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November (18th-30th). 

 Mean of the thermom. at 8 A.M. 42° 



Highest point (25th) 53 



Lowest (22d) 30 



Wind, 5 days N.E.; IK; 4 S.; 



2 W. ; 1 S.W. 

 5 days sunny ; 2 partially sunny ; 



1 cloudy ; 5 rainy, but fair. 

 W. S. Florence, Jan. 2. 1830. 



December. 

 Mean of the thermom. at 8 A. M. 37° 



Highest point (3d) 49 



Lowest (30th) 22 



Wind, 13 days N.; 8N.E.; 1 N.W.; 



1 E.; 2 S.E.j 1 W.; 5 S.W. 

 11 days sunny; 5 partially sunny; 



5 cloudy, but fair ; 10 rainy. 



DENMARK. 



Copenhagen, Royal Gardens of Rosenburgh.' — Feb. 9. 1830. In my letter 

 of Aug. 20., I told you that our harvest looked unfavourable, as it certainly 

 did, by reason of the cold and wet summer ; yet the autumn turned out a 

 little better than had been expected, though a great deal of hay and corn in 

 the fields was spoiled by the continued rain. The frost commenced in Oc- 

 tober, and has continued from the 9th of November to this very day ; it is 

 still freezing, without any appearance of a thaw or change. We have had 

 the thermometer at 11° and 12° Reaum., with a good deal of snow, and 

 very little sun. I am informed, by nurserymen and people in the country, 

 that some hundreds of bushels of potatoes were left in the ground when the 

 frost set in ; and I believe it, because in clayey and low ground here it is 

 quite impossible to dig in the autumn, on account of the frost. The peaches 

 and apricots on walls ripened, but had hardly any flavour ; the peaches 

 tasted like sugar and water, and the last ones ripened were quite mealy and 

 tasteless. Of pears, the Diamond, Beurree Blanche, and Beurree Grise, did 

 not attain their usual perfection. The early sorts of grapes on open walls 

 might be eaten, but taste rather sour. The Syrian grape, and two other 

 late sorts, did not ripen in our late vineries, which are kept without fire- 

 heat ; but the black Hamburgh, under glass, attained a very good flavour, 

 though not the finest colour, from want of sun. 



The Vegetable Market has been well supplied ; but at present it begins to 

 decline, or rather the prices begin to rise. 



March 2. A great quantity of asparagus is grown by market-gardeners 

 near Copenhagen, and plenty of forced asparagus is to be had from Christ- 

 mas till they come up in the open ground ; the price is at present 5 dollars 

 (about 9s.) a hundred. The forcing is practised in the manner described 

 by M. Lindegaard in the Horticultural Transactions, and is certainly far 

 superior to the English method of forcing the roots in hot-beds ; the latter 

 mode will undoubtedly be soon discontinued when the simple way of forcing 

 in the open ground is more generally known. I would strongly recommend 

 to English practice M. Lindegaard's method of forcing grapes (Ency'c. of 

 Garcl., § 3044.) ; and it is to be regretted that this method, which is no ex- 

 pense, is too .little known in such parts of Europe where grapes do not 

 attain their greatest perfection every year in the open ground. 



My Garden Library contains, besides the works you lately sent me, the 

 Encyclopcedias of Plants and Gardening; twenty-two numbers of the Gar- 

 dener's Magazine; Sickler' sPo?no/ogf<? (Deutsche Obst. Garten), 22 vols, com- 

 plete ; Dietrich's Lexicon {Dictionary of Gardening and Botany), 21 vols., 

 compl. ; Miller's Gardener's Dictionary, 6th edition ; Rafn's Danmarhs and 

 Holsteens Flora, 2 vols, compl. ; Reichart's Land und Gartenschatz, latest 

 edition, 5 vols.; and Schouw's Geography of Plants, with maps; &c. &c — 

 J. P. Petersen. 



RUSSIA. 



Rare Plants from Persia to the Petersburgh Botanic Garden. — Sir, We 

 have at present several pots of the beautiful Cyclamen ibericum with dark 

 purple flowers, something similar to C. coum in flower, which we received 



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