498 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[OCTOBER 16, 1875. 
ock, have most marvellous crops of fruit, large and 
rim. coloured. Some of these small trees had quite 
a bushel of fi n (fien, and were iterally borne to 
were trees 
E ground with the weight. Yet dote y 
the same variety worked on the Crab stock that 
bed hardly a do m but were at least of 
P 
es, is an enormous ine amounting to from 
ange Pippin also is very 
s top-dressing, nothing can K^ them i 
гос "гы early and regular fraitfulness, D. 
Violet Victoria Regina. —I have fine crowns of 
h price. 
blooms of the Victoria Regina are equal as 
to S times the number of the single Russian, ind 
are ess sweet-scented. I consider this gran 
Violet to be the best of all Mss ge 
Violets. 
Tulipa Sap etd = cultivators of true species 
of Tuli 
t 
Asia, 
dition, I belie 
great acquisition for bedding P when lante masses. 
At prese prevents its use—it ilo uld be 
in every ollection, however select. 27207: 
Rheum nobile.—Can any of your correspondents 
ho have succeeded in cultivating this extraor gs 
= сен any information on its. mana 
o grow with me? MR plants get Denial 
hes A I fear will shortly disappear "n er, Any 
information will greatly oblige Rheum. 
irds and Marigolds.—Can any of your readers 
explain why it is that small birds have such a penchant 
traces n the nearly or quite ripened 
Бай to induce d 6 seek in these for such food. 
Is there any kind of syrup or honey, or other sweet 
in the flowers that темен them so acceptable, 
what can the birds find as good? I do not 
believe that this is done as wanton mischief. I think, 
as a rule, the birds have some object to serve in what- 
ever they do. 4 п. 
Aralia Sieboldii Е it unusual for 
this plant to WORT ату ? I have a small speci- 
I€—— in my here three years old 
from seed Бесе at this time last year, and is 
now чны upa аге Эбт spike of flowers. 
It blooms atam unfortunate season 
any 
severe are at mid-winter, 
and the 
Richard Dean, Ealing. 
trawbe «ж 08 MM Co (p. 453). —1, A 
you correspo: t ** HL," could never detect 
secet «о of "rng Strawberry е but that 
s not difference n Elizabetha 
ion, Victorian Strawberries, I Anon ofi 
pepa who could detect the smell, and preis in it ; 
s. orav s pretty novel of My Lady Lud- 
ing portrait of the old "dy is thus 
—** But the great roan A faculty on 
TEB 
sd serae Gana her piirin 
other orders have.” Z. JV. im Bitton Vicarage. 
Limekiln Heating. —“ оет le ‚ 463) is 
certainly in advance of the iie ет a ees Los: dst, Зе 
ug Кош {һе og stokeholes. Draining here is 
mposs 
Rabley is quite in a hole, 
AN Ani to take pv job in hand to prevent water (to 
the extent we have i ley in the winter season) 
from getting into a I2 feet ке бг. by puddling must 
ipt he 3 or аа fs hr courag vien Makes nter 
“ Jon of 
displaying his shill i in nthe an of эман: мүт оп i dise 
terms : five years’ gua e, and, no cure no pay. 
I know something к pudding stokeholes, and need 
ti ask an t, if I did they would 
now no more a phon it "tics "si man in the moon a, 
unless they saw the spot and difficulties to overc 
In ordinary kinds of stokehole puddling to keep back 
not stand any length of time 
with puddle alone. Even with walls built with cement, 
oncrete, е pu agen are g m. waterproof long 
together if springs e exception of 
draining, which i is often practi the only really 
effectu , and 
build in it, b this method, 
although Wie die cheaper n int ded epe ; but to sink a 
large tank sufficiently large for a limekiln would be 
more than of my stoke- 
1 uA clear of the water, made essly for this 
place ; as I have before Dee I would prefer a 
eimi if the nie could p t over at no great 
nathan" must e been dreamin 
when he states “that I have on more e than one саа 
tate 
like his puddling, is a а fallacy — like the statement 
it must have small fortune for the 
sheds, 
ston that bs heatin ng on p= limekiln system the saving 
300 per year to employer, and Mr. Gordon 
stated they heated all their ponies free - cost and had 
a profit; and I believe Messrs. Thynne, of Glasgow, 
get their heat entirely free o which speaks 
volumes in favour of the limekiln system of heating. 
Edward Bennett, Landscape Gardener, Rabley, Herts. 
Li d oo. at Niddrie House,—It is 
now fully ears since I adopted the Cowan patent 
h dem 
eati айла. а, ddrie, When I first com- 
Шс this plan of heating, ч сыз зз own lime- 
ds 
a аке р” two miles, so ast 
nd impartial trial. did 
- E results 
id so for. dune months with 
bout 6 feet in de eio heats over 2000 feet 
corre 
yself. "ү "fibre Ure think a the subject 
would not be out of place in ZI to that clever cv 
in your issue of last Saturday signed ** S. E.," fro 
bas beak foro о years’ ze mont of the i inem. 
.," as usual, gives us a lot of Ves informa- 
bon but soun * 
us by its absence. This theory” 
quoted " frequently against the Sem, that I will 
mark that the fac ы Im ove are 
i stubborn things. s hav 
abundance 
w 1 Agee ау : perha 
enlighten n the subject, He says the three new 
boilers supplantin gi the sixteen taken out at Garston in 
measure accounts for the savin 
the = Ihave tried it 
fully during twelve n show that if a 
combination of the аракы арата along with the 
tort i iln ev 
go cost, and supply a much better quality of 
gas with higher power. Anonymous cor- 
ents of the class of ** S. E." and “ Jonathan," 
in ii v do more good than harm to the system 
others to give their unbiassed opinion, 
suas I hive done. I would, however, su 
the straightforward way < pie their names ao f 
understand there eat many of th appa- 
ratus erected in different pa of the country, and I 
should be very pleased to see the gardeners in charge 
Eus. o the largest at Truro, 53° 
giving their candid opinion as to how the system is 
working for them, Fames Gordon, Niddrie T 
Edinburgh. 
Роя, Weather, 
STA a M THE WEATHER AT BLACKHEA ue LONDON 
R THE — ENDING WEDNESDAY, Oct, » 1875, 1 
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7 | 3018 -Fo.4965.344.9/20.4,54.3 + r.751.7| 9 09 
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8 | 29.84 us 8 50.2/14.6/55.6 + 3.4 47.2 mite 0,09 
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9 |2949 —0.2062.4 43.8118 652.4 + 0.5 47.6 S1 sew. ош 
то | 29.63 | 0.06 56 541.015.5.46.7 — 4.943-1| 88 |88. 0.2) 
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II | 29.10 —0.60 59.7 42.1117.6/49.8 1.5 42.0 74{ ca 0.12 
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12 | 29.19 ан 55 735 420.3,44.0.— 7,038.6 arf ЫН. “0.00 — 
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13 |29.03 —0.67 53 55548244 o RE g | w. LE 
Mean 29.49 | 0.20 8 8 | ®. wi 1 
49 |— 59.7 41. 7949.5 — 216 2 Ww! а 
Oct. со fine day, rather cloudy, 
— 8 —A fine, but dull a м conde day. 
—  9.—Ac veil changeable day. 
—  10.—Very till 3 р.м. Overcast, dull, and rain after _ 
, 
wards : 
—  IL—A fine id rain fell in early morning, and hail fellat | 
11.30 A. 
— 12—A fine baikit Sg Cold, 3 
— 13.—Overcast, du дон shower of rain at 10.30 A.M. Fine | 
and bri; ight a. 
—— During the week oe Saturday, October 9, j 
in the neighbourhood of London the reading of the 
barometer at the level E 
increased to 30 48 inches by thes 
decreased to 2 inches by the en of pre 9 
y the end of t 
.8 
ee ean reading for the 
inches, being 0.19 inch above that of the pre 
week, and 0.16 inch above the average f the pre en 
week. £ 
The highest ing ciere of the air at the height. 3 
of 4 feet =, d varied from 594 93° on the3 
to 704° on eg; e mean valüé for the ved i 
Я est iompait s of the air 2 
ween 52° ón tr ihe 5th and 434° on the 5t ‘the he meat 
itd ^ mean daily range of tempera 
ture in t k мез: 18^ the greatest rang 
day being 204° on the 7th, an г 
e.8th. e mean zm daily temperatures of the ait, à щш 
average of yd y years’ observatio 
he highest Мо 5. thermometer 
with its bulb exposed to 
on the 3d, and 383° on the nh; уе 
4 
һег r durin 
d the dis ж укыр except $ S 
the 34, which was overcast, dull, di. wet 
The 
e its strengt 
0.40 
In "En land, E hest temperature 
observ a y day, a + T. feet а 
ground, was 75° t Bradf 
Ne ewcaiticon Туве the highest temperature 
the mean from all stations was 66}°. The 
temperatures P the air S ved at night were 
both at Bristol and Birmingham. A 
lowest temperature in the week en 48° ; 
Jand, and the 8°, both at ro 
e mean range of сарса from all stations 
m f the seven high day temperati 
was the largest at " Simifed 67^, and the sm 
t Liverpool, 584° ; the gene value 
stations was 614°. The mean of the seven low 
temperatures was the smallest a sr The g 
m all stations was m 
