180 THE 
or ane Pai pelos by day has in no one instance 
er. ive 
The me ma that we venture to draw from this 
is, that we have now before us unusually cheering 
prospects of a fine, vigorous, and rapid growth when- . 
ever vegetation shall begin, 
kinds will be abundant, unless some disas r, not to 
oreseen or arrested, should blight mag With | as 
be fo 
such an N 1 eat as nearly 434“ in the 
ground by the 18th of March, it is improbable t that 
8 of roots, upon which the prosperity 
of cultivators so essentially depends, should be 
ed b rdinary event. 
ese a oe NaS show = *. mean tem- 
perature of n January was 33.11, or about 
34° below the mean of er — vin 23 years. 
3 of the at one foot below the sur- 
face was about 21 antes that of the’ ot and at two 
feet it w — nearly 5 warmer than t 
In Fe wag the air was 35 above the ave rage for 
m e earth, although several degrees 
e than 4° colder than the earth at 
— fae whole period since the enn 
of the year, the ng onstage: of the air has averaged 
38.22° that of the earth, at one foot ree: 5 
bou 
equality; in summer the air is warmer than the 
earth; but in autumn, —— 5 sun-heat has begun 
may be again remarked; an 
omewhat warmer than the air. 
Acco to tables 5 wl. i in the Journal of 
the Hortea 8 3 pp. 99-109, the 
. can s on the whole 
year Si 15 i 135 higher shake the mean of the air; 
and, omy i in other parts of the globe, the earth, 
if acce air, preserves a tempera 
1 foie tha of the mean temperature of the air 
of the 1 
Tanken we must infer that plants hävs, gene- 
rally, their roots in those 
exposed en y subjected to a 
temperature equal to the —— heat of the day ; 
nor to a cold n at of the night; 
their natural temperature is e that to whic 
they are most general pikio ; and this, it appears, | 
lies about mi 0 es. 
n, is 
mean 
ts of plants under 3 treatment; 
Pits differently are they often situated! any 
unfortunate Wes have dou hy their roots at the | 
mome 
and that cro am of all 2 
The evi the wan 
the preceding month, averaged some- |s 
rature differing fro 
GARDEN ERS. 
they loo poor and miserable ; others, again, 
os — rambling, that 12 cannot be kept 8 
idy for a w r rowin 
4 the most awkward and eccentric growth and ha 
ought to be rem 
The Rose catalogues ‘require weeding, ei they make 
CHAONILOLM 
[Marca 23, 
jostan 
Form.—Academical Trang- 
Ep beginn ers ow man re varieties 
yo 
than g 
to the 1 * which we have stated toe xist. The se 
exist with a collection of go oses, nothin, 
more completely mars the ge l effect. Above all 
3 the Rose cultivator should care 
y such 
right at any time ; when ome into 
8 flower the ear arly ones sic gone out, so that the —— 
„ aS | nomenon to a defect — 
is still spoiled, see them when you wi Again, $ 
we have seen, a covered archway with the majority o of 
—— in flower and here and there 
Nothing pmi further towards spoiling everything. 
The ns through every 
We 
rsuade every Rose 8 to yo to his 
— if he have the Ros e place 
ong o other flowers, to —— them al a soon 
rm such as for 
— kind, aal it be of 
es, ether, to let no 
divide the — to appropriate so 
those 
988 
gonn in an outside border far below the 
t t —ç kept up in the ho 
under circu ts act very imper- 
fectly : and the colder the the more nearl 
is the i to cutting, whic! 
may le to grow without roots till it exhausts 
itself ; and it is well known precautions are 
not taken to keep Vine borders warm whilst to 
i reing is carried on, Vines do e i 
much exhausted. Roots cannot be well formed in — 5 to | was ree ine 
soil exceedingly cold red with th Lich the brigt 8 
: g cold compared wi e tem ure | terfere with the thet eae — more co t tenants of 
0 p is vegetating. na — 5 . . Rosery. y ws many varieties 
early forced its vegetation is almost ready would pay t 
ore midsummer, when the border Seri naturally. | and observe how they continue to grow and flower from 
be sufficiently warmed * encourage the growth of month to month, he wo t be long in deciding th 
; and su sa EP aro then made cannot be fate of the more fickle sorts. Much might be done 
so 2 matured as ot to be liable to perish in te wirds improving a Rosery if the old ag . 
ihn, ihat happens we. hens lend: coins rag a were bodies with better poem but it is preferable 
plaints of the composition of the borders ; 88 eee a ae 
in nine cases out of ten, their giis i in the ear arly 
p of the season, compared w e heat insid 
the house, is their only fault, . 
| OSES. 
Ta pay oe —— 
growers, as we have alread 
3 ve spoiled their parani Padi the » introduction 
worthless 
ym a 
even tolerable and — already le 5 | 
| wh: 
and 
d by Roses not yet in bloom or gone by ——— 
f ness, and the 
at 
up its sap, an 
| e of these 
oi working, in same 
anted, ret that ag si Soa Ve dung is 
ted 
the season we propose to give a deseri 
list of a few of the most un r 3 
8, especiall 9 ones, Memoirs of li 
and more or | 
most ne forms, as where the dila xtreme, 
the ed very thin and curved inw . like the 
volutes in — serve it especially in the 
Elm, in its lowest branches near t und, or in the 
hedges, particularly when grown ocky ground, 
Herbaceous plants also afferd fr t instan 1 
e herbaceous plants 
8 force, which in issuing from the grou aul and 
in the rat e ee t, had encountered stones or 
bits wood gue enello surculo illerum interstitia 
perf ti conciliaba 
by other authors among i 
other under Medios 
ire, species. SrraNauLation or RoOrs.— There are 
lants that are thus inj 
vince of Bol — — — 
to a disease called Fausset, in ers a 8 
little Radish, grows upon the bu sucks 
causes i 
be said of the f and Hemp infi with 
the Orobanche. D el’s observations show that the 
Lycoperdon which at the Crocus kills other bulbs 
also, such as Lilies and Tulips. I have shown the ex- 
treme difficulty of obviating this evil i moir on the 
— w mp. of e! pected! 
only re the burning the soil, which wi 
f d p effectually 
inati wer of the seeds, and 
siene tho field of them. 
roots of corn are often prevented from growing 
by being too closely pressed by the earth, especial 
. of their 
Cecond prar. Sitio GULATION OF T 
3 ex — d to the eg 
varieties need sa; i, b ch 
— toe “fs Soa B such name we de- 
2 as soon as as they begin to grow — — 
0 
no one claim that give 
of the lour, fl 
— — gro 
and flowering more or less until the a ai cuts TA 
most 
extensively, and can 
ho grow ive up a 
— for the | best of other families Reda: 
» Crito, 
instance, i ith 
a thick petal, EN double Biei, — | 
itema ‘blooming i is mie: ‘garden, every of the sa 
colour th of these thless 
d DISEASES OF PLANTS. 
Genus I. KNOTTED 
— — 
use of death to the individual. This th 
confined in too small 
s when pape a space; | 
e in each | 
Sometimes 3 nd insects 
ee parts of plants by 1 oe 
m. The injury done to trees by Mi „Ivy, Sees 
either attach themselyes or cling them, 15 
Cuscuta inati e 1 3 xtend 
over the bus of plants in a sort of network, which im- 
their è er, and Lu 
three plants upon h it commits great havoc with us- 
something else for a fi va prai the 
PE e rafew years; 
danger that Peg will not be entirely extirpated. 
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