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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
We understand it is the intention of Messrs. Garaway & Co. to submit 
to auction, some time in the course of the ensuing autumn, the greater 
portion of their stock of named bulbs and flowered seedlings. This would 
offer an excellent opportunity to those who may be thinking of commencing 
the cultivation of these very showy and easily managed plants. 
M. 
MAY, 1867. 
By way of an appendix to my remarks on the effects of the severe frost 
of January, 1867, allow me to place on record a few remarks on the 
extremes of temperature which characterised the month of May following. 
A very rapid advance in vegetation generally began about the 3rd, and on 
the 5tli the trees were clothed with the most lovely young foliage, having an 
infinite variety of tints, caused by the rapid development, which was too 
forcing to allow them to assume their natural green. Some were golden 
yellow, some a rich brown, others a delicate primrose—in fact, I observed 
at the time that it appeared to me far more beautiful than the autumnal 
tints, on account of the extreme delicacy of appearance which the trees 
presented. However, when on the 6th the temperature rose to 82° in the 
shade, on the 7th to 84°, and on the 8th to 83°, the burning sun soon did 
its work, and rubbed out the beautiful tints, reducing them all to one 
uniform shade of green. After that came those fearful thunderstorms, with 
their attendant furious gales and heavy storms of rain, snow, and hail, 
during which, for the space of ten days, the average day temperature was 
not more than 43°, and that of the night 32°. This state of things cul¬ 
minated, on the 23rd, 24tli, and 25th, in very severe morning frosts, during 
which the thermometer sank to 23°, with what effect on the young and 
tender vegetation, which the former great heats had caused to be developed, 
may well be imagined. The young shoots of Rhododendrons, Kalmias, 
and Azaleas, were many of them killed quite down to the old wood, by 
which many thousands of heads of bloom will be lost to next year; the 
beauty of the present year’s flowering was also very much curtailed. The 
young foliage of Ash, Walnut and Chestnut was turned quite black, and 
the very young wood was killed. 
I have also observed in some plantations a few miles from this place, 
that Oak and Alder trees to a very great extent have all the young growth 
killed, and that the appearance they present is much the same as if a fire 
had passed through all the branches; and to-day (June 15th), I noticed 
in Lord de Lisle’s park some large Walnut trees, which are nearly bare of 
foliage, and if they live must be some years in recovering their former state 
of health and vigour. 
As to fruit crops, one-half the crop of Gooseberries fell off the trees. 
Pears on standard trees were frozen black where exposed, but where covered 
by foliage are quite safe; on the walls they were untouched. Apples appear 
to have suffered more than any fruit, as there was a great abundance of 
bloom, but I perceive that there is not one-third of an average crop. 
Strawberries, which were in full bloom and very promising, had all the 
exposed blossoms turned black, thereby reducing the crop below the average. 
I had commenced bedding-out in some of the more sheltered parts of the 
garden, but the jflants had been well hardened, and, therefore, did not suffer. 
Some tenderer things which were undergoing the process of hardening 
