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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
ese but, ede suspect, by no means understood 
by many of our readers. 
The e of Europe, or, rather, the north- 
world, is so deeply |, 
inland 
of the old 
s, or of each 
8 must of co 
its physical e 
The climate = hie middle region of the Wie er 
with which t of the British isles 
naturally be com mpared, name iyt the region, — of 
the Baltic, north of the Alps, and stretching from 
the Bay of Biscay ti the Oural Mountains, exp 
riences in a more marked de; n England 
ott Agee remarkable modification of both 
wint 
directions) bu w 
tern astern disiris of our o 
and 
tugal, Spain, ih Turkey, and 
ae in intensity the further you travel to the 
ean. is b the case with the We x those —— 
the is 
re partake of, while they modify, 
m 
must be e 
er pai atio wn 
The region Nie i t important 8 san Sra eng 
is that of the Mediterranean, both a 
as the 8 eer 
A general 
e to ae. with, o the 
of the Atlantic islands in the west, and of Persia in 
the east, at least, so 1 r anita confines of the middle 
Asiatic, or North n group. Its meridional |t 
range may be taken oes ‘the south flank of the Alps 
to the shores of North Africa, perhaps to the foot of 
ral 
Mount Atlas. We find in Ee range of 
e | longitude, an exceedin gly nu us assemblage of 
e of the Mediterr 
und to have an interesting relation to the Flora and |° 
Ir seems to have escaped = notice of Ea 
whose attention has been drawn to the Grape Mir- 
DEW, a ScHWEINITZ — described, N briefly, an 
a species he, 
which attacks the mim of 
United States. 
e= 
bie 
pr 
o 
principal regions. With the summ 
slightly different, though not in 3 a the 
principle which rules the others. For in the 
region the latitude is sufficiently warm to 
perature of all the pein from the 
of Portugal to the Ca , and from the foot 
s to the shores of Barbary, to nearly one 
uniform level in the summer mon subject, ar 
Thus at Lisb 
e Adriatic, at Cons 
the Black Sea, spring is little, if at all, earlier than 
On the 
tantinople, and | Produc 
ae several insta 
n the one cou 
iei din 
not at pre fa 
exhi bited any tendency to dineas se; but this is not 
decisive as to the point. The matter of import now 
fact of the existence of a similar fun merica 
ing similar effects. 
our collection ler the Southern districts far exceeds 
e thousand n 
d to be rai For this reason the Alpine] 
. 4 nsidered as excluded from the 
un 
nd with thet loo 
ame of Britain, as we shall explain hereafter. S. æ 
gus 1 Af 
Treg are gh iti 
redolent, 
grance. Buri ing the e 
frequently 8 in November, it 
— its a een re n 
en it gradual 
its sweetness, until the — 
with 
he aed bir Bo form of its petals, 
in the sha 
manage — obtain „ 
1 
the folowing mann 
water, but dantly wit 
necessary, isli 
a the beginni i 
best plants, and place 
r 1 0 18 pe a Tite ion 
y arg groe 
ete rt 
is deferre 
angio of wa 
to thei 
them pliers ai 
my yo — stock in 43 
a 2 — to the glass, 
unti 
eo 
ee eee 
. paan will arra weakly a 
e patience until ‘Na ‘tur 
y of fresh 
d pegged dow: 
bushy, well- shaped ate 
™ As 80 
soe I give 3 
ya Begin 
give to most ee e 
they are allowed to 
b 
fested 
is, to direct attention to the Papia fe of the where 
suppl 
answer bes 
ied wi 
with this pit. 
This 
thay are bosia and 
are shifted into Finch pots, otherwise this 
il they show symptoms of 
taa en 2 Pi by day and 45° 
start gorous N 
iarity 
grown ia of itin 
-inch pots in the e green 
sparingly mie F 5 it rit 
ai 
to be 
the 
well- 
. 
1 85 
ed by excluding 
fresh air, or by much artifici al help; 4 ‘for if it is, your 
and drawn, and disease will 
when satisfied as to 
an 
? | size, they ought to be afforded the 1 ae 
—— htof the flowers 1, dE 
e plan aage signs of vigorous 
ater—the same as I 
ts commence flowering, they should 
near the glass, either i in 
h 
i orus snow may fall, mbers, nothing of the kind has 
though it may not lie bien during 2 least fl five Y, ee transmitted ; 4 ; but the 88 en ace of and loam, rendered sufficiently porous Py py ag se - 
winter months. rican botanist, competent to give made of mode- 
‘The common Olive is not secure against the the, required information, has been called to the jei — be pee e 
Pi t not be 
nearly allied fangus is most destructive in AE eT aa ue pg ag should be rooted 
8 Pennsylvania to Gooseberries, e that in and pot A daw roe established in their pos 
* ‘districts, except in very propitious years, béfore winter ; the end of June or sre * 
it comes to perfecti berries before they will be found a proper time for inserting a 
arrive at maturity are completely invested with the The old ere a if desired, be maa a Alpha. 
sterile flocci, and in conse AE 
D eri d 1 so as to x quite uneatable. A 
, informs us at Bethlehe: ae 
he had for 3 for many years fo found 2 a 2 cen | W TI a pet! a we de 
uninjured. M. J. B. |. No. I.— The long-looked-for, Page? 
8 1 —— lightfal change in the weather was heralded m, g 
3 ERINUS CHNII y evening last, by a succession 0 short niehts 
ie Wibsiots of the, middle must 15 m ara These not only produced in the voices of the 
region mu n calculated to delight a certain ffect o tation, but on the VOW’, oe 
“eh ot of the question as far as their Flora class of cultivators than this simple and — ewhat rare a sayi Paty on Tuesday morning „ 
* concerned ; because the Alpine Flora ts i It is true that 3 mirers of gaudy were awaken was yet N = the joes aod 
exceptional one, accompanying and dependent flowers might on mly give it a temptuous glance in of the wende "followed Bi Pax: — 
on very phical situations as well Passing, never for a moment ee that a plant so ble, al giving the gratitude 
as meteoric conditions. ig — arance could possess any property the rain distilled upon u them) in 2 “ti a treat u 
ntre of a~moderately temperate region into dufls of cult vared te, "The be , to Teten 1 it is w 
an atmosphere of great cold and li e best way of settling this | Nature worth rising betimes fl . ag befor 
tri differ from the alpin ap ight, Paine a point with 405 perso e a walk A which we are now 8 ing. er den but # 
navia, which rise from a region not much less cold — when the shades of evening begin to our own Purtomet joins the choir; a m 
gather over us, us, and plants as emit their fra- | will not anticipa weather, 
than the mountains themselves; the ee of an lay their beauty i i Ff p icle, that the W% ijf- 
which is that in the chain of C . entioned in a f ch the early 2, 
. ee E if us Lychnidea is in | however severe, rarely inte ered wi wW observe in 
and Carpathians, the mountain Flora differs greatly flower, it will speak for itself; id Xe of having to | cation of the blackbirds and thrashes, e a blad- 
from of the plains, north as well as south of it, in your motives for allowing such a simple-looking | the “ Naturalist ” for April, that at Southend, de d 
while in ihe north the Flora both of plain and moun- apparently uninteresting plant to occupy a place in | bird's nest with eggs was found in the other come 
is much more nearly identical. e Alps| collection, you will probably be asked for a small January last, in an open hedge! pes ht under noie 
ar uence on its Plant “J rare Ern oh 1 per f that of our remark 1 Pa broug Bat nas 
cee of plants which has n kindly supplied to I day bi 5 
eae for our gratification and delight at the period when io seg: wn a 282 matter of food, cages Siy i their 
maie * ee, 5 t mass of culti- es, like en . N German pes, 
. vated ma . anxious n. 
will not be fairly e e of the have 1 "inherent pada GF p deck: ie = „ n oo et. Aged poor por Bat they eee 
à E rays causes it to wrap u re apa! some bread butt e given * 
here] beauty in e petals; De = 2 re worms. If these be g. ae 
