. The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette . y, and the monthof January to have been 3 higher in the same is also curious to note from this same paper that thetemperature of Cork is only half a degree lower thanthat of MontpBllier, and Montpellier is only 70 of Marseilles, while at Penzance it is thesame; but at the Scilly Isles it is 24° warmer than thisvery noted winter in the South of France. Itis also worth notice, in this continued dry weather,that in 1866 the rainfall in North Wales was 137 inches;on the hills of Cumberland, 324 inches; in the western
. The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette . y, and the monthof January to have been 3 higher in the same is also curious to note from this same paper that thetemperature of Cork is only half a degree lower thanthat of MontpBllier, and Montpellier is only 70 of Marseilles, while at Penzance it is thesame; but at the Scilly Isles it is 24° warmer than thisvery noted winter in the South of France. Itis also worth notice, in this continued dry weather,that in 1866 the rainfall in North Wales was 137 inches;on the hills of Cumberland, 324 inches; in the westernhighlands of Scotland, 141 inches; while in the EasternCounties it was 25 inches. J. Fleming, Cliveden. Substitutes for Pots.—Strawberries have been soldthis year in octagonal wooden baskets, of which theaccompanying is a specimen. Its measurements are5 inches diameter, and 3| inches high. Can youinform me where they are to be bought? They aremost ingeniously constructed, apparently of the sap-wood of some tree, it may be Lime; and I suspect they. must be either German or Swiss manufactures. Mishtthey not be fumed to account for the last shift of bed-ding plants? If I were a Cnlceolaria, I should like asmuch room for my roots as these bnskets afford, muchbetter than being cramped up in a small 60. W. T.[The material of which these baskets are made isreported to come from New York, closely packed inboxes and ready for putting together, which is snid tobe done near London. Round the bottom, which iskept in position by of small oortions of it beingmade to protrude throuah in the longitudinal directionof the wood-fibres, as at A, is run the rim or sides, whichare fastened together by means of two small pieces oftin, B B, G represents air holes, which would alsoform outlets for water in the ease of these boxes orbaskets being employed for plant growins, for whichthey certainly seem by no means unsuitable. Theprice of them is stated to be about the same as that ofordinary S
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