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AVGUST I4, 1875.] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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- ings of a thermometer on grass, with its bulb exposed 
_ to the sky, were 41° and 45° 
on the 2d and 5th; on the 
ath, 56° was the lowest reading: The mean Ы the 
several low readings was 
The direction of the vin was N., and its strength 
. bris 
The ime bey the week was generally fine, 
and xs sky cl 
iolent thunderstorm орле between 2 and 3 
P e 7th, accompanied by very 
heavy rain. At W fret three adde were struck 
of the sewers which were inadequate to carry offthe 
water and the (— flooding of the basements 
of a number of h 
At At Blackheath tbe ЕР came down from the heath 
with such violence into the low-lying parts of the vil- 
her as to seriously threaten the foundations of the 
ou 
temperatures obse by day ranged from 714° at 
Blackheath and Cam e to 62° at Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, the general vege being 663°, The mean 
low temperatures observ ы кыы varied Hits 
533° at Live stle- yne, 
with a general average of 9i аР mean daily 
range of temperature i 171°, varying 
kw 
at Cambridge and 12° at Liverpool The 
was 56}°, bein я. HB 
the corresponding week 
ighest ейге!” at Bla ckheath, 591", 
and the lowest at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 56}°. 
‘The amount of rain measured at t Sh heffi eld was 
34 mp e. eig. = be than 22 eee of which ni on 
2E. m 
no rain fell The average fall over the country was 
week was fine, but баі, 
and the ET Em cloudy. Thunderstorms occurr 
generally over the country on the 7t йан 
rain fell at Касен оп FROM night, and a thunder- 
d over the 
very ae epee the country on Sunday and Monday, 
a 9th and I0 
n Scotland, the highest decim an ranged from 
dst at Dundee, to 654 at Aberd The lowest 
temperatures vari -— from 49? at Greenock, is dix at 
pe T verages being 691? 
"rey temperature ture for the —— 
Tr "being Pi еи value for the 
sponding week in ; 874, th highest was at t Greenock, 
591^, and the lowest at Paisle еу, SP e fall of 
р ep = ное eek was rally s š 
: 
arying from can ths f an inch 
Gre 3060 ton ту -tenth of an inch, nearly, at Paisle е ; 
the average зак over the whole of Scotland was а 
quarter of an 
At Dublin, “the ‘highest temperature was 744° ; 
lowest, 394° ; др rainfall, 0°57 ind 
the mean, 59°; 
7 GLAISHE 
Garden "HE 
(FOR THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
е open will allow 
more gom young tock t that is often 
confined to pits dug the early part of the season 
е 
young hard-wooded pl have been kept through 
the early part of t n in such structures, th 
should now open situation 
Оса by Cha Mer specimens previous to the latter 
being put ns vd em will ern benefit the young 
stock, which by being placed thinly and eleva ted well 
i 
"— of the year have 
this size, and which ag ite present KM are much 
an put out in open air, 
son for not sam 
small 
upon by sun d drying winds than w 
which it is difficult to get them to mov by treat 
ing e advised the get sufficiently 
ripened to stand the winter, without subjecting them 
о over-much exp An ts that have been 
ut-of-doors during the recent heavy rains, 
eans as advised were taken to keep them from get- 
ting much ave had their soil 
as has often been urged, 
wed to occur, and with such it 
necessary for. some time to exercise more than 
m 
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a few days on inverted Pola sufficiently large to ensure 
their not being blown o ose w ve not 
a h experience in grow g hard-wooded sub- 
jects, such ume against the effects of super- 
bundant istur he above any other 
minute details in their culture, which are m m 
to time 4 > ven, may appear tediou and un 
ap 
yet it is by close attention to nes ippa “trivial 
matters that success with this class of plants can 
as.—The greater portion of the sing a 
a ren 
habit of the ag ie ri » practical resu 
ion to nodi th he spring after they have 
bloo is that it cannot then be done without dis- 
urbing the , which are then active a ery 
brittle, as also impatient of being interfered E = 
hat on, the pl are abo 
their shoo оо, m disturbance of the roots edi inter 
were with the growth to a serious extent. 
frequently fail to grow fu 
from the points of the 857 oc 
llias are shifted as soon ha theit РА are 
set Fase of this nature can occur, the plants — 
all the a herein their 
e check 
e season's — commences, 
r-buds are s 
pif to set 
A before 
is repot- 
et, it is эз чы to 
loam, others peat ure of peat and loam, 
eat is undoubtedly tution id to the rapid growth 
init they usu scenic not set their 
oam can 
"d 
ure | 
make the existing 
over-potting ; does e eene so much 
root-room as аг) Mona 7. Bai 
d HOUSE 
Eo — for the x fortnight has 
been everything the n grower esire, and a 
glut of richly ‚ ented. nu is the result. 
esirable in 
what has been 
oving fruits 
pice the season of supply. Fires may be safely 
nsed with during a — of this weather, 
Husband a good sun-heat, by closing the dde venit 
early in all structures wherein are rowing crops, an 
in t ing st ave previously 
advised that the plants should be excited as little as 
sibl ring the setting ey 
also 0 secure 
ts fa tail strong shoul 
e to support by means of tables or 
ruits ibi ich are Pp. heavy beneat 
e to time those which 
a d AME a 
scalding. Be eniti that ong pei: in pots 
xes do not suffer for the of water. Thos. 
pens Chelmsford, August од 
ViNES.—The canes of pot-Vines ORC for 
in the last stage of 
peness ; but if by reason of the cold sunless mape 
any are not ripening kindly, бей should b 
plied forthwith, and this with abundance of x а 
soon have the desired ed at are ripe 
i tc e sooner if n into the open 
d. 
from heavy rain, as at | 
roots would 
‘that t overdrynes Б 
voided, 
the best way to sicud this is о soc iniit 
fresh — material. old rte soil should 
es way and ni replaced ‘with good loam, ул, 
whi vid been i incorporated a ‚ proportion 
crushed or charcoal Ripe 
Grapes will 1 canis frequent коа оке с 
shanked or decayed berries. М. ue likely 
to be E for, uem deine ris the wet and 
cold weat numerous in this district ; 
colouring and swelling oft 
aired fieely; and that night and 
n 
Grapes. asten by eve pro- 
gress of any Grapes er stage 
than colouring, as perfect — or предсе ensures 
p" Lacer ae 
pe before a Sper n dat to keep 
ДОЙТ. W. тй, 27 
Variorum. 
I PLANTS, 
Not Darwin, love, 
For кетед would prove 
rss E Tode 
To стт быс Fido pet 
Had! lost it his s breath 
In cruel deat 
Because, one y 
In thoughtless play, 
oo near a Violet. 
Or, horror ! whai 
If, heeding at 
Some — plant — 
Yes we, my dia s 
