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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



Thanks for the fern roots : we will not tax you 

 for more. 



Trumpet Lily — Li. —This lovely plant is one of 

 the easiest to manage. In many places of the 

 south of England, you see them in every cottage 

 window, whore they nourish as well as gera- 

 niums. The warmth of a room during wintef, 

 is sufficient for it, with plenty of water when 

 it begins to throw up its bloom, and when going 

 to rest, to be kept nearly dry. Fibry peat, with 

 ricli loam in lumps, is the best soil lor it. It is 

 not a Lily, but an Arum, and its botauical name 

 is Calla JEthiopica. 



Various.— T. H. 2?.-Stocks and Asters like good 

 loam, with a little old dung and plenty of water 

 all the summer. Most other annuals do best in 

 poor soil. Rus in wrAe— Calceolarias require a 

 compost of loam, four parts, leaf mould, one 

 part, one part decayed cow-dung, and one part 



sharp sand. Young plants like a little peat and 

 less dung. Plants or seed of Pampas grass may 

 now be obtained of any respectable nurserymen. 

 Apply to any who advertise in the Floral 

 World. Amateur. — Carnations thrive best in 

 a soil composed of rotted turf, very old dung, and 

 turfy peat, equal parts ; with one half part of 

 clean gritty Fand. Your plants should have ful 

 exposure and plentiful watering. Those for bloom 

 this season should have been in their blooming 

 jots by the middle of last month, at the latest 

 Pot them in pairs and give plenty of pot room, 

 and as the flower stems rise, give a weekly 

 dose of manure water. /. Sweet. — Thank you 

 for your kind letter and its suggestions. We have 

 had similar thoughts. — J. C. — Next month. — 

 H. D. P.— Pour boiling water round the sides of 

 the frame, or strew old tan over the surface of 

 the bed between the plants. 



METEOROLOGICAL CALENDAR FOR MAY. 



AVERAGES FOR THE ENSUING MONTH. 

 Tub month of May, 1857, was unusually cold, the temperature of the flrst week being, 9" ; anl heat 

 ot 'the second week, nearly 2° below the average: frost occurred on eight nights, and dry cutting east 

 winds were prevalent throughout the month. During sixteen years past the averages have been as 



follows Thermometer, max. 64°; min. 42 J ; mean 53° ; Barometer at sea level, 29.934, and the fall 



of rain 1 9 inches the same as the month of January. During thirty- one years past, the highest tem- 

 perature observed occurred on the 23rd, 1847— Thermometer 89° ; and the lowest on the 2nd, 1855— 

 Thermometer, 20°. 



PHASES OE THE MOON TOR MAY, 18o8. 



<C Last Quarter, 6th, 6h. 40m. p.m. 

 J First Quarter, 19th, lOh. 20m. p.m. 



# New Moon, 13th, 7h. 48m. a.m. 

 O Full Moon, 27th, 6h. 5m. p.m. 



MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS, MAY, 1858. 

 Tuesday 4th, Horticultural Society of London. — Thursday 6th, British Pomological 

 and National Floricultural, St. Martin's Hall.— Wednesday 12th, Royal Botanic 

 Society : Exhibition of Plants, Flowers, and Fruits.— Saturday 15th, Manchester 

 Botanical and Horticultural Society: Exhibition of Flowers, Fruit, &c, in the 

 Society's Garden. — Tuesday 18th, and Wednesday 19th, Manchester Horticultural 

 First Grand Exhibition in the Free Trade Hall. — Wednesday 19th, Colchester. — 

 Saturday 22nd, Crystal Palace First Grand Horticultural Exhibition. — Wednesday 

 26th, Exhibitions at Leicester, Oxford, and Reading. — Thursday 27th, National 

 Floricultural, St. Martin's Hall. — Thursday 27th, Royal National Tulip Show, 

 Botanic Gardens, Sheffield. — Thursday 27th, Royal Horticultural Society of Dublin. 



* * Stcretaries will oblige by forwarding Announcements, Schedules t §c. y of forthcoming 



Exhibitions. 



