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economise space. This is a very convenient portable house, 
requiring but a few minutes’ labour to erect; and when not 
required in the winter season, can be stored away : care being 
taken to have the screws well oiled at all times. The trees are 
benefited by such exposure, as it tends to ripen the wood still 
better. 
Fig. 2. 
1. Paths. 
2. Iron pillars supporting rafters on which Vines ore trained. 
3. Trellis for training Poaches, &c. 
4. Narrow sashes for ventilation. 
The whole length of the centre is planted with standard and dwarf 
trees—such as Peaches, Figs, &c. 
Fitj. 2 comprehends a span and two lean-to houses, by means 
of which much space is gained. In all cases the rafters and bars 
are fixed, and ventilation admitted by means of side-lights or ) 
flaps. Narrow lights are by far the neatest and best. A door 
opens in the centre of each end. 
Fig. 3. 
1. Path. 
2. Upright trellis for training trees to. 
3. Wires for training Vines upon. 
4. Moveable sash with back for ventilation by means of an iron rod; 
the front is wooden flaps. 
Fig. 3 is a span-roofed house, erected against a wall; the venti¬ 
lation is given by means of front flaps, and every alternate three 
feet of the back-liglits being made to move up on hinges.— (Ame¬ 
rican Gardener's Monthly .) 
WEATHER IN JUNE AT FEOME. 
The weather during the past month was sometlung extra¬ 
ordinary, yet it has scarcely been mentioned in The Cottage 
Gahdenee. Therefore, just to allow distant friends the oppor¬ 
tunity of comparing notes, will be my apology for troubling you 
with this. 
The very growing weather we had in May had nearly brought 
up the arrears of the early spring, and at that period everything 
was looking most prosperously; and the month of June came in 
with a fine warm day, and, doubtless, all hands were busy getting 
out their bedding stuff, and so was I, though it had better have 
remained in other and warmer quarters ; for at the end of the 
month a great many looked as though it had been March instead 
of June, and some perished with the wet and cold. Annuals that 
were sown early and put out in March and April, did well, and 
all other things that were well established in the ground. The 
wind blew a gale nearly every day at some part of the day, and 
| it has very much injured the foliage of large trees, and the young 
i shoots of small fruit trees. Rain fell here (Frome), on twenty- 
! four days, and to the extent of 7'006 inches; and as this is nearly 
i as much again as I have registered in any one month since I 
have been registering it, I should take it as a favour if any of 
your readers that have registered it for any number of years 
would say what is the average for June, or has been during their 
knowledge. I saw several samples of Potatoes with the disease 
in the month of June; but what is brought into market now 
I are very clean and a good sample. Though in the haulm it is 
spreading fast, I have not found one in our own garden yet, 
I although visible in the haulm ; and, notwithstanding the un- 
I favourableness of the weather, and the apprehension of people 
generally, the country round here is looking as prosperously as a 
reasonable person may desire. I subjoin my notes on the month 
of Junc for three years. 
Degs. Inches. 
1858. Highest day temperature.89 
Lowest night ditto.48 
Average day ditto.761- 
Average night ditto.54 
Rain.0 - 096 
1859. Highest day temperature.79 
Lowest night ditto.42 
Average day ditto.712- 
Average night ditto.51 
Rain.1'074 
1860. Highest day temperature.69 
Lowest night ditto.44 
Average day ditto.62J 
Average night ditto . -.49 
Rain. 7-006 
—The Doctoe’s Boy. 
DO MAETENS INDUCE BUGS? 
A colony of Martens have taken a great partiality to my 
house, under the caves of which I have counted sixteen nests. I 
am, however, informed by a neighbour, that if I allow them to 
remain my house will swarm with “house hugs,” as he himself 
in removing five nests found them full of these vermin. 
I am therefore anxious to ascertain if there is truth in this 
assertion, as, although “ as strangers I have given them welcome,” 
I should consider them “more free than welcome,” if this charge 
can be substantiated against them.—O ne who Likes a Good 
Night’s Rest. 
[We do not believe that there is any truth in this charge against 
the Marten. The bugs we should rather think went from the 
house into the nests. The Earl of Traquair made no complaint 
against these birds of inducing vermin, though, as Macgillivray 
says, “ He was the greatest patron of the Martens that I have 
met with. Having with them shared his lordship’s hospitality in 
the autumn of 1839, I counted under the eaves, and in the 
corners of the windows of Traquair House, 106 nests, all tenanted, 
besides several that had been deserted, injured, or taken possession 
of by Sparrows.”— Eds. C. G.] 
New CuCTMTVEE. —TVc have received from Messrs. Carter and 
Co., of llolborn, a specimen of their Carter's Improved Cham¬ 
pion. It is of the same race as Carter's Champion. It is 
20 inches long and 8f inches in girth, of a smooth and even 
surface, and a pale green colour. Messrs. Carter inform us, 
that it is prolific, and good for early and general use, and double 
the size of the old sort. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Seedling Intermediate Stocks (IT. Melville ).—These seedling Stocks 
came as frcsli as when they were gathered, and letained theii gloss and 
beauty for a week in water. They are much finer and more showy than 
Mr. Melville modestly represents. We can compare the finest of them 
