The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ons; but on the following day it circulated rounda depression which lay over the south of England,blowing strongly from south in the east, moderatelyfrom north-east in the north, and strongly from thenorth in the west. During the next four days westerlyor north-westerly breezes prevailed on all coasts ; andat the close of the period an anticyclonic circulationwas shown, light south-easterly airs prevailing in thesouth-east and south, southerly breezes in the west,and south-westerly winds in the north.
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ons; but on the following day it circulated rounda depression which lay over the south of England,blowing strongly from south in the east, moderatelyfrom north-east in the north, and strongly from thenorth in the west. During the next four days westerlyor north-westerly breezes prevailed on all coasts ; andat the close of the period an anticyclonic circulationwas shown, light south-easterly airs prevailing in thesouth-east and south, southerly breezes in the west,and south-westerly winds in the north. Gardening Appointments.—Mr. Ben-ham, late Gardener to the Earl of Stradbroke,HenhamHall, Wangford, Suflblk, has been appointed,in succession to Mr. Kennedy, to superintend thegardens at Melchet Court, Romsey, the seat of theLady LOUISA Ashburton.—Mr. John Spaven,late Gardener to Mrs. Stewart, Springfield House,Ulverstone, has been appointed Gardener and GeneralManager to the Dowager Marchioness of ANGLESEY,Wherwell Priory, Andover, Hants. 52 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. [January 8, |0mi dEffirrcs}).oni)tnte. Thamnocalamus Falconeri. — This Bamboo(commonly known as Arundlnarla falcata) floweredwith me some four or five years ago, as it did atthe same time with all the specimens I am awareof all over Europe. My plants were grown inlarge pots, but flowered and ripened their seeds inthe open air ; even the tiniest shoots were loaded withthem. They germinated very well, which was verylucky, because I could not save the least bit of theoriginal plants after their seeding. They made feebleattempts at leaking young shoots, which died afterlingering a year or two from sheer exhaustion. Myseedlings have grown into fine plants again. JeanVan Volxem, In answer to the enquiry on p. S22 of your last volume, as to the seeding of ThamnocalamusFalconeri, allow me to say that we have a plantationof more than an acre planted with this hardy plants were raised from seeds which
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