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THE: 
GARDENERS | CHRONICLE. 
[November 27, 1875, 
17th, egi to 29.99 inches by the evening of the 
sathe day, iticfeased to 30. 12 inches by the prom of 
the ae decreased к: 10 571 Fg by the ei on 
of the and was 30. at the end o Xx 
pe reading fo oe he wee Maa 29.91 
he h highest temperatures of the Y observed 
by day p: from 60? on the 18th to pO on the 
20th. 3 The 
Wa on c 19th, the value the 
being 395°. The mean done} ange ^ d temperature 
i greatest the 
was s 45°.8, boing 3.8 
xty years' observatio 
t sas with 
er on grass, wi 
sky, was 28° | on the 16th ; 2 mean for the week 
was 35°. 
wi Th Mp wind Mw E: W., and 
strength bris eather d the week ins 
а за Чошу, б on Thursday Dus Friday the 
days were especially wa ng gales of wind 
prevadied on the 14th and 19th instants. pue fell on 
four days; the amount collected was o. 36 inch 
stations was 324°. The m 
i eek was the ie gee at Nottingha 
and the least ire етед Һе ce шеле 
from all stations was 243°. The mean of the seven 
high day is ancien as the largest at Truro, Eu А 
and the smallest at Birming am, 49}. The 
value pe all о de was 501". uM mean of the 
paren night temperatures was tes а 
ruro, 469°, and the least at с SAT. m 
enel — — — 
daily range rature x Чы ihe 
Neo at Manchester, Y nearly, and the smallest at 
The n daily Bu. in the 
n n temperature -i the 
from all statio ns was 441^, 
higher rt the value for the corresponding ма 0 A 
1874. At Truro the mean temperature was the 
largest, viz., 50°, Manchester it was the 
smallest, ei » 41$ 
at е-оп Туп 
on rain fell on four days, and the amount was 
h s pa inch; the average fall over the 
country was 
The weather dirig the week was fine, and some- 
what m 
Gales of wind were prox on the 14th and zott 
instants. 
; be swept away, and age 
а Portslade (ве init hton) Dover, Hae and 
ача буна r Brig , Hastings, 
and p 
were torn out of their places and scattered abost ap 
directions. 
On Monday, the r5th inst., at about 2 A. Ms one of 
the highest m ees for many sw occurred in the 
Thames t a quarter past z e morning, which 
was a time of flood at Blackwall, ies was a depth 
of 29 feet 2 inches in the ast India Docks. Most 
of the shipbuilding yards were м санау under water, 
the tide rushing over and 
In Scotland the E nee "e of hne air 
ranged from 67° at Pai at Aberdeen, The 
was 314°, ek was 
244 
tions, and the Nader: varied from 21 inches nearly 
at Paisley to 1 inch nearly at Dundee. The average 
fall over the country was 14 i 
At Dublin the highest temperature was 58l, 
oen was 291, the mean was 45^, and the fall d rain 
h. JAMES GLAISHER. 
Garden Operations. 
(For THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
ections are intended to supply 
the preceding columns 
PLANT HOUSES. 
G HARD- nei PLANTS, —Those 
who through the summer and ah mn take means to 
destroy mildew on their plan no as any trace of 
it is discernible, will in such prem weather as we have 
are particularly subject to 
its attacks, for where it is never allowed 
firm footing it ә» еаз 
теуетзе ех15{5, 
until its е is apparent 
ere are sure to 
Young stock the first or second 
year from ordinary trade-sized plants are generally in 
a condition of free growth, such to its 
opment to an енеш that older and slower grow- 
re 
ts are not, it in 
of their existence that most mis chief i is don 
th 
if care is not taken to check the malady before much 
injury takes place. When the folia 
ured to any per omy: extent it is ce 
prematurely, a ere is no means of replacing it. 
of so many bare-branched, un- 
sightly plants that are often met with. Any of such 
a nature that do not likea low temperature are 
e first to suffer, su e Leschenaultias, especially 
L. biloba and its rm, Z. biloba major ; Roella 
ciliata, Fi WN ьа Тагайга, and the foll 
Pimeleas— 6 ectabili. 
d 
dun of sulphur i is applied to the foliage by way of 
a preventive, it w f but cases care 
be 
il be 
must n that it is not allowed to reach the soil, 
bal. Shoul Ai doma Se tat зш Т removed 
before water is given, or it will 
down to the roots, the effects of which would be simi- 
lar lication of lime, 
laid on their sides, and the 
w y dusted over, and the powder 
on for five or six days, when 
to be off, leaving a trace on 
which ve iei the further a ce of the 
ite; or the plants may be similarly laid down 
and freely syringed with er i 
mixed flowers of sulphur at the rate of 2 or 3 oz. 
to the stirred 
Success in the pot culture of these plants, as with 
others, has not kept pace with their rateof ind, 
vast quantities of even the free growing Zil 
have disappointed man wers by either fe 
or hash er ‘dying outright, the result bein g in most ling 
traceable to a want of consideration or nowled 2 
their UM n the cultivation of Lilies 
are several essentials that must never be lost t sight wi 
or su AN p Grown i 
open gro a great dislike to their elr roo 
being асте with, MR when these aremo 
Potting when even nothing more is шры. a 
giving them additional room, should always be carried 
n as the tops have died down, as, although 
me portions of the r f many varieties are never 
quite dormant, still at time when the tops have 
lost their vitality there is the least root-action, Jy 
as Ib: 
e case of 
cede until it has become necessa 
e of p E E 
they are sure the certain injury of the | 
plants. Do not in n 
eenho perature during t 
e 
— gr use tem r he winter, - 
d let the soil be just slightly nov. not Ro 
FRUIT HOUSES. 4 
—The presence of light during the next two | 
тет will be of very limited duration, and s 
likewise may only be expected ionally, and even 
then its power is so contract to be almost P | 
tive upon vegetation, which is subject to 
treatment ise. Such influences mat 
т like that which is now а 
do occasionally occur where 
found closel 
the plants, and a placegiven ено tand airci 
have free d peas gt emperat ree to 75. 
and a mean lian 
сае at 57° a! 
the roots, 
Ventilate at "the apex o of the 
it rise "OF 
