GARDENERS' 
.102 THE 
interest in the news from Australia. In saying 
many gardeners are willing to go Iam I [ only 
asserted what they mentioned to me the 
of conversation, That there are other а besides 
the want of means in the way of gardeners I adm 
for —— eun "з 1 mortality that has recent 
taken plac any of the vessels. 
of Jan. 26 wire in Ap excellent leadi 
stronzly — Mt? the pir ar inflieted b 
owners o 
isla 
not 
y 
ts, and the negligence of the ^ f th 
against “anything novel um 3 
re the s 
m my 
fession, therefo Aore nothing t mss 
I pai bam oped 
at; 1p great attention ‘to it, hat t 
cedi Е the е tati ost enthusiastie 
and was truly pier witness its , 
хрр Charles Lucas, 
The Weather in South Wales. be is remarkable that 
perature of December 
migrants in their transit to Australia. 
Marco Polo lost 53 passengers, the Tide 
104, and — — of the survivors into 
prostrated by disease, the medical stores being ex- 
Ац 
more comfort 
hausted, and the ато шың and his assistant incapable 
from illness of rendering assistance to sick 
many si instances coming close upon 3 other, 
and not unlikely, I Дь Д pi followed by others equally 
es the Joy and M 
L 
do not disparage his advice, given at p. * neither do I| 
wish to oe eners from going to Aus ; on 
the —— a gardener myself, and though I 
am in an dira situation, lam to go there, 
h 
gauge at this place, Pembroke Doe 
o 
Mr. AN It is singular, too, that hot 
intensely so in most parts of. England, my ther mometer 
on the noth side of the mee e: not rise above 76°, 
while in 175 and 1851 it re 80°. 2 mean of 
the three summer months, Jud * uly, an d August, is 
lower by " 74? than that of 1851, owing to those of 
v and Aug ing Limp than үл — e months in 
n has at of «€ 
by 8. 492 inches, wu that of 1850 — 15. 998 — 
o gauges (8 inches and 5 inches) on ^i. 
f the 5-ineh gauge invariab 
м wt ad Lr one, I have n 
ther жакчу t; 
oniy i infer iat the larger 
(for itis is no qim to the ac 
at the place. 
The following is the state of the men ине and rain- 
kyard. 
THERMOMETER, 
Date. 
Wet Days. 
Absolute 
Maximum. 
Absolute 
Minimum. 
Mean. 
Average 
Maximum. 
Average 
Minimum. 
Mean. 
8-inch Gauge 
5 feet 
89 
of December is within 2° as high of 
t. 
t 
f 
C ewman, 
he | W. W. Ее . Sheppard, and S, S. Waring: and 
Л Steveng 
7 
7 
à "ra AES of the three 
resorted by a farmer, i being an annual e 
and бе: А „uncertain 
p rospect ve 
M. Loni’ plan of using UR RE acid fo destroying October 
no means new, It i is mentioned 
expense. J 
anything therefore Qe 
8 
852. 
| January 
Feb. 
March. . 60.00 
1 
ove 58.00 23.50 2€ 9 65 18 
55.00 [35.00 |45. 00 5 1.85 
[Ёкв. 12; 
roduced in my pro- meeting, balloting for new members, announcement 
ro- гарк ems for new memb announce 
Tent of 
h the nomination of the Council and be risen for the 
ocio without 
ceeded w 
This 
ty had been 
ents, and some othep 
5 ses, to meet whi ch, the Couneil мами solved 
he Lib rary and Cabinet Committee was лоу "i, Te 
ollowing gentlemen were an m of the 
Jouneil for the ensuing year 
eleeted President, Mr. S. 
competition for the prize, on the questi 
differe 3 of — of 
-— e ive is composed, with especial reference to 
ctical relative € dependent th 
ine on — * to the СЧ wi 
mo ndorsed u upon them. 
BoranicaL oF Epinsurca, January 
President in the Chair. Dr. 
Purple-wool 
Grapple Plant (Uncaria 
bens), Cape of жы Hope; Polyporus 
| | | | E ud 
Total 
fatah. supply of young plants, so 
instead | of diminished the nuisance, 
тты Gauges both 5 feet from the ground. 
Wet Days. 
Mean 
8 
ss Men 
Bici ent Feb.1 ^. 142.91 
The mean temperature of the spring months . d 
» mmer do. 149 
* " i tumn do, ; 50.506 
138.131 |225. | 
from the 
from ui the Willow, with brooches from it, 9 
a shining velvety appearance; specimen ` 
Daerydium Ure rm no 1 fet meme 
imbedded basalt, in the M. 
of the cells, containing { 
Ботак matter ; scsi, of spiral fibres from Ан 
rt silieified wood of Deegan, — 2 
disk-bearing D rom Mies Neill, specimens 
of an opalised e carboniferous Fem 
т: "2 
Difference between summer and winter... 
at а 14 + + 
Maximum N 
inimum 
There has been a singular difference in the mi 
of gas in 
ases | President, in the 
ments of 
generally much 
merits. Chiswick is but in this instance it has been the reverse 
PEME 
Sr Clerc an dis paesi he a 
warmer at night than | 
Po We are 
e viria n and d an pes Oak өчү, Sherer from 
From A our, Esq., Hong-Kong, specimens ol 
letters are written on narrow 
—— TH of 
en up in a solution 
— a 8 
large from а 
— South Uia, Ox cud Наки. fae реч d 
imens 
n . 
Mean of 6 days... 
4 me the it. | 
— in fall work, Horse Chestnuts in February.—The Earl of Stamford | 
i wished * enclose some | 
eters: | 
—+—— 
the Gimir, 
ENroMoLoGICAL, 
made to the Society since the last 
3.—J. О. Westwoon, Esq. grown 
d., vigorously, and 
observed that the structure of the stem of 
regia had been examined recently by Mr. 
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