The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, 1851, Vol. 30 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs, 1851, Vol. 30

We are happy in being able to state that there is a growing and healthy taste for plants and flowers. Not only is this apparent in the increased number of greenhouses, which are becoming necessary appendages to every good garden, but in the far superior arrangement and decoration of the out-door department, and pleasure grounds, in summer. The grand improving feature has been the introduction of what are very properly termed bedding out, or summer-blooming plants. These are now raised in large quantities. By the leading nurserymen, and sold at such reasonable prices, that they are within the means of everybody who has a spot of ground; and hundreds are now planted where, a few years ago, not one was to be found. The effect of masses of verbenas, heliotropes, scarlet geraniums, salvias, &c., is so striking as to attract the attention of even those who ordinarily would give no heed to the scattered objects which usually fill up the garden and we think we can date the origin of a real love of flowers to the impression which a brilliant mass of verbenas or salvias has made upon the beholder.

The most noted articles in our last volume are those on the Propagation of Plants by Cuttings, (p. By Mr. Saun ders; the Culture of the Camellia, (p. By Mr. Errington the Cultivation of the Cyclamen, (p. And particularly the Cultivation of American Plants, (p. By Messrs. Standish dz. Noble; and the Culture of Tropaeolums, (p. By Mr. Saunders. Many new verbenas and phloxes have been fully described, (pp. 172, and also several other new and rare plants. Our Floricultural Notices contain an account of most of the principal new plants introduced into the gardens of England and the Continent.

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A Mild and variable winter, a cool and wet summer, and a warm and pleasant autumn, have been the prevailing characteristics of the weather for the year. After the mild December of 1849, (excepting the last week,) January commenced with the temperature at zero. Mild weather, however, soon followed, and on the 8th and 9th, snow fell to the depth of seven inches: this was succeeded by a cold easterly rain on the 11th, with fine weather up to 18th, when more rain fell, succeeded with the light snow: the 22d and 25th were also rainy. They were followed with fine, mild weather until the 31st, when the thermometer again sunk to zero.

February was much more variable, as well as colder. Rain fell on the 2d, carrying off nearly all the snow. The 4th and 5th were cold, and on the 6th the mercury reached 8° below zero, the lowest point during the winter. The 7th was squally, with snow. Very mild weather followed, with the thermometer 56° at noon on the 11th, - every vestige of snow gone. A heavy easterly rain set in on the 14th, and the 16th was again cool. Mild and mostly pleasant weather ended the month.

More snow fell in March in either of the previous months.

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