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JULY 27—AUGUST 2, 1854. 
Crioceris puncticollis. 
Crioceris melanopa. 
Cassida spergulte. 
7 Sunday after Trinity. 
Chrysomela fulgida. 
Gcophilus carcophagus. 
Phalangium opilio. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
Weather near London in 
Barometer. Thermo. Wind. 
1853. 
Ramin 
Inches. 
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Rises. 
Sun 
| Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Cloek 
ai. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
! 29.917—29.854 
■ "3—57 s. 
98 
18 a 4 
55 a 7 
9 
26 
2 
6 
12 
203 
29 - 795 - 29.770 
72—53 ' w. 1 
10 
19 
53 
9 
41 
3 
6 
12 
209 
I 29.894—29. 8 1(> 
71—56 S.1V. 
03 
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52 
9 
56 
4 
6 
11 
210 
| 29.«:U—29./42 
68-48 W. i 
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22 
50 
10 
9 
5 
6 
9 
29.934—29.919 
71 — 58 S.W. 
— 
23 
49 
10 
22 
6 
6 
6 
212 
29.932—29.801 
76-58 S.W. 
05 
24 
48 
10 
39 
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6 
3 
213 
29 . 929 — 29.865 
73-52 N.E. 
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Msteohology of tub Wef. k. A ( Chiswick, from observation* during the last twenty-seven vears, the average highest 
H e ? tUr Z°J t 1 ^ es ? day f are ' 5 '> and S2.1°respectively. The greatest heat, 92°, occurred on the 1 st in 1645 ; and the lowest 
2nd in 1847. Luring the period 105 days were fine, and on 84 rain fell 
and lowest tern- 
cold, 39°, on the 
NEW PLANTS. 
Ceratostema longifloruji ( Long-flowered Ceratostema, or 
Horn-berry.) 
r Tliis very brilliant Heath - like plant belongs to the 
Natural Order of Cran-berries (Yaccinise), and to Decan- 
dria Monogynia of the Linmean system. If the drawing in 
the Gardener's Chronicle for 184b be correct, that species 
cannot have been the same as that front which the drawing 
in the Botanical Magazine is taken. It is not improbable 
that they are distinct species; but whether identical or 
distinct, they were found at 12,000 feet above the sea’s level, 
in Peru, by Mr. Lobb, the collector for Messrs. Veitch and 
Son, of the Exotic Nurseries, at Exeter, and King’s Road, 
Chelsea. It is an evergreen, and half-hardy. The flowers, 
nearly two inches long, are bright scarlet. The plant is 
about a foot high.— (Botanical Magazine , t. 4779.) 
Pitcairnia longxfolia ( Long-leaved Pitcairnia.) 
This member of the Pine-apple tribe (Bromeliaceas), and 
Hexandria Monogynia of Linnaeus, is a native of Lima, 
whence it was sent by Mr. Nation, and bloomed in a stove 
at Ivew, during December of 1853. It bears a loose panicle 
of bright red flowers.— (Ibid. t. 4775.) 
Gentiana Fortuni (Mr. Fortune's Gentian.) 
There is little doubt that this beautiful addition to our 
garden plants will prove hardy. It throws up two or three 
erect stems, bearing upon their upper portion, large, 
axillary flowers, intensely-deep blue, spotted within very re¬ 
gularly with white. Sir W. Hooker says:—“ It evidently 
belongs to the same group or section of the genus with our 
well-known G. Pneumonanthe, and with the Siberian and 
Altaic G. septemfiila of Pallas and of Sims ( Botanical 
Magazine, Tabs. 1229, 1410), particularly with variety 
maculata, represented on the latter plate. It is, however, a 
taller, more robust-growing plant, with more distant foliage, 
larger flowers, and it is at once distinguishable by the plicae 
or scales at the mouth having three, often irregular, blunt 
teeth, scarcely projecting beyond the mouth of the tube of 
the corolla, whereas in G. septemjida they are large aud 
prominent, and furnished with long cilia, giving a densely 
fringed character to the mouth of the flower. Our charming 
species is a native of northern China (the exact locality is 
not stated), and was sent by Mr. Fortune, in 1849, to Messrs. 
Standish and Noble, of the Bagshot Nurseiy. Showing a 
disposition to flower, as it did, late in the autumn, it was 
kept in a greenhouse, and the blossom expanded in De¬ 
cember, 1853.” 
The elass of Peas which on this occasion comes under 
our consideration is one possessing qualities which are 
almost universally regarded as of considerable importance 
in such crops. “ Imperials " have, at all times, and for 
many years, been looked upon as a “ leading article” in the 
lists of Peas, and as new varieties have been introduced, 
Imperials have been improved, it being determined, as it 
were, that they should still hold their position as one of 
the indispensable requisites of a well-managed garden. 
Formerly we had Dwarf Imperials, and Tall Imperials. 
The latter have long ceased to exist, aud ilie former 
have been so improved, that they, too, may be said to 
have disappeared; still, however, we have Imperials, 
and very valuable varieties they are. 
Flack’s Imperial. 
Synonymes. — Flack's Victory, Flack's Victoria, Flack’s 
New Large Victoria. 
The plant is of a robust habit of growth, with a 
stem which is always branching, and generally about 
three feet in height. The pods are very numerous, 
varying from twelve to eighteen on each plant. They 
are generally produced in pairs, but also frequently 
singly, and are from three-inches-and-a-quarter, to three- 
inclies-aud-a-half long, three-qarters-of-an-inch broad, 
aud considerably curved, but noi so much so as the 
Scimitar, aud unlike-that variety, the pod is terminated 
abruptly at the point, where it is somewhat broador than 
No. CCCIV., Vol. XII. 
