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moist atmosphere, the temperature ma rapgo from 45? | Chiswick in the same period; and as the average amount | appears that temperature, rain, and hail have been very 
to 50°, allowing it to rise 10° or 15° by day with air, | of rain is about the same in. both places, it proves that | un Ir ruere of late. The minimum observa- 
ventle sprinkling over-head on the im bo s and | there is no error in the figur es obtained. tions at sok are taken 2 a registering thermo- 
and a gentle spr g ove 8 8 £ 
, . ЗИЛ, 
ver с , , 2 `8 Жаш 25 
moist atmosphere, but little will be needed until the 85 8 55 32 | | E] other thermometers, In the register, the highest and 
plants start into free growth. It will — to tie | Ғеввслву!% 3o BS | PS Musee SS Ss Ss lowest rat are those of the stated and 
out or peg down the main shoots, and ifthe plants are ЯЛЕ р | ов | 22388 32 the following night. Mr. Hankey's lowest temperat 
leggy they should be cut back sufficient tly to overcome 38 8 алтан | | 22 | а= 4,63 |refer to the night preceding day. r the sake of 
is defect ; but where necessary this should be done, E Iur | [нь |Н 05 | comparison, at Chiswick for the Se 10 days 
plants allowed to start into efore ^ anata pe к ave been according to that 
shifting, for there is considera l risk in cutting back : a p^ atin do sik à Е ado Tea —Seeing in your last n e^ communica- 
fresh potted pl hich are at all delicate ; when they 23 510103 0.090 92 91 0.407 0.265 on from Mr arles Lucas, of ood, r 
wth they will require to have their 10 33 15 0.150. | 0.090 || 2 0 12/0002 |... the heating of his house by means of a boiler and pipes 
shoots frequently stopped ; and this should be eet ina 1452 1) 0: 0.010 Мот: 5 1020.045 | 0030 an 
m allowing = lants to mak sider. E ? (9000 After. р Y i 875 0.220 in full operation on this plan for nearly ſour years, 
able progress, and tlie bases of the young shoots to ot | 1 50000 Fort. 7 17 8/07 1 0.070 whieh have answered remarkably. well. They were 
become tolerably ripe, When every b 22 е л n" 0.050 After. 7 д 7 0,025 | construc т me à ent young man at that 
regularly pinched or cut back, and this - r^ followed Morn. 23 н ensMom. 8 — ime in my employment, who will himself o a better 
up till about m middle of July. When the weather | After- 2 A 25 Boas —— Ia c 5 " Š Bor UD account in а future number, I ids t success 
e plants had bet tter be remove | toa 25 33 90.148 0.115 11 1 14 0008 „ | WI ir rom this » Which is very 
pi Morn. 26 55 р ЫШ 0.0 13 af P o0 nom cacious for bottom and top heat, sor A lated, and 
Geek by r^s е chango: | Here less attention will serve to After. 27 2 100011 —.— 14 110 804880 very econ equest he nt up another 
roperl à 1 15 00% .. | One on thi n fora friend of mine, equally successful. 
ko — Air 1 11 9 0.050 dr Biddulph, — Park, near Swansea. 
should be — че а except 3 Е preva — | 22 * ^d уч 0.310 The Laburnum.—In a late Number a чине десерт: 
f drying winds, when the lights should be raised on the | M 11 2 920 0510 pasks respectin gt the 25 of Laburnums, The x s one 
ees side and the temperate TH : kic t = 26 n 0:012 ans AM nj - n" Wr» 7 N ington, tween 
ing a slight screen over the glass; indeed, this will be | / ап eet round, at 5 feet from round. 
beneficial fo: ours in middle of the day, T | 28 3. 3 0014 % ee | Low ales here nearly as, „most: of which 
provided it is used only on bright days, not kept on too | Total in) |. т T 1 | һауе blown down. L.often think he La 
long, and discontinued early in autumn; but beginners Feb. f [25 15| 1.305 | 597 | a, nett | [998 1| 390 1 ARIS. —— penes notice than it gets, both as an orna- 
are very apt to shade too much. If all goes on well a Rain registered at Chiswick — Feb. TA. March 28... 1.81, mental tree, which is extremely hardy, and also as 
eiut will be necessary, probably in June, and Do. Rothamsted, Bed all G „ ote 2362 | affording a pora which has many. valuable properties, 
vigorous speci Y: be afforded à rather liberal Do. do TUN or! — ee į 772692 [and which is matured in a very short time. C. W 
5 ep P | Strickland. 
shift at this season, observing to give it when they. are ie Pe н 
in ror growth, an and not Paha apg after овар back’; =. "6 
rather close and moist, A and apply water to the soil 
— — ũ Effects of the Late Winter.—T find the followin 
Home Correspondence 
of Aagastegin to | Sem Rent M “with, Black Ha Viner ener 
the plants for winter, b ually exposing care, p ipally filled wit ack Hamburg ey 
Fem to the fel full influence е! sun КА a —— - are all set—in fac rries are as large as as Pe eas An and much — everywhere ; Car ulo; 
sprinkling over head. . iis season the lights: should | some of pierre ымдын will weigh.3 Ibs. They | Taxodium sempervirens, only lightly 8 Crypto- 
be used only to protect the plants from heavy A are planted outside the house. The border has been A japonica, Pinus excelsa, ponderosa , Sabiniana, 
and they will be better left off at night, unl covered with fermenting materials since the middle of | Webbiana, and 1 'Smithianá, not the xm! injured ; Pinus 
dd Decret ast. From that time to the present I have | Gerar jane suffers from damp, not at all from frost 
ually inereased the temperature of the border, | The ar shows less signs of feeling the frost than the 
which should be near the glass, in a rather close part of slong with that of the house, and now it has reached d ў Lebanon; at r does not thrive well at 
the greenhouse, and during the winter months they will 70°, in which state I mean 0 keep it until the fruit | Boynton, nor I belie anywhere on the Yorkshire 
req n г except as л ds a supply of : = vs ecd рене 45 — € nn Wolds. I forgot to mter that C. funebris seems 
water, and this must be n е,аз they are liable ay, I fou ong healthy roots running beautifully | perfeetly hardy, not having been injured in situations 
suffer 250 5 p» e Hm e d main the through the rotten leaves, which were laid on to the —— is — . have been. At Nostell 
soil in a moist. health ; the best way of effecting | depth-of 6 inches, previous to the fermenting material | Priory, near Wakefield, I find the Cupressus macro- 
this is to give a liberal wale when ‘the ball 3 being applied. The — is of course syrin inged morning | carpa and Pinus insignis injured by the frost; the 
dry, and no more until it is in that condition again. - evening г en ys, but in dull, cloudy . —— eria japonica y slightly so, -— the Cupressus 
The plants may be allowed to flower in m reen- eather, it is only steamed. Now some of the Vines thurifera appare — at all. C. W.Strickland.—— 
Б hate stem roots 3 in a a 1006 ge po others e is following is the sta ee and aid at Oulton Park, 
ict APO (d У 96 not one. Tam satisfied; theref that these productions | Cheshire ; or Taxodium sem 
end to any cost dry airy situation where —— ate — che resik of t cold a bor der, the roots being very bro 8 . 
all near ni now see i super- | for 9 inches w bu portion ; 
abundance of moisture in the atmosphere is the cause. | Juniperus tte i portion x next to east of J. sinensis, nearly 
| i the 3 of th * — 1 Sart, сагыр pcm 
ines up r гз. In one еве green, outer insignis, one e, 
C0 Re rd а rue Tite Era m aer eee tity POA eit та, ETE 
mended for last season, Plants w sre ofa r not one EE Now, both houses were | tomeria, brown but safe, some s 8 
Ap , ern Рея чат - pego a sim = сй A Diekson's nursery, Chester, the ben day, — brown ; 
same ume, kept eq E ry o r equa st, and had | Hodgson's evergreen Oak looking v ris 
comer fier the young vont becomes ri і "c bent prine but а foot of rotten leaves on th e horders, which, Fortuni a id dud injured ; Garrya elliptica, young 
they ean retained where they can i receive the — dis tpi ped identical But one of your cor- | points. withered; Escallonia macran almost un- 
tion of gl will be advisable respondents says, “ they are most numerous when the | scathed—this, hardy аз а Laurustinus ; Hybrid Rhodo- 
not to e + them in the open pres proe dod. if | P0900 Tonto аге kopt active.” In the above ease, how- | dendrons, all showing ће arboreum. stamp, sadly 
nhouse 
ori 
8 
the decay of the — S cu plan ‘back дойду, 
апа i i ill 
се, there could not be any unusual activity, yet I have blemished. Young plants in kitchen garden of Cupressus 
laced ун» th 
о eas preter s never 7 ы; es produce so many stem topta: W. Wat, | Govenians iueh browned ; ditto from the hills of 
i Aswar — ark, оин Nepal also much browned ; Pinus Benthamiana dead. 
Ger eh aly р ps i Ku d —— Zem ure and Black: Nain.— I had intended to R. Eging ton. 
o silver sand and a quantity of clean write before this, merely to point out the temperature | The Bla ck Barbarossa Grape. — Y have taken the 
potsherds, broken small, or lumpy bi will rded b d therm i кта — eas Cone of retire ci or your inspeetion.a few berries of 
a suitable compost for this plant; but unless light meneing on Маана i Garde "à Chraniclés, дА barossa Grape that 1 exhi ‘October 
y loam is obtainable it had better be di ith, : . Men ti sud son tial 
using peat only. The soil should be broken up into | 18 r oe rie ully 2 aner 
1 pieces, using the prime fibry portion only, and | 201195 of any kind, about. 15 ee ma АРИ $ 
minutely intermixig it with the shad, es, before us, ine А common day and ight double, thermometer and | 
In potting, secure good drainage Boer plenty of| ачк чес al ways eernesponds within. 17 wi the 
potsherds, and — heh soil rather firmi about the "i Ms all times when I have we Mord aa 
eld ball, Alph пі Шеш), ТӨ! SJE 1 vee” 31012£ “емин i 
: E -i s s 85 March эй H. AH эй бг ad? al.. 1511 
эп by Mi nort . F ; iq 5 |ртойв bluo 210661 bas eae 1d. BROW tel лї тэк | 
: i ba 1 bo RAIN. cag na 5 qud poni 12511 DE ist (ant jj j 99401 g anm „ Sal 
Irn drawn out tables u Po Внесен 3 HOME. MOS d s! 
ealculated amount of rain o ; " n6otberpeaple.] 2 
inclose a copy of f he 
establi 
Идиш fne i s If T.H. * р. 182), 
ep ид society of 
"m ee re Hi the rules alluded to: 
ington, Bosbury, and bene: Heath 
he members are those inhabitants an 
and 
g the wei 
e ne eight of eei dh area’ ae to ет Hire о 
acre. have also noticed under what 246 fl. „d 
in bas fallen at different periods, The 25m еу] тлар) shows othe 9 
i erpendicular, or | ће previous night. I observed that Mr. 
ween the large and small | records 11° asthe minimum of an. 0 meter 
the rain which fell on the day on that night at Greenwich, My instrument g 
h, measured in the large | 26° last night (8th inst.) I on a “ews BoY du 
e eu 
4665, being 7 per | for. purpose of men g. us er 
M : ү high MEC peek) i per e т m each 
íi ith a i à : 
pen ide, | ores n ester eft sh eeu wl as black as ink, | the’ secretaries); to be chosen at an annual meeting. 
bdo: tata the tt at his рмасы Abe e III. The members are to be of three classes :—1. Sub- 
less belt fall, w was peek 
IE the sin Abs nd 
n descends perpen- | the 
has been registered at Hankey. [From various sources of information it exceed 6/. per annum, their specimens to be marked 
