CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY. 
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Height, Colour, 
in Ft. 
Schizanthus retusus. 3 crim&yl. 
Hookeri. 3 pink&do- 
Schizopetalum Walkeri. 1 white. 
Senecio atropurpurea. 2 purple. 
alba plena. 2 white. 
Height, Colour, 
in Ft. 
Scabiosa grandiflora. 4 purple. 
Spliaenogyne speciosa. 2 yellow. 
Trachemene cerulea . 3 blue. 
Zinnia elegans, in var. 2 var. 
With Stocks and Asters, in var. 
The above list comprises all the best half-hardy annuals at 
present known to us. 
The Tender Annuals, requiring rather a more varied treatment, 
I will reserve for next month’s Journal. 
R. P. 
THE WEATHER FOR JANUARY. 
In that month there have been several characters of weather. The early part 
being continued frost, with a tranquil atmosphere; a smaller portion of the 
middle, alternations of frost and thaw, with the atmosphere but little disturbed ; 
and toward the latter part, frost, snow, sleet, and occasional short periods of 
thaw, with considerably more atmospheric disturbance. There has, however, 
been comparatively little rain; and upon the whole, the month has been sea¬ 
sonable, and not unfavourable to the health of plants. There has been no 
heat to stimulate the roots to premature action, nor has there been any addi¬ 
tional quantity of water calculated to soak and rot them. In the earlier part 
of the season there was abundance of water calculated to have this effect, if the 
plants had been in a state of complete repose ; but as the growth ceased very 
gradually, and the winter rest was in consequence thrown back late into the 
season, the frost set in before much injury was done ; and as that frost was not 
so severe as to injure any but the most delicate plants, we may conclude that, 
unless there is something particularly adverse in the ensuing spring, the com¬ 
ing season will be rather a favourable one for bed and border flowers. With 
greenhouse plants, and especially with hard-wooded shrubs, the case will be 
different; for many of them were weakened by the rains in the preceding 
months. January is, however, the season of most complete repose in plants, 
and, therefore, the conclusions to be drawn from its character are compara¬ 
tively few. 
CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY. 
The busy season of the gardener is now near the commencement, and 
much of the success of the ensuing summer depends on expediting all opera¬ 
tions that occur during this and the next month. It frequently happens 
that owing to the untoward weather in the winter and early spring months, 
many out-door operations remain undone; yet the cultivator must be careful, 
lest, in his anxiety to forward such work, he get upon the ground too soon ; 
for ground which is naturally of a retentive quality is much injured by working 
in a wet state. It is in this that light soils have the advantage. Let him 
rather, in such cases, forward, by all possible means, all in-door work, that 
