THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
453 
jrABCH 17. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
.M ’ W 
W'eatuer near London in 1852. 
Sun 
Sun 
Uloon 
Moon’s 
Clock 
Day of 
{) 1) 
^ Barometer. 
rhermo. 
Wind. Rain in In. 
Rises. 
Sets. 
R. & S. 
Age. 
bf. 
Sun. 
Year. 
17 Th 
St. Patrick. 
30.333 —30.299 
48—31 
N.E. ' — 
11 a. 6 
6 a. 6 
1 
2:3 
3 
8 
.31 
76 
18 F 
Princess Louisa born, 1818. 
30.262 —30.182 
44—31 
N.E .1 — 
9 
7 
2 
24 
9 
8 
13 
77 
J9 s 
Oak Bc.iutv; oaks. 
30.156 — 30.106 
47-27 
e. — 
7 
9 
3 
20 
10 
7 
55 
78 
■21) Son 
Paum Sunday. 
30.142 — 30,103 
60—25 
s.e. , - 
5 
1 1 
4 
8 
11 
7 
37 
79 
21 M 
Sun’s declination, 0° IQ' N. 
30.191 —30.107 
63—27 
S.E. 1 - 
2 
12 
4 
47 
12 
7 
19 
80- 
•22 Tu 
Hrown-bordered; oaks. 
30.120 — 30.108 
66-28 
S.E. — 
0 
14 
5 
18 
13 
7 
i) 
81 
23 W 
Early Nettle-tap. 
30.073 — 29 , 9.59 
64—25 
N.E. — 
V 
16 
5 
43 
14 
0 
42 
82 
Mbtrorology OF THE Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-six years, the average highest and lowest tempera¬ 
tures of these days arc 51®, and 35° respectively. The greatest heat, 69°, occurred ou the 19th in 1830 j and the lowest cold, l6°, on the 20th 
in 1845. During the period 110 days were fine, and ou 60 rain fell. 
ONE-ELOWERED ABELIA. 
(Abelia vnijlom.) 
This makes tlie fourth species of the genus Ahclia, now 
in our gardens, all of which are cither hardy, or nearly so. 
Tlie present species, uiiijiora, is alow, evergreen, sninll hush, 
with white liowers, tinged with lilac, which are produced 
from between the leaves and the wood, on the extremities 
of the small side-shoots, and notwithstanding the name— 
one-liowered—the flowers come often in threes from tlie 
same parts. The ilower-hiids are cased in rich piu’ple 
bracts, which have a gay effect, as contrasted with the large 
(comparatively) white flowers, and the deep green of tiie 
leaves. The leaves are not unlike those of Fuchsia yrnciUs, 
in size and shape, and tlie flowers may be compared, in 
tlie.se respects, to those of Amphicamti aifluta, a pretty half- 
herbaceous plant from the Himalaya Range, and well- 
known to gardeners. 
Tlie Ahclia unijlora was discovered by Mr. Fortune, in the 
j north of China, whence he sent it to the, Messrs. Standish 
and Noble, of Bagsliot, in whose nursery-gardens it stood 
! out the severity of the last three winters without any pro- 
I tecLion, and flowered with them last Juno. It is well ro- 
! presented in the last January number of the Botanical 
j Ma(/aziiie, where (we are told by Sir AV. J. Hooker) it is 
! said to be the same as Ahelia serraia, described by Dr. 
Siehold and Professor Zuccarini, in tlieir Flora Japonica. 
The genus was named long ago, by Dr. Brown, in comme¬ 
moration of Dr. C. Abel, physician to the Embassy to 
China, under I.ord Amherst. It belongs to the natural 
order of Caprifoils (Caprifoliaoew^, and in the Liiinaian 
system to I’entandria Monogynia. B. J. 
Fropayaliou and Cutlure. —Tlicre is not a plant in the 
whole order of Caprifoils, or Sncculaiits, as country people 
call them, that is at all difficult to increase by cuttings or 
layers, or from seeds, when they ripen with us. All the 
Ahclias come very freely from cuttings of tlie young wood, 
under the same treatment as Fuchsia cuttings in tlie spring, 
or in a shaded place, out-of-doors, under a tight hand-glass, 
after the flowers are over, by the end of June. 
Here let me pause, in all seiiousness, to recommend to 
everyone wlio is at all interested in growing plants from 
cuttings, out in the open air, at their leisure time, during 
the long summer evenings, to procure, by hook or by crook, 
some of those large, cheap, bell glasses, which were ex¬ 
hibited before the Horticultural Society, last February, and 
which are in u.se, so commonly, in all the nurseries and 
gardens round Paris, where they get them so cheap, that 
they might have a revolution now and then to smash one- 
lialf of them, and still he none the poorer. Just think, for 
one moment, of a hell glass for 7|d. tliat would root three 
hundred cuttings of Gloire d'Rosamcne rose in tliree weeks 
or a month, next August or Sepitember, and then he in 
time for Calceolaria cuttings in October, as Mr. Fish re¬ 
commends ; and that, too, with only one-half the care and 
attention required to get up things by our common hand- 
lights, which are all good enough for regular gai'deners, hut 
no better than a garden-sieve for ladies and amateurs, as 
the wind drives through and through them, killing tlie he.st 
cuttings ere they have time to prick upi their ears after 
being planted. 
The best place for this Ahelia is a deep, rich, light 
border, that is well sheltered, and open to the sun. It will 
require the same general management as to pnmning, pro¬ 
pagation, and training, as the Tt'eipela rasea, Rcutzia (jraciUs, 
the best .-//((//'owf-Yhis (Leuoothoe), PcvncHyas, sxnA ail that 
style of choice low-giowing hushes. I). Beaton. 
At the meeting, in Regent street, on the 15th Feb., it 
was annonnceil that Mr. McGlaslien’s Transplanting 
Machine would be set to work in tlie garden of the 
society on tlie find of Marcii, and this caused onr inser¬ 
tion of the notice at page 420 ; but the parlies were not 
ready till the following Saturday, and all the Fellows of 
the Society and their friends, who trusted to the notice 
in The Cottage Gabdener, were unavoidably put to 
inconvenience. That, and the very wet morning, ac¬ 
counts for the comparatively small number of persons 
who attended on the 5tli. Except a few ladies, half of 
the company were gardeners and nurserymen; and of 
all the meetings that wo have attended for the last 
twenty years in this garden, we never saw so many first- 
rate planters together, nor so anxious about understand¬ 
ing every move and member of the machine. At the 
head of tliis class (first-rate planters) stoodj^ir Joseph 
Paxton, who, although ho is now rich enough to pay for 
a passage to Australia for all the gardeners he ever 
knew, and his company is sought after by all the great 
and leading men of the day, never thinks of separating 
himself, at such public meetings, from his old friend.s I 
No. CCXXXIII., VoL. IX. 
