September 6, 1861. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



18- 

 5 









WEEKLY CALENDAR. 















Day 

 of 



M'nth 



Dav 



of 



Week. 



SEPTEMBER 6—12, 1864. 



Average Temperature r^/ 11 

 near Loudon. 37yesr5 . 



Sun 



Rises. 



Sun 

 Sets. 



Moon 

 Rises. 



Moon 



Sets. 



Moon's 

 Age. 



Clock 

 after 

 Sun. 



Day of 

 Tear. 









Day. 



Night. 



Mean. 



Days. 



m. h. 



m. h. 



m. h. 



m. h. 





m. s, 





6 



Tr 



Hawthorn berries ripe. 



69.6 



45.S 



57.7 



16 



23af5 



34 af 6 



55 10 



23 8 



5 



1 54 



250 



7 



W 



Marsh Glasswort flowers. 



69.6 



47.2 



58.1 



17 



21 5 



32 6 



59 11 



59 S 



6 



2 11 



251 



S 



Th 



Snn flower flowers. 



69.0 



47.2 



58.1 



16 



26 5 



29 6 



after. 



43 9 



7 



2 35 



252 



9 



F 



Dog Hose leaves fall. 



6S.S 



1S.1 



58.1 



16 



27 5 



27 6 



58 1 



37 10 



3) 



2 55 



253 



10 



S 



Tew berries ripe. 



69.1 



15.7 



57.5 



19 



29 5 



25 6 



19 2 



10 11 



9 



3 16 



251 



11 



Svn 



16 SCXDAT AFTER TrUOTT. 



68.4 



17!l 



57.8 



10 



31 5 



22 6 



35 3 



morn. 



10 



3 37 



255 



12 



M 



Elder berries ripe. 



68.9 



14.8 



56.9 



15 



32 5 



20 6 13 1 

 1 



52 



11 



3 58 



256 



From observations taken near London daring the last thirtv-seven years, the average day temperature of 



the week is 69.1° 



and its 



night 



temperatnr 



! 46.5°. The greatest heat was S6° 



on the 12th, 1S5S ; and the lowest 



:old, 30°, on the 6th, 1S50. 



The greatest fall of rain was 



1.27 inch. 

















CRYSTAL PALACE GAEDEJS'S, 1864. 



ID you ever see 

 wedding without a 

 bridegroom ? Did 

 you ever see a lady 

 without a crino- 

 line? Did you ever 

 see a garden with- 

 out grass ? The 

 first is a subject 

 of natural history 

 which we willleave 

 the Begistrar-Ge- 

 neral to answer ; 

 the second is' a 

 phenomenon only now to be found at Tienna ; but the 

 last you may see any day at the Crystal Palace, and pro- 

 bably in front of your own window. Poor Mr. Gordon ! 

 Patience will do her perfect work with him this year — 

 from the day of planting-out to this, except for a day or 

 two, not a drop of rain, either early or late. Cold nights 

 and hot sun and thousands of feet hare done their work, 

 and if any one has a common of good turf handy, doubt- 

 less the Directors will buy it at so much a foot to returf 

 their lawns. Good grass seed will also be at a premium. 

 Messrs. Greens' mowing machines have been laid up, 

 and, well as they do their work, what is the use of them 

 when there is no work to do ? And where shall we get 

 cuttings from for nest year ? There is Mr. Pish, too, 

 patient man ! I went to see Putteridge gardens four 

 weeks ago, and glorious they looked ; but Mr. Fish ex- 

 claimed directly he saw me, " I am glad, you are come this 

 week, for next week I shall not hare a Calceolaria left, 

 and I hare only 6 inches of water in the tank, and not 

 a drop will they let me hare from anywhere else ; for 

 cattle must have drink, though flowers perish." 



The gardens at the Crystal Palace, had the season been 



favourite of mine, so dwarf and compact, and, like a true 

 Nosegay, an abundant bloomer. On the opposite side of 

 the walk, supposing you are returning downwards, is a 

 splendid bed of Geranium Brilliant, edged with Baron 

 Hugel; next, Mrs. W nitty, edged with Golden Chain; 

 then a bed of Trentham Bose Geranium, edged with 

 Purple Eing Verbena ; and at the corner facing the heart 

 is a bed of a seedling Tropteolum, edged with Mangles' 

 Yariegated Geranium. Tropaeolums are not suited for 

 dry seasons ; red spider attacks the leaves, and grow they 

 cannot. 



There are six walks leading up to the Mount with beds 

 on each side. From two to four beds occupy the spaces 

 between the walks. Supposing you are now on the great 

 walk encircling the base of the Mount and going towards 

 the Palace, you have the Mount on your right. Two beds 

 occur here between the first and second walk. The first 

 is a full moon of bright pink. Its centre is the loveliest 

 of all pink Geraniums — Sidonia, with two edgings ; the 

 inner of Countess of Devon, a pretty little half-bred 

 between the Fancy Pelargonium and the sweet-scented 

 Hybrid Perpetual section ; the outer edging is Lobelia 

 speciosa. The next bed is filled almost to overflowing 

 with Lord Palmerston Geranium, leaving just room for 

 an edging of Cloth of Gold. It is a pity that the whole 

 Mount is not surrounded with beds equally attractive 

 with these two last ; but they fail in half their effect for 

 want of the green setting of live grass. 



A heart-shaped bed at the corner of the next walk 

 has Christine for centre, two rows of Flower of the Day 

 all round, and an edging of a seedling Lobelia, of Mr. 

 Gordon's, something like Paxtoniana, named Delicata. 

 To this walk there are given only four beds ; of the two 

 on the right-hand side, the first is Calceolaria Prince 

 of Orange, edged with Lady Plymouth Geranium ; the 

 second is Alma mixed with Lobelia speciosa, a salad bed. 

 Of the two on the left-hand side of the walk, the first is 

 Beaton's immortal Geranium Stella, edged with Geranium 

 Pretty Polly ; the second is dark Calceolaria, seedlings of 



decent, would this year have been glorious. There are ] Mr. Gordon's, edged with Lady Plymouth. Between 



some beds, also, which, notwithstanding the dryness, are 

 very good : we shall come to them as we walk about. 

 Next year, they tell me, there will be a station under the 

 Palace, and yon may be hoisted up into the building like 

 a bale of goods, and stand at once, without fatigue, with 

 the ices and other good things on one side and the 

 gardens on the other ; but this year I must request you 

 to enter the gardens from the old station (a very dirty 

 station it is, by-the-by), and you have the Bose Mount 

 before you. A walk leading up-jhe Mount, with four 

 round beds on the left, a heart-shaped and two round on 

 the right, directly faces you. The heart-shaped bed on 

 your right has for centre Cottage Maid Geranium, then 

 two rows of Crystal Palace, edged with Flower of the 

 Day. Of the two round beds above, the first has for 

 centre. Pelargonium Floribunda, a good white, edged 

 with Golden Ivy -leaf Geranium ; the second, for centre. 

 Faron Bieasoli, one of the best of poor Mr. Beaton's 

 last productions, edged with Crimson Minimum, a great 

 No. 180.— Vol.. Til , New Series. 



this and the next walk there is one round and two heart- 

 shaped beds ; the first, the round one. is planted in alter- 

 nate circles with Blackheath Beauty Geranium, Golden 

 Chain, and Lobelia speciosa ; the heart bed, where a 

 walk branches off to the Palace, is Crystal Palace Scarlet 

 Geranium, edged with Gnaphalium lanatum ; and the 

 other heart-shaped bed at the corner of the next walk up 

 the Mount, where there are two Elm trees with seats 

 underneath, has for centre Geranium Cottage Maid, two 

 rows of Gaines's Yellow Calceolaria, edged with two rows 

 of Christine Geranium, with a fringe of a new Lobelia. 

 At this walk, besides the heart-shaped bed at the corner, 

 there are two on the right hand going up, and four on 

 the left. The two on the right hand are, first, Cloth of 

 Gold Geranium, mixed with Lobelia Delicata (in some 

 lights a very effective bed) ; second, Tropseolnm, edged 

 with Cerastium tomentosum. 



Beturning down the walk, on your right you have, 

 first, a seedling Tropasolum, edged with Cerastium Bie- 



No. 832.— Vol. XX.XII., Old Series. 



