THE 
JULY 24, 1875.] 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
117 
This is a thorough process, as the weeds are hauled 
e roots before they have a chance of seeding, 
career is conclusively cut short. When 
y hoed in dam 
of the roots remain in t xe as ll as the 
stumps of the stalks, and they s spring up again 
and if they are left lying on M Soil they EST root 
into it again, and make a fresh start of grow 
If there be a id corner e garden he will 
accommodate a refuse-heap, there let it be formed. 
All garden refuse ae e dud manurial pur- 
ecome 
way o se-heap, and all the fine 
sings os ңе а. inken from the fire-grates are 
nd hot t 
thrown over an рөн ane soo 
i Жы ; Vlil hey a i 
infectants, also assist the putrefying Io s, and 
haste . This refuse can be utilised in various 
ways put 
nto 
placing cold frames Nu and it is by no means to be 
slighted as a duy 
WEEDS I —After a drenching rain the 
Ho ipie wart Жош Бе ке over to n aw out from 
y weed ittle tufts. of grass that roo 
БШМ into the grave’, Sa are difficult do p in 
with ease when 
aths to 
get the surface smooth again. ittle Зана 
o much towards keeping а tidy appearance 
а garden ; untidy walks are quite unpardona 2e. 
Box and g e w with 
necessary to advert to the subject again, 
because in a we season “trimming is Fase frequently 
required ‘Vien nina М туо 
RIAS.— A little ‘seed should now be sown 
e of leaf-mould, a small 
new m old gar 
of fine as COR and cover it 
use for 
equired. 
e leaves are apt to get 
d wh M close 
h 
rm 
er att bagi are m e 
the winter for the sake of their 
ey FIMBRIATA. — А sowing of 
uld be made, following be 
of the Cinerari 
B 
nter on 
Bs v te 
ma shift into eve 
60-pots, giving 
as they an large enough 
ts 
soon 
7$ 
л 
Ж 
- 
f thos 
havoc with vegetable life, They do not become so 
subject t to attacks of E nfly, n Sor io i leal. as the 
Cineraria; and that is of great advantage to the 
E 
TS IN Pors.—Now is the time of 
ARDY PLAN 
year when such hardy spring flow. plants as Au- 
ricu Primr Polyan 
c., shoul 
repotted into their атар pots, in order that they 
may get firmly established during 
autumn, ensure fine heads of bloom in the 
Spring, We are glad to know that a зне {ос for growing 
such plants in pots is gaining gro 
аан т 
\ еге ог purpose. in e ad turn out 
re the eek the boton o the МГ; a 
move th ttom ball з. 
crumble away a good deal of the soil without 
dung, so dry that it will crumble 
d a little sand, well mixed gestus ll these 
hardy plants do best when well rained, therefore 
put a layer of crocks fully half an inch in thickness 
over the bottom of t i o 
urf, 
the soil, remem- 
the spring MESA are thrown out from 
xat is ee the crown of the plant, t, tati is, at the 
base of the leaves, and as the lowermost leaves decay 
dinne the winter there is nose for the p 
k in Me soil. [eu 
mature their growth, a 
strong flowering plants 
er 
or frame. The great thin the plants well 
established in ip e ue. ur autumn and winter, 
then they make g growth in early spring, a 
in and 
flower with pref prolin, С the great gratification 
of the cultivator. 
The Weather. 
STA nE oe үе WEATHER AT BLACKHEATH, LONDON, 
E WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, JULY 2r, 1875. 
| | 
Нувтоте-, 
cene De-| | 
TEMPERATURE OF uctions | | 
Е BAROMETER. THE А. diem os] WIND. | 
á Tables 5th, | 
t Edition. | E 
2 a | Е 
| ldo | д 
ИЕ КЕ ШЫ 
Emma n e | .| 59| 
ШГЕК РЕГ ГАЛ и ЕЕ eg 
= DEE а 9101. ядро a Чү, Bd 
FA 5 зеш, Е б SQ carl > Bel БЕ 
pun е^ atp $ 959 RA | 
$27 Gim | ok DS Ana SA 
„Ж; ° Be 
Г pë sd | ран 
july 15-4 IN. : LII ‘eta f ESE: In. n. 
15 рд —0.33 59-4 54.0 Last. y- "es ;8 "T x "i 1 16 
| | say d Tal 
16 metn agi вә 904) gk 19 
17 2943 0.17563. 555.2 5357.2— eo 961 Nik i 
1 
guess 13 56.8 77 а, 
18 | | 29.58 E 74.9 
19 [em ен 63.0 
oen 
P 9-1 = 3457-9 93 TC ies ло 
20 |29.75 004169.5 57 5 12.0 060.3 — 1157.6 STIMA 
58.2 4.859 
| | | inm 
| 
21 68 .—o.11/6 "s ET 2.1 b WSW 0.2 
ge | 3.554. jy ў WAW 9 
um 
Mean | 2963 —0.37 64. 956.2 8.7 58.9 — 3-755- 3 эт ен 2.86 
Е .—Overcast, dull, and heavy rain fell beh Cold. 
Te mei rhe es dull: 'and ЗЕ feil joy 
— and rain fell t P.M "dle rably fine 
ы 
— 18. рай and fale ‘in early morning. Fine, bright and warm 
afterwards. 
—  19.—Overcast, misty, and rain fell till 4 P.M. Fine and clear 
afterwards. 
— 20.—A fine day: dull and cloudy at times. 
— 21, “Overcast, dull, and rain fell till 2.45 P.M. 
y after wards. 
Fine, but 
During the week me" ГРЕЯ July 17, in 
the B карагоз of London the reading of the barometer 
e sea decreased from 29.63 inches at 
week t t inches by the 
end of the week. The mean reading for the week was 
29.87 inches, ТЕ 0.18 inch less than that of the 
ойне wee 
The highest temperatures of the air at 4 feet above 
anged between 66" on the inh and 598° 
63.. The 
Я E di temperature 
sixty hio observatio: 
hi : 
uA? The mean 
was 55.7 5 Deis 9.5 MM HE 
posed to Кантет n PM le ey 
14th; on the 16th 55° was we lowest "ume: ; the 
as 4 
тезе Pu N.E. “and S Wi 
É the pra e was dull, cold, sed 
h fell fro 
Wednesday at II A.M. till Satu 
3 30 P.M., with the exception of a few b 
weather n Friday. Rain fell on five E 
week, and the amount measured was 3.04 in 
In En, ngland, the extreme high 
on- Tyne, the wen — over the whole country 
bein 692°, һе extreme low night temperatures 
varied between 49° 2 Liverpool and tid at Eccles, 
the ARA average being 44". The an of the 
extreme ranges of temperature in the eius was 254°, 
the greatest range being at Eccles, 343°, and the least 
at Liverpool, 172". The mean high temperatur 
observed by day ranged 674° at Manchester, 
Cambridge, and Sunderland, to 601^ at Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, with an average value o & mean low 
temperatures observed by night varied fro 25° at 
ruro to Newcastle-on-T th a general 
average of 4 The mean daily range of tempera- 
n 
ta ju ae d week in 1874. eh 
TUE uro, 574°, and the lowest at steno -on-Tyne 
"ain fell on our or five days in the week at most 
ations ; the a measured varied from 3 inches 
af Blackheath cn Bristol to three-tenths of an inch 
at Bradford. The av erage he during the week over 
the country was 14 inch nearly, 
Phe all бү rain during the last four days was 
southern stations, as will be seen in та 
реале Table, showing the fall on' each day a 
several sions 
Fall on | Fall on | | Ya lon | 
8 Fall on 
; Wed- | Thurs- | Sat | 
Stations. nesday, day, | bee ч Es | Total 
| 14th. rth, | | yh | 
oe p Дф; {кн h Да 
rur 0.90 ДИҢЕ зуи oo .| 0.98 
Bristol у 2-56 | баз 7s |. 2.68 
Blackheath 0.49 1.16 | 0.76 0.42 | 2.83 
єїсезїег 1.07 0.27 - O2 | 1.36 
Birmingham К 1.36 0.38 ix EET IO ME 
Norwich £x .52 0.35 re 0.87 
Wolverhampton 1.19 0.38 ©; O.II 1.68 
Cambridge A 1.06 0.37 Hl 143 
Nottingham + 1.18 47 | os. 1.65 
Sheffield 0.62 0.05 ee 0.35 | 1.02 
Liverpool 0.43 e А | 0.17 | 0,60 
Manchester " .39 $i 04 .18 | 0.57 
ci "d «+ 9.45 902 | 5 0.19 o. 66 
ull ўж eb. 0.02 is 0.99 IOI 
Bradford 0.04 отг 0.01 aS .16 
Leeds .. 1905 0.10 0.02 0.17 
Sunderiasil .| 0.03 is] i s | 0.03 
Ne MAE - on - | | 
Туп -| .04 | " 1 . | 0.04 
ather during the week, p y at 
The articularl 
ed np re ns, was dull pea very wet, and the sky 
enerally overcast. At northern stations it was 
zi resi sn with slight i wes of rain. 
A sligh thunderstorm occurred at Norwich on the 
e 17th. 
In M esu the highest temperatures ranged from 
i nM. at Leith; the general ia a 
west temperatures varied bet 
84° at Aberd an чаа 
range o 
ean tempera ure for 
°, being T higher than diat of 
alue for the corre- 
a at 
eiim: of an inch. 
rain fell he 
i gene average over the 
two-tenths of an s vas өү, the 
At TURA the hie temperature was 
381^, the mean а 551^, and the fall of 
1 
к of an i 
JAMES GLAISHER. 
PLANT HOUSES. 
PLANT SrovE.—Late sown fà p» нч a 
autumn flowering, at w time they are > Inc 
d receive йыгы) not let iep get 
cramped in the pots for want of root th 
a the growth becomes and the 
бы begin to form, after which the most 
treatment. will fail to induce them to 
