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and producing' tliose blossoms ; and that the state of the wood 

 depend?: upon tlie general healtli of the tree. This being as- 

 sumed, and further, that the health of the tree depends in a 

 great measure on the treatment it receives — climate we cannot 

 control — it follows that success is in a great measure in the hands 

 of the cultivator. To be constantly cutting a tree to pieces, to 

 say the least of it, cannot, by the widest stretch of imagination, 

 be supposed to benefit it. 



In this paper I have purposely avoided many points which 

 would seem to grow out of the argument, and demand attention, 

 in order that I might the more clearly set forth the main fea- 

 tures of the plan I would recommend, which I trust will be found 

 worthy of general adoption. 



XIII. — An Abstract of 3Ieteorological Observations made in 

 the Garden of the Society. By Kobert Thompson. 



[The following returns are in continuation of the tables of daily 

 observations published in the 'Transactions' of the Society, of 

 which the last part, for 1844, appeared in the third volume, p. 264, 

 of the New Series. The originals from which this abstract has 

 been prepared are preserved in the Society's Library.] 



