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NOVEMBER 14, 1874-] 
GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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befilled up with cocoa-nut fibre tightly pressed between 
gre e pots or covered to the 
i thod possesses these 
iil oan: be blown over, as 
, 
cocoa-nut fibre being kept moist, but little evaporation 
will take place. fringe of some 
like the variegated Periwinkle, may 
arrangement also, in order to cover the front of the 
extemporised trough. 
Such charming, yet gene spring flowers as the 
varieties of the Double Daisy, e both effective 
striking i SEES It. some one would 
make a ane from the ordinary routine of ever- 
: shrubs, carpet a window box with red and 
i. white Daisies, after planting such bulbs as have been 
ee ly recommended, they would produce a mild 
red and white variegated- 
might iis be employed, and most 
If planted out in October and 
Sal 
and single Primroses, Hepaticas, and other common 
: hardy flowers, may = be utilised, but they lack 
4 duration of flow ssessed by the Daisy. It 
growth as also that of flowering, would relieve any 
uniformity of surface 
some in glasses form always a pleasant as 
the e practice i is now so extensively followed. as to furnish 
There is 
: rally no necessity for being in a hurry to put the 
in water, Nature has amount of 
a Pas; wo rk ren sees 
_ forth their roots: There is formed round the base of 
the bulb a circlet of inciptent roots, and when these 
ia. 
ees a Wal established ne of 
double Primroses, such as the lilac and white varie- 
oy are just now agen a very pleasing feature in 
wer borders. From the ripened crowns of the 
tl 
planted in some bed that is 
ies Planted away in some spot, too fr frequently 
a certain pre- 
oak Hyacinths will send — 
Summer display, and at the end of May they are lifted 
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wei have been allowed to remain unmolested for 
and flourish because let alone. In al 
Villa Gardens that can afford the yry Om 
rder with select 
oe 
sen 
should yield some flowers almost all the year 
round. If ear villa ae who p ~ every 
space in their gardens sum bed- 
ding ahia, could only be Ursi t into ijili with 
a clump of that raeg e autumn- ay wering 
Crocus speciosus, as we saw it a y bloom- 
ing profusely in an isoa hakeke ‘they ak desire 
to possess it, and care for it as they would for a valued 
and welcome gues' 
ere is no desire on the part of the writer to 
decry summer bedding-out, but knowing, as he does, 
how many beautiful common plants there are (many 
of them, unfortunately, fast 
because so much n 
themselves, and o 
provided a little needful attention be bestowed on 
them—flowers that, if properly selected, would give 
some floral gems through almost every week of the 
changing year, and sak the outdoor garden a peren- 
“an source of pleasant interest—knowing this, he feels 
cannot too earnestly commend them to the notice 
a villa gardeners, 
Che Weather. 
STATE OF THE WEATHER AT BLACKHEATH, LONDON, 
For THE WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER It, 1874. 
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a the morning hours ; bea and planing: 
soe cil evening ; overcast at night. 
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—  7.—A fine day ; light clouds generally prevailed till evening ; 
udless at night. Nemes ree aA y foggy. 
— 8 se fog d hoa frost morning ; fine during the 
day; cl rem at night. Lowest reading of thermometer 
on grass, 24 
—- g—Overcast and bery till noon; fine, with small amounts 
of light cloud afterwards. 
10. erally overcast till rete N very g 
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— 11.—Fog and hoar-frost 
pond a rg ae 
n grass, 24 
—— In the neighbourhood of London the reading 
of the barometer at the level of the sea decreased from 
the week to 30.08 
to ral! 
50° on the Ist to 624° on Sek tho aiban Sor 
the week being 5 mean of the seven low 
night temperatures of the air was 43°, the extreme 
values being 35° on the 7th and 50° on the 6th. The 
of temperature was 134°. 
—Ist, 46°.8, + 0°. ; 2d, 4 
4+ 3°.33 4th, 50°.7, e. 8; o 51°. 
. ; 7th, 44° 
grass in the sun's 
? the ‘values on the 
ing hours of the 4th and 7th, s thermometer on on grass 
with its bulb fully exposed to the sky read 31° and 
28° res cp and the mean reading for the week 
The direction of the wind was variable, and its 
a! gentle throughout. 
Ist and 2d the sky was are pee tag he = 
on ‘the ee it was generally cloudless. At other t 
varia 
og was prevalent on the mornings ral the 3d, 4th, 
mi 
6th. 
3 aw fell during the week. 
ng the ar ara hi emperatures 
a p ache 68° at Sunderland OS se" at Newcastle- 
yne, the general tee ang the whole country 
ing night temperatures 
ranged between 43° at Bradford pe 35° at Blackheath, 
e mean che nig t temperatures 
ford, 74°. e mean temperature for the week was 
49°, the highest being at Sunderland, 534°, and the 
lowest wo Be olverhampton, Leicester, and Hull, 48° 
wo garth a measured stations, 
the amounts varying from six-tenths of an inch at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne to seven-hundredths of an inch at 
Portsmouth ; at Blackheath and Norwich no rain 
was measu ured, the a average fall Gree the oiliry was 
two- cogs of an inch. 
ather ares amA pe yay has been fine, but 
og being prevalent on 
e mornings = the 3d, pox ot af st th. 
In Scotland the highes est temperatures ranged fro 
8° at Aberdeen, to 54° at Greenock and Paisley ; the 
lowest temperatur ° at Greenock to 
alues be 
prhe] 56° and 304°. The mean tem 
was 453°, the highest | peng at Leith, 463°, and 
the owe at Paisley, 45°. The fall of wa in the week 
ied from 1 inch and six ats a G to four- 
tenths at Dundee and Leith, he average fall over 
the country ven-tenths of an inc! 
At Dublin the highest legen seee was 604°, the 
lowest 314°, the mean 48°, and the fall of rain half 
an inch, 
JAMES GLAISHER, 
Garden 
(FOR THE ENSUING Fortisa] 
LANT HOUSES. 
HARD-WOODED GREENHOUSE PLANTS. — This 
is the month more than any other npe ee the p 
pr fardcwooded subject it —_ be diligently 
going over the every 
extermi when first it makes its appear- 
ance than when further spread. Dry sul dusted 
on the affected reačhing every part, is the 
y such as have their flower-buds 
the principal shoots. The way pot 
nette is frequenty tied rith waai A 
inside of a strand of bast run 
indi c 
ee aren 
