March 12, 1887. 
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Tuesday, March 15th.—Flower Show in Town Hall. Manchester 
(two days); Sale of Carnations, Roses, &c , at City Auction 
Rooms, by Protheroe & Morris. 
Wednesday, March 16th.—Spring Flower Show at Liverpool ; 
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Sale of Lilies, Roses, &c., at Protheroe and Morris’s Rooms. 
Thursday, March 17th.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Stevens’ 
Rooms ; Clearance Sale at Bell Lane Nursery, Hendon, by 
Protheroe and Morris. 
Friday, March ISth.—Sale of Imported Orchids at Protheroe & 
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Saturday', March 19th.— Sale of Greenhouse Plants at Stevens’ 
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CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Amateurs' Garden. 439 
Amateurs’ Greenhouse 
Guide. 439 
Asplenium Ceterach. 443 
Bulbocodium vernuin .... 440 
Cottagers' Ivale . 439 
Eriostemon cuspidatum .. 443 
Floral Committee Awards 442 
Floriculture. 443 
Fuchsia Hedges. 440 
Gardeners’ Calendar. 444 
Gardeners’ Orphanage, the 43S 
Grape, a lost . 442 
Higginsia Roezlii . 441 
Horticultural Societies .. 444 
PACE 
Making a Hot-bed. 442 
Orchid Notes and Gleanings 443 
Paris Horticultural Con¬ 
gress . 438 
Plants, New, Certificated. 440 
Potato Planting. 439 
Primula, various varieties of 440 
Propagating, the art of_ 441 
Root-crops and their uses 442 
Scottish notes. 439 
South African notes. 442 
Spring auguries . 437 
Temperature, the low .... 439 
Timber prices. 440 
Trees and Shrubs, Pruning 439 
“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man.”— Bacon. 
SATURDAY, MARCLI 12, 1887. 
Spring Auguries.— The month of March is 
usually big with the fate of the year’s gardening. 
It can do much to mar the season’s prospects, 
just as it may also do much to help them. The 
old proverb, that March comes in like a lion 
and goes out like a lamb, has this year been 
signally contradicted—at least, as far as the 
first part of the proverb is concerned—for it 
came in a veritable lamb, and, still more, en¬ 
veloped in a white -woolly coating of fog. And 
here conies in another and peculiarly depressing 
proverb, which asserts that for every fog in 
March we shall have a frost in May ; well, if the 
frosts are to he as severe as the fogs were dense 
then have we a poor outlook indeed. 
Fogs are n -t of modern origin, but they 
seem, unhappily, to become all the more fre¬ 
quent with time. That is, again, a bad look¬ 
out, as not only are they obnoxious to human 
life, hut are peculiarly so to vegetable life; and 
besides producing tangible injury, promote such 
a degree of cold moisture in the air as to he 
exceedingly harmful in many unlooked-for 
directions. Perhaps we have fogs because we 
are densely populated—perhaps for reasons as 
wide from that proposition as can be conceived. 
Certainly they are obnoxious to gardening; and 
those who have to produce early fruit and 
flowers do so, within the fog-range, under 
peculiar difficulties. If there are regions where 
