LHE 
SEPTEMBER 4, 1575.) 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
309 
ue 
abundant, esti decidedly — in quality : 
y of last year would have swamped the 
Mr. Peter McArthur, gr. t n q:, Kin- 
brae, Newport (managing proprietor and editor of the 
Dundee Advertiser). Mr. McArthur carried off other 
five prizes in vegetables. The 2d s gained 
D. Ro . to Col. Mac F ti 
y, who also gained the Ist prize (£7) for dessert 
decoration and other pri Mr. tone, of Ash- 
ludie's basket came in 34. The villagers of Paledgarn о, 
{һе Carse of Gowrie, again acquitted themselves by 
e Carse 
takin ing no less than thirty prizes. (From a Corre- 
spondent.) 
THE FA 
was — sta in the ae 
r last n r for rearing and 
most succes ul in 
Oves. The 
May 12 
latter being older b m 
twenty-one throve on the grass till after lr pen 
athers came and they were assuming the size of 
geese, | when one suddenly dr ropped dead in July. 
„доп aft 
They 
сосни а eating the grass till the dst hour 
when lying down, being too weak to stand. From 
is time one or two per k died in the same 
manner till nineteen out twenty-o ied 
Finding they were going so fast I fed the rest on oat 
in the evening, butit ha 
fatality. The two let are thriving as well as the three 
old birds of last year kept for a edin ES 
oblige me by throwing any light upon this mystery? 
I may add that each mee as it died was as light as 
feathers. C. Z., How 
ARM NoTES.—Should any of your readers wh 
have charge of cattle have an outb of foot-and- 
mouth disease, allow me to ask them to try the expe- 
riment of dressing their healthy animals’ mouths and 
feet with Sto Soe tar, ey. between the 
cloves of the min sida am 
may з suffer as to eat ing. 
M experien 
ventive 
come into actual contact. Should any of your readers 
the experiment, no doubt they will publish the 
result, Cra/zgus 
Th Tea. 
HE ac THE WEATHER AT BLACKHEA dais саа 
WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 
| 
Hygrome- 
trical De- 
us wh | 
| WIND. 
Glaisher's 
Tables sth 
Edition. 
TEMPERATURE OF 
BAROMETER. THE AIR. 
| 
MONTH AND DAY. 
Mean Reading 
Reduced to 
32° Fahr. 
Lowest. 
Departure of Mean 
from Average of | 
6o Years, 
Dew Point. 
y. 
Sat. = тоо. 
Average 
Direction. 
RAINFALL. 
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861 A 0.00 
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„Хавз зз | 
| 29.91 4-0.0571.3,52.4 18.9 59.8, — 0352.2 77 
porem 26 Fine, b hita cloudy. $1 = in fell at 
—A very fine day. Mis in morning. 
jns 35. Fine, but cloudy till 3n M. соно ы rain fell after. 
in early m 
: EA E EHI E Apul s 
inthe vicinity of the metropolis, the reading of the 
тт rae ae from 
30.32 inches at the i 
to 30.17 
ce that tar so ap ee 
if the healthy and diseased пери do not 
es by the morning of the 27th, ra but very 
‘lightly till after 9 P. M. on the same day, then turned 
to decrease, and w 20. 94. Two 5 ne € of E 
wee e mean pde ng was 30. 
inches, being 0.13 inch below "that er the жэл 
wee 
The hi ighest rr coge of the air at 4 feet above 
the LOW varied fr E IU M the Жыя е 681? on 
е 28th, the mean Hot week being 72 21. The 
west temperatures c 2 m air 
d 583" on 
"X 
eek w 
23 on the 26th. The mean daily tempera- 
tures p^ as air, € the жр p their ir respec- 
tive averages, w as follows : a, Os, .9, + e A 
d, Orio PUR p.27 х 25th, 
27th A 2^7; 
an бире ure To or = 
eek w as 62° , being T- "P 'abüvé the average of six 
yet? obese 
The highest parse of a thermometer with black- 
ced o 
were 120° i^ on the 
6th 92? was the highest reading attained by this 
instrument e lowest readin thermometer 
grass, with its bulb exposed to the sky, were 41 
and 45? on the 23d е ; on the 26th 56° was 
the lowest Bree ng. The mean of the several low 
readings w 
M Parian ofi the wind was S. W., and its strength 
en 
"The weather during the week was very fine and 
Rudd cue m Saturday only ; the amount collected 
was 0.20 in 
In England, the extreme high day I 
ranged from 78° at Sunderland - Cambri эв „в ; 
tlie 
being 711 
- varied fon puc 
t Bristol and Eccles, 
et gal. 
sede: mean daily range of MA in the we ZA 
s 173°, varying from 25° at Cambridge to 11 
The mean temperature of the air for the 
with an average value 
B 
LN rpool. 
“the corresponding week in 1874. The highest hap- 
pened at Norwich, 63°, and the lowest at Newcastle- 
o 8".. The 
various falls of rain varied fro: 
ingham, Norwich, and C 
The ——XÀ fall over the country w 
tenths of an inch nearly. 
'The weather —Ó the week was fine, ES. but 
the sky cloudy : at 
72° at Dundee and p at Glasgow. "The зе est 
temperatures eee from 51? at Dundee to 47° at 
berdeen. Thei ° and x 
The mean temperature 
* higher than the value for 
occurred 
was 
vm at Leith a qu 
the average fall over the country was 
M Dublin the — temperature was 744°, the 
lowest 48°, the mean 614°, and the rainfall 0.16 
M. 
TAMES GLAISHER. 
Garden Operations. 
(For THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
somewhat soft wood, are much influenced in their 
flowering by bein ll ef osed to the Ms as their 
th is about comp n. autumn 
leti 
bloomer should now hare sm of light, y not too 
тет heat; if ke t flower 
who cool sto 
m cause of iini being disappointed i in xr it 
reely. 
Rochea falcata. E plants of о that are late 
in throwing up bloom will be re useful 
uch as 
a greenhouse pl yet when lat blooming it 
sometimes off, and it is not so brilliant in colour 
if e a little heat. It is a y 
desirable small-growing subject, easily propagated, 
rooting freely the mature leaves inserted singly 
y peat suits it best ; slight warmth 
wet, or бе Ш то 
Clerodendron fallas. wi v fine stove plant is never 
ei: desirable than when flowered moderately gr 
nee 10-inch pots, gro i on seed each year. 5 
, they will stand fot "ore in a warm e 
ave them in for this 
purpose the seed s 
Plants that have flowe e through 
will seed Тағ if the bloom-stems have 
to remain on. The seeds should be put 
ood out o 
nd 
роого у large. Old plants о this Clero- 
dendron that have done blooming, and that are in- 
tended to be kept over another year, should be no 
eaded back, s to get some grow them ; 
n 
warm ihe 
or in the spring two - qui of PIE 
re the this season should 
firs bloo 
ep E at the root for 
en 
wil 
strength о € 
they have broken in 
hould be removed, e ing "the plants in the same 
po rous peat e same time place 
them on the trellises they are to flower upon, other- 
wise they get entangled, and the IE growth is in 
dang inj After this, as the young 
shoots extend, they can in the 
up po near pens glass, рє the winter, 
this way, 
Stephanotis, grown n strings or wires in ti 
should have all еф light possi ible, not shading them 
at all. Wher ET lants of on ntris bg agi gs and 
H. еа о 
climber stove 
autumn app the 
free disposition to bloom. intermediate heat, 
with a drier than ‘that required by most 
tiful intermediate- "ri 
the ention necessary to induce it to bloom freely. 
To see i үн it req the 
wall in a cool st e, where it will not be shaded 
end i 
with gmg — $ yet do as it is when so managed, 
ful either хэй of 
or for the produc- 
sup , for 
the reason that, when P at its time of flowering 
ril 
€ the temperature kept 
: а number of 
e in 
ein Ui Midi. All subjects that, like this, peo 
P 
been greatly retar . e шег i 
now enjoying is RO denied effect in inducing 
a magnificent displa: ' 
