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s stated in the first part of this paper, the array of native 
personal preferences of the writer naturally intruding. It is at 
best meant only as a suggestion as to what can be done with our 
native flowers, and the individual taste of all may be suited by 
judicious selections from the hundreds of a ready and free 
for all almost at one’s very door. 
GEORGE V. Nasu. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Weather for July. Station r. Maximum temperature, 98.5°, 
2:30 P.M.,on the 17th. Minimum temperature, 50.5°,2 A.M 
on the 2d. Greatest range (24 hours) hie from 97°, 2 P.M. 
on the 18th, to 57° at 5:30 A. M. on the roth. Least range, 
28°, from 72” degrees midnight of the a to 64° midnight of 
the 26th; the alee in temperature oe at 5 o'clock. 
Station 2, The temperature records for the same days are as 
ollows: Maximum, 91”, 2:30 P. M. onthe oe minimum, 56° 
6 A.M. on the 2d. Greatest range, 29°, on the 18th-rgth, 
at 3 P. M. onthe 18th to 61” at n 
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about six aa then recovered. Least range, 5°, midnight to 
midnight of the 25th—26th, 69.5° to 64.5°. Station 3. Nearly 
the ee of Station 1, but shows the vaneons more esharly ; 
the exposed instruments being th 
of short duration. Rainfall for the month, 4.67 fens 
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