100 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



labor might not perhaps be ill-rewarded, which any one were to bestow, in 

 experimenting upon the means of successfully cultivating such of our wild 

 flowers as have not yet been domesticated. 



Dial for January. — The weather during the last month has been re- 

 markably mild in this vicinity, contrary to the prognostics of the weather- 

 wise, in the early part of the season. Northeast or southwest winds have 

 prevailed during the greater part of the month. The cold, during the 

 nights, has only in three or four instances been severe enough to deposit 

 frost on the window panes. Not more than two days have been cloudless 

 from morning to night. Rain or snow have fallen more or less every other 

 day on an average, and the sun has been obscured full half the time. The 

 clouds have in several instances been very beautifully tinted at sunrise and 

 sunset, as in summer, and have often somewhat resembled the summer 

 clouds in their arrangements. For the most part, however, a more or less 

 organized stratus has been the prevailing form of cloud, unaccompanied by 

 a layer of cirrus or cirro-cumulus in the region above it, as often seen in 

 warm weather. No distinct and well identified cumulus has been seen ; and 

 cirrus but very seldom, and this soon subsided into stratus. Not the least 

 portion of light in the north has come under our observation since the first 

 of January. This absence of the aurora borealis is remarkable for Avinter. 

 The termination of the severe cold weather of December was followed on 

 the .30th of that month by a sunset of extraordinary beauty and brilliancy, 

 the clouds being arranged in arches or bows of cirro-stratus, like several 

 widened rainbows one above another. 



PassHcljusttts Ijortitultiinil Society. 



SCHEDULE OF PRIZES FOR 1855. 



PRIZES FOR GARDENS, GREENHOUSES, &c. 



For the most economically managed, best cultivated, and most 



neatly kept Garden or Grounds, through the season, . $-25 00 



For the second best, . . . . . . 15 GO 



For the most economically managed, best cultivated, and most 



neatly kept Fruit Garden, through the season, . . 25 00 



For the second best, . . . . . . 15 00 



For the most economically managed, best cultivated, and most 



neatly kept Flower Garden, through the season, . . 20 00 



For the second best, . . . . . . 10 00 



For the most economically managed, best cultivated, and most 



neatly kept Vegetable Garden, through the season, . . 20 00 



For the second best, . , . . . . 10 00 



