July 
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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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JULY 7—13, 1853. 
Weather near London in 1852. 
Barometer. Thermo. Wind. Rain in In. 
Sun 
Riaes. 
Sun 
Seta. 
Moon Moon’s Clock Day of 
R, & S. Age. af. Sun. Year. 
Bedford Blue ; clover. 
Red-belted ; Clearwing ; g. 
Pebble Prominent; trees. 
: 7 Sunday after Trinity. 
. I Red Arches ; oaks. 
12|Tu Black Footman; oalca. 
1131W ^ut-trce Tussock ; woods. 
30.005 — 29.91T 
30.026 — 30.016; 
30.020 — 29.995: 
30.117 — 30.034 
30.127 — 30.070’ 
30.100 — 30.049; 
30.060 — 30.0261 
90—49 
87—51 
92—54 
87—53 
81—57 
79-56 
81—59 
E. 
E. 
E. 
N.E. 
S.E. 
E. 
E. 
54 a. 3 
15 a. 8 
9 a. 
24 
1 
4 
32 
188 
55 
15 
9 
56 
2 
4 
42 
169 
56 
14 
10 
23 
3 
4 
51 
190 
57 
13 
10 
43 
4 
5 
0 
191 
58 
13 
11 
O 
5 
5 
8 
192 
59 
13 
ll 
19 
6 
5 
16 
193 
IV 
11 
11 
36 
3 
6 
23 
194 
Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations 
during the last twenty-six years, the average highest and lowest tem¬ 
peratures of these days are 74° and 52.5° respectively. The greatest heat, 
8th in 1850. 
fell. 
on tne I3tn in 1834 ; ana me lowesi, corn, oy , on 1 . 1.0 
During the period 116 days were fine, and on 66 rain 
BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
( Continued from page 213.) 
Fumaeia capreolata : Ramping, or Tentlrilod Fumitory. 
Description .—It is au minimi, Peaces glaucous ; tlicii 
tendril-like stalks twisting round other plants, by which the 
branching stem climbs to the height oi three or four feet; 
leaflets wedge-shaped, three-lobed, and the lobes two or 
three-cut; floivers pale pink, though the tip of each petal is 
deep red. Flowers in lax clusters, the pods are single-seeded, 
not abrupt, or inversely heart-shaped, but more globose, 
with a slight depression at each side of the place of the 
style, which is deciduous, like that of all the single-seeded 
Fumariic. 
Places where found .—Gardens and cultivated grounds; 
not common. 
Time of flowering .—June to September. 
History .—This was first described as a species by Ciesal- 
pinus, under the title of Fumaria altera, and by our ltay as 
Fumaria major scandens (Larger climbing Fumitory), but he 
says that lie was first led to notice its climbing habit by 
Jacob Bobart, at that time curator of the Oxford Botanic 
Garden. Even Dr. Martyn, and other modern botanists, 
have doubted whether it is more than a variety of Fumaria 
officinalis. Smith, Withering, Decandolle, and other recent 
authorities, with whom we agree, have maintained it as a 
distinct species. It differs from F. officinalis in the whole 
substance of its herbage, being more tender, the stem more 
spreading, twisting at the extremities, and never standing 
erect without a support; in the clusters of flowers being 
almost always lateral, and very short; in the leaves being 
on longer foot-stalks, and in these doing the office of ten¬ 
drils, and even sometimes, but very rarely, terminating in 
small weak tendrils. {Smith. Withering. Martyn. liny.) 
On June 29th, a Meeting of the Gardeners’ Benevolent 
Institution was held at the rooms of the Horticultural 
Society, in Regent Street, for the election of three pen¬ 
sioners, Dr. Lindley in the chair, when Mr. Snow, Mr. 
Qreen, and Mr. Mearns, having polled the largest 
number of votes, were elected pensioners on the funds 
of the Institution. 
Dr. Lindley announced that =£300 would soon he 
added to the funds of the Institution from the sale of 
the Stanwick Nectarine, which the Duke of Northum¬ 
berland, as we announced long ago, had set apart for 
that purpose. 
An animated discussion took place between Dr. 
Lindley and Messrs. Charlwood, Lea, Cutler (the Secre¬ 
tary), Snow, and Beaton, about who ought, and who 
ought not, to be first elected as pensioners. Dr. Lindley 
and Mr. Beaton insisted on it as a principle, that those 
gardeners who have subscribed to the funds of the Insti- 
tion, if they were candidates, should be elected in pre¬ 
ference to non-subscribers. The Secretary and Mr. John 
Lee were decidedly opposed to this suggestion. Mr. 
Charlwood insisted that the by-laws did not require 
donations to the Institution to be funded like life sub¬ 
scriptions; and as these questions are likely to be still 
j further mooted, we think it right to mention them. 
Messrs. Lee, Beaton, and Denyer, were the scruti¬ 
neers; and after some votes of thanks were passed the 
meeting broke up. 
We arc sorry, at all times, to differ from Mr. Beaton, 
but we still maintain our opinion formerly expressed, 
that those applicants ought first to be elected as pen¬ 
sioners who most stand in need of assistance. Ii, in¬ 
deed, we can suppose it ever to happen that two 
candidates are equally balanced in destitution, then 
we should give the preference to him of the two who had 
subscribed; but let it be never forgotten that this In¬ 
stitution partakes in no way of the nature of a Benefit 
Club. It is a charitable Institution, founded for the relief 
of decayed Gardeners; and it is the duty, we think, 
of those who sustain it, to vote for the candidates most 
in need of its aid. Did not this rule prevail in the 
case of Mr. Mearns? However, whichever rule may be 
considered as entitled to influence the voting, it is an 
admirable Institution; and we will conclude with an 
extract from the speech of Samuel Laing, Esq., M.P., 
when presiding as Chairman at its recent anniversary 
dinner— 
“The Chairman rose to give ‘Prosperity to the Gar¬ 
deners' Benevolent Institution.’ As many present might j 
not be fully aware of its nature and objects, he would briefly j 
explain them. The Society originated in 1838, and, like j 
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