THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, June 23, 1857. 181 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
D 
M 
D 
W 
JUNE 23—29, 1857. 
Weather ni 
Barometer. 
car London in 
ThermoJ Wind. 
1856. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R. Si S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
23 
Tu 
Teasels (Dipsacus). 
30.225—30.093 
69—42 
N.E. 
— 
45 a. 3 
19 a. 8 
10 
19 
2 
1 
51 
174 
24 
W 
Mids. Day. Nat. J. Baptist. 
30.190—30.148 
68—55 
W. 
— 
45 
19 
10 
44 
3 
2 
4 
175 
25 
Th 
Scabious (Scabiosa). 
30.178—30.159 
82—50 
W. 
— 
46 
19 
11 
1 
4 
2 
16 
176 
26 
F 
Bedstraws (Galium). 
30.211—30.162 
88—56 
N.W. 
— 
46 
19 
11 
14 
5 
2 
29 
177 
27 
S 
Plantain Shoreweed. 
30.144—30.030 
88—57 
S.W. 
— 
47 
19 
11 
25 
6 
2 
42 
178 
28 
Sun 
3 Sunday af. Trin. Queen 
30.162—30.038 
82—37 
N. 
— 
47 
19 
11 
36 
7 
2 
54 
179 
29 
M 
St. Peter. [Vict. Cr. 1838. 
30.256—30.189 
77-42 
S.W. 
— 
48 
18 
11 
45 
3 ) 
3 
6 
180 
Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 72.9°, and 50.3°, respectively. The greatest heat, 93°, occurred on the 22nd, in 1846 ; and the lowest cold, 35\ 
on the 23rd, in 1851. During the period 113 days were fine, and on S3 rain fell. 
USEFUL GARDEN GRASSES. 
PO'A NEMORA'LIS ANGUSTIFO'LIA. 
(Narrow-leaved Wood Meadow Grass.) 
This is a perennial. Root fibrous, scarcely creeping. 
Whole plant very slender and delicate, one foot and a 
half or two feet high. Stems several, erect, slightly 
flattened, smooth, streaked, leafy, with four or five 
i joints. Leaves almost all on the stem, grass green, 
long, narrow, flat, with three principal ribs and many 
! intermediate ones; more or less rough, especially the 
mid-rib and edges; tapering to a fine, slender point; 
the lowermost smooth at the back. Sheaths hardly so 
long ab the leaves, flattened, nearly smooth. Stipula 
very short in all the leaves, and inclosed within the 
sheath, but visibly notched along the margin. Flower- 
head a panicle , erect, or slightly drooping to one side, 
very slender, with numerous, half - whorled, angular, 
rough, wavy, compound branches. Spihelets erect, pale 
green and white, with a purplish tinge, their general 
surface shining, and nearly smooth. Calyx of two 
unequal spear-bead shaped, taper-pointed, almost awned 
valves, each with three ribs; the keel, or central rib, 
rough; the margin of the larger, or innermost, much 
swollen and membranous. Florets two or three, rarely 
four. Outer valve of the corolla spear-head shaped, 
acute, with five ribs, of which the two marginal ones 
and the keel are finely silky at their lower part, the two 
intermediate ones smooth, and not very conspicuous 
unless the glume be held against the light; inner valve 
narrow, rough-edged, cloven at the point. The base of 
each floret is sometimes, not always, hairy, but there is 
no complicated web. Stigmas large and tufted. Nectary 
of two acute cloven scales.— (Smith.) 
It belongs to Triandria Digynia of the Linnsean 
System. 
Messrs. Lawson, in their Agrostographia, say: 
“ This Grass, as its name implies, is found naturally 
in shady woods, particularly in alpine situations, and is 
well adapted for growing under trees, but will also 
thrive on exposed places, and even on inferior light 
soils. Its habit of growth is delicate, upright, close, 
and regular, with the panicles partially drooping or 
bending when nearly ripe. There is no Grass better 
adapted for pleasure grounds, particularly under trees, 
as it will not only grow in such places, but form a fine 
sward, where few of the other fine Grasses can exist. 
It produces foliage in abundance early in spring, but 
grows rather slowly after being cut for seed. From the 
closeness of its habit of growth, it is found to displace 
annual and biennial weeds, and also those of more per¬ 
manent duration, provided it be allowed to run to seed.” 
VISITS TO NURSERIES. 
PINE APPLE PLACE, EDGWARE ROAD, LONDON, 
MESSRS. ARTHUR HENDERSON & CO. 
(Continued from page 50.) 
Mr. Arthur Henderson is the best judge and the 
best critic on bedding Geraniums of all the nurserymen I 
know. He first inoculated your humble servant with 
the properties and pedigrees of that race. We are in¬ 
debted to him and to his pupils alone for our applica¬ 
tion of the greenhouse kinds in the flower garden. I 
think he had only three pupils in this line in 1840, when 
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