Marcu 19, 1887.] 
THE АРЕ КИ 
dicating respectively 239,..285,.22?, 17°, and 20°. 
The highest morning temperatures were on the 3d, 
18th, 23d, 24th, an ‚+ 
and 44° were indicated 
was 81°, on the 8th ; the highest was 58?, on the 27th 
of the month. Of the ‘ig spring flowering plants, 
ose dates of flowering are ann дый ec pan 
February 4; Eranthis уен, February 4; Daphne 
mezereum, February eucoium, February 14; 
Symplocarpus i x Februar ry 14; Scilla precox, 
February 16; Rhododendron atrovirens, February 17; 
Crocus vernus, February 17 ; Nordmannia see 
CHRONICLE. 391 
me: еер ani 1 Redoutei, Crocus annulatus, 
C. biflorus, etruscus, Olivieri, Susianus, Sieberi, 
and vernus ; elleborus antiquorum, albicans 
major, orientalis, guttatus, Leucoium ^ vernum, and 
carpaticum, Cyclamen Coum vernu um, Ichicum 
erdcifolini, Iris понад and Krel Hic. 
rnensis, Saxifr: 8. 
Burseriana, Roche de Muscari lin Tax ug "se illa 
bifolia сече Bulbocodium vernum, Scilla sibirica, 
Draba а aizoon, Doroni ay 
e 
Extract FROM Report on TEMPERATURE, apart 
TION, &c., IN THE BOTANIC GARDENS, GLASG 
The thermometer has been at or below the icu 
erre S OM 
TRIB EL A 
Fic, 79.—PrAN OF A VILLA GARDEN, (SEE P. 390.) 
February 18; Bulbocodium vernum, Feb: ruary 19; 
Scilla sibirica, February 19; Iris reticulata, F ebruary 
tee hododendron Nobleanum, February 26; Scilla 
она taurica, м 27; Arabis albida, Februa 
27; Omph balades y 
rock garden forty-iv6 setts and тана 
Маша came into flower during the montk, 
during A 
were : — Hepatica triloba, 
point fifteen times during "p month of Februar. 
'The lowest reading was 19°, or 13? of frost, ding 
h. 
mes for February. Total night. wading 66°, 
four — at m салде 
The lowest day t — was 919, or 19 of 
frost, on the 8th and oth. Very fine days are recorded 
m 
day temperature has caused the sap to rise rapidly. 
The red racemes of Ribes тч эздин are already 
visible, and the buds of the various species of Li 
are visibly bursting. The wibio of many Roses is 
y developed, and is certain to be injured later 
The same effectis not noticeable on hen 
herbaceous plants, most of which are in a c 
The only border ане 
n bloom consist of various species о f Crocus, Helle- 
БО, Petasites, and Daphne Mezereum and album 
R. Bullen 
There were exhibited a large collection of New 
Zealand Ferns and allied plants J. A 
Allison, They were fine 
unted 
piscis T Schizea, Lycopodium, &c., bei eing repre- 
se 
he m Mr. D. Brown, of D. Macfarlan & 0., 
came a large box of are morphia (?), covered with 
а very peculiar fungt 
Dr. Craig en a specimen of me common 
Snowdrop, having two flowers on a scape 
Mr. J. R. =з exhibited a bulb of vate scilla, 
which had bee 
From the Mi came Saxifraga fimbriata and 
Stracheyi in fine flower, along with numerous cut 
flowers of Scilla, Crocus, Iris, Helleborus, &c. 
PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE. 
PRIMULAS. 
Ix order to have plants of the n: Primula for 
be 
in pans or potted med in thumb-pots. Good strains 
are now numerou пан тау Ье оЬ- 
tained. Seeds of Р. obconica puta likewise be sov n 
at the present time; this is a very desirable free- 
flowering Apa rie plant, b alike for decorative 
and cutting purpose 
Evcnanis. 
These beautiful flowering egt аге impatient of 
bed 1 
size larger than those they a are turned out of, the 
cp of the bulbs ie d kept well up to the surface of 
soil, which s e rammed tolerably firm 
id out doing i lou T v the roots. We have just 
completed potting our plants of E. amazonica, bisque. 
have not been interfered with for some few ye & 
portion of these has lately shown signs of ‘debility, 
bei 
n ng examined it was found that many of 
the bulbs had become too deeply embedded in the 
soil and the compost pasty. е separated the bulbs, 
past) 
и {һе € with as rcm mA ian to the 
possi sorting the bulbs the 
strongest were e planted Per y together i in ig 
rained lar, hile th 
nenê 
utting. he soil that suits the Eucharis is a fibry 
Vit mixed with moderate quantities of sand and 
fibry peat, 
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