THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, January 12, 1858. 225 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
D 
M 
D 
W 
JANUARY 12—18, 1858. 
Weather n 
Barometer. 
ear Lon 
Thermo. 
DON IN 1 
Wind. 
857. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R.andS. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
afterSun 
Day of 
Year. 
12 
Tu 
Cytisus. 
29.215—29.096 
45—29 
W. 
_ 
4 a. 8 
13 a. 4 
6 a. 36 
27 
8 
37 
12 
13 
W 
Genista. 
30.338—29.193 
37—28 
E. 
4 
15 
7 32 
28 
9 
0 
13 
14 
Th 
Cyclamens. 
30.144 29.944 
38—18 
N. 
3 
16 
8 14 
29 
9 
22 
14 
15 
F 
Daphnes. 
30.063—29.954 
42—29 
S.W. 
.10 
2 
18 
sets 
© 
9 
44 
15 
16 
S 
Epacris. 
30.217—30.047 
45—26 
w. 
1 
19 
5 a. 35 
1 
10 
5 
16 
17 
Sun 
2 Sunday after Epiphany. 
30.205—30.261 
46—36 
w. 
_ 
0 
21 
6 54 
2 
10 
25 
17 
18 
M 
Eryca hy emails. 
30.277—30.232 
50—44 
w. 
VII. 
22 
8 12 
3 
10 
44 
18 
Meteorology of the Week.— At Chiswick, from observations during tlie lust thirty-one years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 42.1° and 30.9°, respectively. The greatest heat, 56°, occurred on the 15th, in 1852 ; and the lowest cold, 4° 
on the 14th, in 1838. During the period 109 days were fine, and on 108 rain fell. 
ORNAMENTAL GRAS S, 
LAMARKIA AUREA, 
(Golden-spiked Lamarkia.) 
This singular and pretty Ornamental Grass is an 
annual. Root, fibrous. Stem, much branching; the 
branches springing from the base of the plant : the 
principal stem rising from six to nine inches in 
height : leafy. The leaves from three to even five 
inches in length from the sheathing of the stem; 
flattened a quarter of an inch, or even more ; broad; 
tapering to a point; flabby ; the points often slightly 
twisted and curved downwards. The whole plant 
is of a light green colour. The spikes, which are 
on the top of the culm, or stem, are from one and 
a half to even two and a half inches in length, and 
one-sided, or unilateral, and slightly pendulous ; that 
is, the spikelets are rather bent downwards. The 
spikelets, (which are extremely pretty), are in threes, 
attached to very short small pedicels up the spike. 
The fertile pales awned: the awns half an inch or 
more in length. The spikelets elongated with nu¬ 
merous little barren palse, which are very prettily 
compressed and keeled. 
Sown early in April, in a light fertile soil, it pro¬ 
duces its ornamental spikes in September. 
On Saturday, the 2nd instant, died Dr. John Forbes 
Royle, Secretary of the London Horticultural Society. 
He had been suffering from Bronchitis for some days ; 
but it assumed a serious form only a short period 
before his death. 
Dr. Royle proceeded to India in the Medical Service 
of the Company early in the present century ; and, on 
account of his botanical knowledge, and the especial 
attention he paid to the useful plants of the country, 
he was rewarded with the appointment of Superinten¬ 
dent of the Company’s Garden at Saharunpore, which 
was founded for a similar purpose. Dr. Royle returned 
to Europe about the year 1835 ; but still devoted him¬ 
self to his favourite subject, as is shewn by his volume, 
entitled “ An Essay on the productive resources of 
India,” published in 1840. Many other contributions 
on the same, or correlative subjects, appeared from his 
pen; and he extended his sphere of usefulness by 
accepting the Professorship of Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics at King’s College, London, and the 
Secretaryship of the London Horticultural Society. 
The vacancy in the latter office, occasioned by Dr. 
Royle’s death, throws a great responsibility on the 
Committee of the Society. It should be filled by a 
man of firmness, activity, and independence. 
Besides many other honorary distinctions, Dr. Royle 
was a Fellow of the Royal, Linnsean, and Geological 
Societies. 
HYACINTHS. 
There were two new points in the cultivation of 1 
the Hyacinth by Mr. Cutbush, of the Highgate Nur¬ 
sery—at least two points, which are not often insisted 
on in books. The first point is, almost an unlimited i 
supply of rich liquid manure, the richest that can be 
made from any of the usual sources : the second point 
is, that from early in December till the bloom is fully 
opened, even the outsides of the pots are not allowed to 
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