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also is an illustrated catalogue, and a bulky one withal, and it 

 would puzzle a gardener, we fancy, to point out anything connected 

 with his craft not to be found in this catalogue. 



FURTHEii, we have to acknowledge the well-illustrated and gaily- 

 covered catalogue of ' Vegetable and Flower Seeds and Amateur's 

 Guide,' of Messrs. Dickson & Co., of 1, Waterloo Place, Edinburgh ; 

 andithe pretty and well-illustrated vegetable, flower, and farm seed and 

 garden requisite catalogue of Messrs. Wood & Ingram, nurserymen 

 and florists, St. Neots and Huntingdon. A very pretty cover, too, 

 distinguishes the ample lists of seeds and ' requisites ' of Messrs. 

 Iiyder and Son, seedsmen and florists, of Sale, near Manchester. The 

 last catalogue on our list is that of the Etallissement horticole de 

 Bniant. 



The late Storm. — The following report, bj^ Mr. James Kay, meteorologist to 

 the Bute Arcliieological and Physical Society, on the late storm, will be interesting 

 as showing the ettects of the gale : — 



The storm which sw^ept over the British Isles on the night of the 11th and 

 morning of the 12th has been the most disastrous to the woods and plantations 

 in the Island of Bute for many years. The devastation has been so great in every 

 plantation that it is almost impossible to form a definite estimate of the number 

 of trees ujirooted, but it far surpasses the great ' Tay Bridge ' storm (Chri.stmas 

 ISTO) in its results, and there cannot be less than from eight to ten thousand trees 

 blown down. The greater part of the ti-ees have fallen with the wind from 

 the N.N.W., and a considerable portion are lying due south (magnetic meridian), 

 and must have been blown down during the height of the storm, l)etween 12 and 

 2 o'cldck on the morning of the 12th. As might be expected, the greatest damage 

 lias been done to those parts fully exposed to the storm, more especially where it 

 lias swc])t along gullies and de])ressions of the land, and where the fvdl fury has 

 been caught in the angles and bends in plantations. There the storm had literally 

 ploughed a tract for itself. Ti'ees large and small, young and old, have shared 

 the same fate, and in many cases what did not yield at the roots has l)een snapped 

 right over, in some cases a few feet from the ground, and in others from 30 to 40 

 feet up. For some days pi-evious to the storm the barometer stood excessively 

 high, registering .30-510 on the morning of the 7th, descending to 29-364 on the 

 night of the 9th, again rising to 29-530 on the morning of the 10th, and descend- 

 ing to 29-200 by the evening of the same day. At 9 a.m. on the morning of the 

 11th it had again risen to 29'4l4, and by 10 o'clock p.m. it had fallen to 28668, 

 thus showing a depression to 7i tenths from 9 a.m. With previous storms the 

 greatest destruction has mostly taken place with the storm from S.W. to W.; but in 

 the case of that under notice, the greater jiart of the damage has taken place with 

 the wind from N.N.W. to N.,thus causing great destruction to plantations from a 

 point from which they have hitherto received comparatively little injury. 



