20 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
flowers. The more common varieties , that is, glass, what may we not do now? Let our readers|real extent of mischief done > will only bo maj made 
pla 
those which we have had in cultivation in our | only picture to themselves a row of such nts 
| known after some days of hot sunshine: Fre 
gardens for mäny jogs geen though they fon each side of the conservatory apprdeblich àt | Beans and Scarlet Runners are 
undoubtedly are a faint idea of the f South ip pie What a grand effect would be 
beauty of those other buts viia have been lately | produced if each plant was only ha er as large, and | the du min are nof gene 
introduced. The flowers of the older sorts are|ha only halt as many blooms u a 
mostly light coloured— white, blush, or pink, and j old plant of Sir ABRAHAM fae s, And then 
they are generally only semi-double. It used to | the briliiant re varied colours of the new pr 
be said that the Chinese had a Hg cu variety, also | white, an Sieger ua of red, lilae, a 
one with black flowers, and & double biue one, | wo e be odu S hee " bo h : — be dicat 
which, however, was only io be met with in the ne to qu iam "mi e inform mn readers 
ees latter produced blooms these plants. itt the "Royal Hrortcltural $ ciety | that the very cream e been gathered 
of extraordinary size, each having from 100 to|is able to produce these Peo in perfect ion, | together beneath a hug in the Gardens of the 
1000 petals. When China Ms pe! opened to and pd is no reason why it should fall o do so, Royal Hortieultural Soeiety at South Ken $ 
foreigners in 1842, a searc made for these | it will accomplish two objects at one time: it will| we X little mo e 0 induce crowds 
famous Moutans, and n more than | afford a rich treat to the Fellows and the publio|to g and see : Nor will they be d 
30 we believe—were discovered and introduced to|in London, at a ti h ers are really oifited $ beneath a ly canvas covering, 350 
real yellow or true blue; but there were dark and | possible ee cg o the same thing in any par 
light purples, lilacs, and many shades of red ofj of the country. We repeat again that all that is 
gu ori ode XM almost black in eolour, | wanted ~ a slight poets in spring, a warm 
in i kno summer to ripen the and cold in winter so 
ampi the. Chinese, while another was straw-| that the plants may go owl to rest. All 
eoloured, and was called the Yellow Moutan.|foreing of the AR, aara them up by heat 
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double, and one at least was sweet-scented; the should be at rest, must be carefully avoided. 
latter was amongst those exhibited by Mr. 
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thousands of these charmin 
metropolis. 
The tent in which these 
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8 2 len ngth and 180 “feet | in width, supported by 
o iron ^ rs or masts - E An x weight, 
l blossom, producing à Tr ag E floral p 
» aldo om witnesse d so near the smoke and dust of 
our great 
glorious treasures 2 
moe ape the Kj day, and was named '* odorata 
ose Some of these varieties prodo flowers| THE WEATHER during the month just ended ha 
of afii üsüäl bis and het dare say, were ~ been remarkable for an unusually high day| so sepa M m pen a: 
petals eounted, they might prove as numerous s | temperature from the 14th to the 20th inclusive ; 
those of the plant in the Emprror’s garden, to and on the contrary, for nights as unusually cold so | ae ircled by an outside wal 
which we have alluded. repa as er 29th and 30th, On the 13th and 14th, choice Conifers. tho 
With such beautiful cave in our hands, it may |' ore tefmperatare during the day was 
Sly be thought that ood use would de respectively 73° aud 75°; but on the 16th, it was the lovely Cupressus Lawso 
been made of them in a panim Such, E coriis n the shade as 83°, and 8 m on the ni 4; manniana, a and other favour 
ever, has not been the case. Instead of set ett t the four consecutive d days it was 81°, 83 ,815; 82°. J 
a marked and charming effect in our gardens, they 2 
have been almost entirely neglected. here were averaged about 43°, "Y in of the n G- e 
iwo drawbacks v their sticcessfal oultivation—| rom 54° to 60 ith this amotint of warmth, 
b a slow to propagate, and could not be| hich 
bes aw] Mp Do iv order ^ T above ground, but only to re a severe check ; 
Fgh ssfully. The c} ósul een that | {or on the --— of ae 29th, the thermometer fell 
to 25°, or s below thé freezing point, 
many of these fne things ST T een ii and on the following night it indicated 28°, or 
lost to mei a or ea with 4d 
eontinent, where the hag RR “presi than | £ degrees below fr 
they ! have hitherto wm with us, MÀ where The ae dung t tha idit EI from the north 
4 days, N.E. 14, E. 4, SE. 5 s. ^ft bos from 
ere is no real difficulty ther it the | north and easterly directions 27 days. t blew — 
But ther ul 
erari or in the propagation of the Tree ’ 
Peony to frighten a good üglish gardener. In south- wes st, one from the south, and two from T 
a late article, at p. 1082 (1863), when noticing west. Previous to the 29th, when the thotinotaatet 
NE Bar TEN ANS succes ses, n remarked that fell so low, the air was excessively dry, and there 
SIE Mostun bo afaik of Was no moisture to form clouds " prevent the 
oes plants, which, E hong. petetiy hardy radiation of heat from the e = f the wes : 
ngland, yet A AR totection X he long succession of nds 
i. our spring tros, “aad t eM a little prier brought a large amount of 'eold air from "these 
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temperature in sum the 
become well ripened. 5 it is ndigeno h -i HESS ended, judging from what has been observed 
eountry where the winter ai are as cold Of these winds of late years, even in summer, | gon 
own, but where the springs are early and | | but au especially if they eontinue to blow a 
the summers warm. All it requires, when in cul- | An u st of heat, "m Za did recently. 
tivation with us, is a slight protection from spring | Lhe air “thus €—— very h h temperature, 
frosts and a little extra fent « ege the period of | ni highly rarified, and lighter in proportion 
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plants enjoy a period of rest, This is all; and al from a northern quarter. If one or two unusua lly 
this can be easily and as given by amoveable | bie days and v M occur whilst n geben 
can s 
Prope ee zy b af ting "n; To y" "the 8 
single-flowered herbaceous Peony. And further, | p heat gives buoyan to the air air -— uts it 
they can afford to sell the plants in the markets Jer take fig "TT es colder 
full bloom, Am heat e " | eurrent begins mn te upon it, and the m more v 
In Lovpox's “Arboretum et Fraticetum Britan- | air of a locality is above ! 
nicum” thete are several se plants of the Tree an adjoining body of air, the more completely 9 will 
Pe ae i ndop, it leave the latter in possession gee that locality, 
which, in former days, would seem P e 43 the which it may contain to 
quite m lion ne ” in their way... ‘‘ One o lr gest "ihe unmitigated ehill of a cold, [x eurrent: a 
"Tree Peonies within 10 miles of Bees pn “til, circumstance which often happens. 
lately, in the —— at Spring Grove, where it The e high bk ig just — Eu tee any 
as i . rred i 
theseatof aem em Me d pte higher nt year. As| 
27°, an n 
(^ becomes advisable to cover the hee ior butin 185 6, May 4th, it fell to 21°; 
E: with a mat, In the year 1835 this Pant €: ii - not ie observed so low as in this year 
320 flowers se s been known to | so late in the month, 
ne and Ap being well in m do not 
were produced in " red to i ave suffered much. Peaches and 
trees of the well- know wn 
elegans, the growth of -= 
of bloom 8 feet in diame 
iismigh, Tien ua toos 
Brayan atrosang 
dyke, Bardayanum er 
Differe 
Roseum ns Towardii, 
Elfrida. 
grandiflorum. 
be as 
Purples consist E Sr 
Currieanum, Sir I 
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Exquisitely beutiful - 
n" o 1s, 
f| felieved by “brigh 
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dendron. As 
erimson iei which cannot 
tion; Lady 'F. Crossle ey, in 
ds are most wan 
e Sir ROBERT PEE piper Ry Plums and Cherries 
| his boon of cheap will probably drop their fruis a good deal, but the | 
The way of growing these 
in phe they are mor di "n 6 all 6d edged with 
which not only serves to relieve xd aor M 
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distance from each end of ~ ai 
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last an old, but still useful kind. class 
— ntred — varieties, à 
Ms are Con 
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l eases stained with 
with a a single sige exception. 
complexion, and mia 
y | equalled amon: fin 
of its corolla may indeed 
faultless than th 
igh 
| grayel walks 8 feet in geet h; M the US 
da 
A pu T its sotia 
ong ti 
aique examples of dwarf Firs, thriving plants of 
i bies Nor 
niana, 
ites of a similar kind, 
a entry with heads 
trunks ô inches 
eet turfed mounds. 
deep 
As regards mong scarlets of 
— ho most Miian are 1 
ineum, Archimedes, Vaas 
John Waterers 
anüm 
rosé comprise Titians 
Sir C. Napier, and 
Among light-coloured sorts the most conspicuous 
are album elegans, delicatissimum, 
and album 
salmon-coloured varieties, Lady lean 
cece still stands at tr a pe dr 
of Geranium-like 
zi tinguishing it from all others swith whick Tan 
Lord John Russell 
and Ne Plus Ultra 
ng lilae k Die best is the semi ubl. 
Evere 
cessüt 
the exhibition 
that it wo 
ct had 
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latter ne s ghielly Te yellow Azaleas, whose M 
consequently 
tton whose pare 
new va , called M enge , sere 
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ot fail to be an acquis 
the same Way; 
arles | Bagley brilliant erimson. 
It is in the class ôf von, however, that ae 
therefore We 
ki 
Mrs. Clutton as a pr ipa quei P 
