THE FLORAL WOELU' AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



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morning presages foul weather. See Matt. 



xvi. 2, 3. , . , .... 



A pale yellow sky in the evening indi- 

 cates wet. 



A bright yellow sky in the evening in- 

 dicates wind. 



White sunshine, morning or evening, is 

 an infallible sign of the coming or continu- 

 ance of wet weather. The colour of the 

 sunshine appears very conspicuously on the 

 wall of a room. 



Generally,* when the wind goes with 

 the course of the sun, that is, from left to 

 rio-ht as one looks at it, and so on by the 



west and north round to the east, fair weather 

 may be expected. A trifling exception to 

 this is that when, in the above course, the 

 wind overtakes the sun and passes it, some 

 liglit showers occur, which are of little 

 account in this country ; but in Central 

 Germany, where tlie same rule has been 

 observed by the writer to hold good, these 

 showers are heavy plumps, lasting for a 

 couple of hours. 



The outlines of distant hills appearing 

 distinct and clear, is another infallible and 

 easily recollected sign of rain. 



PemhroJcesldre. A. B. 



A FEENCH PKOPAGATING CASE. 



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I HAVE much pleasure in sending you a 

 sketch of a propagating case, which was 

 made from a description in the " Bon 

 Jardinier," Vol. iii., and which I liave used 



with unvarying success for several years 

 to propagate plants from seeds and cuttings. 

 The heat is sustained by means of an oil 

 lamp, and the various parts of the case are 



• I say "generally," because before a long, 

 determined set in of wet weather, this rule does 

 not hold good. 



indicated in the description which follows. 

 The materials I have used for packing the 

 pots in are fine gravel, sawdust, cinders or 

 powdered charcoal; sand, perhaps, would 

 be the best, because retaining moisture and 

 always clean. 



The measurement of my own case is 

 20 inches square, 1 foot high. It is made 

 of deal and lined with zinc. The glass 

 frame is improved by having one of the 

 squares made to open for occasional venti- 

 lation. 



Harpenden. A. S. W. 



A, square wooden box, lined with zinc; B, zinc 

 frame, perforated with small holes ; C, tin or cop- 

 per pan for water ; D, lamp with four burners; E, 

 diaphragm of zinc to confine theheat to the water; 

 F, funnel for filling the pan ; G, glass frame, of 

 which one pane may open or not ; H, holes to ad- 

 mit air ; I, grooves for lamp to be pushed in by. 



