September 9. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 363 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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SEPTEMBER 9—15, 1852. 
Weather 
Barometer. 
NEAR Lo 
Thermo. 
N DON 
Wind. 
N 1851. 
Rain in In. 
Sun | Sun 
Rises. 1 Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bef. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
9 
Tii 
Dog-Rose casts it leaf. 
30.465 —30.449 
67—31 
E. 
27 a. 5 | 27 a. 6 
25 
2 
54 
253 
10 
F 
\ evv berries ripe. 
30.497 — 30.457 
70—33 
S.E. 
_ 
29 i 25 
0 31 
26 
3 
15 
254 
11 s 
Beans cut. 
30.481 —30.381 
68—36 
S.E. 
_ 
31 22 
1 42 
27 
3 
36 
255 
12 Sun 
14 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.401 —30.287 
74—38 
N.W. 
_ 
32 20 
28 
3 
56 
256 
13 M 
Elder berries ripe. 
30.319 —30.301 
72—33 
N.E. 
— 
34 I 18 
© 
4 
17 
257 
14 Tn 
House Sparrows flock. 
30.393— 30.370 
73—40 
S.E. 
__ 
35 16 
6 a 59 
1 
4 
38 
258 
15 W 
Ember Week. 
30.540 — 30.491 
66—38 
E. 
— 
3 7 13 
7 21 
2 
4 
59 
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M eteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-five years, the average highest and lowest tempera¬ 
tures of these days are 68.2° and 46.8° respectively. The greatest heat, 84°, occurred on the 12th in 1841 ; and the lowest cold, 31°, on the 12th 
in 1848. During the period 98 days were fine, and on 77 rain fell. 
EAST INDIAN KLUGIA. 
(Klugia Notoniana.—Botanical Magazine, t. 4020.) 
The genus Klugia was named after a German physician, 
Dr. Ivlug, by Schlechtendahl, a German botanist, and at that 
time it was supposed to be exclusively Mexican. Since 
then, however, the species before us is said to have been 
discovered in the East Indies, and in Ceylon, whence it was 
sent to the Ivew Gardens, by Mr. Thwaites, from the Botanic 
Garden at Paradenya, near Candy. It is a stove annual, 
with deep blue flowers, belonging to a section of Gesner- 
worts called Cyrlandrex, the same section to which Chirita, 
Streptocarpus, and JEschynanthus are referred. In addition 
to the interest which will be created by the richness of the 
flowers, this plant is remarkable for the shape of its large, 
soft leaves, which are heart-shaped in the outline, but much 
contracted on one side at the base, as is seen by our wood- 
cut. It is also a native of Malabar, and the Neilgherry-hills, 
in Hindostan, and has been by various botanists referred to 
two other genera —Glossanlhus and Wulfenia. It belongs to 
the Didynamia Angiospermia, class and order of the 
Linnscan system.—B. J. 
Culture and Propagation .—This new annual requires par¬ 
ticular care to raise it from seeds, as they are as small as 
dust, and, therefore, very liable to be washed away by water¬ 
ing too freely, and if you bury them heyona the merest 
covering, the probability is that you will never see any 
more of them. The best plan to adopt with this, and with 
all other seeds that are very small, is to put a thin layer of 
very ftne-sifted compost on the top, then to give a good 
watering, and before the surface gets dry to sow the seeds 
on the moist earth, then to sprinkle a little of-the compost 
in a dry state over them, just as you would salt a sandwich, 
then to press them gently, and after that to put a piece of 
glass over the pot, and if it happens to be hot, dry weather, 
it is an excellent plan to put a little damp moss over the 
glass. This will keep the whole in a uniform moist state 
long enough for the seeds to come up without any more 
water. It will grow in peat, or in peat with a little leaf- 
mould and sand, but the drainage must be good. 
D. Beaton. 
Continuing, from page 286 , our narrative of the early 
history of Poultry iu this country, we come next to the 
period when Oervase Markham lived, the first really 
original writer ou the subject, whose works were pub¬ 
lished in this country.* The following is extracted 
from the sixth edition, published in 1631, of his volume 
entitled Cheap and good Husbandry for the well-ordering 
of all Beasts and Foivls. 
“ Some small thing hath been written of this nature 
before, but so drawne from the opinions of old writers, as 
Italians, French, Butch, and such like, that it hath no co¬ 
herence or congruity with the practice and experience of 
English customes, both their rules and climes being so 
different from ours, that except we were to live in their 
countries, rules which are printed are uselesse, and to no 
purpose. To let passe the opinion of strangers, and come 
to our owne home-bred knowledge, which is so mix’d with 
all profitable experiments, that it needeth not the helpe of 
other nations so much as men would make us believe. 
* A memoir of G. Markham is inserted at page 391 of our sixth 
volume. 
“ You shall understand that the dung-hill cock (for the 
fighting-cocke deserveth a much larger and particular dis¬ 
course) is a fowle of all other birds the most manliest, 
stately, and majesticall, very tame and familiar with the 
man, and naturally inclined to five and prosper in habitable 
houses: he is hot and strong in the act of generation, and 
will serve ten hens sufficiently, and some twelve and 
thirteen. He delighteth in open and liberall plaines, where 
he may lead forth his hens into greene pastures, and under 
hedges, where they may warme and bathe themselves in the 
sunne, for to be penn’d up in walled places, or in paved 
courts is most unnatural! unto them, neither will they 
prosper therein. 
“ Of the choice and shape of the Cocke. — Now of the 
choice and shape of the dung-hill cocke, bee would be of a 
large and well sized body, long from the head to the rumpe, 
and thicke in the girth ; his necke would be long, loose, and 
curiously bending it, and his body together, being streight, 
and high up erected, as the Falcon, and other birds of prey 
are ; his combe, wattles, and throat would be large, great in 
compasse, jagged, and very scarlet-red; his eyes round and 
great, the colour answering the colour of his plume or male, 
as gray with gray, red with red, or yellow with yellow; his 
bill would be crooked, sliarpe, and strongly set on to his 
No. CCVI., Vox. VIH. 
