AUGUsT 21, 1855.] 
THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
229 
and live in these porcina terraces, and with the 
addition of a little manure and water 
good fruit abundantly. as if in 
this climate, with its mi ild temperature in winter, its 
at in summer, an 
ao 
о 
situations, on the slope of precipito = peor d 
mts where there is no vegetable soil ia 
ns is contained in the crevices and 
E. 
dr iii that most of the plants and trees, 
чту wet in 'the Sout h all but independent. of soil, that 
ap 
atmosphere, ie evergreens hich eed stat 
spherically all the year round, a e handsome 
Carouba. А remarkable exception, however, is the 
Terebinthus Chio — t sh or tree which 
shows itself in the Desert of Sahara, according to Dr. 
Tristam. It grows freely and luxuriantly on my rocks, 
as well as at Chios, and in the Great Desert, but is 
mites from December to April, to my great annoy- 
-- 
. The remarks in your leader on ‘‘ Heat" (p. =) 
de ‘brought vi vividly to my mind a don nnected wit 
i iterranean in ая 
milder, Е гт 
Europe ? Mentone as the centre of observa- 
tion, there is t de t two mon ifference in the 
ring epoch of surface Hae and al small aheng 
hen is 
eks or a month when we 
study deciduous trees, Willows, Poplars, Planes 
Oaks According to my own Mn d based 
on fifteen years, the minimum for F 
the maximum 55°. 
ld hav 
arch, but it is not so, they 
full leaf iud ges end of April—scarcely 
then. may n a remarkable illustration. of 
May 6, 1874, 1 I was at Tunis, and 
went to visit the Bardo, the w 
yis е sea, Tunis itself 
h ot a single 
eaf-buds were large, swelling, but not 
ed. 
time, and to a certain extent think 
elopment 
er vegetation and that of the trees, 
a 
thermometer 
ataa winters, at 2 feet pur the surface in my 
en, never found it 45°; so with roots 
3 n , and the trunk and еа le the tempera- 
Reds we might expect earlier leaf development 
in 
May not light, and the i д — of day- 
Tight, na something to do ion? As 
orth the da rebum dnd longer 
de are rn the south, a: the nights cese 
ac wi eee 
we have had during the last mo mi mer the 
thermometer often 1 40? than at Mentone 
during the six months of winter, t summer 
fruits are ism ch after their 
Then ust not forget the habit, 0 the danar oE 
plants, which i it is difficult to modify. d 
experience at mei ite sae aaa 1 J of 
this fact, one of the remarkable of which is the 
history of the S Itake out a 
year for “а lang syne,” and plant them out in 
October, but they п soon ebruary, 
wherever I may place them, in the of the sun 
or out of it. They t be put out of their way, 
and flower with me just at the same epoch as the 
would in the snow in t hetland Is I can, 
however, get the two mon adv with most 
ers in the open, but I cannot get three. 
can get in March 
April the flowers of July and August, 
although, were heat above, there is 
quite enough to This is so much 
the case that, as I leave in the month of April, I 
have all but concluded to no further attempt to 
flower any eed ie does E flower until July in the 
North of Eur enry Bennet, M.D., The 
Ferns, Weybridve 
JOHN STANDISH. 
WE are enabled this week to lay before our readers 
a portrait which may serve—somewhat imperfectly, it 
must be owned—to recall the bap ree of this much- 
respected horticulturist. need add nothing to 
what we have already said as ‘to pe genial character- 
ist the m e good service he did as a 
skilful hybridiser, and in other 5, іп promoting 
the art and science of horticulture. Our testimony 
h n supported by others of his friends, H 
eaves a void which т not easily be filled. We 
learn that it is propo: Š rk of affec- 
tionate Mm & his remains in the Ascot 
churchyard аф pres ge spirit of the proposal 
o made, but w would su t that a prefera ble mode 
eh 
Horticultural Society, side by s 
oth and our friends. g 
pleasurably associa 
might preferably be left to the care of his immediate 
JOHN STANDISH. 
relatives, We may parai that the treasurer to the 
fynd. is is Mr. Н. J. Veitch, Royal Exotic Nursery, 
NEW BOTANICAL GARDENS | 
AT CHURCHTOWN, LANCASHIRE. 
SOME time ago we an accoun 
the new Southport Aquarium, 
mentioned that X: is the 
ofispring, a thousand times in advance, of the primi- 
tive village of ‘Churchtown, which, though few would 
— such a thing possible, is still the ecclesiastical 
The perve e is between two and three miles 
Pone in the direction of the Ribble (famed for its 
salmon), thus on the north-eastern tern or Prest on side of 
but still in the shore. 
Up +. Ре р 4 Га 1. | regarded 
Ue t al tis OMNIA ы 
thriving bathing-place in which we find the Aquarium, 
along e porrum and t lanes w 
lead the ancient village, 
a ers that something remar. 
p to its restoration to fame and ''pride of 
locality of what 
santest and most енг рне gardens in Lanca- 
shire, and, better still, in the estimation Я botanists 
and nsi 
go ай; in-hand. Тһе Mayor, Walter Smith, Esq., 
one of the most energetic эш їп керег " — 
man of b ies ; id tin is 
rc +h 
t a 4 4 4 1 
he plac 
increasing in popular favour, both as a pe ips and 
ubt that 
sand; ny alon 
om the south-west y going 
the promo 
of this excellent scheme have quite relieved themselves 
indrance, кле a месе, а » 
a dept th o 
apparently, of the great surface w 
instance a watery flat, one or two rie y о 
was drained artificially, and is now а ЖУ 
fertile stretch of farm-land,  reachi any 
miles in every dire z The winds, in turn, 
have had their hurtfulness neutralised in very 
cons easure, if not entirely, by the skil- 
ful laying-out of the ground, and the ag arrange- 
articular. 
e materials at his yee but t ich guarant ee 
mat shelter. The area of the gardens is about 
20 acres, Ori wet a a stream, weedy a 
inelegant, threaded i from near the present 
entrance gates t ae раба beyond, dividing "the 
nd into two DA ggal I portions dint of 
immense ur, remindin f railway rl 
a | lake, the onl in the rict, a quart 
of a mile in length, and full of Се и dd 
varied outlines, the whole never visible ^ 
wn his maste and ingenui leasant fair- 
Бә Йес A, Lud uad шн, 
rud at the same ome they enjoy an almost perfect 
unity from damage by storms from the sea, This 
last. advantage has been. secured byt the constant em- 
well fenced behind, and having an -— barricade of 
Beech and Lom bardy Po lar, The c road 
a 
will be к= except w T 
vii ЕБ tal, йт, th 
t an the to! so in e 
w р m " indivi and as soon 
р nknown 
Southport and the neig еконо od, 
Populus nigra and Populus alba, 
dominant trees are 
with a smaller proportion of Sycamore, Hornbeam, 
Willow, and in the gardens e Lilacs, &c. 
a reme qe 
shied clas these occurs 
the parish. in eget | to its * aspects of vegetation,” 
