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4 THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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[January 2, 1858, 
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records ot the varying z temperature of the earth i m 
able to that invaluable fruit, They would then 
He would poep have comian it either a 
which plants nso except that pre reserved for 
he Garden of the 
ye im 
that if oi nataral mini- 
last 14 years n the Garden o 
So 
ciety. RÖM’s calculations, ee over 
even years, P depths varying from 2 to 
16 feet, and having been made eden have 
little horticultural ring except for Swedes 
The Danish observations by WEILBACH refer to a 
depth of 12 feet. And thus Dr. Hooker’s carth |r 
temperatures at Darjeeling, Mr. CALDECOTT’S at 
Trevandrum, Mr. Taytor’s at Dodabetta in 
the Nilgh ills, are nearly tia 
to cultivators, except those of THomPs 
pury ro fa ni a forl: edi T 
tlowered C, Mas Ha ky hybrids bok 
m an ag 
mum is ‘ever iiey meeng, Aah to prevent | to occur among Orchids the lets is oe 
such a condition of the s is “ilastetin a pronounced a cross. And such it was, beg 
small yS in thet ashes ature of the e It appears that it had oo raised in the Egee 
we may point t a striking fact at St rathfeldsaye, Nursery by Mr. Domıny, Messrs. VerTca sink 
the seat of the ee ELLINGTON, where the | fatigable and very intelligent foreman bel 
ripening of Morello eas has been Kimin Masuca and C. furcata. The seed was bta 
accelerated by tully three Se owing to no other | in 1854 by crossing those species, as im 
than running a feet deep a diately sown, oien in two years the see ings i 
with the east on which read one and at 1 in n flower. Nor : it the least remarkable ¢ oa 
distance. What difference in temperature ma 
Fs pore been here caused by the in we do and flowers ree tiga o C. Masiica io ce she! i 
now ; Bee e trust soon to see the p T ant. We ther oe pase with an pl 
who conducted t reat drain sure, that the name of th hybri sm 
fro 
PAR he gr 
y iinn at on athfieldsaye, a full report of the 
and 
teui for w. we un he possesses most 
ample and valuable materia a 
g the ciel -= lead us to 
of t 
form so hie as age e importance of 
knowing much pais about í a a ratara, air 
t 
essential point, oe ng oubtless to their not be 
aware ofits great suction! bearing. In the mean- 
while air temperatu: lone s or it is 
t is recorded, and misconception is the 
natural consequence. ke the two cases of Whe 
and Maize, or that of the Vine, by way of examp. 
Not an observation exists concerning the tempe 
ture of the earth in the countries where those im- 
portant st; e ther 
per ai Fagen of ae ane datum whic 
is impo othe 
le. ing. 
ra- | temperature of th 
g. There is no Pista for supposing that the 
air that rested upon the wall of 
© 
B 
Qu 
a 
© 
S 
ipe ni ng must, therefore, have b 
warmth of the sol, of which an 
“ite we examine the ascertained “facts connected | 
p ne 
who eeded in th 
rati He is in deed AE entitled | to thi 
distinetion not only in consequence of havi 
uced other 
a 
w 
his em 
nt success in raising such er 
matter of horticultural busine 
It is by no means our in oan: in making { 
ast remark, to claim for MINY the me 
to July 2° 
air, eei in the 
1° to 4 e 
thermometrical erue ions fail to offer a satis- 
factory eae ation of its 
maxi as, from „May to November 
in excess of other 
at that period of the y 
of bri gon a sum her of 
nm came Ma with 
and ai ir at Chiswic k in 1857, sctioated with the 
eart 
Observed Meo temp. of eart 
1857. Mean TEA Error. 
of Air. Obse: Estimated 
April 45.71 49.55 43.71 5.84 
May 53.08 54.01 51.08 2.93 
June 62.15 63.80 60.15 3.65 
July 63.36 64.32 61.36 2.96 
August 39 66.22 65.39 0.83 
September 58.18 62.65 18 2.47 
October .. re 57.39 55.46 1.93 
November 52.08 | 46.93 | 5.15 | 
Iti spore pa era that long averages obtain 
in one ¢ 
facts even ‘in that her oey IL less with such 
ned | sta 
will not J. ek al with particular | # 
in May 
urther and the “ ri “ertandi nary 
advance oa PREN ery ie eras violently in June, 
oder: 
effects. The average |i 
har 
in n eik ag arr Orchids, a claim which w 
dly be ae sted. 
ut al ugh gue o rchids havo „never befi 
be en obtained a i e q 
rare uration ; for if be co 
, | ba 
me circumstances ieee the same , Grapes | betwee 
‘The 
the earth still 1. 23° W warmer tan pau £ that the | 
x aal, much augmented in Sept nb, al apilionacea § 
the air will not mere still in tober, till i n Nove mber it ed | purpureo-militaris of TIMBAL, Siımio-militaris 
foliia of the vite or anything pinire | in amount to whic h there is no geam parallel, GRENIER and Gopron, Simio-purpurea of W 
to it; for in the eight months included in the pre- | È t b DELL, and some others, all probably n 
ceding table one only even maggot the truth, | ‘an usual by nearly 7 degrees. Tn fact if we ad e genus Ophrys oubtless be found in 
The physical conditi of the soil must in DES the s of temperature during the eight — state ; and if so w Ee e fear 
fact er the elation’ Pe Stas the warmth of| important months we find that the earth had tropical nied such Oncidium, Odo 
the earth and emely variable, and in | #bs0: va at 1 foot beneath the surface 29°26 more diin , Epidendrum, Dendrobium, ree Cattley: 
the absence direct evidence unascertainable, | than sual and even at 2 feet 12. 20°, And when Whatever else hoe facts and speculations mi 
Cadiz may be taken eat station ; Novem- | produce, among them this ai be i certain a Bu 
of M y there , of June 68°.16 ber the heat of the earth a a below the surface | in ture 00 much care taken al 
f so 
our August 1857 ual to that of Cadiz in 
June. Grapes ripen nowhere better t at 
Smyrna, the mean temperature of September, one 
of their critical mo in the Levant, bei 
68°.27, which would give an earth wg — f 
66°.27, which agai s about that of our o 
inoperative plants brought from 
Meco timer and that life i is imposible them 
ao acquires a tem 
egrees, so thet ma exotic a 
seeds die if left in the ground in March 
earth 
sf 
is n 
that | forked spur and deeply lobed 
Calant. hes vata, with the violet sobs a broad 
are ht 
Nor | we 
was equal to that of May, the history of 
so many Exotic fruits having ripened is explained. 
The muon as not only unusually hot, but was 
actually tw ths longer than 
It seems hess that the Geothermometer ee 
os torily the phenomena oi season. The 
thermometer proves indeed that. — 
October an Da Hop r the mean maximum te 
a 2% 70 s = a © average ; 
month 
Tor | Fhile fis mean ainim 
60 be the second moat ce daly 1.53° 
“| Shae the sverage ; but these differences ap 
uite insufficient to explain the facts recorded. |; 
en, however, we look to podp tate of thes earth 
airas — were , We see sagt 
onths t — r there ere was no less 
112.0 mre ‘excess sof heat at 1 foot below the 2 ip 
at 2 feet, November alon 
mentioned amount, > pore 
was in fact a 
other plants into prem blossom, and 
enabled all those hia required a long season to 
mature their frui 
28th October, 1856, Mr. James V: 
‘of the white 
ee tie lip of C. Masu 
said that t 
ye such 
r PEA EDRTN, the minimum | 
to the on 
e aea Mao ane other 
hand JA 
Hana Conia 
putting war 
than 
hal. 
with iga plants, Wit 
i ee pelorism, a 
hy * 3 
assume as many per tn 4 
S IC ; 
Ir is now — to sow the stones of the small, s 
oe Ae sag be done, eet ably, 
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