. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. Decembei! 0. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. 17& ir w !d1 J) ~i qTn 10:P US 12 Sun 13 M 14Tu 15 VV UECEMBKIl 9-15, Red-throated Diver comes. Wild Swan comes. Grosbeak seen. 3 Sunday in Advent. Lucv, Stinking Hellebore flowers, EmbebWeek. WEATHEa NEAR LONDON IN 18r,I. Barometer. iThermo. Wind. Itainin In, â â, ."I0.,521â(Jj â â â â 54â52 53â33 51â27 38â30 44â37 41â36 40â36 ' S. I w. I E. 1 E. S. 1 Sun Rises. Sun Sets. ia, 7 VIII 0 1 4
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. Decembei! 0. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. WEEKLY CALENDAR. 17& ir w !d1 J) ~i qTn 10:P US 12 Sun 13 M 14Tu 15 VV UECEMBKIl 9-15, Red-throated Diver comes. Wild Swan comes. Grosbeak seen. 3 Sunday in Advent. Lucv, Stinking Hellebore flowers, EmbebWeek. WEATHEa NEAR LONDON IN 18r,I. Barometer. iThermo. Wind. Itainin In, â â, ."I0.,521â(Jj â â â â 54â52 53â33 51â27 38â30 44â37 41â36 40â36 ' S. I w. I E. 1 E. S. 1 Sun Rises. Sun Sets. ia, 7 VIII 0 1 49 a, 3 49 49 49 49 49 49 Moon R,&S, 5 25 6 52 sets. 5 a 8 6 15 7 27 8 42 Moon's , Clock Age, aft. Sun, 23 29 ® 1 2 3 4 7 14 6 46 6 19 5 60 5 22 4 63 4 23 Day of Year. 344 345 3J6 347 348 .149 350 IVlETEOROLOGY OF THE Week.âAt Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-five years, the average highest and lowest tempera- tures of these days are ° and ° respectively. The greatest heat, 01°, occurred on the 13th in 1842 ; and the lowest cold, 11°, on the 13th in 1840. During the period 106 days were fine, and on 09 rain fell. WINGED TOB.\CCO PL.^NT. (Nkotiana alald.). This is a tender annual, and a native of South Brazil. It belongs to the Natm-al Order of Nightshades (Sola- nace!B), and to, Tentandria Monogynia of the Linnaian system. Like other tender annuals of the same family, the seeds require to he sown early in spring, on a gentle hotbed, and the seedlings, when they have three leaves, to be pricked out into small pots, and kept under the same frame, and to be moved to their blooming jjlace after re- potting in May. We extract the following from Paxton's Flower Garden :â "We translate literally the account given of this plant by Link and Otto. ' The stem is from four to five feet in height, branching, mth distant, glandular hairs. The leaves are from tliree to four or more inches long, and from one to two inches broad;
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