Mahch 10. 
THP" COTTAGE GARDENEH. 
433 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
JI w 
1) D 
MARCH 10—16, 1853. 
Weather near Lo 
Barometer. Ixhermo. 
NDON IN 1852. 
Wind. Rain in In. 
San 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
I\roon 
R. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 1 
bf. Sun. 
1 
Day of 
Year. 
lU Th 
Vellow-horned ; paling. 
30.382 —30.300 46—26 
E. ' 
01 
2/ a. 6 
54 a. 5 
6 a 34 
1 
10 
28 1 
09 
1 i F 
Orange Underwing; willows. 
30.210 — 30.217 45—34 
N.E. ' 
— 
25 
55 
7 44 
2 
10 
12 ^ 
70 
12 S 
Light-orange Underwing. 
30.382 —.30.316 49—2.5 
N.E. ' 
— 
2S 
57 
8 53 
3 
9 
56 1 
71 
13 Son 
a Sunday in Lent. 
30.428— 30.371 i 48—20 
E. i 
— 
20 
59 
10 1 
i 
9 
40 
72 
14 M 
March Moth; palings. 
30.422 —30.386, 48—25 
N.E. 
_ 
13 
VI 
11 8 
5 
9 
23 
73 
15 Tu 
Mottled Grey ; heaths. 
30.427— 30.415 46—32 
N.E. ; 
_ 
IG 
2 
morn. 
6 
9 
6 
74 
l6 W 
Large Ingrailed ; trees. 
30.402— 30.348 48—35 
N.E. 1 
01 
14 
4 
0 15 
7 
8 
48 
75 
Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-six years, the average highest and lowest tempera- | 
tares of these days are 50.9°, and 31.1° respectively. The greatest heat, (17°, occurred on the 90» in 1820 ; and the lowest cold, 7°, on the 10th 
in 1847. Ouring the period 105 days were fine, and on 77 rain fell. 
BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
POPPYWOETS.—PAPAVEEACEiP.. 
{Continued from page 395.) 
Eomeeia. 
I 
Geneeic Chaeactee. — Petals four. Seed-vessel long, from 
two to four valved ; the valves opening from the top to the 
bottom. Placenlee distinct. Seeds pitted, without a crest. 
Romeeia hybeida : Hybrid Romeria; Violet Celandine; 
Violet Horned-Poppy. 
Description. —It is an annual. Boot spindling, or carrot¬ 
shaped, hut slender. Boot-leaves stalked. Stem erect, about 
a foot high, branched, cyliudric, slightly bristled. Stem- 
j leaves stalkless, dark green, cut into many toothed, shaiT* 
! segments, smooth. Flower-stalks terminating the branch, 
cylindric, one-flowered, smooth. Calyx oval, slightly hairy. 
Petals egg-shaped, deep purple or violet, seldom lasting 
more than three or four hours. Anthers twin, pale blue. 
Seed-vessel, a pod two or three inches long, rather crooked, 
slightly bristly. Stigma three-rayed. Seeds round, greyish- 
black, slightly pitted, attached by small stalks to the re¬ 
ceptacles in a double row. 
Places ivhere found.—lioxo. In corn-flelds in Cambridge¬ 
shire and Norfolk. 
Time of flowering. —May and June. 
History. —This plant was called Chelidoninm hyhridum by 
Linnteus, from a suspicion which he entertained that it 
might be the offspring of Papaver argeimme impregnated by 
pollen from some species of Chelidoninm. Other botanists 
bave named it Glaucium violacenm, and others before them 
Papaver cornicnlatam violacenm. A botanical critic, named 
IMedicus, first separated it both from Chelidoninm and 
Glaucium, and bestowed upon it the title of Bumeria, in 
honour of a German botanist, J. J. Rbmer, who died Pro¬ 
fessor of Botany at Landshut, in 1820. Medicus would not 
liave been a sufficient authority had he not been sustained 
^ by M. Decan doll e approving the new genus. It is common 
t in Spain, but Ray was the first to discover it in England, 
growing in Cambridgeshire, between Burwel and Swaff'ham. 
Like tlie other Ilorned-Poppies it has a yellow juice. 
{Lindley. Martyn. Smith, Bay.) 
I 
I 
If we were asked to specify the difficulty in gardening 
upon which we hare most frequently been asked to 
advise, our reply would be—Upon the most desirable 
mode of heating a small greenhouse. The causes of 
tliis difficulty are various. Hot-water apparatus is ex¬ 
pensive ; flues take up much room; both are difficult to 
temper, so as not to overheat a very small structure, 
and the fire of either requires constant attention, to say 
nothing about the dirt and trouble of lighting and re- 
I lighting. Where there is a gardener, and no deficiency 
of assistance, all this is mere matter of customary 
routine and seasonable duty, but they arc grave diffi¬ 
culties, and almost worse than counterbalancing the 
pleasure derived from a greenhouse by an amateur of 
limited meaus, upon whose own skill, or that of the lady 
of the house, its management devolves. 
Last autumn, a principal tradesman in Winchester 
^ applied to us for advice ujtou this very point, and we 
j recommended him to have a small hot-water apparatus 
heated by gas. As the expense is not an object to him, 
he has had the apparatus constructed of copper. 
About the same time, we think, a similar idea sug¬ 
gested itself to Mr. Cuthill, of Camberwell, for he com¬ 
municated the plan to the London Horticultural Society 
at its last meeting. 
Strangely enough, and as if there were certain 
thouglits had a vagrant habit, and found a resting 
place in various brains as they journeyed on, Mr. 
Arthur Paine, wine-merchant, at Tiverton, also in 
last autumn constructed a similar apparatus. To him 
belongs the greatest merit, however, for he at once 
embodied the thought, and in the apparatus, of whicli 
we subjoin his drawing and description, little room 
remains for improvement. The only suggestion we 
have to make, is that a funnel be attached to a tube 
long enough to reach to near the bottom of the boiler, 
and that care be taken that a little water can be always 
seen in the funnel. 
No. CCXXXII., Yol. IX. 
