July 5, 1864. ; 



JOURNAL OE HOKTICTJLTTJEB AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



Day 

 of 



Day 



of 



JULY 5—11, 1864.. 



Average Temperature 



Rain in 



last 

 37 years. 



San 



Sun 

 Sets. 



Moon 



Moon 

 Sets. 



Moon's 

 Age. 



Clock 



before 



Sun. 



i 

 Day of 

 Tear. 



M'nth 



Week. 

























Day. 



Night. 



Mean. 



Days. 



ra. h. 



ni. h. 



m. h. 



m. h. 





m. S: 





5 



Tu 



St. John's Wort flowers. 



77.3 



51.0 



64 2 



16 



52 af 3 



17afS 



37 5 



3S S 



1 



4 18 



187 



6 



W 



Glowworm shines. 



76.1 



51.2 



636 



16 



53 3 



16 S 



41 6 



4 9 



2 



4 23 



18S 



7 



Th 



Smooth Meadow Grass ripe. 



73.5 



51.7 



62 6 



20 



54 3 



16 8 



45 7 ! 28 9 



3 



4 38 



189 



8 



F 



Young Partridges fledged. 



74.1 



50.2 



62.1 



19 



55 3 



15 8 



48 8 i 49 9 



4 



4 47 



190 



9 



S 



Everlasting; Pea flowers. 



73.7 



50.1 



61.9 



17 



56 3 



14 S 



52 9 1 9 10 



D 



4 56 



191 



10 



Strct 



7 Sunday after Trinity. 



74.4 



50.7 



62 5 



15 



57 3 



13 8 



56 10 1 29 10 



6 



5 .5 



192 



11 



M 



Wild Basil flowers. 



74.C 



51.1 



62.9 



10 



5S 3 



12 S 



after. 1 52 10 



7 



5 13 



193 



From observations taken near London durin 



g the last thirtv-seven years, the average day temperature of the week is 74.8 



\ and its night 



temperatur 



i 50.9°. The greatest heat was 97° 



on the 5th, 1S52; and the lowest 



cold, 36°, on the 7th, 1S60. The 



greatest fall of rain was 



1.07 inch. 















LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL 

 GARDEN. 



THE CHISWICK GARDEN OP THE ROYAL 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ONDAY, the 27th 

 of June, was a 

 great day for 

 tlie old garden 

 at Chiswick ; 

 andno one came 

 away from it 

 without a feel- 

 ing of regret 

 and indignation 

 at the neglect 

 with, which it is 

 treated by the 

 present management of the Society. No one could wait 

 amongst the ornamental trees now attained to a noble 

 growth, and now showing fully the taste which dictated 

 their arrangement, without expressing the anger that is 

 felt for men who are lavishing thousands of pounds upon 

 the gew-gaw garden at South Kensington, whilst upon 

 these noble grounds at Chiswick the same management 

 declared that the Society could not spare " ten pounds " 

 more ! The fact makes one pause in writing the words, 

 and think a second time whether such a perversion can 

 be, and that the horticultural Fellows do not gather 

 together and resolve that such a perversion shall not be. 

 It would be no idle resolve, be it remembered ; but we 

 believe that they hesitate, hoping that the management 

 will take to a course more consistent with the objects 

 of a Horticultural Society. 



Among these objects is the increase of a knowledge 

 of fruits and their cultivation — and at Chiswick the 

 Society has to operate with the most complete collection 

 of Apples, Pears, and Grape Vines that exists in Europe. 

 Its noble vinery and the excellence of the Vines within 

 it are worth a day of railway travelling to inspect. 



To be able to exhibit all this, and much more which 

 we need not detail, was a triumph for the Chiswick 

 Garden, for every one of the fifteen hundred who visited 

 it that day felt how it towered above its disproportion- 

 ately pampered competitor at Kensington. That number 

 — 1500 visitors — should speak with a trumpet tongue a 

 lesson to the Society's managers. Of that number, 1360 

 were Fellows of the Society and their friends. Now, if 

 this Strawberry Pete had been advertised, as the fetes 

 at Kensington are always advertised, how many more 

 hundreds of the publie would probably have attended ? 

 Why was it not more publicly announced ? Why was 

 a less powerful band engaged than is engaged for the 

 Kensington fetes ? If it was to obtain evidence that the 

 Chiswick Garden is less attractive than the garden at 

 Kensington, that intention was abortive, of which no 

 better evidence is needed than the joyous groups as- 

 sembled there compared with the formal, dressed-for- 

 display throng at Kensington. 

 Quite sure are we that the Fellows who were at 

 No. 171.— Yol. YIL, New Shries. 



Chiswick that day would record their votes, not only 

 for more such assemblings there, but that the expendi- 

 ture upon the garden shall be more liberal ; that its turf 

 and other parts of the ground shall be kept in good order 

 worthy of what should be the model Society of Horti- 

 culture ; and then those Fellows might be content t© 

 allow some of the glass structures to remain as they 

 all are at present — mere propagating and nursing places 

 for the plants to furnish the beds and borders at Ken- 

 sington. 



MY ORCHARD-HOUSE.— No. 4, 



A ieaened friend who has written an extensive work 

 on the Channel Islands, and who is an excellent authority 

 on the matter, having resided in Guernsey for several 

 years, in describing the climate of these islands represents 

 them as being the " chosen battle field " for all the winds 

 under heaven. The whole group lies in such a way off 

 the main continent, that every fierce blast from the vast 

 Atlantic Ocean meets a corresponding storm from" the 

 land, exactly at the spot where these favoured isles are 

 placed. 



Guernsey has, however, the distinction of a bad pre- 

 eminence even here, while it frequently appears to me 

 that our front walk, near which the orchard-house stands, 

 is selected above all other spots in the island as that 

 where furious storms most love to contend. On the 1st 

 of January, 1881, about two-thirds of our orchard-house 

 fell suddenly, as if a shell had exploded therein, under 

 the violence of one of these gales, with a pressure of 

 what seemed to me of about a hundredweight to the 

 square foot ! As no one would venture in, all the trees 

 were crushed and the pots smashed, while the rafters fell 

 among our Rose trees, levelling these at once. It was a 

 sad sight for me, and it needed all my love for the work 

 and conviction of its utility, even as a model and school 

 for others around, to reorganise the house afresh. 



A clerical brother quaintly reminded me, that " it was 

 not a gin palace I was building, but a suggestive and 

 useful structure." The house was accordingly rebuilt, 

 the mutilated trees sprang up afresh, new plans were 

 adopted, everything was on a better scale, and I have 

 never regretted doing so. 



When I think how many have profited by inspecting 

 the work, and that I am able, I trust, to contribute some- 

 thing towards my brother amateurs by describing matters 

 exactly as they are with me, it is impossible not to feel 

 aratified. Orchard-houses seem especially adapted for 

 amateur fruit-growers. More can be learnt in them in 

 one year than in, perhaps, ten out of doors. And among 

 other things it must not be forgotten, that time is to us 

 all that which is most precious. Let us, then, be ever 

 ready to contribute towards another's innocent pleasures, 

 so few in this world ; and let us shun all bitterness of 

 expression, in gardening matters especially. 



The continual strong breezes and generally cold weather 

 of the last fortnight have been very trying to vegetation. 

 Tender bedding plants, such as Amaranthus melancholicus 

 No. 623.— Tot. XXXII , Old Series. 



