November 8, 1S64. ] 



JOTJEUAL OP HOETICULTTJEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



365 



WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



Clock t. ' . 



a,tei \L 



Sun. j lear - 



Day 

 of 



Day 

 of 



NOVEMBER S— 14, 1864. 



Average Temperature 



Rain in 

 last 



Sun - 



Sun 



Sets. 



U'nth 



Week. 



















Dav. 



Night, 



Mean. 



Davs. 



m. h. 



m. h. 



S 



Tv 



Hooded Crow arrives. 



5L1 



34 9 



43 



17 



9af 7 



19af4 



9 



W 



Pbixce o^ Wales Bosk, 1841. 



50.7 



34.8 



42 7 



15 



11 7 



17 4 



10 



Th 



Birch leafless. 



50.6 



85.2 



42.9 



21 



12 7 



16 4 



11 



F 



Martinmas. 



50.9 



35.1 



43.0 



15 



14 7 



15 4 



12 



S 



Bunting's note ceases. 



50.4 



34.1 



42.3 



16 



16 7 



13 4 



13 



Sex 



25 SOXDAY AFTER TEIXITT. 



49.5 



35.4 



42.5 



20 



17 7 



12 4 



14 



M 



Wood Pigeons congregate. 



48.0 



33.9 



40.4 



19 



19 7 



10 4 



Moon 

 Rises. 



Moon 

 Sets. 



m. n. 



42 

 9 



37 

 5 



38 



15 

 1 



m. b. 

 9 



Mooa's 

 Age. 



9 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 3 

 15 



m. s, 



16 



15 59 



1» 53 



15 46 



15 38 



15 30 



15 20 



333 

 314 

 315 

 316 

 317 

 31S 

 319 



From observations taken near London during the last thirtv-seven years, the average day temperature of the "week is 50.2°, and its night 

 temperature 34.8'. The greatest heat was 63° on the 12th, 1S41 ; and the lowest cold, 1S°, oa the 9th, 1S54. The greatest fall of rain was 

 1.24 inch. 



BEDDING FOE WIN TEE AND SPEDNG. 



^^Tfj^g=. HAT a splendidsea- 

 [jj^ill,'-.' W son! we hear ex- 

 pressed upon all 

 occasions when 

 we come in con- 

 tact with either 

 town or country- 

 gardeners ; and 

 so it has teen. 

 Surely we may 

 venture to say 

 that the Italian 

 summer has been 

 equalled for once by that now passed away in Britain. 



Among the other wonders this has wrought none are 

 more conspicuous than the gorgeous continued display of 

 colours which all who have a flower garden must have 

 enjoyed up to a much later period of the season than most 

 can remember. A majority of our flower-beds were full, 

 and in fine order until the rather sharp frost on the morn- 

 ing of the 24th of October. This had the effect of putting 

 most people on the alert, who had their tender or valued 

 sorts of bedding stuff still out. 



It might by many parties be considered that this late 

 continuance of flowering, in comparison to other seasons, 

 would be a hindrance to the planting of winter and spring 

 bedding staff. This is not so, but very much in its 

 favour. If such things as Pansies, Silene, Myosotis, 

 Stocks, &c, be planted in their winter quarters early, 

 and we have a good amount- of sun afterwards, they 

 invariably commence growing fast, and are, therefore, 

 tender when the sharp winter frosts begin. Silene is, 

 perhaps, the most difficult to get in at the proper stage. 

 This season, however, we have overcome that most effec- 

 tually. Upon observing that the fine weather was bring- 

 ing these plants too forward, I set a man with a fork to 

 raise the plants quite up, and then tread them in again ; 

 we have repeated this until they are starved but sturdy- 

 looking plants, and likely to meet any frost without in- 

 jury. N otbing makes such splendid spring beds as the 

 Silene pendula, both white and red. 



The beds and borders filled up to this time consist of 

 one bed of dark Auricula, edging Arabis lucida variegata ; 

 yellow Auricula, edging of the same Arabis ; Polyanthus 

 black, red, yellow, and variegated, with Crocus edgings ; 

 white Pansy with blue Scilla edging ; Magpie Pansy, 

 with Dog's-tooth Yiolet edging ; yellow Alyssum, with 

 dark red Daisy edging ; white Evergreen Candytuft, with 

 blue Pansy edging. All these are crammed quite full, 

 not an inch of soil to be seen ; our stock allows us to do 

 this ; for although the season has been dry, and it was 

 consequently difficult to manage these plants, every one 

 was kept in some shady place with only a sparing amount 

 of water. 

 The smaller borders we are now (October 2Sth), busy 

 No. 189.— Vol. VII.. New Seeibs. 



digging what we term spit and a half. This allows us to 

 give a good dressing, and also to take up the bulbs left 

 in the border over the summer. These are arranged and 

 planted again as the work proceeds, planting the bulbs 

 in rows or otherwise on the top of the first-turned-down 

 spit. — J. F., Cliveden. 



(To be continued.) 



TINES FOE THE OECHAED-HOHSE. 



Abe you ever asked to recommend Tines for an 

 orchard-house ? If so, be sure to place Trentham Black 

 the first on your list. 



In one large orchard-house which covers 300 square 

 yards I planted a Tine to each of the pillars, to see if 

 good Grapes could be grown in Nottinghamshire without 

 heat. The only ones 1 had much faith in were the white 

 and rose-coloured Muscadines, though I hoped the Black 

 Hamburgh might ripen ; but to prove them I planted 

 several other varieties. The result is that the Muscadines 

 have been ripe and cut long ago. Chasselas Tibert has 

 also been dead ripe some time, but is not worth growing, 

 being too small and shabby-looking, though good in 

 flavour ; the bunches and berries are only about half the 

 size of the White Muscadine. 



The Black Hamburghs are good in colour, thin-skinned, 

 and in flavour quite equal to those grown in heat, though 

 not quite so large. The Trentham Black is, however, 

 quite the best, being richer, larger, and blacker than the- 

 Hamburghs, and in every way superior. In the hot- 

 house the Trentham Black is a first-rate early Grape, we 

 cut about 40 lbs. from a young Tine this season ; but it 

 would not be wise to plant too many of this variety in 

 our early house, as it is too thin-skinned to keep long 

 after it is ripe. With us it is earlier, larger, and richer' 

 than any of the Hamburghs, and all persons would do 

 well, I think, to plant one of this kind ; but as a variety 

 to be grown in a cool or cold house there can be few or 

 none equal to it. 



We really cannot be too careful in recommending fruit 

 trees ; it is so tiresome, after waiting years, to find it 

 necessary to replace a worthless variety. I called a 

 short time since at Frogmore, and as the Prolific Mus- 

 cat, raised in that garden, will hardly grow with me, I 

 asked to see it in fruit, and was told it had been destroyed 

 as worthless ! What will those say who have given from 

 one to two guineas a plant for it, and that so recently ? — 

 J. E. Pearson, Chilwell. 



HAEDY FEENS: 



HOW I COLLECTED AND CULTIVATED THEM.— No. 3. 



Through the TTOssachs — not walking or driving 

 leisurely, stopping here and there to admire, now drag- 

 ging this wheel, now getting down for a lounge up that 

 hill ; — but dashing, scrambling, tearing along on the 

 outside of a rickety old coach, driven unicorn fashion, 

 with a wild-looking "leader," having a mad devil in 



.No. 841.— Vol. VXXJI., Old Sesies. 



