June 29. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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WEEKLY ALENDAR. 
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JUNE 29-JULY 5, 1854 
29 
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St. Peter. 
30 
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Buprcstris biguttatus. 
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Clubiona nutrix. 
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3 Sunday after Trinity. 
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Lycosa saccata. 
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Panagoeus crux major. 
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Trechus humeralis. 
Weather near London in 18.13. 
Cirometer. Thermo. Wind. ^ ain > n ib'L'J 
| Inches. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon Moon's 
It. & 9. Age. 
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Clo^k Day of 
af. Sun. Year. 
i 29 . 715 - 29 .G 14 
29.729—29 66l 
29 . 773 — 29.700 
! 311 . 156 - 29.977 
30.237—30.163 
30.153—30.040 
30.019—29.924 
71—50 S.W. 
70-47 S.W. 
70—40 S.W. 
70—43 W. 
70—49 \y t 
73— 53 S.W. 
74 — 15 S.W. 
— 47 a 3 
04 ' 48 
22 49 
— 49 
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— 51 
— 52 
19 a 8 
18 
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112 4 
11 19 5 
11 a35 6 
11 48 7 
morn. ^ 
0 2 9 
0 17 10 
3 3 180 
3 15 181 
3 26 182 
3 38 183 
3 49 184 
4 0 185 
4 IT 186 
Meteorology of the Week.— AtChiswick.from observations during the lasttwenty-seven veers ,, 
peratures of these days are 74.5° and 51.6° respectively. The greatest heat, 97°, occurred oil the 5 th in lS^ • and (he 1 owesttem- 
4th m 1851. During the period 120 days were fine, and on 69 rain fell. ’ rea on tne uth in 1852 ; and the lowest cold, 37°, on the 
BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
( Continued from page 169.) 
ALYSSUM.—HADWORT. 
shape and breadth. Seeds one or two in each cell, egg- 
shaped, compressed, rarely bordered ; cotyledons decumbent. 
Alyssum maritihum : Sea, or Sweet Alyssum ; Sea Mad- 
wort. 
Generic Character.— Calyx equal at the base, cup¬ 
shaped, deciduous; leaves egg-shaped, concave, uniform. 
Petals reversed-egg-shaped, entire, or slightly notched, flat, 
spreading, with short claws. Filaments about the length of 
the calyx, often furnished with a lateral tooth, or notch. 
Anthers of two roundish lobes. Germen orbicular, or elliptical, 
compressed. Style short. Stigma simple, small. Pouch 
orbicular, oval, or reversed-egg-shaped, laterally compressed, 
tipped with the style, of two cells ; valves flattisli, or tumid 
chiefly in the middle; partition membranous, of the same 
Description.— In warm situations it is a perennial, hut in 
this country is usually annual. Stem much branched from 
the base, recumbent, leafy, though woody not very durable ; 
and in gardens, where this plant is cultivated for the sake of 
its honey-scented/twees, it is generally treated as an annual. 
The herbage is hoary, or rather milky-green, with close- 
pressed silvery hairs. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, 
tapering at the base. Flowers very abundant, in dense, 
; tufted, or corymbose, clusters, much elongated when in 
[ fruit. Petals roundish, of a brilliant white; but in fading 1 
their claws, like the stamens, assume a violet hue. Pouch 
orbicular, smooth and polished, a little swollen, with one 
seed in each cell. 
Time of flowering. —August and September. 
Places where found. —On cliffs and banks near the sea. 
Very rare. 
History. —This was considered a Thlaspi , by Dalecliamp, 
Bauhin, and other early botanists, and Johnson, in his 
edition of “ Gerai'de s Herbal,” gives two drawings of it, 
under that name, and as “White Treacle Mustard.” It 
was first found growing wild in this country, near Aberdeen, 
by Professor W. Duncan ; and at Budleigh Salterton, by Sir j 
W. Hooker; but the Rev. J. Jervis says, that at the latter- 
place it is not a native. It is found abundantly in Spain 
and other warm parts of Europe. Its generic name is 
derived from a, not, and lyssa, rage, on acccount of some of 
the species being considered effectual in allaying anger and 
other violent mental agitations. It has been called Alyssum 
minimum, and A. balimifolium, by some botanists; IConiga 
maritima by Brown; and Glyce mariiima by Bindley.— {Smith. 
Withering. Johnson's Gerarde.) 
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The Pea which comes first under our observation this 
week is one which has been many years iu cultivation, 
but for some reason or other does not seem to have 
.[ become so popular as its merits assure us it ought to have 
done. It is not, however, too late to bring it under the 
notice of the readers of this Journal, to whom we can 
recommend it as a very valuable variety. 
Milford Marrow. 
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The plant is of a strong aud robust habit of growth, 
always with a single stem, attaining the height of 
four-and-a-half to five feet, and producing from twelve 
to sixteen pods on each. Pods almost always in pairs, 
and very rarely single, three-inches-aud-threc-quarters 
long, and three-quarters-of-an-inch wide. They do not 
become broad-backed, thick, or fleshy, hut become 
rather shrivelled, and contain from six to seven very 
large peas, which are roundish and somewhat com¬ 
pressed, half-an-inch long, almost; as much broad, and 
nine-twentieth’s thick. 
No. COG , Vol. XII 
