THE GARDENERS’ 
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ot exceed 70° in the shade ; the hottest days being 
the 9;h and 24%, when 87° w was recorded on eac 
tes. Oaly 36 of an inch of rain fell daring the 
month, this м the smallest dioe for June 
registered sin 
July, up uu the 18А, was dry and warm in the 
daytime, though the nights were cold, Оа the I6:h 
the thermometer fell to freezing - point, while on the 
following day it rose to *9? in the shade, being one 
of the hottest daysin the whole year. Between the 
18;h and the end of the month rain fell to the 
extent of 350 inches, The bai night was on the 
255b, the minimum being 6 
was rainy till the 155 d, with war 
of rain which fell was 2:42 inches. 
September was an unusually dry — there being 
only t vo days on which there w any registered, 
and these were on the 7ch ih and Ilth, e aggregate 
fall being 73 of an inch, which I abr ia the least 
ached was over 80° in the 
ost boing on the 7ch, 86°, aad on the 
* T p la*ter date 117? was reached ia 
tbe sua, E 
"October war, in some respects, a peculiar montb, 
for, with the еа of the first, which was very 
hot aad dry, rain fell m 
the 
towards the end. The warmest night was oa the 
6;h, when the min ; and the coldest 
was on the 26;b, when 18° EM Rain 
to the extent of 277 ine 
wat a vary wei montt, — Айй ча 
twenty-one days 
amoaat has only been exceeded on three Е 
withia the last sixty years. This is all the ш 
оп по cccasion was there more — 
Sigaret; ihi Dih ias Gk" tio OAK Not once 
— warn have we had a flood in the river, 
at the of The 
below freezing-point, the coldest 
night being the 13:b, when 25? was reached. 
December, 
hat been fairly mild. Оа the 15th 
the maximum was 51°. H. C, Prinsep, Mid-Sussex. 
BULBS IN WATER. 
Tr {а saddening to note in passing through crowded 
siresta ог y : 
„though 
sesk, mor diffi zalt to avoid. contrary. 
Hore it is. Taoasande of balbs are set ia water; aad 
not а few of them are already rotten. Ia others, the 
as it ware, to ran fair at both ead», and ander vary 
unfavourable conditions. t at reci- 
prosity of growih OO pu sni vo oc p de 
of root over top-growth, cannot 
observation oa the part of those cultivators who can 
sigas of show 
read the distress п by the bulbs growa 
in g s in our windows, and which are readily 
2 Uader such unnatural condition’, 
it is no wonder that growth ie laggard aud ths 
colour of the leaves and flowers poor, as is 
common in Hyacinths aud other balbs growa ia 
water, whose roote are exposed to the light from We 
fir 
in the leaves the less ivory-white the roots become. 
Bat there are other causes for the lack of verdure 
aad consequently vigour in bulbs in water than the 
pro тй 28 of chlorophyll from the leaves 
zd flow roots 
Ha ack of colour and the sluggish growth often 
re greatly aggravated, throagh the tops 
bell in Set iad ahead of the roote, which is aa 
exact reversal of the proper order in most plants. 
Balbs are partial exceptions in having a larger store 
of food than in other plants. г so un- 
wisely they make efforts, more or less atrong, to grow 
and unfold their flowers. If, however, top-gro 
оез of root- growtb, the gradaal exhaustion of 
the stored-up supplies causes weakness and compara- 
tive failure of the development of leaves and flowers. 
Bat balbs are often drowaed as well as lighted 
iato failare by placing their base into the water 
instead of keeping it а }-iach abore the sar- 
faca. Dormaot balbe of Hyaciaths, Narcisu’, 
Ka, want nothing till roote hare been made, 
and these the balbs will emit at the right time, 
The tops should, daring the first stage, be kept dry, 
aud by this simple difference of treatment of the top 
and bottom of the balb, the root will start ey 
growth aad do fairly wel“, even in glasses 
sunlight, 
о have perfect balbs in glasses, vaser, baskets 
ad he balbs shoald — Кер cool and ia the dark 
lat 
їп m ‘of that of the leaves and flower stem 
Having done this, and when the leaf-growth bee 
pashed upwards 14 to 2 iacher, and the roots 
freely developiag, growth will go oa all right — 
a light, 
caltare, 
Datch balbs, aad нал ceased to caltivate them, 
being daunted by their lack of success, Asa slight 
protection against the mild rays of the winter san, 
roots. vases for 
the caltare and display of single balbs, aad balbs 
or other plants in groups requires artistic and prac- 
tic 
not now available, Every glass and water-staad 
should have suffi cient weight and breadth of base to 
prevent it beiag easily overtarned, and it oaght also to 
be so well provided with crvetal arches, pianacler, 
or other oraamente as to afford the necessary sap- 
port to the roste, leaves, aad flywer-stems, withoat 
being usually as ineffective 
great yment of the 
effects of ordinary species 
plaate, bat 1 many other plants іа 
Joare I hare taken every opportanity to study 
— dap Lg camo rember meni 
C b ih, novel, bash, ob [чәге Өү уз речи 
CHRONICLE. 
[Овскмака 28, 1895, 
Centre Avenue, Covent Garden, or in such fine pro- 
vincial markets as those at Manchester, Liverpool, 
Birmingham, — or — NA 
HOME ÜORRESPONDENOE. 
REORGANISING THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
sociery.—Is is at once significant and instructive 
that there shoal ultaneous editorial sug- 
on this subject appearing in the leading 
horticaltural papers, and also notes on the same 
The obvioas inferencr, 
for the isation 
of the society is a wide-spread and a growing one. 
— we are к» d weeks Írom the — 
ng of th ms to 
- a pecaliarly propitious one for discussing а 1 
xtended m 
— of the vat v erform y those bodies, only 
it ie desired that auch — should — 14 localised in 
Londoa. bat shoald ba diff: 4 th hout th t 
That, of coarse, with the help of the leading pro- 
vincial — may z rem but there are difficaltier, 
me, to be e how it may 
rat, the Conseil can instract th he Secretary 
to invite certain of the leading proriacial societies to 
syal Horticultural Society. 
amerous, aad 
— have oae, Saseex 
te ia Soathamptoa. Wilts ia Salisbary, Somerset 
а; ана aad Bath, Berke at Reading; thea going 
northward, Birmiagham, achester, Liverpool, 
Sorews , York, &, are bat some of these bodies 
that might thas be made cou or district 
aty 
represenzati The provincial society — 
aclading Q«chide) 
— {гаф aad vegetable purposes, hese com- 
mittees shoald comprise the best horticaltariets 
of the or county, no one being а — 
* two committees, and to t »aacil 
viously taking sach aa , аа ey shou 
held to be awards of the Royal Н orticu‘taral Society. 
irst-olass certificates shoa d be granted only by the 
central committees. All со tees 
place by the local society; th ould 
keep full recorde of their nge, and, so far as 
nme make descriptive notes of subjects placed 
Society aot a Р.В... Tais would 
в journal А 
ө. Л more readable- matter — matter than is found in 
many of the loag = 
— — py bat now 
comes the diff salty. How are these branch com- 
4 abuadaat. ыз a. 
that they would 
their for After 
 wnijoubtedly have to ran alone. А mach handsodier 
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