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SIMPLE MODE OF FUMIGATING. 



Take a common flower-pot, and bore with a gioiblet a hole in the side, near the 

 bottom. Place this pot in the middle of the house, on the tiles. Into this hole, insert the 

 nose of the gutta-percha tubing used to water the garden. Pass this tube through a hole 

 in the outside-door of the greenhouse, (which on other occasions, may be kept closed with a 

 cork.) In the pot place the urn-heater (red hot), and a quarter of a pound of tobacco; 

 and placing the nose of a pair of bellows in the end of the tubing outside the house, blow 

 away till all the tobacco in the pot is consumed. 



It has also occurred to me that a vessel painted black, placed in the midst of the green- 

 house, kept constantly filled with hot- water, by means of a syphon- tube connecting such 

 vessel with a boiler of water, placed on a gas-stove, in the dwelling house, would be a con- 

 venient method of warming the greenhouse ; but would the steam from the water constantly 

 rising, be proper for the plants ? A Young Gardener. 



[We suppose you damp the tobacco. If it -were to break into a flame, how would the 

 plants like it? A constant escape of steam in the house would be mischievous.] 



METEOROLOGICAL CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER. 



AVERAGES FOR THE ENSUING MONTH. 



The weather in November is usually very constant to averages, and the gardener may more fully rely 

 on tables, than at any other period of the year. During the last sixteen years, the averages have been 

 as follows: — Thermometer, max., 49° ; min., 38°; mean, 434; Barometer, 29.939. Average weight of 

 water in a cubic foot of air, 2.9 grains, fall of rain, 2.3 inches. By the foregoing calendar of the 

 weather in November, 1857, it will be seen that the lowest point the thermometer touched was 25°, 

 and there were 12 nights of frost, four or five of them severe. But the temperature last November was 

 3° above the avernge, namely, 5^° the first week, 2^° the second week, \\° the third week, 1J° the 

 fourth week, and 2£° the fifth week, including a few days of December, and we are not warranted in 

 expecting any repetition of such exceptions. The following are the highest and lowest temperatures 

 recorded in the month of November during thirty-one years past, and, with the exception of the last, 

 they show a steady decrease with the progress ot the month, both as to maximums and minimums. — 

 Highest— 1st, 1847, 65° ; 12th, 1841, 63°; 16th, 1840, 62°; 28th, 1828, 60°. Lowest— 3rd, 1845, 20° ; 

 9th, 1854, 18°; 16th, 1841, 15«; 26th, 1849, 18°. 



PHASES OF THE MOON FOR NOVEMBER, 1858. 



• New Moon, 5th, 4b. 48m. p.m. 

 O Full Moon, 21st, 2h. 25m. a.m. 



J First Quarter, 13th, 8b. 43m. p.m. 

 d Last Quarter, 27th, 5h. 35m. p.m. 



MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS, NOVEMBER, 1858. 

 Tuesday, 2nd, and Wednesday, 3rd, Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum (new) 

 Society.— Saturday, 6th, Crystal Palace Chrysanthemum Show.— Tuesday, 9th, and 

 Wednesday, 10th, Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum Society.— Thursday, 11th, 

 British Pomological.— Wednesday, 17th, and Thursday, 18th, Horticultural 

 Society, Great Exhibitions at St. James's Hall.— Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes- 

 day, 22nd to 24th, Crystal Palace Exhibition of Birds.— Thursday, 25th, Dumfries. 

 *J* Secretaries will oblige by forwarding Announcements, Schedules <f - c, of forthcoming 



Exhibitions. 



