August 8, 1872. ] 



JOTJBNAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEB. 



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WEE 



<LY 



CALENDAF 

















Day 



Day 





Average Tempera- 



Rain in 



Sun 



Son 



Moon 



Moon 



Moon's 



Clock 



h(>tore 



Sun. 



Day 



of 



Year. 



of 



Month 



of 

 Week. 



AUGUST 8—14, 1872. 



ture near London. 



43 years. 



Rises 



Sets. 



Rises. 



Sets. 



Age. 

 Days. 











Night. 



Mean. 



Davs. 



m. h. 



m. h. 



m. h. 



m h 



m. s. 





8 



Th 





74.5 



49.4 



61.9 



18 



86af4 



36 af7 



89 af 8 



26 af 9 



4 



5 20 



221 



9 



V 





74.9 



49.6 



62.2 



16 



38 4 



34 7 



52 9 



39 9 



5 



5 12 





10 

 11 



S 



Sun 



Royal Botanie Society's Anniversary Meeting. 

 11 Sunday after Trinity. 



75.1 

 75.8 



51.9 

 50.7 



63.5 

 63.2 



19 



20 



39 4 

 41 4 



31 7 

 28 7 



4 11 

 after. 



55 9 

 14 10 



6 



7 



5 3 



4 54 



223 

 224 



12 



M 



Grouse shooting commences. 



75.1 



50.5 



62.8 



16 



42 4 



26 ' 7 



40 1 



36 10 



5 



4 4t 



225 



IS 



To 



Clay Cross Horticultural show. 



74.5 



50.0 



62.3 



19 



44 4 



24 7 



1 3 



7 11 



9 



4 33 



226 



11 



W 



Royal Jersey Horticultural Society's Show. 



72.9 



50.8 



61.8 



18 



45 4 





21 4 



49 11 



10 



4 22 



227 



From observations taken near London during forty-three years, the average day temperature of the week is 74.7° ; and 



its night tempcratui'o 



50.4°. The greatest heat was 93"; on the 10th, 1842 ; and the lowest cold 33°, on the 11th, 1S64. The greatest fall of rain was 1.14 inch. 





LISIANTHUS PEINCEPS. 



| EJOICE.my 



brother gar 



deners, am 



all amateur 



lovers and 



growers of 



plants, for 



this gem is 



likely soon 



to be seen 

 in our collections. The 

 late Dr. Lindley was so enraptured 

 with it, that in describing it he 

 said, "This must be one of the 

 noblest plants in existence. Its long 

 flowers are rich scarlet melting into 

 yellow at either end, with an eme- 

 rald green 5-lobed limb ; they hang in clusters of 

 from the ends of the drooping twigs, covered with 

 deep green opposite leaves. According to Mr. Linden, 

 naturally forms a tufted shrub 2 to 3 feet high, growin 

 at the entrance of the table land of Pamplona at 

 height of 10,000-11,000 feet above the sea." We may 

 confidently expect soon to have it in our greenhouses, 

 for a batch of new seed was recently purchased by Mr. 

 Williams, of Holloway, at a public sale in Covent Garden. 

 Many years ago I was shown specimens of this plant, 

 and, oh ! how I watched, and waited, and longed to see 

 it in our gardens ! But my hopes were doomed to disap- 

 pointment, and I much question if there have been any 

 plants in Europe for these twenty years. I attended the 

 sale at Mr. Stevens's rooms, hoping to be able to secure 

 a little seed early, but as the whole was disposed of in 

 one lot, I was doomed to disappointment, still I had the 

 satisfaction of again seeing flowers of this beautiful plant, 

 thus proving it to be the true species. 



I have long known and grown the beautiful Lisianthus 

 Eussellianus, but even this species is unknown to the 

 majority of gardeners and amateurs with whom I come 

 in contact ; theirs, however, is the loss, for its large, clear 

 blue, tulip-shaped flowers have few equals, and I think I 

 may safely say still fewer superiors ; and although I am 

 quite ready to admit it is somewhat difficult to manage, 

 yet it fully repays any amount of labour and trouble 

 bestowed upon it ; indeed we owe the loss of many fine 

 plants to the fact that plants which require little looking- 

 after have crept into favour to the exclusion of those 

 which really require skilful treatment. Now, although 

 L. princeps belongs to the same genus as the before- 

 mentioned L. Eussellianus, it does not bear the slightest 

 resemblance to it. The plant is perennial, of shrubby 

 habit, and usually attains a height of about 2 or from 

 that to 3 feet. The leaves are somewhat short, oblong- 

 lanceolate, and acuminate ; they are opposite, and deep 

 green on the upper side, whilst below they are somewhat 

 paler. The blooms are produced in terminal drooping 

 racemes three or four together. The flowers are tubular, 

 from 5 to 6 inches in length, about an inch broad at the 

 largest part, tapering at each end ; the colour, as Dr. 



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