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AUGUST 28, 1875.] 
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from 584° at Blackheath to 524° at Bristol, the general 
s e being 
, ~ теап daily ee ^ эч уеге їп ict 
ri 
the week was 63°, being 2° mne than the value for 
the correspon nding week in 1874. T highest 
urred at Cambridge, 67? ; and the lowest at New- 
iscon- Tyne, бо? 
Тһе а mounts of rain measured during the week 
were ый; they, however, varied from four- tenths 
age fall ov 
ани E during the week was very fine and 
77° at Dundee to ie a Paisley. The lo = tem- 
peratures varied I? at 
Perth, their reper baie 73° and 453° и 
Каіп 
jen эн fall over the country was three-quarters of an 
inch nearly. 
At Dublin the highest temperature was 754°, t 
lowest 45°, the mean 621^, and the rainfall 0.01 ае 
JAMES GLAISHER 
Variorum. 
IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDS. 
ment, attended with gratifying results, has been tried 
inCornwall, where upwards of 200 ri = the Con- 
nor e Cornish 
i se re P 
nine years at a xy rent of half.a-crown an 
uite as much, if not more, tha a the property А had 
lormerly brought in to the owner. The size of the 
et 
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now suggested that the great mine and la 
rth of England should follow a dient 
a happy, clean, and sober man. Б 
THE VICTORIA-HOUSE AT pe RTH, — 
here the writer had the pleasure of seeing this most 
Magnificent of aquatic plants z t lut 
cup, in November, 1849, a ing 
е was enacted, when Annie the youngest da daughter 
of Sir Joseph Paxton as = 
ы c mense roun era dent 
h the following lines enr the pen of the 
nr o. Terrold :— 
“ On unbent leaf, in bud guise 
Reflected in the 
ней, admired M A and eves 
axton's daughte 
"see a ceu my dn v 
Begotten at ‘the m 
That scenes so br ight maj never fade, 
You still the уш 
ut all around be flowers." 
Weekly Dispatch. 
US GRANDIFLORUS.—Fe ants are more 
Carys 
аши than the trailing Cereuses. est i- 
men Cactus have ever seen was that of me beautiful 
a w e at Pen- 
grandiflor 
Ee near Pen mawr, the seat os Mss. Darbi- 
It had 168 fally expan ed b , and was 
anded bloo 
plant stove, trained to a е» 
ш; had, as 
:3 
Were visible, been partly un ree 17 
pone” flowering rather distributed ета over ‘the 
50 that the flowers, which were 8 o 
—An experi-- 
орға about 6 P.M., their beautiful golden sepals gra- 
i h 
the б 
brought, and the effect was too beautiful to admit of 
an adequate gras, Mari bei i 
blooms were cut and given 
flocked from sal aid 
might : net y hav 
one night only, e althou 
to open at different times a 
By 20 ‘clock i in the morning the flowers began to 
t втовву, 'and at 6 оос жебе worthy clergy- 
man y: 
han pe flower n was admiring so much the 
ur Before е, 
Eistedfodd !— 
ект gi! of all things mundane." S., zz the ** Gar- 
azine.’ 
hoe ees IES FROM WILD FLOWER 
ender, Patchouli, and Bergamot, p 
T ot tat by "distilling the flowers with каш, with 
steam o ich the vola. er and 
„йн үс je otto o 
Бам being eas d, would be des 
d Каке eat in the epe disi llation. 
in warm alcohol esh flowers till the 
spirit is sufficiently Eu Ар or iion the process called 
enflow: 
Disi 
* et 
m 
ing." Procure square он, about 3 inche 
im arb with a piece of S like an ordinary 
window-sash, wit ery d ay ge and without 
cross-bars. Cov ith a layer of purified 
aving slits 
yes 
Tu HE Аттик ткт е — Probably no blight is 
structive than the one which attacks "^ trunk 
and branches of the Apple tree, and vec seni readily 
— wn by its down-like a арр са? ance. Its effects are 
crescences appear on the men of 
int 
the trees, and also by “Ам ка look of the trees 
nf Pe hol 
d 
contains a pibe r of espalier and dwarf Apple trees. 
Most of them have been sadly injured by these ыы, 
and last autumn I made experiments 
the trees, and if possible eradicate the blight. I com 
menced by treating it s arious substances under 
the microscope. that solutions containing 
water were all ама: by the ind covering of their 
bodies an uced no result— e to try the 
effect of petr lamps ; 
applied petr by 
means о ose painter's үе to all the ри 
ee of the garden excepting one. ult, 
rve year, has been satisfactory. trees 
inm almost ged free. from de blight with the ex- 
— of the on received no petrole is 
tree a very hes althy appearance : its tru nd 
та ате ACHT covered with the blight, and its 
o much exhausted ‘tha the Apples 
e been thrown 
doubt, the i be ir eggs survive the severest 
inters. I be that if n trees — ually 
i summ 
the € and 
suggested, one cause of tro’ 
who pris усеп € would be easily 
with tobacco water and 
d re t 
would have been equall 1 in destroying 
aphides of the € bm. but — it тел, уса 
kills Bove 8, ender shoots to droop 
A; А Mant tell, MD. ., in the ** English 
еба; us vt 
Garden Operations. 
(FoR THE иени FORTNIGHT.) 
[The subjoined directions ris intended to supply 
general information, and must, of course, be adapted 
to the liar асаа 3 each locality, Oth 
management of ** ‘ The Villa ‘Garden " will be found in 
the preceding со 
G 
oung 
should a 
shoots 
sary to 
ай iw the leaves to regain pod 
oo 
ч 
ipe MS P 
HARD-WOODED PLA — All 
plants that are being mone on ta specimens 
over, regulating their 
and putting them i op proper s shape. It is neces- 
o this before the grow oe is too far 
evidence of negligence when the 
em, the 
В 
As 
It is din 
usual way. e season's grow se is so far 
atured as i more wers to soil 
obtained now than such as has been got 
ть тА in the spring. It is also better for 
ing stacked when comparatively W^ Another 
aiat is, that at this is much 
lighter, through the absence died rum a comp 
carriage w 
In "m om tà dnd for potting 
— 
o 
o 
for ciples the soil in 
not essential to success t that sand should be 
plant pee go to the 
from mineral impregnation, especia 
„арис sharp. an e sel t la argeiy com 
on to cause the p with which it is T4 ы 
positio 
cake and exclude air ; where 
it should be was 
a 
E rities 22 it is not safe to use 
on ve at the time they are 
usually does 
seasons as the 
humidity in the air, it 
rid gue this - be 
upon as merely a mechanical 
a porous, healthy aa tis 
procured 
m places scores of miles 
is dusty in this way 
under 
t the py AAEA plants, even if ever so 
been bestowed upon washing it. 
—If there happens to be a trace of mildew 
turned out-of-doors, it 
not make further progress, but in К 
ing, and do serious harm if not checked, 
with soft-growi such as Æ. Ayemalis, 
s, and similar varieties. Look over the plants to 
under 
tot 
soil, ee if it gets to the roots i 
et death his 
glass, as wind and rai 
P" their wants, mildew will 
and 
m ap 
continued саана to che ck i it as soon as it shows 
can kee 
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these lants from etting into, үз һате, 
A M ooks, and 
denud 
which | 
Soft-w 
the fatest- ел Pela 
can res afterwards be remedi: 
li ЕЗ ie the: pay et a dry y previously, It is 
earlier ord m g 
tad 
a pit or 
ot be үзөт, Baci v water until after they Fr broke 
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