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MAY 11—17, 1851. 
11 
Th 
Carabus inonilis. 
1*2 
F 
Carabus nitens. 
13 
S 
Nebria complanata. 
14 
Son 
4 Sunday aftfji Easter. 
15 
51 
Leistus Raulinsii. 
16 
Td 
Panagfeus crux major. 
17 
\v 
Bcmbidium flavipes. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
89 
Wjvmsn near London in 1853 . 
Barometer. 
| 
Thermo. Wind. } lai " in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.&S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bf. Sun. 
Day o{ 
Year. 
! 30.073—30.003 
56—31 
N.E. 13 
1(3 
36 
3 54 
14 
3 
51 
131 
; 29 . 983—29 923 
57—42 
E. — 
15 
37 
rises. 
© 
3 
52 
132 
30.012—30.010 
56—37 
S.E. 13 
13 
39 
9 a 18 
Id 
3 
54 
133 
30 . 007 — 29.376 
61—40 
E. 1 — 
12 
40 
10 41 
17 
3 
54 
134 
29 .S5fi—29.672 
67—49 
S.E. — 
10 
42 
11 54 
13 
3 
54 
135 
29 . 669 — 29 . 59 S 
69-47 
E. I — 
9 
43 
morn. 
19 
3 
54 
29 . 712 — 29.659 
71—40 
S.E. — 
7 
45 
0 47 
20 
3 
53 
137 
Meteorology or the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-seven years, the average highest and lowest tem¬ 
peratures of these days are 64.2°and 41.0° respectively. The greatest heat, 86°, occurred on the 15th in 1633 ; and the lowest cold 29° on the 
15th in 1650. During the period 11/ days were fine, and on '2 rain fell. ’ ’ 
ELOWER-GARDEN PLAN.—No. 13. 
Beds.—1. Geranium Flower 
of the Day, with Verbena 
venosa mixed. Will this 
do for a shot-silk bed ? 
2, 3, 4, and 5, Pink Sapo- 
naria Calabrica. 
0, 7, 8, and 9. Blue Chinese 
Larkspur, which, I under¬ 
stand, to be Delphinium 
sinense. 
10, 13, 16, and 19. Scarlet 
Geranium Tom Thumb, 
edged with variegated 
Alysum. 
11, 21, 17, and 15. Yellow 
Calceolaria amplexicaule. 
12, 18, 20, and 14. White 
Ivy-leaved Geranium. 
28 and35. Yellow Calceolaria. 
33, 38,27, and 29. Geranium 
Flower of the Day. 
32 and 39. Crimson Unique 
Geranium. 
34 and 40. Calceolaria 
I Kentish Hero. 
37 and 25. Heliotrope. 
36. White Geranium Boule 
de Niege. 
26 and 50. Verbena venosa. 
22 and 23. White China 
Boses. 
24 and 31. Tho old red 
China Bose. 
Here is another style of flower-garden, and different from 
any of our former ones; the object of the designer is to 
lill, or make the best of a given space, or, in other words, 
to get as many dowers as possible in this piece of ground, 
which is in the form of an egg ; to have the dowers planted 
on a given system, and to have the whole look well and 
pleasing to people who might not understand any of the 
principles on which dowers are grouped or planted together. 
“Jonathan,” the author of this plan, has succeeded in 
planting the beds in first-rate style, peculiar, in one respect, 
yet not a fault. But let us start from the key note, which is 
here in the very centre hod. No. 1. Flower of the Day 
Geranium, and Verbena venosa, will never do together; 
nothing but strong old plants of the old variegated Scarlet 
Geranium will give the shot-silk tint desired ; the white of 
the leaf of Flower of the Day is too much, and the trusses 
and flowers are too decided in shape and colour, for the 
shades required. Flower of the Day by itself would answer 
very well in No. 1, so would any other of the variegated 
Geraniums; also, Heliotropes, alone, or mixed with Grey 
Verbenas, and so would Emma Verbena, with an equal 
quantity of any light Verbena, so as to cast the dark purple 
of Emma into a decided neutral tint. A pure white would 
answer just as well, but none of the decided colours—as 
scarlet, yellow, blue, purple, or pink (and that is the order 
of their decidedness), should ever he planted in the centre 
bed of such a figure. 
The peculiarity is having four pink beds, 2, 3, 4, and 0, 
on one side of this centre, and a beautiful blue on the 
opposite side in equal force. I should prefer pink and blue 
alternately, all round, and so would seven out of every ten 
persons who have studied the subject; hut there is no law, 
that I know of, against “Jonathan’s” arrangement, and, 
therefore, he has a right to hold his fancy, as we have to 
hold ours. The difficulty in this plan was in providing for 
the planting of the two ends of the figure, aud it is very 
well done by “ Jonathan," but there is a radical error, and 
a violation in the fact, that 24, 25, and 28, are different from 
No. CCXCI1I., Vol. XII. 
