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Norris' Rainbow Ripshaw's Queen Addtaide 



Norman's Delight 



Benjamin 



Beauty 



Conqueror 



Earl Grey 



Piggott's Beauty of Cheltenham 

 Pitman's Magnificent 

 Parry's Union 

 Pillard's Eygnsforth Beauty 

 Rolf's George the Fourth 

 Raiusford's Prudence 



Taylor's Green Grass 



Nonpareil '■ 



Beaute Supreme 



Unsworth's Omega (extra) 

 Wood's Eminent 

 Wilmer's Matchless 



I.ady Paget 



Well's Sultana 



Superb 



r — Princess Victoria 



Young's Joe Miller 

 Fancy Pinks. — Blush Superb, Roi de Roses, Smith's Windsor Castle, 

 Wood's Hebe. 



REMARKS. 



The Signs of Fair Weather. — When the sun is fair and bright at its rising 

 in a morning, and is blushing without spots or black clouds near him when he sets 

 at night, it is a sign of fair weather. When the moon is three or four days old, 

 and has her boms sharp and pointed very bright, it is a sign of fair weather till 

 she comes to the full, if not the whole month. If the moon has a bright shining 

 circle about her, when she is at the full it promises fair weather for many days. 

 When the stars shine clear and bright, and seem to dart out pointed rays, it is a 

 sign of fair weather. Also when clouds sink low, as into vallies at south-east or 

 south-west, it is a sign of fair weather. If the tops of hills be clear, it is a sign of 

 fair weather. If there are to the north-west, white scattering clouds like fleeces of 

 wool, it is a sign of fair weather. When white clouds or mists hang just over 

 rivers, and disperse no further, it is a sign of fair weather. When a rain-bow ap- 

 pears after a shower, and the blue yellow part of it be very bright, and the highest 

 colour, they are tokens of fair weather. When bees fly far from their hives, and 

 come home late, it is a sign of fair weather. When there are great swarms of gnats, 

 it presages fair weather. Glow-worms shining by night, is a sign of fan weather. 

 When larks rise very high, and continue singing a long time, it is a sign of fair 

 weather. When kites fly aloft, it bespeaks fair dry weather. The Lord Bacon 

 gives this reason for it, because the kite mounts most into the air of that temper, 

 wherein he delights ; for this aspiring bird does not so much affect the grossness 

 of the air, as the cold and freshness of it ; for being a bird of prey, and therefore 

 hot, he delights in the fresh air. When lapwings or plovers fly high and then 

 low, and make continual crys, it bespeaks warm weather. 'When swallows fly 

 high, it is a sign of fair weather. When owls hoot much, it is a sign of fair 

 weather ; and though owls do always hoot much both in wet and dry weather, yet 

 there is this difference, that their hooting is more clamorous in wet weather, but 

 more easy and sedate in fair weather. 



Monument to Mr. Douglas. — It is proposed to erect a monument to the 

 memory of the late lamented Mr. D. Douglas, and it is hoped that all botanists 

 and amateurs will aid the undertaking by subscribing towards it; as also to tes- 

 tify their sense of the great services rendered to Botany by his exertions. J. K. 



New and Superior Dahlias. — During the last and present month, we have 

 taken our annual tour for ascertaing which are the best sorts of Dahlias, either 

 come out last season, or new ones likely to come out next. A list of them we 

 are preparing for a succeeding uumber, as also a list of other plants, which came 

 under our observation. Conductor. 



Death of Mr. Cunninghams. — Intelligence has been received of the death 

 of Mr. Richard Cunninghame, the Colonial Botanist, at Sydney, New South 

 Wales. The unfortunate man was murdered by savages in the interior of the 

 country, whither he had accompanied an expedition, whom be unfortunately 

 wandered away from in search of plants, (as was his duty as a Botanist,) and was 

 lost in the bush, and never seen afterwards ; but from intelligence gained from 



