THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN S COMPANION.— Augvst 12,1850. 341 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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AUGUST 12—18, 1856. 
Weather near London in 
1855. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Mood 
R. & S. 
MooD’s 
Age. 
Clock 
at. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
ltain in 
Inches. 
12 
Tu 
Sphinx Celerio. 
30.205—30.181 
70—42 
W. 
.01 
43 a 4 
27 a 7 
morn. 
12 
4 
44 
225 
13 
W 
Sphinx Ligustri. 
30.223—30.2J3 
72—4 ! 
N. 
.00 
44 
25 
0 14 
13 
4 
34 
226 
14 
Tu 
Macroglossd Stellatarum. 
30.189-30.174 
73—57 
N.W. 
— 
46 
23 
1 27 
14 
4 
23 
227 
15 
F 
Hepcalus lepulinus. 
30.231—30.224 
76-47 
N. 
— 
48 
21 
2 55 
15 
4 
11 
228 
is 
s 
[Ds. Kent born, 1786. 
30.297“30.274 
79—45 
N.W. 
— 
49 
19 
rises. 
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3 
59 
22Q 
17 
Sdn 
13 Sunday after Trinity. 
30.282—30.244 
83—45 
N. 
51 
17 
8 a 11 
17 
3 
46 
230 
18 
M 
Liparis dispar. 
30.2:12—29 ?G0 
79-53 
S.K. 
52 
15 
8 25 
18 
3 
33 
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Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, the average highest arid lowest 
temperatures of these days are 73.1°, and 51.3°, respectively. The greatest heat, 92 °, occurred on the 18th, in 1842; and the lowest cold, 32°, on 
the 13th, in 1839. During the period 113 days were tine, and on 83 rain fell. 
In our last number we stated that we considered the 
true Orchard-house—a glazed structure without any 
artificial heat—the most useful glass house that can be 
constructed for a family’s service. Our opinion is not 
founded upon what we foresee can he obtained by the 
aid of such a house, hut from a knowledge of what has 
actually been obtained. 
The house we allude to is built against a west wall 
upon the rapid slope of a hill—the slope being to the 
south. The wall is only five feet six inches high, so 
that for head room the roof had to be slightly hipped, in 
this mode. 
There is a glazed door at each end ; the ends and the 
entire root are glazed with 24 ozs. glass; the rafters are 
rehated, and the glass, 10 inches by 8 inches, is puttied 
into the rebates. The rafters are ten inches apart, and 
fixed to a plate of wood in front and on the top of the 
wall. 
The difficulty is to keep-such a structure from being 
excessively hot during the mid-days of summer; and to 
prevent such excess of heat, there are shutters the whole 
length of the house, between the eighteen inch high oak 
posts in front. The panes of glass are fixed with a 
sixteenth of an inch space between the laps. There is 
an opening, one inch wide, on each side along the ridge 
of the roof; and there are five hinged windows, each 
two feet six inches long and ten inches wide, in the east 
side of the roof; yet with all these admissions for air, 
and the door open at each end, we have seen the ther¬ 
mometer at midday riso to 110° during bright sunshine 
The house is fifty feet long, and painted a very blue 
white inside, the excellent effect of which is at once 
apparent. The entire cost of erecting, glazing, and 
painting this house was T30. 
Along the wall of this house are one tree of each of 
the following fruits:—Pitmaston Orange Nectarine, 
Barrington Peach, Moorpark Apricot, Stanwiek Necta¬ 
rine, Royal George Peach, and Black Hamburgh Vine. 
This Vine was planted at the hack, to ascertain whether 
training up the wall and down the glass, or up the glass 
and down the wall, is most conducive of fruitfulness; 
and to carry out the comparison, there are six Vines 
planted withinside iu front, viz., a (Jhasselas Musquee, 
a Sweetwater, two Black Champions, and three Black 
Hamburgbs. The pathway, extending from door to 
door, is the same width as the doors, two feet six inches; 
the border on the wall side being eighteen inches wide, 
and the border on the other side the path four feet wide. 
On the border next the wall a row of Songster's A T o. 1 
Peas was sown on the lOtli of January, and the crop 
was gathered and the border cleared away by the eud of 
May. Thus the ripening of the wood was not at all 
interfered with ; and the trees being plauted only in 
the previous autumn, there was no bloom to he over¬ 
shadowed. Next January the Peas will he sown on the 
other border, and close to the path. 
We have omitted to notice that sixteen fruit-trees, iu 
II -inch pots, are growing at intervals on each side the 
foot-path, and the row of Peas was grown in the 
intervals. 
The fruit trees in the pots are two Noblesse Peaches, 
six Moorpark Apricots, two Violette Hative Nectarines, 
two Royal Georgo Peaches, two Pitmaston Orange 
Nectarines, one Early Anno Peach, and oiie Elruge 
Nectarine. 
On the border nearest the glass, Turnip Radish seed, 
sown on tho 12th of January, yielded a crop fit for use 
on the 1st of April. 
Walnut-leaved Kidney Potatoes, planted on the 13th 
of February, yielded a crop fit for table in the second 
week in May. 
A row of Keen's Seedling Strawberries, old stools, 
planted in the front border, bore a good crop in Juue; 
but the exact date is not recorded. 
In addition to the foregoing products, an unlimited 
supply of Mustard, for salading, was kept up during the 
winter months; and 120 Brown Cos Lettuces hearted 
well, and were cleared off early iu the spring from the 
front border. 
It will he objected that it is had gardening to crop 
the fruit borders, and this is admitted ; but it is not 
such had gardening hut that judicious manuring can 
rectify to such an extent as to render the produce far 
No, CCCCX.I. Vol. XVI. 
