6i4 MV GARDEN. 



Fruit : Giass. — Pine-apples : Queen. Melons. Grapes : Sweetwater. Pears from 



pots : Citron des Carmes (excellent) : Doyennd d'Etd (small). 

 Oui of doors. — Strawberries, chiefly Black Prince ; Alpine. Currants, white and 



red. Gooseberries. Cherries. 

 Vegetals : Glass. — Cucumbers. Potatoes. Carrots. 



Out of doors. — Peas. Asparagus. Potatoes. Cauliflowers. Cabbage. Spinach. 



Rhubarb. Chervil. Radishes. Lettuce. Australian, Curled, and Water cress. 

 Garden Operations : Glass. — Several pot peach-trees removed from Orchard-house 



to ripen their fruit outside, and to afford more air to those remaining inside. 



Seeds sown : Radishes ; lettuces ; endive (first crop). Celery planted in trenches. 

 Natural History. — Young wryneck captured. Eels caught in trap. 



" Then came hot July, boiling Hke to fire. 

 That all his garments he had cast away." — Spenser. 



JUNE 25— JULY I.— TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK. 



Mean temperature at Greenwich, 56°.6, being 4°.8 below the average ; highest in 

 shade, 72°.2 ; lowest in shade, 40°.— My Garden : highest in shade, 73° ; lowest in 

 shade, 34°. Black bulb: highest in sunshine, 147°; lowest on grass, 32°. Rainfall 

 at Greenwich, 0.05 inch. 



Flowers : Glass. — Torenia asiatica. 



Qui of doors. — Potentilla alchemilloides. Campanula mollis. Spanish Iris. Sedum 



Fosterianum. S. Pallas. S. Andersoni. S. anglicum. Sempervivum calcara- 



tum. Spanish Broom. 

 Fruit : G/ojj.— Grapes : Sweetwater. Melons. Pears : Doyennd d'Et^. 



Out of afcorj.— Strawberries : several kinds. Raspberries. Currants, red and 



white. Gooseberries. Cherries. 

 Vegetals : Glass. — Mushrooms. Cucumbers. 



Out of doors.— Ve&s : Champion of England. Potatoes. Turnips. Carrots. 



Cauliflowers. Onions. Jerusalem artichokes. Lettuces. Radishes. Australian, 



Curled, and Water cress. 

 Garden Operations: Glass.— Planted .- Melon plants for succession; celery, after 



first crop of peas ; strawberry runners laid on pots ; cauliflower plants for autumn 



use. Seeds sown : Radishes in succession ; lettuce ; cress. 

 Natural History.— Young wryneck caught and placed in the Poor Man's house, 



where it attacked an ant's nest and devoured its inmates, but after a few days 



died. 



JULY 2— 8.— TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK. 



Mean temperature at Greenwich, 60°. s, being i°.i below the average : highest in 

 shade, 76°.5 ; lowest in shade, 48°.8.— My Garden : highest in shade, 76° ; lowest 

 m shade, 40°. Black bulb : highest in sunshine, 147° ; lowest on grass, 38°. Weather, 

 fine. Ramfall at my garden, 0.96 inch ; at Greenwich, 0.87 inch. 



