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THE GARDENER. 



[Feb. 



the making of home-made wines. It gives a list of the new plants, fruits, 

 and vegetables of 1878, and many elaborate treatises on the cultivation of 

 popular flowers, &e. 



The Horticultural Directory (also published at 171 Fleet Street, London), 

 as usual, gives the full addresses of metropolitan and provincial nurserymen 

 and florists, and of the gardeners of the United Kingdom, with their em- 

 ployers' names and nearest railway station; as well as a list of botanic 

 gardens, public parks, botanical and floral societies, and the names of their 

 managers and secretaries. These two annuals should be in the hands of 

 every gardener. 



THE WEATHER IN DECEMBER 1878. 



The following are the lowest readings of the thermometer at- 



25, 



Chatsworth, Derbyshire — Dec. 24 and 25, 



Lambton Castle, Durham, 



Drumlanrig, Dumfriesshire — Dec. 23, 24, and 



Eokeby Park, Yorkshire — Dec. 13, 



Bray ton Hall, Cumberland — Dec. 13, 



Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire — Dec. 25, 



Meldon Park, Northumberland— Dec. 20, 



Tynningham, Haddingtonshire — Dec. 14, 



Hope Park, Stirlingshire — Dec. 20, 



Fordell, Fifeshire, .... 



Margam Park, Glamorganshire, S.W., 



Glendoune, Ayrshire — Dec. 20, 



St Phoenix Park, Dublin — Dec. 



Shottley House, Durham, 



St Ridge Park, Lanarkshire — Dec. 20, 



Mr Forbes' Nursery, Hawick, Ptoxburghshire — Dec. 20, 5' 



0.4 

 0.2" 

 2° - 9-' 



3 J 



0.4 C 



2°. 2°' 1 1C 



Rainfall, 1878. 

 Inches. 



30.11 

 40.7 



4°; 



4°; 



5£°. 



7°. 

 10°. 

 14°. 



8°: 



26.46 

 33.18 



35.24 



31.6 



If any of our readers have registered lower temperatures, we shall 

 be glad to hear of them. 



PRESENTATION TO MR WILLIAM SUTHERLAND. 



On the 20th December 1878 about forty gentlemen (including the leading 

 gardeners about Liverpool, and other friends of our valued contributor Mr 

 Sutherland) assembled at the Public Rooms, Aigburth, for the purpose of 

 making a presentation to that gentleman on the occasion of his retiring from 

 the management of Messrs Ker's Nursery at Grassindale, near Liverpool, to 

 undertake the management of Messrs Ireland & Thomson's Nurseries in 

 Edinburgh. The gift, which consisted of a very handsome gold watch and 

 appendages, was supplied by Messrs Elkington of Liverpool, and was in 

 recognition of the sterling character and gentlemanly demeanour of Mr 

 Sutherland, who, during his stay in the neighbourhood, had won the esteem, 

 if not the affection, of all with whom he was brought in contact. 



