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THE: GARDENERS CHRONICLE, 
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kons het bavn, One peculiarity of last winter was 
unseasonable thunder and lightning, accompanied 
with snow showers; the same peculiarity w 
ed in Edinburgh in the winter of 1787-8. The 
n 
h 
so for nty years 
fore ;” and it is added, ae is thé opinion of our most 
pee x grà expected t to ree visible, Ai n pact ot 
d: “f Suc 
n November 27 it is said, with reference 
to "Edinburgh, ** the present scarcity of water in this 
city has given rise to a new species o i 
£ 
of getting an advanced 
liams for he when the wells were locked up.” Extremes 
and, as a remarkable peerk 
me to the foregoing extracts, we take from the sam 
at eason, thoug W the Rive Disa 6 often “sled the 
! there were 
as aoe falls of rain, at a time long prior to the date 
of improvements. /,, Roxburghshire. 
Tk Villa Garden, 
VA VILLA sg pa without CARNATIONS, BL ONES 
i PINKS appears to 
x br ‘eg evs DIE at 
lianc: and Hie and’ their exquisite 
ys acceptable ; a bloom of 
ty, 
td Lyon Pink, ras aanren 
and a fine — bizarr 
a an Pete : $ 2 
peed is made to hima for a canting or 
Wow is the ‘season of the year when Carnations, 
Cloves, and Pico Picotees tees are propagated by layering, It 
k t the outset that. pipings of Pinks 
> end of of June and and the 
of he work has not yet heen one wold be wel 
to'thoroughly drain with crocks, he, en 
of p pots, place some moss over the and fill up 
wit! Are soil ; next wet in the. Pink cuttings, in 
Pressing them pretty firmly into the soil, 
bt iis h 
at the tinis = lay 
Those 
and then plunge the pots (after well sprinkling them 
though not so many in all probability as would have 
become rooted in June, or even three weeks ago 
Pipings of Carnations and Picotees may be treated in 
the same way. Supposing that layering cannot be 
done, or that there are so many shoots (as is fre- 
quently the case) that all cannot be layered, then it is 
well to make cuttings of some of th 
The work of aoa Syne and Picotees that 
are growing in s beset with some 
degree of difficulty, pany often a very awkward occus 
compost made up of loam, ae d, an 
r it entirely of 
p Opahltie should take the 
d t 
that pen, 
cit r through, and ‘te an importan t tage 
cess is reached. The shoot is now half seve 
much cae to eo the layer in the method given 
e, the layer should be gently pressed 
il, and fastened down into it 
tk pn so ened do: 
by mesas cert of some kind. Fern pegs are 
gree soot gy 
eae : èe character, 
0-5 inc “ in len 
and Aunin in ethey will last tW years, EN 
etimes it will happen that the growth fı 
h 
uired, voyage 
forma taking care that it 
fter the ageing is done. To 
securely. In the ra 
s grown in pots it is often found neces 
add the zinc hoop. yering is done, they 
houl at ‘osed 
Mother Nature, 
wh orn rt from the > joint 
CRWN ome root uic 
lelay y rooting for a dstakdeable asko No ) 
upon neiem arm À of me Toa 
ering is done, 
who are in-the habit-of 
year keep a knife 
is t mt a piece of zinc 
round the 
could 
for one winter before using i 
ree it much good, When it is-plonet in the 
pe = 
heir lev But how ean that ` being 
good plan 
some coarse sand, 
add - In such a 
will do well and 
roduce _fine flow 
there are any in it before being 
Erratum, — In the last Sentence of th 
p- a for “avoid re-potting” read ‘avoid over. 
The Weather, 
STA Se aa THE WEATHER AT BLACKHEA ATH, LO. 
E WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1874, 
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Aug.| Inv [| In, | 5 f | a 4 
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7. | 29.63 771.352.718.6 61.7\— 0.3 58.1) 88 W. 
A 60 {| SW. 
8 | 29.49 |—0.26) 74.9 52.5/22.4/61.2\— 0851.0) 69 Wsw oe 
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10 | 29.39 |~-0.37 68.5 54.3 14.2/57.6 — £357 9) 84 | WSW jo.gt 
2 Q WSW : 
Ir 29.56 0,20/68 550.8 7 +759 +4 i 67{ y zii 
I2 | 29.58 8 69.547 7157 ose 76 |W:SWhat 
Aug. 6.—A fine ao “Light el clouds Ee prevailed, 
= SR Sete, with slight excepti 
aw Vi Occasional 
— 49—Fine, vit e ‘amounts ot Soud till afternoon; 
and fell in the ev 
—  10.—Generally cloudy ; frequent ne f rain wit 
thunder and lightning in ya aid and ev ening. 
— mL uds ill about 5 p.m. ; generally 
cloudless afte: Ss. 
— m— pen ween 4 A.M. and 5A.M. Fine till afternoon; 
vercast, with frequent rain afterwards. 
—— In the neighbourhood of London the read 
of the barometer at the level of the sea decreased fi 
by the morning of the following day, de 
to 29,61 inches by the evening of th 
29.95 inches by the evening of the 
29.54 inches by the rning of t 
29.76 inches at the eh of the week. The n 
ing for the week .82 inches, being sb inch 
lower than the ave s OF the preceding week, and 
0.11 inch lower than tive hveri: of the “correspond: 
ing period, as deduced from eighteen years’ observa- 
ions. 
The highest temperatures of the air at 4 feet above 
from 62 
ro 
ean for the week of 71°. 
temperatures or night at sais poop height varied from 
497° on the 4th to 592° on the 2d, the mean TE 
i 527 The mean daily range of tempe 
ir 
The mean daily temperatures of Be Aon ae wee ee 
their a day except t w 
averages on every day except 20e 
d ail ' eip 
ays were respectively as follows :—3s 
60°.6 4th, 55° 73 Sth, 55°95 6th, th, 61°; Ti 
61°.7; 8th, 61°.2; and their dep: it ee 
a respective averages, 1°.8, 6°.6, "6 3, 072) 3 
0°,8. 
Te highest ase? of a thermometer jer wiih 
blackened bulb in vacuo, placed on grass in ‘the 
rays, were 135° on the 34 rs oth and 142° on 
8th. The lowest readings of a thermometer on re 
with its bulb fully anes: epeen sky, were 41° 
the 3d, and 384° on the 4th. 
and S.W., and its strength. was 
dail 
ranged Ap 
ight 
Be. the ra plants 
e article, ° 
on eae oop on 
e lowest 
The oer a Ae dections of ye were WSW - 
oiin tal Snimi of the air being : 
Peper es ed te eR 
