_ ‘more’ ong 
5 tain] [en s at of t 
countries 
BANIM. mass of rots, with sprea ing ly rep atedly 
ee ee stems. ranches and twig ni very 
S Je po and we ati find the young huds more or 
Tess. ‘by the 8 ald wood from the. Hud mor 
it Piia of things from that 
Mi obtai = in nigh northern lati tudes. The heat 
which rises from the is as 
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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND acho then GAZETTE. 
25 
obliquely. The more this is gh case tn less the heat 
that will be liberated; ins a 
of war mth, at inte yah of fro 
trary Mt “a the earth perpendicularly, t thus ing 
ió Ses 
outa amount of hea 
lly the case with the I India. leic Ga (Ficus | 
elastien), Pad aie sometimes become yellow, and | 
then fa 
at; while i in the cold phe 
f th ttl hat 
his s rays atl so obliquely on the plains as to warm the 
earth very gu ttle. 
The me remarks apply to our conserv atories, 
U 
sity kaa gd eee i. 
, three of them spirit instruments, the 
other mercury; two of them were direct from “sal 
maker’s; one had been | hanging i indoors for a co nsider, 
able e length a time, 
40°, 
It is gre 
in this ep artment, would turn their attention to 
is subject, art collect. peages upon it. Even for 
planting i in the open air it is of great use to become so 
h arth a b 
in sol So but obstruct its pass sage ny rey 
on the contrary, which slope at an tales f from 40° ‘to 
45° receive nearly the on Soe of the sun’s rays in| 
summer, and thus transmit a greater amount o 
yong with the warm 
| able to m ge. ta u 
| constant sate of water fro 
it too cold for fe. oi “oaltivation of Pear tr rees 
TE 
ees 
feed 
ct 
ase 
wn 
to the interior of the building; whei in wi sinter it i 
precisely the reverse ; the 
the poe is Be 
to thes 
servat ories, 
a 
Se 
ecomes warmer, and e ole for these trees, 
e wi es Lae esl wa ha 
pe columns of this journal are pre for the ee 
all facts that m may be c cted on the ne 
th o 
Althou 
can escape, yet many have formerly been 
7 a eae y wr] ht 
heat can woe escape, and thus be serviceable to the 
Corresponden 
he snow level whose growth must of course be due to | 
the heat of the ies 
a but false e supposition that plants sel’ 
northern “latitudes pbs in their mode of 
wth those of Alpine regio Nearly the 
ts grow in both sa dont bat the rant mies of the 
tempera ure of me r dec thos 
opinion that similar iso pthéeme dla (Ge m 
culls e 
tu ures) limit similar 24 nts. ae if these are examined 
and fi 
species 
are alike ir in heit, Talna stature, yet their mode of } 
growth is wholly di ffer ent. 
In the 
4s 
s always frozen to 
certain depth, and only ERAY thá | in summer in 
throu 
gai e plants there grow very u pright, often 
m a tuberous rootstock or thickened and 
stem 
out the d 
eum oo ants in Alpine 
e o the ground MANES 2, 3, 
d, and one 
—s it panels for a eget to ex 
a 
could wished 
ist. if, how 
same Sco 
old the b 
ii tre ate 
om the Alps, altho ugh | the 
w how has fared y | 
3 nes 
other had been out of doors continually 
for some Bod pas ow, it was found that in the 
higher degrees they bee slightly, but as the 
temper rature became pee they g more bags: 
results, and ase pa i ro there was 
scarcely any diffe pre ever observable, On the 
Neon the coldest gan they all stood firm at 0.90° 
’elock at night until 7 o’clock next m 
out the slightest variation. Now it would 
i hat 
as they di 
tae Be oa ed gl and e 
fault in the 
d 
he founds his doubts pa the fac 
vidual thermometer w that 
shelter of an orchard 
Fahr. 4 should give it as myo 
a ab 
and no m 
, and 
vation in on gland. My plant 
oa have gone some few degrees lower than what 
id mentions, ae eren n then I tł 
spot 
as m the 
situated, for on going 
ion, 
a 
the ground lookin; 
o | Surely Joy Forfarshire corr 
when aes 
if we 
Rain in Mon —The ount fallen here 
uring the past sie ge its relit t to the average of 
| dur: 
. | the six > shoptithe years will be seen from the following | g 
ms table : 
in a ns from Cornwall (which is almost as 
fron $ ten “fe r 3 sping in the ‘produced me of the again south from Forfarshire as we are), we shall find 
mia age als a io a en there a temperature reported conmderabiy ag wer 
| than what we get from sige 7 But thing is 
n things ate ; tost when We 4 or son barn at'all, a be gal register of sever eather ” than marks 3 left, 
TA ie an € of in es T record, TRES O I will endeavo Se riae | o 
n this locs ality, and pe rban 301 
will tell the ge produ 
e 
vented from escaping oy the dead lower portions, “the 
closely entangled roots a bas divided stems, which all 
ver, as we have already, 
oticed, more heat will be. evolved: owing to the su 
rays pee more or less sade aaa into the | 
4 
Stier 
gard to the Alps. The Teh. is ke more e intense, a and 
apparently olon: of Alpine the beautiful and almost p 
A 
© 
nce in armth of the 
the wa 
p on ee tw ap A pte amounts to several 
to | The above is the 
in in Lancashire i z ants 
mat Inches. 
January oe 2 | Brought sagen i: 885 
y qy {Juy 2.9 
March ie.) ot 108 August ` 8.9 
s September 11.2 
April .. oe oe 6.1 October 4.0 
May “ vs oe Dal November 8.4 
UNE 2%. a Pree k December re Bites € 
Carried forward 38.5 Total SLO 
, we ad 5 inches o Robert Anen, 
Gardener to J. G. Marshal, pm Monk Conisto 
Park, North Lancashire 
Growth of Pinuses at "Beker a, SU 
860. 
Cedrus Deodara ve ° as din, af 0 in. 
Oryptomeria j Japonica oe he s 
Pinus Coulteri.. T Se 3 
t is known that many plants will not thrive well 
dier" cultivation; others which formerly did not 
succeed, ensily eu ult ee now that therr nature is 
Man, a these failures cer- 
he soil, many proofs of 
Therefore plant collectors i © 
y 
7 can scarcely rongly reco 
pea oa a ht of the earth in the | 
n Fies from which t aA ring plants, Unfortunately 
science has hitherto cely done anything in 
respect, “ae though a a’ eal ie samedi with the 
be tpg of the soil i Taeg countries is practically 
and t retically so e is 
Lindley ve just! an article u 
subject in é first Beit eof the ecco 
for which = s kooi Wiel he necéssary 
ow important and ed to plants the heat of 
earth is, is farther shown by the cy that if plants 
in summer with cold, ter, 
become sickly and eners 
well, and have in their tubs 
r, in order that it may become 
use s ~ Si plants 
ter of 40, 50, and even 60° (Reaumur) 
Cars this cere 
$ Chronicle, | Lowest 
warmth 
1854, 1860. 
Abies Menziesi 8 ft. 2in. 20 ft. 3 in. 
7 13-4 0 
ucaria imbricata ee 6 
Cedrus atlantica Pry | 3 44°6 
Pinus Devonian: n EAT 13 6 
» ` pyrenaica 5 8 18 6 
H.W, sae Ji 
emperature.—The subjoi 
the island of ( Cuties, sont fa ie kom this p'ada; 
with Greenock, may be of ini o your readers:— 
f frost erent shrubs, &c., the late 
TERRAE standing. 2 » Sa, afron Wa Iden. Darga 
1859. 1853—1658. e AP gle 
January 1,46 at 12 g 
February 1.65 -40 14th inst. oe. 1B°. 
March 2.85 .36 lth ,, alte 
April 3.21 .00 16th 3° r "i 
May 1.37 .65 Qty nt] 4 +} 4 + 9.15 on 
une ed a the morning of the k th. The thermometer indicated 
ugus 3.40 .68 >| 4° at sunrise, but fell 13° during the following hour, 
an 3.91 “4 In a positi he a mile distant and 40 feet lower, the 
et i J jti thermome! istered 1°. The maximum temperature 
TEN E PTE TS -87 on the 17th ar 1%; 
ET. h minimum .. 
9t 
There were 147 days on which there was an ae reciable | oe giganten i is entirely uninjured ‘by th is low 
on . of rain in the gauge; the preceding six years ure. of - be piani es — 4 feet 
give a corresponding average of 144 ays. This ae nigh, is as “thet ow as were tw 
is situated er bon banks of the Wye, midway between | Our Araucarias are sev ake injured, pre o 
Monmouth and Ross. J. M. H. short-leaved many-branched forms. Araucarias which 
lan 
| wee are more or less injured, cee k one which was 
mo ly last jaiii and whi ; 
f uel are glad to 
say that hundr 
funebris have stood wii protection and without any 
inju nami mt will prove, we have, 
four re very handsome. Larger. 
specimens (5 to 7 feet) are less influenced by the frost 
emain caine A Baer equally large 
mac 
ed statement comparing | m 
Psy er Conifers are provi injured. 
C. “ majestica,” C. “ Cashmeriensig” and Juniperus Bed- 
Losa seem quite hardy in a mid-winter frost. T - 
n, Ye 
ea ofing. ah ee = a subjoined 
for Print gmend baci Sarre ‘the’ 
impervious to 
it let in the slightest wet t 
under the most 
a that it 
little 
to it, and then while it is hot 
Cumbrae. Greenock. 
Mean temperature, December, ketei 87°.3 35°.7 
Mean of the highest 40 39.5 
Mean of the lowest ..° .. Se 34.6 32 
Hig! mae avn mnt ay T a 46 50 
ve 24 19 
Total fal +| 2inches. | 7.75 inches 
A Constant Subscriber. 
re Frost. here ap; some 
doubts entertained > to the erii of Mr. Chater’s 
of the sev weather: that visited Saffron | wl 
Walden between th panni e 17th to the vg of December, . ; 
to offer arks in confirmation of that | out 
mied I wall sae that Mr. Chater four iier 
mome! out i or the naa time the 
farora Wraae tiA; Negretti & 
the surface of ‘the clothes with this solution. 
The pre- 
ferable mode, however, is to waterproof the cloth while 
