THE GARDENERS’ 
an inversely proportional number of hours.] 
| TEMPERATURE | RAINFALL. a 
By ene. |a |, ff |e 
~ af “lA 85 
N Aala |= 2282 
sea [a Badio D ied eae 
HEREA EAA 
23 8 8 agaaa 2 
TS SB | SE espeso 7 82 
7 b | bP BARRAR 3 8 
53 4 egaa 25 |s 33 
qA Bangs! a : 3 aus 
dog: | ange | dogr [anges ems =~ ttn 
01 6 — 0 60 — Ti+ 28) 4 — 6 09) 13 13 
115 — 0 71 — 7 ＋. 313 — 4 0313 13 
2 4 — 0 57 | Tit 2124 5 06 25 25 
3 4 — 0 60 — Tit 185 6 | 1:0) 22 22 
45 —] 0 | 63 — 97 214 — 3] 0-21 32 99 
5 5 — 0 514 — 11/4 22 3 — 4 0˙3 30 30 
6 6 — 0 57 — 104+ 28 8 — 3 03 36 38 
7 4 — 0 42 — 9+ 12 3 — 4 04 24 2 
8 5 — 0 42 — 154 20 4 — 5 05 39 39 
9 4 — 0 41 — 13/4 152 +4 6 10 25 25 
10| 5 — 0 34 — 20/4 14 1 — 5 | 0°8 28 | 28 
* 3 — 7 | 19 — "i+ 10 1 — 6 | 07 244.28 
The districts indicated by number in the first column are 
the following: 
0, Scotland, N. agp apend Districts 
1, Scotland, * © tems „England. E.; 
PEF Counties; a eke: nal He Tonk: 8. 
Principal Grazing , Districts—6, Se 
England, foe 8. ofr Ragland, aa 
10, Ireland, S 
tf 
otland, W. 
W.: 9, Ireland, N.; 
THE PA 
Tun following summary record of the weather 
_ the British Islands for the week ending 
January 5, is furnished from the Meteorological 
Office :— 
“The weather during this week was cold and 
seer intervals of bright sunshine alternating 
with falls of hail, sleet, or snow; over the eastern 
counties of England the snowfall was heavy locally, 
The temperature was much below the mean, the 
deficit ranging from 3° in the ‘ Channel Islands’ to 
4° or 5° in most other districts, and to 6° in Scot- 
land, W. and N. The highest of the maxima were 
recorded ei 
gular , and ranged from Wana. 
land, E, 15° in England, E, and 17° in England, 
S.W., to 25° in ‘England, N.W.,’ and Ireland, S., 
and to 33° in the Channel Islands,’ 
all other districts, "Ta 
‘Scotland, W., the Wales was very considerable. 
The bright sunshine was a good deal in excess of 
in ‘England, E., and to 13 e and E. „ 
TRADE NOT NOTICE, 
We understand that sed 5 MORRISON, lately 
gardener at Bruree House, Bru d 
Mr. James DEWAR, ately . at Beechmount, 
ee: fa- on the business of the 
as fruit growers and flori sts. 
A THe DISTRIBUTION OF THE SEEDS OF 
HEVEA BRASILIENSIS, Muel.— We are indebted 
for the following communication concerning this 
plant to Mr. Wm. Lunt, of the Royal pya 
Corie’, E A large specimen of this 
the Bot e Gerdes is now (October), carrying 
p: considerable quantity of fruit t, the dehise of 
ic 
e,and at 4 feet from 
The dehiscence of the tri- 
carpellary fruits is septicidal, and the septa are very 
contractile. They begin to separate as the fruit 
come Webseed bert 8 at three 
which pi situated laterally at the 
base, the third being a s the fruits 
ripen, the septa, in dividing, begin to exert pressure 
centrifugally, and to press upon the seeds, When 
patty aly erg the earpels ae wit th a loud 
report; in some cases hey dehisce at the same time, 
whilst in others they deh hisce only on reachi 
carpel ‘splits in the median plane into tw 1 
parts with a loud report, and the preven of the 
8 septa upon the seed causes to be 
n to a considerable distance; in one tis stance a 
saad was thrown to : distance of 102 eet from the 
pipes of the tree; in this case the carpl e 
e carpels divi m- 
paratively small proportion. of the decd are infertile, 
8 invariably fall near the base of the tr 
55 e lighte 
fertile ones. 
0 rtile ones, which 
when fresh are quite greasy, and hey are lighter in 
which eee if the day is dry for some tima after 
the sun has set, but if dow or rain falls, it at once 
ceases for the time being 
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
* Owing to the larga ines i increase i 
relent Manne the nec 
earlier, Our co 
circulation, we 
necessity e TF 5 — — some ho 
ntributors, who well know wi is implies, will 
kindly aid us by sending their — re os as early in the 
week as possible, Communications should reach us not later than 
2 
are 
* PLANTS, Fruits, ETC., TO BE Namep.—C 
„„ “08 frills tte sama or ask 
ir solution, must not expect 
dried r 
We of any 
ial name for £33 bird, | Sa we do ki know that, 
a ely-acce beli 
ren has no clai oie ence 
Robin, im to be the consort of Cock 
wireworm, which six 
true legs, sucker-foot at the end of the tail, 
The millipedes live more or less pa wegen matter 
The For 28 85 olka a 
e Ferns pta Beny in pots, if you could aa anything 
that would be disliked by the milipedes they would 
probably leave the soi ruano s00t-water, 
lime-water, and nikente of soda, Firm potting i 
to be recommended, Defers dei doing anything on 
CHRONICLE. 
ry — — it 2 1 to 
Fer 
are 
cain — — the eyeless larva of the 
jack, a long slender brown beetle about an hal 
long, with very amall legs, and neither throat un 
waist, t ead being sunk up to the eyes in the 
thorax. N oR 8 very B 
answer to A. K. 9 
Musnrooms ROTTING on THe Bep j 
send specimens, The produce bell 4 E 
in a rotten state when, as you say, it came throngt 
g * 
Musnrooms: C. G. N. All the fangi you send 
di storted “oaths of the common Mus 
probably caused by some check to growth, 
from vd cause the check has arisen 
unable t — 
Names or Fam 
3s:—J, Whiting, 1, Glon e 
2, Lon - 
ng — alah d No. 2, Figu d Alengon - 
2, Queen Caroline; 4, Rim should e 
a good kitchen Apple, The others we do ni 
kno 
Was or PLANTS: J. C. S. 1, N a 
Fr.; 2, Stereum rugosum, Fr, 
Store eum: probably purpureum, Fr.; 7 4 Au 
androsaceus, Fr.; 5, Peziza . P 
firma, Pers. M. M—S dney. The Dendrobium 
, Jasminum sambac 
pecimens, an eir names can in m 
only be guessed. egaa er, l, Cypripedium 
venustum ; 2, Begon T ; 3, B. 2 
. E, S. Epidendrum ciliare 
pressus — pisifera; 2, Cup 
a canadensis; vi Cap 
Sraxisn Carstyvr Tmerr: W. H. M. T 
will last as long as the best English Oak, 
trees, when felled, are of o 200 
und and free from wind- hike, and ¢ 
dried athe diaca them, 
Senptnc Frowers ro tae Royat Hon 
tety’s Mrerincs: G. W. E. Address t 
tary, Rev. W. Wilke i 
SULPHATE or Iron ror Mrxtne WITH TAE 
WHICH TO BE 
Culs. The scientific name for copperas 
vitriol, obtainable at any oil-shop or cher 
CoMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED.—W. Guntripp and i 
your communications have been sent to our co 
H. J. . A. F. . 
F. W. H. G. 0. H.—J. R. T. -M. M., 
A. B., Jersey,— „Paris. — L. B., New 
—Little Ballantyne.—Sutton & 
. H. M.—D. L.— B.—E. W. 
—B.—R. L. H.-W. K. -R. -A. D. B 
W. C.—R. D.—S. T. W.—A. M.—A, P. J. 
PHOTOGRAPHS SPECIMENS, ETO, REOEIVED WIrEH T 
C. H., Dropmore.—C, H. Payne.—Miss A., Dublin- 
=O. Sole. Pore. 
the Superinte 
Society’s society's Gardens, Chiswick. 
CONTINUED INCREASE in the CIROULA TON 
“GARDENERS CHRONICLE. ny ip 
IMPORTANT TO Aorta. ~The Publisher 2 0 
that the circulation of i 
Chronicle” 
8 
and that it e ecules 
es — reminded that the “Chron igen a 
Y GENTLEMEN, AND ALL © p a 
pemg n at home, that tit thas 1 l 
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