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thing is to be in its place, and you can spare it room in the con- 

 servatory, put it against a pillar there, particularly if it is one of 

 those houses with a pit or bed of good earth in the centre. The 

 greatest plant the writer has seen of it was grown in that way, and 

 was well furnished with fine pale blue flowers, nearly as large slh 

 breakfast-saucers. Clematis indivisa lobata is said to be good, but 

 that he has no experience of. 



BEUQMANSIA SUAVEOLENS. 



Eeader, have you ever tried this as a wall-plant ? You have, of 

 course, heard of the conservatory wall at Chats worth, in which 

 nearly all fine hardy greenhouse climbers had a trial. Tears ago, a 

 large portion of this glass-covered wall was clothed with the vigo- 

 rous green of this fine plant, over which drooped gracefully scores 

 of its beautiful large white flowers, so sweet as to fill the whole 

 long structure with fragrance, and cause the people to come out in 

 the dusk to see the full beauty of the plant. It, like the other 

 Brugmansias, is of the easiest culture, and will not require much 

 care from the gardener, after once covering the space allotted to it, 

 except a few minutes with the pruning-knife in the winter or late 

 autumn, when it is usually pruned back a little. In a cold green- 

 house, the tips, and perhaps a good deal of the shoots, may get 

 pinched ofl" with the frost in the winter, but the plant " comes 

 away" vigorously with returning summer. 



MANDEYILLA SUAVEOLENS. 



A well-known first-class climber, sweet, white, and beautiful — 

 free to grow and to produce its flowers, but very liable to green-fly. 

 It will run up a back wall, and cling to rods or wires freely, and if 

 trained to a rod overhead from which its shoots can swing, so much 

 the better. It is well suited for large conservatory or moderate- 

 sized greenhouse. Eobinson Ceusoe. 



The Moon and the Weather. — If any marked connection existed between 

 the state of the air and the aspect of the moon, it must inevitably have forced itself 

 unsought upon the attention of raeteorolotri^ts. In the weekly return of births, 

 deaths, and marriages, issued by the Registrar-General, a table is given, showing 

 all the meteorological elements for every day of the year, and a column is set apart 

 for noting the changes and positions of the moon. These roports extend backwards 

 nearly a quarter of a century. Here, then, is a repertory of data that ought to 

 reveal at a glance any such connection, and would certainly have dme so had it 

 existed. But no constnnt relations between the moon column and those containing 

 the instrument readin2;s have ever been traced. Our meteoroloscical observatories 

 furnish continuous and unbroken records of atmospheric variations, extending over 

 long series of years : these afford still more abundunt means for testing; the validity 

 of the lunar hypothesis. The collation has frequently been made for special points 

 in the inquiry, and certainly some connection has been found to obtain between 

 certain positions of the moon in her orbit and certain instrumental averaires ; but 

 60 small are the effects traceable to lunar influences, thnt they are almost inappre- 

 ciable amontr the grosser irrtgularities that arise from other and as yet unexplained 

 causes. — Once a Week. 



