for the week was ae tag Ligh 
LHE 
OCTOBER 24, 1874.] 
GARDENERS 
eee. 
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ing eee. as deduced from- eighteen years 
o igs 
he highes est emp of the air at 4 feet above 
br cous ranged gel A 16th to 674° on 
ith a mean gim The ean of 
ight tennant ar the air was 51°, 
e extreme readings being 464° on the 17th and 
ssi" on the 15t 
The mean daily temperatures of the air were all 
15th, 59°.3; 16th, 54°.1; 
departures in excess of their respective — were 
oy ° . 6.5. rae 3 g% P A ° ks mean 
temperature for the py was 55°. ing 5° xi ape 
than the temperature corresponding” pe 
deduced from fifty nam avi 
st readings of a “thermometer with 
ighe: 
bulb in vacuo, placed on g the su 
104$° and 103}° onthe 12th and 15th respectively, 
and the mean of the seven highest daily readings of 
this instrument was 87}°. e lowest reading at 
night of a the = on grass with its bulb fully 
exposed to the sky was 38° on the 17th, and on the 
other ays the pac akan temperature on grass did not 
fall below 40°, 
The most prevalent direction of the Ate was S.W., 
but at times N.E. and S.E. winds experienc ced. 
bbe of the wind was gane Dostat the 
weather was generally dull and cloudy, the 
from g> Deer to the 17th being, with slight 
exceptions, cast. 
Rain fell = a four days ; the amount collected was 
0.58 inch, en, and distant 
thunder heard on 
2}°. The mean high tem se Sees 
day panged from 64}° at cree 
with an kes value of 603° 
tem ara irian bserved by night 
Blackheath to "46° at “Hull, with a ge 
8°, e mean dai aily range pet ii rature 
_ being a Sund erland, weed the 
lowest, 104°, at | 5 
° nearly, and the lowest at H 
fall of rain varied from nine-ten = of 5 geen at TE 
mouth on five days, to a -hundredths of an inch a 
Dirich. on one day, the general average fall over the 
country being four-tenths p an inch. 
The weather during the week was dull and over- 
_akightning was seen at Portsmouth on October 14 
a Sendai the highest irate A Pat oa fro 
at G k. 
63° a poate to 57° reenoc eat Tete 
aried from 38° at Leith, to 53h at Aber- 
being 59° 
a their respective averages =e fi 
mean se of temperature was 23°. 
temperature for the week was 484°, the highest bly 
at Leith, sob" and the lowest at es rdeen, 474°. The 
amount of rain uring the week varied from 
34 inches at Greenock, to a lisle more than half an 
ing 1} inch 
40°, the mean 52} 
°; and the rainfall 1 inch, 
JAMES GLAISHER. 
Garden Operations. 
(For THE ENSUING FORTNIGHT.) 
[The subjoined i are intended to supply 
eral information, iad ead of course, pt 
to the peculiar ci 
Special d directions for the 
oe of“ The Villa Garden” will be found in 
the preceding columns. ] 
s PLANT eee 
usual custom with plant- 
growers is once a year to wash fies wicks of the glass 
in the different houses h as are 
» both such 
structures : it is much be to 
aa aan haa pec | 
case of such houses where heat is co 
Black- 
1, 514°. The- 
mo essential element to pmt life—light. Another 
rtant reason why possible light should be 
td to the inhabitants of the stove, is the more or 
S. 
h the houses several times during the year, espe- 
ially betwixt the present and the spring ; and 
the darker the houses are, through their construction, 
or the position they oc »t sa is 
carry out this light-admitting operation, a 
careful stove plant-growers in s neighbourhoods 
regular ash the outside of the houses every mont 
through the dull season, and t th 
advantage of the occupants S Pl t are 
treated, other matters in their cultivation being 
equal, will far outstrip in ge appearance, more 
neral ap 
especially i in their flowering capabilities, such as are 
own under a favourable conditions as to 
admission of ligh 
Azaleas. The emy esto vittata will now 
rtly commence open flowers, which = 
A aal of eli size if kept 
i eenhouse tem 
should b. be removed aay n the season. This plant, 
ee te paani many Sih i 
cultivation not being near 
buds are set early it will fl — without say heat, even 
as early as September, in _ t has pee 
seen freely opening them mat doo: Pet ny on 
could raise a pure white vari ety with the habit of 
flowering poss by this plant w ice to 
who require winter fl of the earliest 
flowering plants, — y the old white sorts (4 
are — best), i their wth has 
been well dmenged; wi w be in condition to place 
in heat. These will onan in without much excite- 
ment ak jee temperature, which will add to their 
powe durance when required for cutting. The 
thrips has 
general ih where any trace of 
i oe surface of the 5s 
ting ion ) — will effect 
tion of the mature insects, and also their 
are seale under the ait varnish-like spots on 
the leaves and young shoots, ready to come into 
active life, ocr through the sun’s influence in the 
spring, or earlie 
Heaths.— 
good health, they root freely at this 
soon ~~ a ld of the fresh material. 
plants newly pott he soil 
kaar g" they we little warning by mer nai 
sounding the pots when water is_ = equired, con- 
sequal they must be Smii exami as to their 
condition in this respect. Give them Sirs fair supply 
of air day and night, when keet 
frost, but when such does a rt 
eing cool as possi d wi r anything 
short of Aee frost. A portion of roof-air should be 
at all — left on so long as there is no danger from 
a depression of the temperature. They 
w be tied, the earliest 
he 
applies ra all plants. By this means their in ae 
rend sat ory, otherwise if bare at the 
bottom they are intolerable petra a collection 
where g culti Seep orang T Winter: 
ming into bloom should 
ht, ce ‘situation, and not over- 
p h 
sage scarcely exist that are not nearly so impatient 
en the freest-growing Heaths are, has something 
to di o with their seldom living to flower a second 
Fi oa a GREENHOUSE PLAN 
not im; of 
temperature of the greenhou k t near th 
glass and away from cold, eating winds It is a subject 
that does best grown ne-shift system, 
owing to its dislike to the “lightest parer at ma 
are in pots too smal 
ow e the main back, the 
eaves removed singly from the stem, using a sharp 
knife for urpose, so that a may be 
ade—if bruised they will rot ; insert these either in 
small well-drained pots filled with sandy peat, or 
pa them round the s of § or 6-inch 
and afterwards transfer them when rooted singly to 
small ones. Place them on a shelf near the glass in 
a house is a temperature in the night of 
50°, here soon if the soil is kept from 
getting quite dry, but it cat recei 
would be req for almost any other description 
a 
cultivation than itt receives. 7. pin 5, Sethe, N. 
FRUIT HOUSES. 
—The pr page ce opiates te condition of the 
wooed is such as to neficial to Fine epee 
w 
ey 
should be afforded a good position in the 
department, where every artificial and natural advan- 
tage may be obtained, It is 
lit during the Fo: 
not usual at any time to 
_of flowering 5 it 
so r7 T 
wea i + through th 4 
atter, ‘and should not be done. Queen plants do 
not generally start into fruit so readily as some other 
varieties, but this matter is reduced almost to 
tainty if 
S 
The advantage of compartments for this purpose is 
here e aen plainiy indicated. Plants which may be 
ow fruit ten the ensui 
now “om Seated accordingly, which necessitates 
y mo 
iecmatdiy eos; which 
with plants which are plunged in fermenting beds, 
and at od and do so liberally. above 
that degree, on ae he house at 70°. 
of all Pine structures should no washed, 
kept free from whatever may obite the access of 
light and sunshine to the plants. G. 7. Miles 
Wycombe A 3 
quen 
proportion to the ase kasay pi 
natural soil is cold, iin and unfavourable, rn 
range of the roots must be c her 
this is the case, the borders is uld be made sae 
meal, say t to begin with. When well filled with 
= the addition of 2 feet annually ae wi 
top-dressings, found ample for the pro- 
atiak of excellent Gra A profusion of e y 
roots will always be ready =e upon the 
fresh soil they are constan ng, and the © 
, by extension over a na 
: years, 
