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labels might form an occupation for workmen in weather when they could not 

 work out of doors, for persons in workhouses perhaps, and for women and 

 children. We intended to have given a figure of Mr. Glendinning's label, but 

 must defer this till oiu- next Number. 



Hints for an Essay on Anemologt/ and Ombrologi/, founded jinvtly on adm'dted 

 Principles y and partly on Observations and Discoveries, recently made, on the 

 Influence of the Planet Jupiter and its Satellites on our Atmosphere ; with a 

 Weather Almanack for 1841. By Peter Leigh, Esq., A.M., Author of 

 "The Music of the Eye." 12mo, pp. 58. London, 1841. 1*. 



This pamphlet, like the Music of the Eye, is curious and original, and may 

 interest such of our readers as study the weather scientifically. The following 

 quotations are practical : — 



" Perhaps summer in England, or the greatest influence of the sun, begins 

 about three days after that full moon nearest the time when the period of day- 

 light begins to be sixteen hours long : this is near the end of May or beginning 

 of June ; perhaps it ends about three days before that full moon nearest 

 which the period of daylight is about twelve hours long, or the middle of 

 September. Not that it is to be inferred that the sun has not a great deal of 

 power very often after this ; which is, perhaps, sometimes increased by the 

 retentive power of clouds, or even their reflection and refraction, or magnify- 

 ing power. 



" Perhaps winter, or the least influence of the sun, begins about three days 

 after that new moon nearest the time when the period of daylight begins to be 

 only eight hours long, or the middle of December ; and ends about three 

 days before that new moon nearest the time when the period of daylight is 

 twelve hours long, or about the third week of March. This, of course, as 

 well as the period of summer, will vary in different climates, and in the locali- 

 ties of hills, and with the materials of which those hills are composed. It 

 may also here be worth observing, that Kirwan says that July is the warmest 

 month in places above 48° north latitude, and August in places below that 

 latitude." (p. 10.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Noiicesi 



liOPES from metallic Wire were manufactured in Germany so early as 1827, 

 and they are now manufactured in Dundee. Though their chief use is for the 

 navy and for railroads, yet there are various garden purposes to which they 

 might be applied. For example : for supporting netting over a cherry garden ; 

 for supporting canvass or mats over a flued border ; for serving as guy ropes to 

 newly transplanted large trees, such as the spruces, nearly 100 ft. high, trans- 

 planted at Elvaston Castle, &c. A series of these ropes laid across a river, and 

 fixed firmly at their extremities, would form the foundation of a cheap and 

 durable bridge. Many other uses will occur to the gardener, the forester, and 

 the agriculturist. 



Indian Rubber Pavement. — Among the marvels of the times, a patent has 

 actually been taken out for paving the streets of London with India rubber ; 

 and many scientific persons are sanguine as to its success. There is to be a 

 substratum of wood, on which is to be put a facing of caoutchouc mixed with 

 iron filings and sawdust, to a depth of several inches. This, it is calculated, 

 will resist the ill influence of all weathers, and make the most delightful and 

 durable pavement. {Morn. Chron., Jan. 6.) 



Garden Culture of Exotics. — There can be no doubt that the proportions 

 of the different constituents of the ashes of plants have the greatest influence 

 upon the vigour and productiveness of the plant itself; and I have no hesita- 



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