PHOCEEDINGS. 



Pines were swelling their fruit, the thermometer being 

 placed a foot above the surface of the charred hay, in the 

 centre of the valley or trench: — 



" This register is, however, hardly a criterion by which 

 to judge of the heat of the atmosphere generally ; for the 

 thermometers were sheltered from cold draughts by the 

 banks." 



The Pines exhibited were not tasted ; but it is the opinion 

 of all who have eaten the fruit of this experiment that it is 

 unrivalled in flavour ; a point of the greatest importance, 



