October 7. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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OCTOBER 7—13, 18.52. 
Weather near London in 1851. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
bef. Sun. 
Day of 
Vear. 
Barometer. Thermo. Wind. 
Rain in In. 
7 
Th 
Beech leaves fall. 
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29.785 — 29.669 60 —40 ' S.W. 
09 
13 a. 6 
23 a. 5 
11 18 
24 
12 
15 
281 
8 
F 
White Poplar leaves fall. 
29.955 — 2().833' 69—32 j W. 
13 
15 
21 
morn. 
25 
12 
32 
282 
9 
S 
Hazel yellow. 
29 924 — 29-802 fiO—56 | S. 
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l6 
18 
0 31 
26 
12 
48 
283 
10 
Sun 
17 Sunday AFTER Trinity. Cam.T. b. 
30.168 — 29.535 68—46 W. 
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18 
16 
1 62 
27 
13 
3 
284 
11 
M 
Old Mich. Day. Oxford Term begins. 
30.224 —30.188 68—53 ! S. 
— 
20 
14 
3 16 
28 
13 
18 
285 
12 Tu 
Fieldfare comes. 
30.283 — 30.274 68-54 S. 
— 
21 
12 
4 42 
29 
13 
33 
286 
lalw 
Elder leaves fall. 
30.129 —29.989 62—54 S.W. 
04 
23 
10 
sets. 
® 
13 
47 
287 
1 Meteokologt of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-five years, the average highest and lowest tempera- 
1 tures of these days are 6\° and 43° respectively. The greatest heat, 75°, occurred on the 13th in 1345 j and the lowest cold, 26 °, on the 13th 
in 1850. During the period 84 days w'ere fine, and on 91 rain fell. 
RUBY-FLOWERED CAMPTOSEMA. 
[Camptosema rubicunda.) 
Plants of this compai-atively new genus have been likened 
to, and called, Kennedyas, in gardens. In their outward 
appearance, and in their general habit, they much resemble 
some of the species of Kennedya, Zichya, and Harden- 
hergia, yet, when they are examined botanically, they exhibit 
a wide departure from that group, and come nearer to 
Canavallias and Diocleas. The genus was founded by 
Hooker and Arnott, and the name derived from k/imptos, 
bent, and sema, a standard, alluding to the form of the 
flower branches. Instead of PapiVwnacecg, as formerly, 
all the pea-flowering, and all plants, whether with pea- 
flowers or not, that bear their seeds in pea or hean-like 
pods, as the Acacias, are now called Leguminous plants, 
because such pods, in the language of botany, are called 
lef/iimes; and to get rid of the old associations about pea- 
flowers, or papilionace(v, leguminous plants are now called 
Fabacea, or Beanworts. This species of Camptosema is a 
native of Brazil—a very gay climber, with ruhy-colonred, 
pea-like flowers hanging down in long racemes, and pro¬ 
ducing a fine effect. It requires the heat of a stove to 
make the most of it, but a warm conservatory will probably 
be found sufficient for it. It was first introduced to the 
German gardens four or five years ago, under the name of 
Kennedya splcndens. Leaflets smooth, milky-green beneath; 
racemes of flowers about nine ii: hes long, drooping; catyx 
with two small braotes at the base, somewhat two-lipped, 
and from 4 to 6 lohed ; petals nearly equal, deep ruby-red in 
colour, the largest rather bent back, clawed with two blunt 
teeth at the base of the lamina; other petals clawed, each 
with two blunt teeth at the base of the lamina. It is in the 
Diadelphia Decandria of LinuEeus. The stamens are in two 
groups, nine and one.— Botanical May., 4008. 
Culture and Propagation. —From what I have learnt about 
this new fine climber, I have no doubt but that it will 
succeed well where the Beaumontia grandiflora and Ste- 
phanolis floribunda thrive and flower. It is true the latter 
will do just as well in the Calcutta orchid-house, the common 
stove, the early vinery, and the wann conservatory; hut the 
Beaumontia will not do in either heat nor cold—tliat is, in a 
stove or in a greenhouse—but in a place intermediate 
between the two; and such intermediate temperature, I am 
quite sure, is best for this Camptosema: and, being a strong 
grower, it must have sufficient head-room to extend itself 
freely before it will flower much. Cuttings from small side 
shoots is the nursery way of propagation, hut, for private 
use, make layers of long shoots of last year, in the spring, 
and so get full-grown plants at once. D. Beaton. 
No one Letter than an Editor knows the impossibility 
of acting so as to please everybody, and even in en¬ 
larging our paper, at a certain expenditure of several 
hundreds of pounds, and with a total uncertainty as to 
any remunerative return, we are quite sure of dis¬ 
pleasing some of our readers. We shall regret the dis¬ 
pleasure of even one of them, hut conscious of the 
soundness of our intentions, we hope all things, and 
pursue our way. That way has heen known for four 
years to our readers, and we can assure them that “ the 
old path” will not he diverted, hut only widened. We 
have felt that for some time. Poultry, and other in¬ 
telligence, though strictly within our original purpose, 
have trespassed upon space that should be devoted to 
Gardening, yet. Poultry, Bees, the Aviary, and Farming, 
are subjects on which a large proportioir of our sub¬ 
scribers demand from us information. Then, again, 
we have been asked not to print advertisements so that 
these must be hound up in the volume; whilst otlier, 
and very numerous, parties have required, that to these 
advertisements we should give additional space. 
We are also fully conscious of the truth of an opinion 
expressed in a recent number of The Quarterly Review, 
that the contents of our little work are as suitable for 
the cottage of gentility, with double coach-house, as 
that usually tenanted by the labourer; hut while we 
admit thus much, we w^ell know it is, and has heen 
successfully, our aim to write so as to he clear and 
useful to all'. We have the best of all evidence, that the 
man of education, as well as the self taught labourer, 
are satisfied with our pages; and although we shall so 
far meet the criticism of our Quarterly contemporary as 
to add to our present title that of The Country Gen¬ 
tleman’s Companion, and while it will he our oontinued 
study to cultivate the good will of that important class, 
we shall still pursue our course unaltered, still study to 
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