I 
I 
November J 0. 
93 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Weatiier near London in 1852. 
\s 
^ 1 NOVEMBER 10—10, 1853. 
| 
Barometer. 
Thermo. Wind. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. j 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
j 10 
Th i 
! 30 . 032 — 29.937 
50—42 
N.W. 
06 
12 a. 7 
16 a. 4 
0 43 
9 
15 
55 
314 
I n 
F Bunting mute. 
29 . 706 — 29.408 
54—48 
s. 
1 .02 
14 
15 
1 59 1 
10 
15 
48 
12 
S Wood Pigeons flock. 
29.558—2Q.487 
49—44 
E. 
13 
15 
13 
3 10 
11 
15 
40 
13 
Sun 25 Sunday after Trinity. 
29 . 496 — 29.412 
48—44 
E. 
22 
17 
12 
4 22 
12 
15 
32 
317 
14 
M 
29 . 362 — 29.225 
54—46 
E. 
1.24 
19 
11 
5 33 
13 
15 
23 
318 
15 
Tu Beech leafless. 
29.071—28.989 
58—49 
s.w. 
34 
21 
9 
rises. 
© 
15 
13 
319 
16 
W Teal arrives. 
29.057—28.848 
60—49 
|s.w. 
12 
22 
8 
4 a 39 . 
15 
15 
2 
320 
Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-six years, the average highest and lowest tem¬ 
peratures of these days are 55.8° and 40° respectively. The greatest heat, 63°, occurred on the 12th in 1841 ; and the lowest cold, 15°, on the 
l6tk in 1841. During the period 95 days were line, and on 87 rain fell. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Lotezia macrophylla ( Large-leaved Lopczia ). 
Oncidium Hartwf.gi ( Harlweg’s Oncid). 
This Orchid was found by Mr. Hartweg, on rocks near 
Loxa. Flowers small, and brownish, with yellow spots.— 
(Horticultural Society's Journal, viii. 319.) 
Phacelia rahosissima (Branchiest Phacclia). 
This annual is a native of California. Natural Order of 
Hydropliyls, and Pentnndria Monogynia of Linnaeus. Its 
flowers of dirty white are of no beauty .—(Limuean Trans¬ 
actions, xvii. 280.) 
Leptosiphon chjatum ( Hair-fringed Leptosiphon ). 
This Californian annual lias small flowers having a 
brown hairy tube, yellow throat, and a pink border. Its 
specific name is founded on the long, transparent, jointed 
hairs on the leaves. — (Horticultural Society’s Journal, 
viii. 319.) 
Lrr.iuw P.OSEUM ((Rosy Lily). 
This is a native of Hindostan, at Ivamaon, Mussooree, 
and Almora, at an elevation of 8000 feet. It flowered in a 
cool frame at Kew Gardens, during the April of 1853. Its 
stem, including the flower, is not more than eighteen inches 
high. The flowers, in a slightly diffuse cluster, about 
eight or ten in number, are lilac rather than rose-coloured. 
It has been also called Fritillaria Thomsoniana and Lilium 
Thomsonianum. —( Bot. Magazine, t. 4720.) 
This is a greenhouse plant, native of Mexico and Guate¬ 
mala, and flowered in a greenhouse at Kew, in March, 1853. 
It is a half-shrubby plant, uot unlike a Fuchsia, and the 
flowers are bright red. It lias been called, also, Lopczia 
grandijlora, and Jehlia fuchsioides. Lopezia belongs to the 
Natural Order of Onagrads aud to Monandrla Monogynia 
of Linnseus .—(Botanical Magazine, t. 4724.) 
It is no insignificant testimony to the kindness and 
providence of God, that, go where you will, you find 
Grass and Cabbages. Where they are, cattle and man 
are sure of food. 
With the tribe of Grasses we shall not deal upon the 
present occasion, but we will bear testimony that in no 
latitude where man can live does the Cabbage refuse to 
bear him company. This fact seems to have struck the 
Roman poet, for he sings of 
“ That herb, which o’er the whole terrestrial globe 
Doth flourish, and in great abundance yields 
Alike to plebeian and to haughty king 
In winter, Cabbage, and green sprouts in spring.”* 
Navigators aud travellers, since Columella wrote, have 
found another quarter of the world, and have explored 
| regions untrodden in his days ; yet, go where they will, 
I there is the Cabbage. Wild, as well as cultivated, there 
| it is—no latitude of the tropics is so hot, no arctic 
j region so cold, no mountain ridge of the Himalaya so 
! elevated—but, if the hut of man can rest there, there 
! will the Cabbage grow by its walls. 
*-“toto qua? plurima terra 
Orbe virens pariter plebi, regique superbo 
Frigoribus caules, et veri cymata mittet.” 
Columella, x, 127. 
Even in its native form the Brassica oleracea sylves- 
tris, or Wild Cabbage, is spread over all Europe. 
Brassica campestris, the wild Navew, and parent of the 
Swedish Turnip, is found in regions whose boundaries 
are the Crimea and Lapland; Brassica Chinensis, or 
Chinese Cabbage, is common in the Celestial Empire; 
Brassica Magellanica abounds in the inhospitable cli¬ 
mate of Cape Horn ; even the isolated island of St. 
Helena lias its Brassica Helleniana ; Africa lias its 
Brassica lyrata, and North America has its Brassica 
Washitana. Nor are these merely untameable species. 
M. de Serra, writing of that last named, says—“ The 
Americans settled on the Washita River, and in the 
Arkensaw territory, as well as the travellers who have 
visited those countries, speak in terms of commendation 
of a species of Wild Cabbage, which grows plentifully 
iu those countries, and produces red flowers. Muhlen¬ 
berg, the famous American botanist, in liis ‘ Catalogue 
of North American Plants,’ page 61, has given to it the 
name of Brassica Washitana. I wish the Horticultural 
Society would attempt the introduction and civilisation 
of this vegetable. From the effects produced by culti¬ 
vation in other plants of this family, we may expect, iu 
No. CCLXVII., Vol. XI, 
