n w 
@ water has drained away, then put the pots away 
i bed of ash 
on 
depth of 3 
q made e progress ap 
= winter pepa unless 
i case of Hyacinths. 
roots quickly into the soil, and fills the pot with them. 
_ Provided the soil et g potting jita be fairly 
FHB 
OCTOBER 17, 1874] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
501 
made a home of the decayed bulb. Nothing perhaps 
T apd it s a waste of words to point out what 
should voided ; but there are notwithstanding 
so many failures, that advice always necessa 
Many e who grow a few to give a little floral 
cause o 
stimulos, as for instance a patent manure or manu 
water. 
There is a great deal of over-potting done in the 
A Hyacinth does best when it 
a 48-sized pot grow a bulb as well as any. 
All our finest exhibition Hyacinths are boas in 
pe pots e maller size. There should 
a layer of crocks—a single one will suffice ; then 
a piece of decayed turf, and that a few pieces of 
anure, then fill in with the soil and pot the 
yacinth, burying about of the bulb. Use 
pretty exactly dust-dry, but so nearly 
as that it will not cling to the hands. When the 
es in some sheltered spot, having a 
or 4 inches below them, and as many 
above, and then let them rest quietly for the space of 
slowly, and no doubt it is oe that it is so, for during 
r to be gaining strength to 
7 thet water should be freely given in drying weather, 
d as much air as ee 
robust health. Let the first batch of 
ia 
4 48-pots, using the soil somewhat more 
_ their term of floral service be not of long duration? | 
_ Varieties will a a ona 
Pie. ee SERN 
nies it; 
Y. follow on with a few more at intervals daring the 
be 
provided, and it is not difficult to retard the Sa 
of some of them by-and-bye 
~ Crocuses.—A few of these should also be potted in 
sandy than for 
Hyacinths, and not quiteso rich. At the spring —— 
shows our cultivators of bulbs make pots of Cro 
most ungainly things, as a rule, by putting too paima 
corms kh oe the con consequence is a crowded and 
confi bloom, in which “this individual 
used m of 
beauty of the npn: is completely lost. A ‘* happy 
tueuse, and others, The blue and white varieties of 
the Crocus have git smaller corms. What if 
The Crocus cannot be dispensed with for eh gto in 
early spring ; a hundred or two of bulbs of different 
make a cold 
pots, and 
use OF hk look very gay when there 
= is scarcely a me to b 
= Cloth of Gold 
e found out-of-doors. The 
stems, without a blade of grass to 
them. The 
oe ee comes immediately after ihe bulbs have done 
s 
that the roots are rotten, and a colony of worms ha 
53}° on the 4th to 62 
| period being 583° 
in August, and the pans carpeted with the elegant 
Mesembryanthemum cordifolium variegatum, perha 
best known to the initiated as a low-growing Varie- 
gated Mese ee N much employed for bed- 
ding purposes during the su 
SQUILLS.—Really tee, peik for early spring 
cially bifolia and sibirica. 
found in each, though pieri in ira appears to 
quire a peculiar richness at mid-winter. Ifha ia ddben 
bulbs of mN are put in a Sipo in so# similar 
to that used for Hyacinths, they do well, 
very effective. We sh 
without ee peony blue Scillas 
st — than of tabooing Zonal Pelargoniums for 
wering in ac When our Scillas have gone 
‘ad rer sja they are left in the pots all the sum mer, 
top-dressing of soil given to the 
In October it will be found that the bulbs are begin- 
il 
oe’ to ores fresh roots ; they are then turned out of 
the soil, the offsets removed, and planted thickly in a 
cs box in some light sandy soil, and the bulbs 
epotted as directed above. This is better than turn- 
ing them out in the open ground, where they are apt 
to get neglected and dried up by the summer’s sun. 
VIOLETS, IA Ps strong plants of The Czar or 
Victoria also of Double oe and 
Louble White, Rory be at on in the 
Hyacinth soil, using 48 or 32-po a cording to the 
size of the plants. If kept out-of-doors during mild 
weather till fully sagen and then brought into 
e greenhouse, ees an be had at Christmas, or 
ven agit and nev e these fragrant blossoms 
more welcome than at ‘iat feiti season of the year, 
ete Weather, 
STATE OF THE WEATHER AT BLACKHEATH, LONDON, 
E WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1874. 
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Oct. | In. | In T r AT 
8 | 29.79 | to. 10]59.0/38.7|20.3 46.9\— "5-2 41-5) 79 {WSW : o.co 
9 |29.74|+0.05/59.841.0 18.85 E A æf ude 0.02 
Lo 2c 62 t.2 r8 alca R a ‘i SSW: 
To a oe, 3 Ia 453-5 vn sf S.W. 0.00 
Ir 9.98 9 6: 8 49.6 3 5+ 4152-9 9I S.W. 0.44 
12 | 29.95 | + 0.26 64.8 49.3 15.5/55-8 + 4653-9) 9t | S.W. [0.00 
13 | 29.73 |+0.03 67 250.4 16.8 57-7| + 6.8 56.0 04{ |p Sy 0.00 
| 
14 29.62 0.08 (1.1 52.1 9.055 9+ 5355-5, o9{ SE:S 09 
Oct. 8.—A very fine day; cloudless i of morning and at night; a 
few light clouds i in afternoo 
9.—Over nam generally till | evening, and showers of rain fell 
ire aunty + aia 
— I0o—Àfi spi ; partial 
r Generali atiy 
y cloudy fil evening, then cloudless. 
t till ew and rain fell 
— st qae ya ut aja mi B e 
e e pene 0 Heavy rain between 7 P.M. 
—— In the neighbourhood of London 
of abe barometer, at pas level of the sea, 
at 
from recede inches e beginning o of th the week to 
we 37 inches by eegee on the 4th ; increased quickly 
o 30.08 inches P.M. on the "following day, d 
creased to -29.27 qiie by in morning rial woa 7th, 
a 29.88 Takis b `M. on the oth, a then 
increased to 30.15 inches by the end of the week. 
The i the week was 29.81 inches, 
being 0.15 inch higher than that = the preceding 
bel verage of the 
the 
rresponding week, as deduced Scan 18 years’ 
tea tions 
The highest st ace of the air in from 
2ł on the toth, tl 
Tost prepare plenty 
me ee rk 6, med Y: Pia 45°. ibar 8; 6th, 
; 8th, 4 aig i23 
ns Ree m2 hy Rape oth =e "er “9. „The mean 
temperature of the air for the week was I, being 
4 lower Age the average of the santé ‘week, as 
faced fro tiiti oiia extending over a period of 
highest reading of My eee oO with black- 
in vacuo, place n grass in t the sun’s ra 
on the gth, and pÈ [aker times the readings 
of this instrument did not exceed 100°; the mean 
value for ge tes week was 8 
early mornin 2 Panic of the 5th, 6th, 
and S, s, with ss bulb fully 
exposed = the sky, read 30°, oe , an ° respect- 
d on the y eeraa. four eo the readings 
vely, a 
did wiks “fall below the freezing p 
The most prevalent ripened oft the wind w 
its sirgti was gentle, excep the 6th rhs i 
en the mean daily Birisi Gk the square foot 
e piran pe AN 1.7 lb, and 2.5 lb s; and the 
res sear prays during gusts 
d 
e sky was ibaa y roughout, 
it was Amkar cloudy Poe | the other days, but the 
nights were for the most part clear 
nary rete on Aer rak s the amount measured was 
a Tagland the se high temperatures observed 
by day ranged between 70° at S y? 
Newcastleron- Tyne, i the 
c low 
observed by night t varied f rom 43° at Liverpool to 
ol Norwich, wg general average being 384°. 
range of temperature in nash week was 
pace from we 
The mea 
224°, 
at at eae 
rom 64° 
verage value of 57°. 
ure he week 4 84°, 
Sunderland, 524°, and the lowest, ae both at 
Norwic’ N gham. The ‘amounts of rain 
varied from 1 inch re 
stol to 2-tenths of an 
fall over | 
measured during the week v. 
at Portsmouth and Bri 
°° The temperature for she. week was 48°, 
the highest being. at Leith, 49}°; and the lowest at 
Glasgow, 4 ” measured at Paisley to the 
ver the country 
"At Dublin, the paap 
lowest, 29°, the mean 49°, 
4-tenths of an i ba A 
emperature was was 605”, 
and the fall ot 
Garden Operations. 
(FOR THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
PLANT HOUSES. 
are sold 
for tying ; those that 
oo often very poor white 
déal, that will caret ast, until the ise spa comes 
bought sticks 
ot e giai foli 
s means emrei less of the sticks 
sticks a dat 
to be tied ; by this 
be seen 
pea-green 
plant look badly, as doalso bind Betis dak 
sticks t lant ith pal 
to show a 
