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THE FLORIST. 



they might enjoy the reward of their labours, in witnessing the 

 admiration bestowed upon the spoils of their peaceful, though la- 

 borious campaigns ! But that cannot be ; and so 



" Soft be the sleep of their pleasant hours, 

 And calm be the seas they roam ; 

 May the way they travel be strew'd with flowers, 

 Till it brings them in -safety home" — 



say we, as we bring this paper to a close, for it is just six o'clock ; 

 and hark ! there is the signal in the bands simultaneously performing 

 the National Anthem, to which we breathe a fervent Amen. 



HAIL-STORM AND PIECES OF ICE. 



Desirous of making our w T ork a register of any thing out of the 

 common affecting our gardens, plants, &c, we requested the Edi- 

 tor of the Gardeners' Chronicle to oblige us with the loan of the 

 accompanying woodcut, representing some pieces of ice which fell 

 in a thunder-storm in the neighbourhood of London, between two 

 and three p.m., June 5th, 1849, and which did considerable damage 

 in many places. These particular pieces, as described, fell in the 

 Horticultural Society's gardens at Chiswick; but we saw abundance 

 in our own garden quite as large, and in many instances much more 

 angular. 



2 3 



" a to b = lj\ inch : 1 and 2 flat ; surfaces uneven, with frag- 

 ments of a thin frozen pellicle, which had formed a partially hollow 

 casing : 3, lens-shaped ; compact, uniformly transparent ice, sur- 

 rounding a nucleus of frozen snow. Resembled in appearance the 

 glass eyes made for some birds." 



