THE RECENT WEATHER.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As evidence of the extraordinary mildness of the season, I send you a list of flowers actually in bloom this day in my garden. All are planted in the open, where they have been all the past summer. Not one is growing in a pot or under any shelter whatever. Moreover, this is a high and rather exposed situation, so that many of my neighbours might perhaps furnish a much fuller list.—I am, Sir, &c., FRED. T. ELWORTHY.
RID:town, Wellington, Somerset, December 9th.
Escallonia Macrantha. Myosotis (Forget-Me not). Myrtle Stocks (wr:ons colours). Violets. African Marigolds. Yellow Allyssum. Hydrangea. Aurionlas (See sorts). Gladiolus (thrice), several perfect spike.. Chrysanthemums (hundreds). Zonal Geraniums. Roses, fifteen named sorts and several old.
Araiia Sieboldi.
Christmas Roses.
Cotoneaster. Learns Tinna (profuse). Polyanthus (lace-edged), many. Large Pr rennial Poppy, Lwi openiug. Marguerites (Chrys. Lone.), several large bushes with hundreds of blooms.. Double Primrose. Common Primroses. Cowslips.
Toad-Flax ,L'n.Cymb.)
Common Daisies.
Ger aninm Robrrtisnum.
Veronica Rupestris. Scarlet Geraniums (Vesuvius). Silene Compacts. Pansies (large). Wallflowers. Penstemons. Arbutus.
Mignonette (any quantity) sweet as in summer. Pyrus Japonica. Ccroorns Japonca. Jesminnm Nudifl 'rum.
Sweet•Sramted Vsrbenum (new shoots). Many of the above are in as good and perfect condition as at any time during the peat summer, while many, of coarse, are in season.
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