308 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[May 15, 
any man. Let us once more draw attention to the 
class of facts, or, as we might say, to the que: estionable 
evidence, from which unfavourable and yet, perhaps, 
erroneous inferences may ‘awn. 
e of Rateliffe, used to fetch large 
oam from Wanstead, but t 
te 
carts were lately loaded with the 
veyed niger to Bow es’s w 
were put 
n board a ba April has 
Lander’s Road, Limehouse, whence she —— up to i 
Dockhead, Shad — e 
Thames, Horsleydown 
charged her cargo at a wharf belon nging to ies 
JAcKsON ~ Smytue. The bags were Conveyor k to 
the first floor of the warehouse. 
is case we must admit that loam in bags was 
ee to Messrs. Jackson and Suvrugs; but we 
een in what way it i . oa sens that it 
W. 
were not driven hy spp ote that we know of ; the 
f ge 
arrival t Lander’s Road on the | thermomete below freezing, an 
Saturday could have ben, seen by anybody. When was 11° below na point on the following night. 
the barge moved to Dockhead on cg * was This is lower tha been experienced so late 
between five and six in the morning; a to Ap The air was gener ally 
the bags being hoisted — 8 = first hoor of the very d 
warehouse, that we pres 
ee 
Wie should be vr but what is not shown, 
ixed with other ingredients 
ir destinati — 
bought 
bably the — of Pare: person who 
and sold : For ourselves, we kno hing 
about it further. We venture, however, to suggest 
that it would as well, since ae ery as to its 
1 5 1 5 must arise of 8 
„ if either Mr. Asuton or Me FIsHEe 
N mea dealers in . Aas living in 2 
neighbourhood, would set on foot an in nquiry paa 
inform 1 75 public what did . of the loam 
questio 
ade example will perhaps orgs z more 
clearly how 
ce 
equa 
8 
winds, maintained an average temperature e 
the days ; but the nights were 54° below the average 
and 24° colder mA the aver rage of those in eee ; 
their mean w. y 28.61°. The lowest tempera- 
ture a on "Ba 4th, when the the 33 was 
Lie rkabl 
was — a quarter o 
almost r without its showers; but 
the — — in February, and scarcely 
warmer than the average of the nights in January. 
The 
me 
al to the average 
effect of for gg Iii kinds of vegetation to a 
On the night of the 19th, — 
ril for at least 26 ears. 
ry ; 
more especially, it was ee e 
ar the dryness of * air, as en 
. meter, has 8 eater than in any corre- 
1 month in the ee above mentioned, — 
the exception of feo Spe pie. 1844 ; but in 
years the dryness was occasio 
8 not by the predominance of north-east winds. 
uch dryness of the air, with as ae a a tempe- 
eaten has not experienced in an 
pril of 
ed b 
ayer 
commenced in 
= ey —— a eee — when the air 
spring, w risk north o 
1 cask will: ‘frost almost War accompanies 
or immediately follows such conditi Unfor- 
~ | tunately too many instances of this bald be ERR 
On the last day of Api, any the dryness w. 
NI hy grea! 
exists ; and we must not be satisfied with cerning by DF t ie 
y Danret’s amount for hit 
85 than that. Circunistantial griene enables a iod of the seasons ind but little, from N. E. 
Sneed, to arrive at a safe co 1 bi see | Nex! as bris from the same quarter ; 
that ppen every ay, indeed, are ebrated at nigh 5 of frost. On the 2d of May, wind 15 li 
Sai mi acuteness—when assisted by ae and N. E,, very dry, containing no va to 
that 8 Need to him should be precise, 
fore 
he forms a decided opinion. As he has only 
one-twelfth part of the brains of a jury, so he pas be 
su to run twelve times as much risk of error. 
Ay example. is this. eek ~~ day in presi 
anstead loam was carted i yard near Bo 
en W after, bags of tile was supposed 
to be were removed from the same yard to a 
d a certain barge; 
the creek’s mouth (the 
wall, and rwards 
near Mr. Fisner’s, 
geman 
clo uds, night very clear, and before morning “the le 
thermometer fell 9° below freezing, a degree 
ung to the tes. The bas 
of putting her 
narrow space’ com ols ha 13 
vabject IPE Wea pe drop the 
41 age N 
F l th 
HE singular wea 
m, moist, s 
The severe AE sts wicca te occu red on = wha nights of 
the 19th and 20th of last April were attended with 
circumstances nearly similar to aay above detailed; 
they differed only in degree of intensity. The wind 
during the = of the 19th was brisk, cold, and dry, 
fro night clear ; cy fore morning 
there were 12° “of frost. On the 2 , the dryness 
of the air was as much as 30° ; — at night there 
were 11° of frost, and probably there would have 
been more had the wind not changed 3 the mesh 
ee W. An under current of it at leas rom 
; but there is reason to 5 that 
still from N. E,, for the 
did not fall. Next day the dryness o 
X , the hygrom 
on, as w; 
„ascertained by yai radiati ting srie meter; that is, 
present spring co now ar broken, a . of 
it and its results will, we aN 
of our readers. 
In January, 1852, the mean maximum 
of the days was 6° warmer u 
temperature of the nights was only equal to 
e wind was 18 pe rage south 
e quantity of rain was an inch above the 
amount being 2.72 inches: The lowest 
was 
ly 12° below freezi 
daily temperature was 
: e 22° colder t 
us the month 
„ 
en night of the 19th. 
tempera- 
; but the | posed to 
=| 
ating from the earth is in 
„the comm on registe 
meter mt em 12° —_— freezing. 
a foot above the surfac 
8 On the —_ 
ring 
It was 
The radiating th 
ually e d to the coldness of the air, but 558 6 to 
xå influens, of radiant heat from the earth; and it 
below freezing, thus ret Be ‘that 8 
of h heat iin ng ost W the surface of 
2 
was 
„ 
s | chiefly ascribed the preservation of some 
ys ears on 
e — dive that are black in the centre and eyi- 
ometimes, and before the 9 frosts 
aie 
by hot Saakas, 
com 
been expe of | may ` 
since a register of these 585 was 2 
1826. and ought to be 
all, or ne arly all, the heat radi- | 
— months. The effects on v oS 
protracted drought and severe ¢ old aot b such 
stat ted at present. Itis certain that 
has been done to the 1 0 gi 
een so much e 
. e 
the middle of las 
warm days and e 
young fruit in m 
least, of the fruit crop, which at one tim 
dently destroyed, there are a number w 
drop after the warm weather sets i aches al i 
Nectarines on a south wall, with a coping sufficient 
against 6° — frost, have been mostly destroyed i in | 
consequence 
2 b n was, however, employe d, consist- 
ing chiefly of straw screens, and under these the 
blossoms were quite safe. 
ve now recorded the general character of 
ant cireumatances. The o is to direct 
—.— to these circumstances, in . that similar 
e ur n 
agains has 
found that modes of protection hitherto e 
r sufficient are not no pe 
more ae should E ae whilst the amount 
Coping s 
sufficient, nor = these wi 
screens have proved worthy of recommendation; #8 
f. 0 gI erties s they are 
were quite safe 
sof some of the 
the blossoms 
pared to a series ir t : 
ing with their heat for the bench 0 
2 which they are made to soe 
very neat straw coverings. 
de W in a eT it ould 
tively co song ae 
3 1 — springs. 
THE GENUS KALOSANTHES, ro 
er flowering 
oe Reel cee 
0 
lants 
pra aly sting A Ms 
wintered in 
ae bushy, with 
a mild growing te 
to 60° with — — 
