724 THE 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
[December 4, 1895, 
Apples, mostly of high — but of poor — as 
avour and tex From the Society’s 
en, Chiswic A ад а colle ies of m sixty 
varieties of Onions, grown is year, and of 
which an official AA will cd bei issued. 
. Obituary. 
WE learn from the Revue Horticole of the death of 
M. y ‘President of the Central Pomological Con 
gress о e, and one of - most distingu wished 
- shit an P the age. Coming so soon after the 
owe of M, André Leroy, the loss will be doubly 
The Billa Garden, 
Now that frost is beginning to lay its firm and icy 
grasp on the land, and a fall of snow is imminent, the 
question arises— What work can be prescribed for the 
Villa gardener under such кезин, 5 hostile circum- 
stances ely. 
but let it be borne in mind that we are writing, not for 
ose ee have well ordered and arranged greenhouses 
and conservatories, with heating apparatus 2 €: 
к; лен id a ample, but for those who are in the 
very alphabet of their gardening Бремя id to 
whom simple rules are always welco 
THE FRUIT GARDEN,—A. seasonable Ma at this 
as 
S ped the autumn, 
me summer’ 5 
fruiting w 
removed, leaving them 4 
then let them be tied together ^ - top to keep them 
g shaken abou ome manure 
lso be about Pas p when те 
weather is dry, а! e ground firm enough for it 
be wheeled o or -— on, and this Rod be reale Or 
oose- 
С) РН, ж ough es delayed till the spring, may be got 
GREENHOUSE, —This, as we have before stated, is liar d — or sess tcm "- SM 
e garden a ti t 
Ж ашы = T Vill residences, д фи" ual р to cut the young shoots close in to the 
мач — old wood, forming a sort of short spur, s a 
gardener. Шы мны the im ч deri pe) ex- | shoot as Mie which is shortened beck t or 
frost from ап 6 six нын» 
we stated that we were giving a trial to one of In the case “oF small gardens, eres Ц iem 
s True Friend lamp stoves, as far аѕ equa = = kept within bounds, or the 
our experience has gone, we are of opinion that it is | occupy s When the pruning is done, a sharp 
indeed a true friend to Villa gardeners who have un- | knife and а pir of th icl nET are requi ied; “go 
heated plant structures, All the contrivances we have | S00" as the job is finished the cuttings should be 
very m earing e heat give 
forth might prove too dry for the leaves of the plants 
the r e ho place on the top of 
the stove (and by lifting off the cover at the top a 
О ог arden pan 
t rising from the burner 
the leaves cm и ри 
to tbe а by it. Whether 
frost, one of these 1. 
when a elit a brick fludor [eio ы (rer 
comido can be taken so as to mitigate, as far 
as possible, the effects of frost when it proves irre- 
se 
es o 
all plants should be ke 
jury from 
dM я ‘Another ror is that the most tender 
Lip Begin nd м n hed o 
and that particular 
e: soon s 
-to house, z.e., a house built against 
of a lean the 
wall of a pes ® with the roof sloping to the south 
or west, th est places, and least to the 
attacks of foit, $ will b be on those shelves placed against 
e wall of the e dwelling, з rather vs than half way up. 
On such a sbelf w est tender succu- 
lents, and that with « амынын уау, 2 sun 
side, of a house oh gencris the want 
case of a lean- ^ 
raked off and ‘burnt, unless it is required е n: some 
of them to make youn s hardly 
erate 
The cutt vun from th seberry bushes 
should мен be put on one side to rot, as the prickles 
e a long ti cre and the points remain sharp 
for a ebnakdevatile 
ruit trees rm ired to fill up gaps, &c., may 
be planted, but n itbe 'doiie as if the trees were 
really deserving of so . It is not requisite 
that the trees, whether i standard, pyramid, or bush, 
be planted deeply ; but a wide hole, an swering to o the 
diameter - the M dtes be dug, an roo ка 
spread out wit care. sprinkle ov 
till 
process 
time. € trees T" 7 Бе staked, 5 
prevent being swayed about by winds and 
nete гетд in the ground. 
Che Weather, 
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EDNESDAY, DEC. т, 1875. 
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MER eather 
ТИИ 
29.98 inches by the afternoon of the 26th, 
creased to 30.08 inches by the “ of the week The 
mean reading for the wee | 
Earned - Aen | 
0.17 inch higher э that of ‘the 
0.21 inch above 
The highest ees of the air observed d. 
by day varied between 464° on the 23d, and 369° on 5 
the 26th ; the mean value for the w k Was ji. 
The lowest temperatures of the air observed night b 
night rang 291° e 27th, ° on F4 1 
4th, the mean value being 33°. The mean daily 
r erature in t eek was 83 
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; 27th d the departures in defect of 
their respective аы were 2°.8, 3.8, 2°,3, 2°,3, 
7.2.8, EN asit Ra ih 
39.4; Ж! 38°.3; 25th, 
air for t "b 4°.9 be ow ү 
ae ‘dnd М.К. аш 
i The weather d dust the week was А 
ont cold, and the sky cloudy, | 
in fell on Wednesday, the 24th inst.; the amount — 
i was 0.03 inch. 
1MY a on the 25th and 26th in | 
{һе M o temperatures of the air obe — 
served izi "e s the hei 
ground were 48° a 
at Bradford 412° 
in th 
9°. 
1874, At Truro the mean temper was 
highest, viz., 374° ; and at Wolvcibampton it was the 
ji viz., 354“. 
in fell to pt. m of ao inch at Hull, and 
dise Men of an inch at Norwich, Sunderland, 
"c Newosstle-on-Tyne 5 aT ruro үз Liverpool no | 
ured ; verage fall over the dinis 
during the week was dull, cloudy, and 
ry cold. Eod fell кубо over the country on 
the 25th an z 
a oes. p highest temperatures of the ait 
ee. 
mean temperature of the air from the sever 
being 3° lower than the A for t 
was 
which was the greatest fall in the week 
"d P pd d rain was measured 
NW. Dublin nthe Best temperature w "и аф ж the 
lowest 204 y. Be mean 383°, ж 
0.35 inch, 
у» JAMES wer 
Garden Operations. - 
(For THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
PLANT HOUSES. 
` PLANT STovE.— The summer 
the st 
