Feiiruary 5. 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
327 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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FEERUARY 5—11, 1856. 
5 
Tu 
Shrove Tubsd.vy. 
6 
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I-ENT UF.GINS. Asil 'VeO.VESD.VY. 
7 
Tn 
I’latj'soiiia flaviconiis. 
8 
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PlafVBoma drtpressus. 
9 
8 
Nootua crocea8:o. 
10 
So N 
1 Sunday i.v Rent. Queen 
11 
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[VlCrOEIA M. ISIO. 
Wk.VTIIKR NBA R EON 
DON IN 1855 . 
.Sun 
Sun 
Moon 
Moon’s ' 
Clock 
Pay 01 
Barometer. 
Then 10. 
U'ind. Rri'i in 
Inches. 
Rises. 
Sets. 
R. & S. 
Age. 
bf. 
.Sun. 
Year. 
S9..3IJ8—29.237 
40-31 
S.W. 01 . 
36 a 7 
53 a 4 
7 41 
2’9 
14 
16 
3(5 
29.512—29.318 
35-29 
N.K. 1 02 1 
34 
55 
sets. 
@ 
14 
21 
37 
29.811—29.741 
36 — 27 
N.E. ' 00 
32 
' 57 
6 a 24 
I 
14 
25 
38 
30.794-29.662 
32-27 
E. 00 
30 
59 
7 56 
2 
14 
28 
39 
29 883 — 29.871 
30 — 15 
N.E. 00 
29 
V 
9 25 
3 
14 
30 
40 
29.867- 29.635 
30— 1 
N.E. 00 
27 
2 
10 51 
4 
14 
32 
41 
29.534-29.472 
35—20 
N.E. 00 ! 
25 
4 
morn. 
5 
14 
32 
42 
from oljservations during the last t\rentj>nine yearx, the average highest and lowestteni- 
nn ‘‘‘‘y* - 15 .and .■i2.2=’, respectively. The greatest heat, 65°, occurred on the 10th, in 1831; and the lowest cold, 3° 
on tlie nth, in ’.645. During the period 103 days were fine, and on 93 rain fell. 
“ Tins is oue of two geometrical figures I have laid out. 
A glance at the sketch will show you I cannot lay claim 
to originality of design, whatever I may have done in 
making it suit my place. 
I “ I may remark, the beds are edged with native Heather 
1 eight inches from the grass, with the e.\ception of the 
' centre one, which is so edged fifteen inches. The beds 
' Ni^s. 1, 3, 0, 9, 12, 15, and 17, are encircled by white 
! sand; the others, with dark lime rubbish put through a 
! scive. 
I “The numbers on thosketch refer to the plants I would 
[ ))lant, and are as follows :— 
I No. 9. Flower of the Dinj Geranium, 
j Nos. 3, 0, J2, 15. Tom 2’hitmb Geranium. 
,, 5, 13. Verbena Andre. 
,, 8, 10. Verbena Purple Kiinj. 
„ 4, 7, 11, 14. Calceolaria 
,, 2, 16. Verbena White Perfection. 
,, 1,17. \Q\-henw Robinson's Def (Dice. 
“ Your opinion, together with any suggestion, will 
, much oblige.—Coiivus.” 
Your geometrical figure is after a celebrated model 
which we have often seen ])lanted; but yours is, with- 
, out exception, the best planted figure, as to kinds of 
]>lauts, the disposition of colours, and the right breadth 
of each colour, that has yet been sent us for criticism, 
i and we have had it engraved as a model for the dispo¬ 
sition of colours. Wo could not alter one plant in it 
without lessening the value of the rest. Let us have 
I your other geometrical figure, and the planting of all the 
! beds under your management. How wmuld you plant 
a twelve or fifteen-feet-wide border—on the principle of 
1 stripes in a ribbon with green or brown ground colour? 
I These are the only two ground colours we have_green 
leaves and brown surface-earth. 
With very deep regret we have to announce the death 
: of J. H. Payne, Esq., the gentleman who has so long 
enriched our pages with his excellent knowledge of Bees. 
He died on the 27th of January, at Bury St. Edmunds. 
We hope to obtain a memoir of this man of real worth. 
. I 
BEDDING OUT PLAN'l’S.—LAWNS.—ROSES. 
Whether or not Eebruary be the beginning of the 
new year in the llower-garden, what is tlie first thing, or 
tlio principal things, wliich you would first attend to at 
i this season in the ilower garden, or which you would 
order to be done, if you were not your own Hower- 
gardener? Or, suppose you were a “stranger in a 
strange place,” whicli a llower-gardener never is, on 
such grounds, what would you first look to in Febnuiry ? 
It 1 got into possession ot a nice llower-garden about 
this time, or undertook to manage one for a second party, 
the very first thing 1 would do would be to count all 
the bcddinyplants about tho place, and enter the names 
alphabetically on a rough list. The next thing I would 
do, would be to number all tho beds in the tlower-gardeu. 
and after every number I would enter the length and 
breadth of each bed in so many square feet, either by 
No. CCCLXXXIV. VoL. XV 
