighton ; Oxford ; Whitby.— Thursday, 16th, Brighton ; Dumfries. — Thursday, 

 23rd, British Pomological ; Chepstow ; National Dahlia Show, St. James's Hall, 

 London. — Saturday, 25th, Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds. 



%* Secretaries will oblige by forwarding Announcements, Schedules , <fc, of forthcoming 



Exhibitions. 



