660 THE 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[NOVEMBER 20, 1875. 
The mean — of the air for the week was 
2 below the average of sixty years' 
blackened 
the week was 653°. The — readings of a ther- 
mometer on grass with its bulb exposed to the sky, 
was 51° - the 9th; the аа; Of the three low 
readings was 33°. 
The direction of e wind was m yes and 2 
eather during the week w: 
Ram fell on 
five days, the amount being 2 inches n 
On Saturday the 13th instant the temperature a 
3 P.M. was 49*.I, F increased to 3 by MUN. 
and to 57° early on the morning of th I4t 
In ‘England € “pokes ташы а of the air 
у ау at 4 feet above the ground were 58° 
at T: and 57? at about Lun at Hull t 
i temperature in the k was 
m 
the week was the largest at about London, 275°, and 
the lest at Hull, 17°; m ge all 
stations was 211°, The f the seven high day 
es was the 55°, and the 
least at Manchester and Hull, 443° ; the mean 
from all stations was 474°. The mean of the seven 
low night temperatures Truro, 443°, 
the smallest at Manchester, 334° ; the average valu 
өл all stations was 36°, ean daily range of 
ture in as the greatest at about 
empera the week w 
Tandon un Bristol, both at , and the least, 95°, at 
Liverpool, Bradford ull; them g 
Е ав the air 
ranged 5 44° at Ayer 
deen ; the mean value from all stations was 48°, The 
lowest temperatures of the air varied 
corresponding week in 1874. e highest was 38° at 
Greenock, and the lowest 35° at Glasgow and 
of g t varied from 1} inch 
— СЫ , 
Greenock, and Leith ; the riri ae the country 
was nine-tenths of an "inch. 
— on бан temperature was 52^, the 
lowest 243°, the mean 39°, and fall of rain 2.08 inches, 
JAMES GLAISHER, 
STA а ned THE WEATHER AT Ба! СКНЕА T E S 
THE WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, Nov. 
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М. but dull till P.M: fell 
Las im ызыны in early morning, 
Garden Operations. 
(FoR THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
LANT HOUSES. 
P 
LANT STOVE.—Where the system sd шун н! 15 
such as to make the y a long 
n 3 
with a higher temperature soon a 
ment of the new year, as opposed to the “old usage of long 
ын of the plants 
flowers fo 
they 
ifferent aeree of 
below 
65? in the n No will bene being 
kept cooler th this, bs if mere to submit to 
such for lon their energies become “crippled 
and they tie little progress for some e 
more heat is given 
To ү 
their grea test 
‘be Kept lower бы 
nothing р 
tem notis, oy, a, 
eras, E pocula Franciscea, Ron- 
d Passiflora 
zm 
that > mands more heat 
Cyrto 
deletia, Cle: rode ndron, 
ture wi о 
is Sedait "d the others. 
Where there exists the convenience of two houses 
say one-third off at 
that want most — by n 
ated. This the appar where a 
quantity of plants "foci as "Poin settias, Sericographis, 
Legen Plumbago rosea, Aphelandras, Centradenias, 
Eranthemums, T. тален rutilans 
— votre owering Begonias 
ipis of all these show now be mem 
or forcing-pi ch to be 
1 latter mu re- 
ferred to a general stove, as in roe the winter-flowering 
subjects can just receive the treat 
out interfering with did requi niemen S 
occupants of the sto Do no 
necessary to bring дей into ees as all above this 
will cause them to be more ten 
to last a shorter period. 
necessity for subjecting the winter 
every m ray of light : аны — of 
not be rated. Lig d the consequent near 
pusimitr V^ ‘the ас but ar the roof if 
ossible, where there is always, no matter how close 
the glazing, a motion ы {һе аї Po me a great 
measure compensates = the ere reduced 
of i ce e 7. the 
ing poit of the 
ater on, must not b 
Mid they "will be so cool as e 
ре ишы, for where this is 
afterwards. 
rate to plot such as an empty 
can be kept sufficiently warm withou it the flowers 
being excited, th 
end of the stove, and not 
them == is neeedful to keep ‘the leaves ina roots 
from suffering. 
Epiphyllums that have e their growth 
should now be placed in heat, as also should 
i а; the latter will | 
the eA 1 wil ne 
ойон. for which the orm mu 
well m d. Should there елар е be a deficiency 
of the bulbous- 
the summer 
a greenhouse temperature may be put 
much root-bound, moved into s pots a a 
ЖА ya ae © 
эм; Capsicastrum 2 apsicum, 
if their ares back i 
"ma ih 
is | и бит, СЕ ES. 
Ries nok bat 
сет = her: growth, which is anything but | 
des rable when this takes pim e ‚ беу do not | 
retain their | felle solong. 7. | 
FLOWER GARDEN, 
h lready been supplied by some of the many beau- 
tifully Sui Еа, foliage plants that ae to such 
t this a here is so little 
о muc е; to enhance the value = this class of plants, | 
yi wish to prolong the season of our summer | 
т а still greater use will pes ve to p made of | 
such as are comparative hardy. These m 1 
er for centres of beds, 
arginal lines, andi in ay t 
entirely denuded, as they now ar 
hat occurs. By an arrangement of this kind, 
placing such plants in beds at regular intervals, gar- 
i d 
and may p 
but ‘which is quickly observed by any one coming” 
fresh to the s The eye should, therefore, ke 
strike 
with any pre 
i alling leaves win kee e broom in con 
use for some time to c е although it is hardly to be 
expected where deci по are numerous, and 
the leaves constantly falling, that grounds in th 
immediate vicinity can just e kept in g 
and coll 
are down sii morning before ey are scatte 
over the pla 
The roll, io, should not be — sein stand 
allowed to р а 
1 
sae 
p ui 
of getting ri 
ploy a broom for the purpose. 
sary on some lawns to th 
least once more, as the otty 
irregularly at this season, thus presenting an un- 
ed to make n 
and 
sho uid be thor бе 
that it may the more ehe tà 
