82° and 89° at most other 
150 tHE 
GARDENERS 
CHROWICELE. 
when grown in this way. To all villa gardeners it 
may be said, with much force and appropriateness, 
avoid re-potting as you would any dreaded evil, 
Che Weather, 
STATE OF THE WEATHER AT BLACKHEATH, e 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 
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| TEMPERATURE ee | IND. | 
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J ROPS | aly hae ee SrA ór | WSW 0.05 
24 wA The 12'7e 450.1125 358 — 3.5 | 83 | WSW o. I5 
25 Ter 7 47-1/27.660.1|— 1.7 52.2 73{ Awe: eee 
26 | 29.54 | a oe. 55-4 21.762.1 + 0.2 56.4 82 S.W. 0.01 
27 | 29.57 7 0.1973 355.3 18.06 Ersa % | S.W. 0.07 
28 | 29.47 | —0.29 67.3 51.016 357-6 — 4-654.7| 90 |S: SW 0.75 
29 58 |—0.18 72 748 di Sind 1—3 296. 2) 9r variable o. 23 
t 
July 23.—Generally Sees amount of “glow varied continually. 
Occasional showers of rain fell in the afternoon, 
of rain rae distant thunder. 
— 25.—Fine, with ack ouds till evening; generally overcast 
afterwar Toni reading of thermometer on 
= 6. —Overcist i orning, and a little rain fell; cloudy, but 
& enerally fen afterwards. 
— 27.—Overcast, w 
afterwards, 
“— 28.—Overcast, with frequent hea 
4 oe i n corm S à 
— —Fine in early morning; udy ‘wit! requent heavy 
Æ showers leruron, tr A.M. and 3 P.M, ; fine afterwards ; 
cloudless at night. 
ev oe! the neighbourhood of the metropolis the 
the barometer, at Aae level of th 
with frequent showers till x P.M. ; cloudy 
n in morning; fine 
reading of 
de from 30.19 inches at the beginning of the 
week to 29. 78 inches D the = rashes of the 21st ; 
tł me | 
ne 10110W-= 
3 P.M. on the 2 nia o 29.86 es by the 
evening of the an ie eased again to 29.81 
inches pi noon on A the 24th, ees to 29.95 inches 
by 9 A. Fead ke 25th, and was 8 inches at the 
end of the mean reading for t 
rae Sites i that of 
So the 2oth to the asth 
ae the mean 
om the air at 4 feet above 
the ged from ont A the 2oth (the highest 
temperature that has be i 
1868, except on the 9th ot the present h, when 
the imum was 92°) to AT on the 25th, with a 
mean for the period of 803°. Th ow night 
em r the week was 53°, the extremes 
being 567° on the 21st and 47° on the 25th. 
2oth) the E weather was 
os ome ea com week: the tos pératass were slightly 
verages, 
mean temperature of | seen air for the week ne 
eS eee ete ie the 
s of an 2 
the mise eme high day temperatures 
the air in the shade was 91°.8 at mT 89°.5 = 
ester, 89° at Wolverhampton, and between 
In agaa 
places, but at Sunderland 
it did not Sam above 75°; the general average over 
the as 85°. The extremelow night tempera- 
jee day, decreased _very y slowly to 29. Sr inches by | 
tures ranged from 44° at Hull to 50°.3 = ie of ta 
the gen meet ee being 48}°. The range of tem 
Sean in the week was large, being én ‘the average 
all stati Sassely 37°, but it was only a 
Sond rla mean of the seven high da 
peratures varied 803° in the neighbourhood of 
ondon 1; at Bradford, the general averag 
being 743°. aa mean of w nig - 
ratures vari m 56° 
5 at Sunderland to 504 >4°at Hull 
5 e mean daily range 
mperature from all Sack stations was 21 h 
mean temper rature for the week from the stations 
was 613°, out Tado it was 641° near ly, z 
Pa ene t was 64°, and at most places it w. 
above 60° ; iverpool it was 504 and at New 
ppi i soi penas The fall of rain in the 
South was small, not exceeding two or yoye of 
an inch ; rwich it was 1.38 inch ; erpool, 
at w place rain fell on every das ; 
inch, and at most era: in Aen North of England the 
fall MS n ex rths of an 
general e was 
Tn Scotland the high tay temperatures Mess! uae 
81° at Fexthy:t o 70° —— n, the general a 
was 46° : at Paisley fir: at Abad en 494°, and al 
Dund je et eral av jags peny At 
nearly. 
r for the 
o. 65 i ley. Th 
general average fall was 1} ich, can dome double 
the average fall in and, 
t Dublin ne, highest ie itl on the air was 
76°.9, the lowe Th ean the week 
was 603°, and the fall of rain was T 4 ine 
JAMES GLAISHER, 
Garden eerie 
(FoR THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
[The subjoined directions are intended to 
in aaan, sordi to the require- 
irections for the 
management of ns “The Villa Gaiden will be found in 
the preceding columns. | 
PLANT HOUSES. 
PLANT STOVE. — Gardenias that have flowered iate 
pete ante nse cleaned 
ug enni it is a ficult matter to keep Gar- 
denias in anything likea presentable condition ; when 
any of these have been 
oroughly It is 
partial nsing that, many 
rs, the impression exists that this insect cannot 
plants that are once affect 
for time, leaving them un- 
prover to ein e ar See of the heads of 
-~ plant, or Guitishaed ¥ syringing reaches 
concealed in se and inequalities of the bark 
triodora 
receive plenty of light in 
glass where they will 
growing temperature. Syringe them every eve: 
bugs are enveloped in | sis 
rampant over Whilst the notwi 
3 the syringe. — le pr 
rs: 
o keep though 
belongs to a highly aerie fanily, mr Bin insect 
pon a3 All wi 
pla na such as the useful Plumbago eee Poinsettia 
pulcherrima, Eranthemum eee e Ms 
Gh iesbreghtii, Aphelandra cr 
oezlii, Luc ulia gratisin 
exonionsis vag Bhat 
aged to e firm eae growth. 
Senne a all ene sun find | light prid will nine 
bear without scorchin these plants 
freely in the dark dull day 
need all ‘the 
give them, ith the multifarious summer subjects 
that require attention, n winter plants are vi r 
to get insufficiently ca cae until it is too 
y St most ar winter bey 
aring plants, the Ardis jsias, red and white 
bea 
receive the. rennin n they deserve. 
"They ow viele 
m s pe, at which time it easily 
comes detached from the pl Bae! in well. 
drained pots fill dae sifted peat, hick 
fourth sand should be added. Cover i seed slightly 
over; place in the stove when large eno 
handle ; pot the young pini off into the s 
I pots in soil Srila 
wer 
gwi shift, for at 
progress is Gav the soil is liable sour 
unless = has a liberal admixture of er ‘TE the 
plants are grown on in the stove, and well attended 
to with, the sahara potting, water, and “tight shade 
in very bright weather, they will make good plants, 
the third season Dery tieit They Pohoi a 
be ig Lig “s Bothas look best grown on single stems, 
Car ys be taken that the 
e 
rounds them, and sown in 6 or 8-inch pots half 
i on which finely-chopped 
addin 
e 
placed, 
Press 
ul 
‘Alien das. If = ie ai 
oung leaves as soo ey m 
while they are yet unopened, and i in this: stage oft ofthe 
pin which has the effect of ee them to pe 
seve’ wA weak cr vipa ie edt: arding their pio 
g the mon aths is sT PON 
to pot pe “plats - of sda. tule that have 
wered earl in the on, and are now 
rtion out by running it through 
H good Sphagnum and charc 
case red-spider will 
ithstanding a free 
in size; where such is the ca 
this plant 
er-flowering 
at in which the seeds : ts 
one-fourth n 
firmly 
