. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. SEPiEMBER 23'. THE COTTAGE GARlilENJER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. 891 124 F 125 S I27 M 28 To •ig'w SEPTEJIBEB 23—29, 1852. Barometer. Thermo. Wind. Rain in In. Herald I\roth seen. Beech nuts fall. Wild Hoije3'suckIe'9 second flow 16 SorinAYAFTEK Tkinitv. Birch turns yellow. Woodlark sines. 1 DAT —(7 64-42 — 56—43 29764 — 5;—39 W. 29-790 — 62—30 — 60—39 S. Moon Moon's ;S. Age. 1) morn 10 1 1 3 11 1 2 14 12 3 25 13 4 33 14 rises. © 6 a 38 16 BTEOKOLOGY OF TUE Week.—At Chiswick, Irom ob
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. SEPiEMBER 23'. THE COTTAGE GARlilENJER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. 891 124 F 125 S I27 M 28 To •ig'w SEPTEJIBEB 23—29, 1852. Barometer. Thermo. Wind. Rain in In. Herald I\roth seen. Beech nuts fall. Wild Hoije3'suckIe'9 second flow 16 SorinAYAFTEK Tkinitv. Birch turns yellow. Woodlark sines. 1 DAT —(7 64-42 — 56—43 29764 — 5;—39 W. 29-790 — 62—30 — 60—39 S. Moon Moon's ;S. Age. 1) morn 10 1 1 3 11 1 2 14 12 3 25 13 4 33 14 rises. © 6 a 38 16 BTEOKOLOGY OF TUE Week.—At Chiswick, Irom observations during the last twenty-five years, the average highest and lonest tempera- tures of these days are 'and ° respectively. The Rrcatest heat, 82", occurred on the 25th iu 1342; and the lowest cold, 24", on the 27th in 1828. During the period 85 days were fine, and on 90 rain fell. LONG-TAILED CENTllANTHUS. (Cciilraiilluis Macros'iphon.). This is rather a f,'ay little hardy aumial. but not slender. The flowers are ruby-pink under a bright sun. Like all the Valeriauworts, to which it belongs, the flowers are col- lected together into heads, at the end of all the shoots. It is a native of the high lands of Grenada, whence it w'as sent to France a few years since. The Horticultural Society introduced it from France, and distiibutcd quantities of it to the fellows. An ordinary observer would take it for a dwaif Valerian, but the consti'iiction of the flower is a little diiferent, which is expressed by the name CenlraiUhm, or Spur-flower, or Kciilraiilliiis, as it was tirst named by Necker, a German botanist; but DecandoUe's more eupho- nious name, Cenlraiitkiis, has been preferred. Stem erect, stout, branched, hollow, milky-green ; lumr leaves short- stallced, egg-shaped, obscurely toothed ; upper haves stalk- less, sharply toothed, and lobed ; flowers in corymb-like close clusters; tube of the corolla three times the length of th
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