27S ON THE WIND. 



leaves, and having received a check from the new potting, are 

 often shedding leaves, which I constantly remove, or they would 

 become mouldy, and give out a bad smell, offensive both to the 

 owners and to the plants themselves. At all times during the day 

 I give as much air as possible, by opening the doors, windows, 

 ventitilators, &c. In the mornings I have a fire made to dry up 

 damp, but allow it to go out before the house is shut up, for the 

 remedy is worse than the disease; close heat at this season being 

 most injurious. 



" During the severity of winter, fire is necessary to keep out the 

 frost, (when very severe both day and night), but I am careful not 

 to create damp by watering more than is absolutely necessary. 

 It often happens on frosty days, that the sun shines clear and 

 bright, and though the atmosphere is frosty, I always give air to 

 lower the temperature of the house, to admit fresh, and to dry up 

 damps. 



ARTICLE IV. 



ON THE DIFFERENT QUARTERS FROM WHICH THE WIND 

 MOST PREVAILLS EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR. 



BY AMICUS. 



As there are few persons who are not acquainted with the won- 

 derful difference which takes place in the temperature of the at- 

 mosphere, by the wind changing from one point of the compass to 

 another, I take the liberty of sending you an extract of Metreo- 

 lo°ical observations during the period of ten years, shewing from 

 what quarter the wind most predominates in each month, a know- 

 ledge of which, may, perhaps, not be uninteresting to your readers, 

 as there is no doubt that the existence of plants depends more 

 upon the state of the temperature of the atmosphere than any 

 other cause whatever. 



The winds which predominate most in each month of the year 

 are as follows : 



During the month of January, the northerly winds predominate 

 by a fourth of their amount prevail over the southerly. 



During the month of February, the southerly winds predominate 

 over the northerly almost a third. 



