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as that of the temperatures of winter 
to agree he more 
sea, the less its circumference is, and the pacar it lies 
est 2 2 for mpare the 
ae — — 
sides and a fixed 
wide, 
four more spikes have yet to expand. It is certainly a | 
glorious sight, well worth travelling a considerable dis- 
s- | tance 
A Rose! sa A has just been pu up in the experimental | 
ground near the east end of the mgs “ frames which | bro 
occupy that part of the * a ec od on 
plan of Mr. Rivers’ 2 hous ded 
and 8 feet 6 ponos high i ind the middle. sides 
Ai io 
from 
differe 
of Teneriffe Ar that eg Gaitis Š chat of the Faroe 
igsberg or of Moscow ; 
more mar 
terior of the walikat 
that the western coasts of the . ta para o 
d clima er do the eastern. epg 
are distinct i — the northern 
of the old aden — of 
It is only —— the kevin ot of the 
racters at 3 well 
mean summer and 
winter tem 
enabled to 2 
th a a at many places far beyond 
tropics ; Se for instance, in = io uthern states 
— North A —— in Egypt, in a Minor, an 
on the southern of Fur —.— On — 
— coast “of Toia, othe oi mean of te 
is not lower t Peters and the ates 
at Danzig, and a higher temperature than at Königsberg. 
But while the ‘eastern provinces of Prussia are pretty 
tural i 
that of 
e ground to the spring of 2 
roof. s glazed 5 sheet glass; and 
ventilation is y > ted i in the sides, just Rin the sil, pa 
all round, a foot wide. A 
has been pai a 
which is Tree a smell and more healthy to work with 
The i gsx is di 
wide, ‘an 
4 feet wide, by means of a er feet 1 edged with inch- 
thick deal, which keeps the soil i place. The be 
sli : 
— 
The a A i on e oer side of the * walk, lead- 
to the ne 
re, | levelled —1 pepi for Cam see 
been 3 in size, * altered 
lighten 
even Barley mo 
shrubs ne they had poors 
side, a ging has b 
to 
o the border as the Pinuses extend, 
re placed tl 
"Tt is still, however, sagen occupied by 
of w n have 3 pre- 
. 
y 
. For 
rmerly grew near the cou hav 
been brou ught here, as well as numbers of all red finer 
kinds of shrubs aa different parts of the garden from 
which they could * conveniently spa 
* underwood o “ Bire clump,” i in fpe arb 
um bia been cleare — away, and the ground has been 
— Ocher elumps where they required it have also 
appearance 
x o much — loaded. ri 
Yews on the east side have also been lifted, and their 
with Araucarias, Deodars 
ds | growe We 
d a classified form have “thee objections as well as their 
y should be ‘benefited b 
e | We trus 
n,Q 
d White, — Wbt — ne tipped : 
Charles Tu 
r | Beauties. 
beris een 
be owe 
with a wpe nl seven spikes e Fag 
st ready to o omises to be very fine 
me of the large Poly galas — Abutilons soe p. 
— eaned ; in this way, they ar 
fought within ede 3 and when they bate 
e their growth they flower well. 
Z 
FLORICU LTURE. 
— 
AHLIAS IN Crassks.— Among the many e — 
which early attention has been soli cited, that o 
fication of penn t for Dahlias is not the ety Soe 
tant. The task is difficult, we admit, as the different 
illustrations which have fallen u der our notice fully 
estify ; but we are anxious to offer they are) 
| our experience — opinion in a — which abounds 
with 2 ~~ dae, ets numerous class of 
e that ss of Dahlias in 
recommendatio wish it to 
8 
only occupy his 
other hands. 
0 
formation of nein is 
r that the late Mr. 
Salis 
e plan. In our divisions it will be 
apparent, that we differ materially f rom ny in 
. | classification of — and in our estimate of certain 
ge to which peculiar varieties are seer a a 
e selection made to illustrate eacli. class, we 
9 rp 2 guided by the desire of — we 
many popular sorts that exist, rather 
— ſor the — 8 keyin 
rust 85 have not m ; 
important ingredient quality 5 these preliminary 
remarks, we shall proce i 
r a 
Antagonist, er ai 
Class 1 mgr er“ 
wallis, 
: Defian 
maid, Beauty of 
Kent, urner, — — Deli ight, aa 
Lady Catheart, — — — Miss 3 
Mrs. Wentwort rinces ll, 
Class I 
8 Conspicua, Douglas Jerrold, Honourable 
Ir. Ha bert, Privateer. Class V., 
airy Queen, 
Fauc her, 
can no longer be cultivated, and the Birch, which a border from the Rhododendron border, between the Class VI, Peaches and Pale Lilac Selfs: poa Antici- 
li south, 76° north latitude, is still met | side of west end of the |pation, Compacta, of Dahlias. Class VIL, Lilac 
with, here disappears. same isotherm in the | conservatory, and the widening of the narrow walk and Selfs ; Admiral, Duke of Cambridge, Elizabeth, Fear- 
country about the Cumberland-house Factory, in | setting the endrons in that part of the Mrs. Anderson, of Beauty, of Lilacs, 
the neighbourhood of Lake 5 interior of garden, is a great improvement, and altogether the Sir F. Thesiger. Class VIII., Purple Selfs: Beauty of 
— ae is, as y | garden is being much altered for ogg better. 7 es, Frederick Jerome, Imbricata, Jullien, Mr. 
covered forests, and i is S fruitful, and well! The p ions for the coming exhibitions | Seldon, Purple Standard, of Perfection, Violet 
fitted for the growth of corn. Yakutsk, with a | are ly beginning to es. Perfection. Class IX., Scarlet and Red Selfs: Box, 
i rature for the ke yaar oE aC C. (14°54 F.), borders and elumps are rE d The lawn in the Carmina, John Ed | on il, 
and for the winter months —42°.5 C. (—44°.5 F.), forest | arboretum is in ul order, with hardly a 8 Napier, Sir R. Peel, Scarlet King, Sear- 
trees, and all plants which, like Wheat and Rye, — stray leaf to be seen, and the walks in the are | let Class X., Crimson ‘Selfs: Beeswing, 
need a short but hot summer, r the being levelled and gravelled. While in this de tain Foster, ger King of 
e mer temperature, notwithstanding the ever- may mention that the young Peach trees on ‘lee wall Dahlias, . Philippe, wr fos Sir thurst, Sir R. 
subsoil at 3 feet depth, is as high as 16° C. i exceedingly elean and sg and showing well for | Whittington, Standar Thames Bank 
609.8 F.), and is equal to that “of Stockholm and | fruit. The Pears and es, too, in consequence of Hero, Triumphant, — Class ms Maroon and 
Gnigsberg. In | Oe gare the year gives the | being rested last year — nd being cut off in early dark Crimson Selfs: Admiral Stopford 
] 
akutsk. Nev — 25 this 
ip nies 
— zase and everythin 18 gives 
ise . a plentiful fruit se 
he 
promi 
the rature does not ri The flat tanks put up by — Burbidge and Healy 
above 2°.5 C. (36°.5 F.). The warmest day in the year | (and now abandoned by that firm for round pipes) in 
gets but 11°.9 C. ae 42 a On the west coast, | the early Vinery, after eight years’ operation, have had 
t on Still east coast, only 7.6 C their removed, when it was found that a considerable 
(459.68 F.). sediment, chiefly oxide of iron, had collected. in 
To those who are unacquainted with 2 The leaden connections betw the 
by which the earth on which we dwe boiler had also given way, and are being replaced by 
— y which 
made and is kept fit for the habitation of man, 
these letters will afford general information which cannot 
be easily elsewhere obtained; and to those d 
Somewhat 
Books, &c., Meceibev. 
—— — — 
They may, therefore, now be e 
— — for years yet; but in order to . f — 
m y, in case o ment, the tops will not 
be fastened down in future, but merely laid 
In nee of its havi 
n conseque: 
to ripen Peaches on the 
this Vinery), as recommended by Mr, Rivers and Mr, 
Ambassador, 
Black Stans Doctor Sandford, Essex Triumph, Gem 
of 2 Grove, John Davis, ’ Miss. Spears, 
se Prince, Richard Cobden. Class XII., V. 
Selfs, Cloth of “Gold, © rocus, George Glenny, Louisa 
lenny, Mrs. Seldon, Yellow 1 — Yellow Superb. 
Class XIII., Orange, Buff, and Bronze Selfs : Aurora, 
Baltic, Globe, Goliah, Leda, Model, Mr. Palmer, Phan- 
i Seraph, Toison d’Or. 
srg 5 et Selfs: Bob, Duke of Wel- 
lington, Ea Clarendan, Morning Star, Sp arkler. San 
Bellenden Ker, 
trellis, wi 
in the condition 
Siew to elect hotter tow 
of the with a ys 
that ae The ends of the trellis have — closed up; | year have been altered 
been banked up exeept about | 
—— which have been left for perma- 
fie ce pe n E rea A both sides the question 
wath sides of the Channel. Bein = the Emperor 
p invasion, 
P. — M.D. (Blackwood.) — 
bri 
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