. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. ; at any rate, one sees and hears little about them;and yet they are first-class greenhouse plants, which with a lit-tle management may be had in bloom not only in December,but almost the whole year through. The Weather.—The effect of the dark, foggy, cold weatherof the last three weeks has caused the destruction of manyherbaceous in-door plants, of almost all flowers, and much work by gas-light all the day through. It appears as thoughgardening in winter will soon be practically impossible in thevicinity of London. Ap
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. ; at any rate, one sees and hears little about them;and yet they are first-class greenhouse plants, which with a lit-tle management may be had in bloom not only in December,but almost the whole year through. The Weather.—The effect of the dark, foggy, cold weatherof the last three weeks has caused the destruction of manyherbaceous in-door plants, of almost all flowers, and much work by gas-light all the day through. It appears as thoughgardening in winter will soon be practically impossible in thevicinity of London. Apples.—The scarcity of English apples this Christmas hasenabled dealers in American apples to make hay. Thou-sands of barrels of American kinds found ready and remu-nerative sale in London last week; for instance, NewtownPippins sold readily at forty-two shillings a barrel, while thepoorest samples fetched twenty-four shillings a barrel whole-sale. Onions.—The finest samples of English onions that I haveseen were exhibited lately at a meeting of the Royal Horticul-. Fig. 8.—Viburnum molle.—See page 29. harm to even sturdy-leaved, hard-wooded plants. I havenever seen anything so disheartening as the winter-floweringBegonias, Acanthads, Bouvardias, Salvias, Poinsettias, Rein-wardtias, Camellias and Azaleas are in London gardens of these plants have lost every leaf, and the flowers havewithered before opening ; others are blotched and disfiguredas though they had been frozen. Orchid-flowers have fadedalmost as soon as they opened, while some have droppedwhen the buds were quite small. At Kew we have sufferedvery much, but in the nurseries at Chelsea and other placesnearer the city the damage is even greater than here. Plantswhich have hitherto resisted the poison of the fogs have beenterribly damaged by the continued absence of anything ap-proaching sunlight. Day after day we have been compelled to tural Society by Mr. Deverill, of Banbury, in Oxfordshire, therai
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