. The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . degrees. m. h. m. h. m. h. m. s. 14 Tn Princess Beatrice born, 1S57. 48—25 — 9af8 52af6 IS 3 26 0 21 let 15 W Least Stitehwort flowers. 50—20 — 7 5 53 6 40 3 27 0 5 105 16 Th Gromwell flowers. 52—42 .02 5 5 55 6 1 4 28 Oaf 9 )0S 17 F Royal Hort. Soc. ineor. 189. 59—35 w. — 3 5 57 6 24 4 29 0 24 107 18 S Dr. Darwin died, 1S02. B. 5/ —45 .01 1 5 53 6 sets • 0 3S IIS 19 Scn 2 Sunday after Easter. 59—48 — IV. VII. 58 8
. The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . degrees. m. h. m. h. m. h. m. s. 14 Tn Princess Beatrice born, 1S57. 48—25 — 9af8 52af6 IS 3 26 0 21 let 15 W Least Stitehwort flowers. 50—20 — 7 5 53 6 40 3 27 0 5 105 16 Th Gromwell flowers. 52—42 .02 5 5 55 6 1 4 28 Oaf 9 )0S 17 F Royal Hort. Soc. ineor. 189. 59—35 w. — 3 5 57 6 24 4 29 0 24 107 18 S Dr. Darwin died, 1S02. B. 5/ —45 .01 1 5 53 6 sets • 0 3S IIS 19 Scn 2 Sunday after Easter. 59—48 — IV. VII. 58 8 1 0 51 109 20 H Oxlip flowers. 917 61-38 — 57 4 2 7 2 10 2 1 4 110 Meteorology of the Week.—At Chiswick, from observations during the last thirty-rsix years, the averag 9 highest and lowest temperatures of these davsare ° and 36 1° respectively. The greatest heat, 7*, occurred on the 19th, in 1851; and the lowest cold, 20, on the 10th, in 1S47, and 19th in 1S52. During the period 154 days were fine, and on 98 rain felL. TVINTER-ELOTVERING OKCHIDS. ITHIN the last two or threeyears I have been repeatedly-told that there was a finewell-grown collection of myfavourite tribe of plants cul-tivated at Pendlebury House,near Manchester, the resi-dence of J. A. Turner, Esq.,; and as I was desirousto inform new beginnerswhat species bloom at aseason of the year whenFloras gifts are few and farbetween, I made up mymind to see the collectionreferred to above, surmising that I should find seme stillin flower. Accordingly on the 27th of last month I tookadvantage of an omnibus to Pendleton, which is two milesfrom the centre of Manchester, and Pendlebury is nearlytwo miles further on the road to Bolton. The country thereabouts is undulating but graduallyrising. I found the house pleasantly situated on aneminence, embosomed amongst fine trees, chiefly Beech,showing that the smoke of Manchester, and the tallchimneys of its factories, had not de
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