Toyan 29, 1860. ] 
ard-houses, as suggested 
by Mr. Rivers. It proves that i it will not be sane | 
ing the winter, orthodox minimum | 
ality. G. S. 
—Your cor rrespondent « “DEM?” 
of i 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
ground. The register for t the last few days has been , from ord 
as follows :— 
ts of bis 22d inst., minimum 20°+ 
ef ne 
At 5 P.M. on the gh se ia ‘the 24t th inst., ‘the me 
indicated 9+ on 10 o 
correspondin 
ury 
Pelock it was s Bids. + (exactly 
from ordinary ones. If we insist u upon 
particulars of these last, the icitatigation w 
up in despair, as it has ne cgi 
myself, ‘The reasonableness tI 
and indeed of the entire principle itself, seems to 
harmonise so with the ee g theory o: lanation 
| epe, I will submit it to a Eo "eon j 
greatest degree 
ra mann t I fan 
uch experience py rth habits. 
have appeared from time to time you h 
respecting gardeners, their réqairements, ‘ed ucation, 
&e., tana i © good ie gieh but Ponraj is no rule without 
an . M.” how carn ot d 
ney he cannot Se had 
pee remar n that 
ung ga | 
Ki is tales | 
k till about. 
register red by the 
the 
same thermometer, i in me same piaco 
during the previous winter ie Dur 
to 3° 
5 ot an nig! 
of t 
ree at 
Oxford, viz., that t ‘di in our 
summer seasons are founded ot mainly on extreme femi 
it fell steadily — at a very ae 
in 
er 
g of the 25th inst. y sli ight diag roa over 
e sky, and the e mercury rose to pa 7 About 
bemisphaiás varying ary every year in ye iad 
M. it 
8.20, when the peen was pa 
nd that 
at 
is the fact, then we might n 
10 o’clock it remained below 
resultin 
atura 
ing from this disposition of 
» | things scans reget itself first about the peri 
iod of the 
during’ hr! morning, indicating T+ t3 
f | and 9° + at 5. _ Soon aft ter sunset the ‘merenry. fell 2°, 
1; + Tite] 
vernal equino. inter 
umm mer, “and that, the weather _ resulting from 
dike gyen | 
Pans thes 
ay | 
1 +} 
her ou 
Seared § 6808 men = = care to learn their business | 
i i a 
o; em yo oe 
ess some ak okosat: dary in | roun 
the night r rf 25th to 17°+ at 8.30 this 
Shortly before noon the w 
been Nor and N 
ind en anh ee two } 
th- 
at that time, whether dry o 
, &e. Our 
every year, and i aoe not where 1 to jo Took 
rose Sm to 
convert any perceptible motion in „the air. 
and 
+. During rthe: sete > d2sth there pushes that 
| for’ a ohare, variation among 
the the othe of ali the 
s to a yearly —— ces of surface 
T Rea called gardeners fill hing 
of the kingdom. I kno 
be 
ae now repeat what I have „otten said 
unu: 
many Honth last night. „ James Backhouse, Jun., Yo ork lien 
—The weather } 
n | place. A sharp frost on 
yet a eee on the morni 
the 18th was Bai eg 
a ape phe 
‘than 
D 
ft 
han there are good gardeners to fill t by 
foel for respectable nu aT. when the Je hay a good 
situation to fill, kno as I ze what difficulty Ka 
po ence in findi ig a cient person to fill it. Ther 
res of men j Sarr places, but they ke that 
tha pe not fit to be recommended, as they only | 0 
this date. nTa. at 8.30 a a a din A 
caren 9° of fr Te ni ah dia not ‘rise above on 
ng N.E. w 
y. 
ani = no signs of the frost "hreskinig u 
and 
i Kipea jik piled shru bs ‘such as My rtles, 
t te 
t | equinoctial week hoe the 18 
usually, Pigs Saf serie —— entirely separated 
ologica 
muddle themselves and awt 
tion as a good jade abilities. “Suppose t thes 
emarks wa be true, Ra hadre fies the fault? I anwar, 
indif eren aa’ w want t of application on the part of 
gerdene ary oth Gar Bay and a ag werd themselves 
t be 
ak. m "B. T, pi stin rae 
in this neighbourhood on ies nig ky the, 24th i 
fell to —6°, i.e., 38° below the Pinas point, a pare of 
cold rarely observed i in this country. The thermometer 
a wha mar and 
it. All is usu 
{and the chan 
e 
asters oA Manen bu 
ener 
and han a S.E. reyr wall at 5 feet from the 
lived in direction, si I have not ol 
much rain fall in the whole equi inoctial week as has 
d to fall kraaie daju 
ground. a Pa ie to be feared that 
Gaati of snow whi hich h has fallen, evergreens and other 
nts have suffered severely. C. qn aa Norfolk, | 
26.—— Whatever may be t 
ts of a “kingdom, rea ‘on ther- 
74° um yest 
the 
| 24 how I find a remarkable correspondence between 
the eather of tle "18th of March and that of a 
prese 
f the last | the whole intervening month of a nting æ 
return, though somewhat modifie: those atmo- 
= Ey spheric movements whi ch marked the previous winter. 
è adnan ranting 
All t hok in the world will n make a peed 
gardener if it is not perseveringly ea well applied. 
“pal” e of apprentices at others. I | plan 
fear I can say but little on that head, as I have never | Dec 
lived in lg ere papi wae "aba mg tted. In| ten days i in other parts 
m, opinion le system as in most places is eter registered 
i 4 Dec.), 
persons who panlar i aetna more particularly 1 
in Scotland, young man n here who 
os 
erved Rees she oe in that reer and pai + 
suppose, the market price fo rit; he ood han: 
lt g fires and able n val re 
eir 
aking a a yor T man K] s money most | 
6 to 8 inches deep; wind Fehi oe 
NW. and barometer pretty steady at 29.4. J. M. 
Heathbank, Forfarshi: re. 
begins in May and not “before. I have much 
more to say, but it is impossible to say it within pe 
| reasonable ecompassof i ae Ally convictionare ts 
the. size of the leayes of their ns of A ain 
oy te stated | w 
in their 
young fellow is either sent to th 
} 
some nursery, 
eves oak ae Ted 
ean: ot he is a good y 
position, he gets 
cases out of ten he has still his business to learn, if ev 
he le learns it at all. I 
young “man, ig a Cuenta dis- | until 
on as he deserves to do, but in nine 
ver | p! se 
27 i 
ornamental ogee with foliage n as this, 
m, for instance; and Clavija 
hyll ery are more than a yard in 
igth ; tiful Aralia reticulata. e leav 
of the latter are long and narrow while the plant i 
y ii they gradually e shorter and broader, 
u hey ass' ume an ovate- lanceolate form, 26 inches 
jin length and 8 broad. The: an U; asym 
l na on gor Gandichaudii s leave! 
1 
d definite, and I do not draw ney om gl 
rad L have written, 1} ioe w Lam 
here I take an inter 
ean est but E DDAA 
pted entific i igati 
wish to present all I have said as suggestions 
only for the ration of men of scienti i 
Meanwhile ing to offer to yon an 
with ev 
to contribute my mite (if baply it should turn out to 
} be so) to the general fund of know! 
| Boulay, Sandgate 
Societiek 
Borantoat oF somite? Nov. 8.—The President ` 
in the chair. The Chairman made the follow wing open- 
who have every facility to b 
good servants, but few indeed avail themseives of it, 
and I will never deceive any one by recommending 
them to another situation, if I am abtan. that they | 
are inot us I shall scarcely make 
gardener i in a year out of 40 or 50 men e mployed. Now 
+h 7, A 1 & 
I think that AY 
ere 
to make ha a fresh batch. 
f you cept t ‘om | 
misconduct, My Bik a to young gardeners having any | 
a b 
frivolous pastimes and work in good earnest; let them 
learn everything Kabir vi make them useful s reviled 
5 altere ‘conn mbers gt soe ety. ihe 
cien spawn 
practice z% “pave never had occasion on use more. W, 
Young, Gr. to R. Barclay, Esq., West Hill House, 
Highgate 
Weather 7 the Season of 1860.—It is 
not denied that the formulas attributed to the 
late Dr. Kirwan vy Prime for ing th 
ensuin, g season 
observation of the 
in n sustaining public interest or 
equinox, apt failed å 
remarkable 
e late equinox, cae eens 
itted t 
a a. hia pre chat becom large again imm ing remarks : te emen, we 
ot possess colour ani “a 4 y texture it another, th session of this Society, and I I 
distinguish those of Onash llum. “hat of all hae believe we poy safely pw a if the matter to be 
Dicotyledons the plant with the I argest es | brought forward during th suing nine months shall 
i Gi rias cauliflora ; th 7) just past, we shall 
nches wide. A noble th gg ite ei this plant may pe have no reason to dione of our present condition or 
, bearing a crown of more | future prospects, eet for the cultivation of 
l ical science, an ifficult to overrate the 
ash room Cultur ure.—In my article (see p. 1129) [| advantages afforded by such societies as the present. 
find that I inadvertently ee an png as to the | They unisolate the scientific worker, to take 
quantity required to spawn a bed 10 feet square with him out of the precincts of his closet, out of the narrow 
Milltrack ke I tid have stated that half 
h his fellow-workers, so that he may be saved from 
RIA an estimate either too high or too low of his 
own powers, may be saved also 
roun 
e 
ciple alterations ta some departamen feos rak their care. | I h was permit Ear pikir iii the | done 
“D. M?s” ramai k behalf f young gardeners I am publication of a "single comment (as as I kno w) resu 
afraid may lea ma to Reel that they ste aa 
class of men Thee “that tI do not believe ; let them put later, began to create anxiety. Ido not think those = Harek epe mn founding of a philosophic femre 
their shoul to th the end pro’ hough cpr ~~ ich have peor hoe the botanist of 
end, we want more good men and fewer “ ‘ incapables.” | the time for observation I follow precisely that aan os ni qep vantage w. r ? 
I quite agree with “D. M> ‘that it i ere nd management Dr. Ki rwan—from the 18th to 25th Mare! ad “clive; could ly sme ti a Ra fo a a 
to compel men to bad sos in we es = this, we have only to look back for a few years—to- 
ook back no — ner than the days of that excellent 
district ‘to call those particulars, and aaea v 
t accomplished and amiable man Sir: 
opt such a prac E 
e —We bite Italy Mad th the 
hich has as occur rred for 
pe» 
sign for predicting extreme | 
hl 
summers iar thetr a nature in the same district ; and 
At 8.20 on oe beet of the 25ih, “the Grabiti | 
at 
p! 
pres E. Sm ith, when the Linnean school 
Lempaa in this country, and contrast the science as- 
its condition at the present time 
stood below “fs Spies , 5 feet 
