. The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . n 27 M WEEKLY CALENDAR. Weather near London in 1862. 18G3. Suns dcelin. 11° 47 n. Alder Buckthorn flowers, Gooseberry flowers. R. P. Knight died, 1S24. G. St. Mark Princess Alice born 3 Sunday after Easter. [1843. Wild Tulip flowers. Barometer. — Thermom. —3760-4261—3969-3776-43G7—3570-31 Wind. w. Rain inInches. . . SunRises. m. SunSets. ra. 5 7 6 78 7 10 7 11 713 7 Moon Ri
. The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . n 27 M WEEKLY CALENDAR. Weather near London in 1862. 18G3. Suns dcelin. 11° 47 n. Alder Buckthorn flowers, Gooseberry flowers. R. P. Knight died, 1S24. G. St. Mark Princess Alice born 3 Sunday after Easter. [1843. Wild Tulip flowers. Barometer. — Thermom. —3760-4261—3969-3776-43G7—3570-31 Wind. w. Rain inInches. . . SunRises. m. SunSets. ra. 5 7 6 78 7 10 7 11 713 7 Moon Rises and Sets m. 1041 056 022 146 1 MoonsAge. G73 Clock after Day of Sun. Year. Ill112113114115116117 Meteorology op the Week.—At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-six years, the average highest and lowesttemperatures of these days are ° and ° respectively. The greatest heat, 80°, occurred on the 25th, in 1810; and the lowest cold, 18,on the 24th, in 1S54. During the period 139 days were fine, and on 113 rain FERTILISATION OF ORCHIDS. C ILLIWGLY, ac-cording to request,I forwarded hima few seeds of theabortive Cattleyacrispa flower re-ferred to, and alsoa few seeds froma capsule that setspontaneously onLaelia cinnabari-na, -with the viewof instituting acomparison upon the reproductive tendency of a perfectand an imperfectly developed flower. The results of hisanalysis will, in all probability, be already in your also sent by the same post a few of each of the aboveseeds to Mr. Gosse, who, after a careful microscopicexamination, embodies the results of his views and ex-periments in a form which cannot fail to be generallyinteresting. I may state, in addition to what I have already ,that the more I examine the positions of the organs ofreproduction in Orchids, the more I am astonished attheir power of producing seed-capsules without insect orother agency. At all events, it seems inconceivable whyth
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