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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, January 24, 1860. 
Britain, I confess that I know little or nothing. Even in the 
way of ornament I believe that much may be clone with them ; 
and people will get tired of monotony, however pretty it he. 
R. Fish. 
RAIN-EALL AT LINTON PARK, 
KEPT DURING THE LAST FIVE YEARS, WITH SOME NOTES ON 
THE YEAR THAT IS PAST. 
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January . 
February. 
March .. 
' April. 
May.! 
i June.! 
J July . 
August.j 
September .1 
October . 
November . 
December . 
Total. 
DIRECTION OF THE WIND AT MID-DAY IN 1859, AND NUMBER 
OF DAYS. 
E. 
S.E. 
s. 
S.W. 
W. 
N.W. 
N. 
' 
N.E, 
Not ascer¬ 
tained. 
January . 
0 
0 
1 
19 
1 
3 
0 
7 
February. 
0 
2 
3 
14 
0 
8 
1 
9 
March . 
0 
0 
0 
17 
1 
8 
1 
4 
April. 
0 
6 
3 
5 
0 
11 
2 
3 
May . 
1 
9 
0 
0 
0 
3 
1 
17 
June. 
0 
13 
0 
9 
1 
4 
0 
3 
July . 
0 
10 
0 
12 
2 
2 
0 
4 
1 
August. 
2 
1 
0 
15 
0 
5 
0 
8 
September . 
0 
1 
0 
12 
1 
3 
1 
12 
October . 
0 
6 
2 
5 
3 
1 
2 
12 
November . 
5 
3 
4 
7 
1 
5 
1 
4 
December . 
0 
2 
8 
10 
1 
6 
0 
4 
Total for 1859 
8 
53 
21 
125 
11 
59 
9 
78 
1 
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Corresponding num¬ 
ber in 1858 . 
16 
71 
16 
73 
24 
58 
19 
87 
1 
4 
Ditto in 1857 . 
14 
47 
37 
81 
37 
38 
21 
86 
Ditto in 1856 . 
14 
44 
34 
99 
29 
42 
28 
72 
4 
Ditto in 1855 . 
21 
32 
23 
63 
36 
48 
25 
115 
2 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES FOR 1859. 
The greatest amount of rain that fell on any one day was on 
October 17th, 0,95 of an inch; but on November 6th and 7th, 
0,81 and 0,50 inch fell respectively. 
The highest range of the barometer was January 8th, and 
December 10th, both 30-38. The lowest was December 26th, 
28'18. Such a sudden fall in sixteen days as this is very unusual; 
but a similar case occurred in November. The barometer on the 
first of that month being 28'44, while on the 10th it had risen to 
30-35. 
The longest, period without any rain was from July 4th to 
19th, and the longest period without a dry day was from October 
23rd to November 8th. 
The hottest day was July 12th, thermometer 92°. The coldest 
night that preceding December 19th, thermometer 15°. 
The winter and spring months of the past year w r ere dry, and 
the summer still more so. The autumn has been unusually wet; 
making the rain-fall greater than any of the four preceding years. 
These features do not appear to be general throughout England ; 
for in the central counties there was no lack of rain in the sum¬ 
mer months, while in Devon and Cornwall the season lias been 
an extraordinarily dry one, and in the northern counties there is a 
like report. But (lie outcry fqr water in the past season has been 
greater than I ever remember, so many wells and streams being 
completely dry that were never known to be so before. This, no 
doubt, arose from the small rain-fall of 1858, and the remarkable 
dry winters of 1857-58, and 1858-59; the showers we had in 
the growing seasons of both these years being all absorbed on the 
surface. After this, however, we may expect to have all our 
sources of supply duly replenished by the copious rains of the 
past autumn, which, as will be seen by the above table, have been 
greater than that of any preceding season on record. 
In temperature, the summer that is past may be regarded a 
warm but not a long one. A severe frost set in on October 22nd, 
destroying all tender plants. The month of July was the hottest, 
the whole season being much like 1858; but fell short of 1857, 
for general and late prolonged warmth and fruitfulness. Yet, on 
the whole, it may be regarded as a fine season. The corn crops, 
though not heavy, were a fair average; but the hardy fruits were 
thin, and the sample far from good. Potatoes were attacked 
early in the season with blight, but partially recovered again 
when the dry weather set in; but the crop was indifferent. 
Many vegetables were scarce; there being little or no growth until 
the autumn rain set iu about the middle of September, and frost 
overtaking them on the 22nd of October, the growing season was 
short; but it was rapid with many things, as Turnips, Celery, 
and Grass. The latter being quite withered up at the time 
alluded to, and on stiff lands cracks two feet deep and upwards 
were to be met with everywhere, while all ponds, Ac., were dry, 
and cattle had to be driven a considerable distance to water in 
many places. Where machinery had been driven by water, it 
was, in many cases, entirely stopped ; but the bountiful rains of 
the past autumn will have restored the usual balance of things, 
by renovating all the usual sources of supply.— J. Robson. 
GIGANTIC PAMPAS GRASS. 
“ F. W. S.” (Melton), notices in recent numbers of The 
Cottage Gardener several accounts of the culture and growth 
of the Pampas Grass in different localities. Perhaps the Editors 
may think the following worthy of record, as affording an instance 
of more rapid increase than any of those reported in The 
Cottage Gardener. 
A plant of the female, treated much in the same way as the 
specimen described at p. 83, but quite exposed to the east and 
north east, produced this summer 130 spikes of blossom, averaging 
nearly 11 feet in height. It blossomed for the third time in its 
present situation this summer; the spikes numbering the first 
year 30, and the second 62. 
“ F. W. S.” may add that the plant has always heen copiously 
supplied with water, and occasionally with liquid manure. 
Several beautiful young specimens of Pinus insigntis have suf¬ 
fered dreadfully from the sharp frost of last month; in fact, to 
all appearance, they can never recover. 
VINES FROM UNRIPE EYES. 
In your magazine for June, 1857, Mr. D. Beaton gave an 
account of a visit to Mr. Weeks’ nursery and winter garden, in 
which he mentions a method of obtaining ten or twenty Yines 
from one eye in one year; and also he almost promised to tell us 
