Jane 2,1863.] JOUBNAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDEXEB. 



WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



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JUNE 2—8, 1S63. 



Weathes >-ear Losdok in 1S62. 



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Barometer. Thennom.j Wind, t^,,^^ 



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Rises. 



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 'and Seta Aje. 



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after Bsy«f 



Son. Te*c 



PrreVlv ftcnewort f. owers. 



T. Martyu, inn., died, 1825. B. 



Privet flowers. 



Tournerort born, 1656. B. 



Enchanter's Siehtshade flowers. 29.632—29.514 



1 SOHDAY ATrKE Tejsitt. 19.781 — 29.6«S 



Butterwort flowers. :9.92S— 29.S15 



30.030— 29.9. . 

 30.095— 30.092 

 30.153-29.911 

 29.810— 29.615» 



decrees. 

 79—52 

 69-41 

 72—44 

 65—50 

 67—55 

 71—48 

 71-36 



S.W. 

 B.W. 

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49 3 



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18 



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47 3 



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 on the 5th, in 1856. During the period 141 days were fine, and on 111 rain feu. 



GARDENING IX DEFIANCE OF DIFFICULTIES. 



ABDEXF> T G is a source 

 of pleasure, and what- 

 ever affords pleasure 

 to an Englishman he 

 will obtain, unless cir- j 

 cumstaiiees render the 

 acquirement impossi- 

 ble. We have known 

 dancing for a whole 

 night fire hundred 

 miles from any land, 

 near the equator: and 

 a day's shooting in a 

 boat far away to - the 

 south, between the 

 Cape of Good Hope and the South Pole. 



Gardening is not less enthusiastically clung to : and as 

 it is among our pursuits most worthy of such adherence, 

 so most assuredly are those who pursue it among the 

 most deserving of our fellow-countrymen. A few illus- 

 trative facts, therefore, merit recording. 



If there is any locality where gardening would be 

 abandoned, we should have expected that it would be in 

 a region of perpetual snow, where artificial heat could 

 not be obtained to compensate for the deficiency of solar 

 influence. Tet even in such a region gardening lingers ; 

 and, in the beginning of August, the Bev. S. W. ting 

 writes thus about the Monastery of St. Bernard: — 



" Before it became dusk we sallied out and faced the 

 Spitzbergen-like weather for a scramble among the rocks 

 and to the site of the ancient Temple of Jupiter. For 

 some little distance from tue Convent a sheltered terrace, 

 scarped on the lace of the rock, or piled on stones, and 

 catching what sun there is when it shines, forms the only 

 level bit of promenade the monks have outside their own 

 walls. The further part of this, however, was now 

 buried under a steeply-sloping bed of deep snow left 

 from last winter, and almost touching the ' Convent 

 Garden' — two terraced patches within low walls, 4 or 

 5 yards square, in which grew a few tiny Lettuce, almost 

 microscopic and two or three equally diminutive repre- 

 sentatives of the Cabbage tribe, name unknown. Be 

 Saussure's description in 1778 — 'lis ont peine a pro- 

 duire a la fin d'Aotit quelques laitues et quelques 

 choux de la plus petite espece, pour le plaisir de voir 

 croitre quelque chose' — might have been written that 

 week. Perhaps this forlorn attempt at a garden, with 

 the thought that it was the height of their few weeks 

 of summer, dark clouds of sleet sweeping over us, and 

 whitening the little Lettuces, while we had left all bright 

 and glowing in the valley below, gave us a more forcible 

 impression than anything else of the dreary liie of self- 

 sacrifice to which these worthy men devote the best 

 years of their existence." 



We all know that to the studious mind a change of 



subject, though still requiring thought, is a relief; yet 



Bo. 114.— y oi. iy., Hew S: 



there are academical studies of such dry abstract quals^-, 

 and requiring such a peculiar mental formation, as would 

 lead to the belief that they could have no sympaiiy 

 with gardening, and mathematics would seem to be «f 

 that quality — yet Humphrey Xewton, who acted for 

 some vears as Sir Isaac .Newton's amanuensis, speakiag 

 of Sir Isaac's habits whilst at Trinity College, says: — 

 '■ He was very curious in his garden, which was never 

 out of order, in which he would at some seldom© time 

 take a short walk or two, not enduring to see a weed m 

 it." 3Tor did Sir Isaac restrain his gardening efforts to 

 the small enclosure of his ora garden ; for he endea- 

 voured to establish cider orchards at Cambridge, and tie 

 following, written in jSTovember, 1676, was addressed Le, 

 "Ur. Oldenburg, then Secretary of the Boyal Society: — 



" I am desired to write to you about procuring a 

 recommendation of us to Mr. Austin, the Oxcakfli 

 planter. We hope your correspondent will be pleased 

 to do us that favour as to recommend us to him, that we 

 mav be furnished with the best sort of cider fruit trees. 

 We desire only about 20 or 30 graffs for the first essays 

 and if these prove for our purposes they will be desissd 

 in great numbers. We desire graffs rather than scrags, 

 that we may the sooner see what they will prove." 



In more modern times we have read of a weU-knoss 

 Universitv Professor who adhered to gardening, thcagk 

 his pallisaded plot required for culture no tool larger 

 than a trowel, and whose enthusiasm gave rise to ifcis. 

 witticism — 



" Professor lowett s little garden made, 

 Enclosed within a little pillis&de. 

 A little garden ta&eth little wit to show it: 

 And little wit had little Doctor Jowet^'' 

 • 

 Turning to the soldier, we might expect that whilst; cs. 

 active service his spear would never be resigned for die 

 pruning-hook. Yet this is not so ; and even the Duke 

 of Wellington, when Colonel Wellesley, resolved to «d- 

 tivate Potatoes in Mysore as they were cultivated Ja 

 Ireland, his native country. He sent presents to Eng- 

 lish ladies in Mysore of Cabbages and Celery, plants ke 

 had reared aiound the blood-stained walls of Seriaga- 

 patam, and seemed as proud of his gardening in pease 

 as of his generalship in war. 



2s or is such an adherence to horticulture only vitJua. 

 the power of a commander-in-chief: for we read thai 

 whilst our army was beleaguering Sebastopol Lord 

 Baglan repeatedly visited the tent of Colonel Shadforth, 

 then commanding the 5~th, and was so much pleased 

 with the great taste displayed, the small garden laid osr± 

 with the greatest nieety, Boses trained so as to form s 

 covered approach to the poultry -yard, and the whols ia 

 such good keeping, that the Commander-in-chief sjss 

 pleased to observe, " Henceforth, when addressing say 

 communication to you, I shall address you, ' CoLoaeS 

 Shadforth, Shadforth Castle.' " On one occasion, w&ea 

 he walked to Balaklava to make arrangements for t'<x 

 comforts of his men, he lost his way, and did not reaefe 

 the camp until twelve o'clock at night, and he was eaa- 

 sidered to have been taken prisoner. Upon its being 

 Ko. 766.— yoi. XXIX, Oto Seeies. 



