. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. December 13.] THE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. 157 m! w â r 12Th 13 P 14S 15 Sun 16 M 17 Tu 18 W DECEMBER 12â18, 1850. Black-throated Diver comes. Lucy, lled-throatcd Diver comes. Tufted Pocher comes. 3 Sunday in Advent. Cambridge Term ends. O I Sap. Oxford Terra ends. Embeii Week. Weather near London in 1849. Barometer. Thermo. Wind. Rain in In. â â ' ;3 â 'i9 â â 36â30 47â30 55â18 57â42 58--16 53â40 52â42 E. E. S. w. Sun Rise
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. December 13.] THE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. 157 m! w â r 12Th 13 P 14S 15 Sun 16 M 17 Tu 18 W DECEMBER 12â18, 1850. Black-throated Diver comes. Lucy, lled-throatcd Diver comes. Tufted Pocher comes. 3 Sunday in Advent. Cambridge Term ends. O I Sap. Oxford Terra ends. Embeii Week. Weather near London in 1849. Barometer. Thermo. Wind. Rain in In. â â ' ;3 â 'i9 â â 36â30 47â30 55â18 57â42 58--16 53â40 52â42 E. E. S. w. Sun Rises. 59 a. 7 VHl 1 2 3 4 4 Sun Sets. 49 a. 3 49 49 49 49 49 49 Moon ;S. morn. 0 41 1 48 2 67 4 10 5 25 6 41 Moon's j Clock Age. bcf. Sun. 9 10 12 13 14 15 Day of Year. In the churchyard of Chelsea stands a column bearing this inscription : Philip Miller, sometime Curator of the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, and author of The Gardener's Dictionary, died December 18, 1771. aged SO; and was buried on the north side of Church-yard, in a spot now covered by a stone inscribed with his name. The Fellows of The Linno^.an and Horticultural Societies of London, in grateful recollection of the eminent services rendered to the .sciences of Botany and Horticulture by his in- dustry and writings, have caused this monument to be erected to his Memory, 1S15. The services thus gratefully remembered were indeed eminent; and it is not an excess of praise to attribute to the publication of the seventh edition of his Dictionary, in 1759, the first and most powerful aid that had been made for the improvement and elevation of gardening. Not only was there gathered into its pages all the best horticulture of the day, but in it were adopted for the first time the Linnsan system of arrange- ment ; and the number of plants so classified doubled in amount those contained in the first edition. It gave a final blow to the opinion long entertained, that gardening was scarcely more tha
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