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m 22, 1806.) THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. ?79 
HAY. 
verages.—The following are the averages of the prices at 
e ipal metropolitan markets during the week :— 
Clover, best, 90s. to 115s.; do., inferior, 50s. to 80s.; hay, 
best, 80s. to 92s. 6d, ; ~~ inferior, 36s. to 60s.; mixture, 70s, 
34s. per load. 
CORN. 
Averages. — Official statement of the prices of 
British Cora, imperial measure N = for ‘the week ending 
June 15, and for the correspon year :—1895 : 
Wheat, 26s.2d.; Barley, 19s. 44. Poste. 15s. 1ld.; 1894 
Wheat, 23s. 10d., ; Barley, 24s. lld. ; Oats, 18s. 9d. 
: and this expressed in Day- 
degrees = —a *‘* Day-degree” 1° continued for 
twenty-four hours, or any number of degrees for 
an inversely proportional number of hours.] 
| TEMPERATURE, RAINFALL. i 
14 4. . 
25 73 i 72155 
it 13 ENG 
12 42 * 23 E 
833 83 rE E 280 
Ta” 27 3 Ses 
o 74 3 (o EE 
34 Ble 15 (FE 
< 12 x 
othe ie 
eg Inch. Ins. | 
0j 4 — 1 1 = 100 |1§'a| 35 32 
113 — J 3 78 | 93) 48 | 36 
2 2 — 0 |+ 3 — 84 10 4 44 33 
3 3 — 0 — 2 2 — | 76 | 83 46 38 
442 — 83 0 ＋ 15/4 372 4 — 65 84 54 33 
5 1 — 99 0 — 333 2 — 63 | 74 48 37 
6 3 — 69 0 i+ 334| 6 — 80 104 56 34 
7 3 — 0 |+ 16/4 302) 4 — 72 |102| 53 | 35 
8/0 aver 97 0 — 10/4 337 2 — 68 11˙8 64 44 
9 2 — 0 200 ＋ 275 5 — 89 10˙9 57 35 
10| 1 — 0 — 65+ 195 2 — 77 13˙1 43 | 36 
% aver 109 0 — 44/4 248 3 — 81 10 8 70 48 
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THE PAST WEEK 
THe following summary record of the weath throughout 
the British Islands for the week ending June 16, is furnished 
cal Office :— 
The weather continued fine and very dry over the Kingdom 
asa whole, tut slight falle of rain occurred almost daily in the 
rather considerable e quantiti es of rain were experienced at a 
few of our southern and south-western- stations, 
. fall in most other ities. Thunder and lightning 
different parts of England during the latter 
: part seye the Li 
“The te 
Channel Islands.’ The lowes grass minima reported were 24° 
at Edenfel, 725 ‘at Teantand — Ta Loughborough, 
28° at t St rathfield eld Turgiss, and 29° a 
centages of possi duration ran ranging from 70 in the 
* Channel Islands.“ 64 in Eng! and, EW. — 57° in * Ireland, 
to 44 in England, N. E., 43 i n ‘Ireland, 8., and to 35 in 
tland, N.“ 
fully packed and numbered, 
— Nr Leaves only, or 
Florists varieties cannot, as a rule, be named. 
Beroan Bran: Notting Hill. 
a 6 os a sport, and not of common occur- 
Bec iP. M. Write to the author, A. D. Webster, 
Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, Price, not mach. 
Bacvrzrvraty Ant Destroyer: J. W, This can be 
abta bat Alex. Cross & Sons, 19, Hope 
Street, Glas 
* MANURE ron Frurrinc Vines, Roses, To- 
: Nu 6 yom eee is, „ tiquid 
3 scarcely be need 
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powder, in which state it is second only to nitrate 
of soda in its nitrogenous constituents. If you 
not dry the blood that you obtain from the 
slaughter-house, you should treat according to the 
first method, and employ it as a top-dressing to 
the say, once a 
Cereus Granpirtorus: W, T. The flowers of this 
plant are fragrant only at intervals, giving out 
puffs bs odour every half hour whilst they remain 
open; that is from 7 or 8p. till midnight, 
nb Nursery man. ea things 2 a 
heat 11 be deficient. Are there — in 
the soi 
bodies conc orF: M. B. It is probably caused 
by eelworms present ang op pga pg 
3 let us examine roots, shoots, leaver, and 
ous A . J. M. B. A Piofessor is 
one who esses knowledge; the occupation if 
not mechanical, agricultural or the like, to which 
one devotes oneself: the business which one . 
for subsiatence ;” vide Websters “ Internati 
ictionary.” t sense a gardener is a pro- 
py a and gardening a profession. You may be 
a professor of — cookery. phrenology, an 
other . without number. We think that the 
Mustarp anv Cress: A. J. W. Is is usually grown 
for market as a catch-crop in f houses, 
žhe 
are shaded till the plante appear, during bright 
sunshine, and matted at aigtle Phe! — air is cold. 
The — 5 must be kept close till germination 
a 
lacks the agreeable pungency of the latter. 
irra aan 1 Col 
4 
3 
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en 
ia; 
6. Sedum ast j 5y 
Cattley — 
oe. N, hypnoides ; Festuca 
(next week). — Amateur, 1, Ailanthas glan- 
dulosa ; 2, Stapbylea pinnata; 3, A Plane, Pla- 
tanne acerifolia; 4, An evergreen O Ic may 
= S: suber; 5, Liriodendron ag eho Tulip 
6 rcus coccinea.— ‘obbins, Your 
fangas isa — bed — common Mushroom. — 
R. E. A Not Cy 
pediu um bellatatum, b — Ct Godefroyæ leucochilom, 
illustrated in the June 
1694, p. 815. The other is a very handsome form 
of Laelia mejalis.— W. . ya Forbe besii. — 
A Lover of Wild Flowers 1, Valeriana officinalis ; 
2, Polygala vulgaris; 3, Orchis Morio. The 
4 is the common Cornel, us sanguinea.— 
no not name; ask your nurseryman, 7. Aans 
glutinosa. 
C. H. J. E ulat 
Peracnes: J. R. R., and 
Peach blister. Iw ie. ganed- by 
a fungus known 
as Exoascus (Ascomyces) 2 cake only 
Fic. 120.~PEACH BLISTER: EXOASOUS DEFORMANS, 
ramos you have is to remove 
„ all ope — sa T . — 12 120) 
Spraying with Bordeaux Mixture might 
beneficial, * 
but we have not tried it 
