CALENDAR FOR THE YEAR 1S71. 621 



Fkuit : Gtoj.— Grapes : Black Hamburgh ; Chasselas Musqu^. Peaches : 

 Admirable. Figs : Lee's Perpetual. Melons. 

 Out of rfoorj.— Apples : Ribston Pippin ; Cox's Orange Pippin ; Kerry Pippin ; 

 Royal Pearmain ; Lord Suffield. Pears : Williams' Bon Chrftien. Plums : 

 Golden Drop. 

 Vegetals : Glass. — Tomatoes. Cucumbers. 



Out of ifoow.— French beans ; Scarlet runners. CauUflowers. Cabbage. Carrots. 

 Onions. Lettuce. Curled, Australian, and Water cress. 

 Garden Operations : Ferns and Climbers in house cleared. 



Out of doors. — Onions stored. Crocus bulbs planted. Anemones planted. Apples 

 and pears gathered. 



" Then came October, full of merry glee ; 

 For yet his noule was totty of the must 

 Whiche he was treading in the wine-fat's see." — Spenser. 



OCTOBER I— 7.— FORTIETH WEEK. 



Mean temperature at Greenwich, 51°. 9, being i "4 below the average : highest in 

 shade, 64°. 8; lowest in shade, 4i°.5. — My Garden: highest in shade, 65°; lowest in 

 shade, 37°. Black bulb : highest in sunshine, 130° ; lowest on grass, 34°. Rainfall 

 at Greenwich, 0.77 inch. 

 Fruit : Glass. — Grapes : Black Hamburgh. Peach : Late Admirable. Figs : Lee's 



Perpetual. 

 Out of i/ijorj.— Apples : Ribston Pippin ; King of the Pippins ; Kerry Pippin ; 



Royal Pearmain ; Lord Suffield ; Lord Grosvenor. Pears : Beurrd Goubault ; 



Alexandrina. Plums : Scarlet Magnum Bonum. Filberts. 

 Vegetals : Glass. — French beans. Tomatoes. Capsicums. Cucumbers. 



Out of doors. — Scarlet runners. Cabbages. CoUards. Carrots. Cauliflowers. 



Brussels sprouts. Onions. Celery. Curled, Australian, and Water cress. 

 Garden Operations : Glass. — Potting and housing ferns. Top-dressing rosaries. 



On October 4th a collection of apples from my garden was exhibited at the Inter- 

 national Fruit Show at the Horticultural Society, for which an extra prize was awarded. 

 For the best collection of dessert apples mine secured the first prize for 60 dishes 

 of what was reported as " very fine fruit.'^ For culinary apples, the second prize 

 was obtained for 50 dishes, which were reported " not to be quite so large as we 

 usually have them, but very good for the season." The second prize was awarded for 

 dessert pears, the first having been obtained by MM. Baltet of Troyes. As all my fruit 

 was of my own grow,th, this test of the mode of horticulture, and the character of my 

 selections, was very satisfactory to me, competing as I did against the gardens of all 

 other European countries, and of all the large nurserymen of England. 



OCTOBER 8— 14.— FORTY-FIRST WEEK. 



Mean temperature at Greenwich, 45°. 5, being 5°.9 below the average : highest in 

 shade, 59°. 2 ; lowest in shade, 3i°.2.— My Garden: highest in shade, 60°; lowest in 



