46—1852.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
MYOSOTIS AZORICA. 
g plan 
moderately strong, it 
the 
may be potted o off into S pots, and — the plants 
inary management and care, they will soon be some 
18 inehes high — 2 feet 1 ugh; and 
or middle of Jul yt will be covered wit 
flowers, like our pretty ribin limas but larger and oe 
much darker. 
I find a mixture of loam and $ ye to — it —.— 
i f sil 
way 
young ones ; the latter will — be found to 1 to make 
the best speci mens. Alpha. 
ON THE ane ae or PREDICTING 
E W HER. 
(Flore des pry et i 5 ain . L’Europe.) 
THE remarkable state of ther in the summ 
of ee gh exc ited "public attention, It has gi ven rise 
to a „Which 
— been circulated bg, e in the workshops of 
towns as well as m-houses in the country. 
The . d was — pm j ha anten eat heat, gras 
was not a breath of air in motion, and and bo 
er 
A annually 
| and careful of their reputation. e it = 5 
—— the weather, : 
grees 
about the | they had 
ce these results w ublished I have 
thd K N in another li Tight, I have pa as 
ay: ae whether the ee of men, and events which it 
foresee, i ot occasi 
0 
to take an — 4 opportunity of 
openly protesting cain the predictions which have been | 
attributed to me 
ete 0 — 
sort of reaction, to L. aggera 
the causes of f antog which I have pb anent v 
ns 
hat it may, will learned 
q 
Notwithstanding my want of con 
ce in predictions, I may venture to foretell that 
such 2 will be repeated. 
variation of the mean . 
mean temperatures of the years 
mperature of Paris from 1806 to 
1826 — was 20115 Fah. The 15 
annual m exceeded the average by on 
lowest caer —.— was found to be 
only 24 deg. Fah he 
pera 
of 21 
34 the 
le k average 
As far as t onu mean tem- 
tures are conce rned, the systematic meteorologists 
ill be aware that very slight — could be pre- 
2 from them ; only such as ariation of 23 or 
of temperature 
vegetables were in a ay, 
0 Oa oak a 
= at such an ho, the end of th 3 world was announced the 
Credo 
to take place, 
* was absurd, 
absurdum —1 beter i 
nsidered 
3 
that 
Possesses so many recommen rb and it is of 
such — mis culture that any one on grow it. G. Dickson, 
indow Gardening.—Referring to 
tions from your correspondents Dr. MCoomick and 
Mr. Gardeners’ Chronicle 
n assure your 
fil led, either w mi flor owering plants or 4 T ycopods, 
Myrtles, they form a much prettier and, of course, 
mo blind than anythin 
uld als can 
much lighter 1 looking ; ig prettiest form is 
to have the top rounded, as in the accompanying a 
dation, in the min rant people, they have | month of January is sometimes as pepeta as ihat of 
net hesitated to mix up the name of one of our „on the average; that of February 
illustrious philosophers. Man rsons still believe | resembles oceasi the mean of — second fortnight 
that M. o had predicted the unusually high tem- of pedis c 5 N $ | 
perature which we have experienced. Such being the the fM sometimes the mean of 
it to us that it would be interesting to gm that of the second fortnight of 
reproduce, with his issi curious notice sa meg that the month of A ver hes the 
lished in “ L Annuaire du Bureau tem May; that the of May is fre- 
1846,” by our great on the — of of | quently certain months of June ; that the W or 
predicting the weather. We ought to remark, that, not- month of June is sometim er than certain —— sabes A friend of mine N con- 
withstanding his endeavours to show on what slight months of July; that the mean of July is sometimes structed as suggested by “W. W., viz, the lower 
foundation such predictions rested, yet. they are still months of Au t; the of part led with — „with a pretty zine 
imputed to him. We are certain, that notwith- August is occasionally slightly colder than some is over the water for pots of Ferns, &c. ; of course 
ing our publication of his remarkable work, the | of ptember ; that mean of is some- air is admitted for the fish, but yet the Ferns, Lycopods, 
public will not be in future from blindly | times co some months of ber; that the &c., grow well. J. wpe ay Teate Glasgow. 
g predictions. It i y said that children mean of October may be as much as 54 degrees colder | Rhubarb. Pr -—I have made some 
not pe by the 5 of thei rare In than months 0 ber; that the mean of | following manner w ing o 
of the incredulity of learned men, and in spite of all November may be 10 degrees c than the warmest | should be but too glad of a little of it to spread on 
poche human TES will an rish the peliet of impos- of ber; aet ne may | those hard, dry biscuits ev day while onm 
says ake hie than January. oyage) :—i first re the ou i stalk . 
boas IT POSSIBLE, a THE ACTUAL STATE OF OUR (To be continued.) then cut up into inch lengths ; then put into the 91 
KNOWLEDGE, ro PREDICT THE WEATHER FOR ANY PAR- rve pan, and simmered fo: r of an hor 
TICULAR TIME, IN ANY GIVEN PLACE? May wE An then equal weights of sugar are added to it. The ma 
EXPECT, HOWEVER, THAT SOME DAY THIS PROBLEM WILL is th for an hour. is necessary 
BE bees “oe pac eden den account of quantity of water Rhubarb con- 
s Snel gy 1 5 inclination and duty, in meteor- a, Andersonii,—This ica is well | tains, gill of the best brandy is put in « 
sea ss am frequently asked whether, N of al that bis per said s it. Lreceived a plant | the last quarter of the hour of boiling, wi 
astrono could know a year of it, about 6 inch a high Seo a nursery last March. | pound of the best marmalade, the flavour is much 
what would be, in any given p It was repotted into a 10- 90-inch pot in a soil com improved. When done, it is the colour of Greengage 
annual temperature, the of each month, . of li ight nae with a little leaf-mould, and | preserve, and is quite as good flavoured, with about the 
the quantity of rain compared wi usual mean, the small pieces of charcoal. The drainage was made | same consi James Cuthill, C 0 i 
winds, &c. erfect n aaa nap „as in this Tenacity of Vegetable Life—In a leading article, at 
a | have y presented to the readers of the e ift is given. It was then in a cool p. 692, there are observations on vegetable life, 
Annuaire” the results of researches of scientific | Vinery, and fully exposed to light and air, where it which remind me of occurrences that took place under 
and of ast mers relative to the influence of the remained ti of May. By . own observation several years in ie At the time Í 
Moon and comets on the weather. Th clearly | pushing freely from every eye. It was then taken out ca stag Balen th on ig tip soil of 
demonstrate, I think, that the lunar and cometary of doors, plunged in a Strawberry bed, and fully exposed | a Vine bo 
dienes are almost i „and hence that the to attention was bestowed on it, | Below — 5 
m the weather will become a 1 with the exception of giving it enough of clear soft spread a layer of brick 
astronomy called. In fnot the moia aad water. By the first week in August it had become a layer of 
derating oa times been considered m 3 feet in height, with which I replaced the compost soil to the depth of 4 
erating ce F ly develop t pward: course 
