THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



* tal ?.nrl *iwn under our own special care. It only 

 ^iricertained whether or not they will pro- 

 **PtttLto Onions. About the snortest day we intend 



$!ZjL?lAst week, the word "suspicious" should read 

 E_-!£ions.*' to explain our meaning correctly. 



winds having a progressive motion, revolving by fixed 

 laws in opposite ways on opposite sides of the equator, 

 and tending generally, though not always, obliquely 

 towards the Poles. North of the equator these whirl- 

 wind storms revolve from right to left, and south of the 

 equator from left to right. This proposition Col. Reid 



a great 



On several of these 1 



s and in every sea. The way in which a knowledg 



ns great fact may be, and often has been, applied 1 



gation, is pointed out in 





n of ships, commanded 



)y persons acquainted wit 









1 commanders, which hav 





n nearly lost by being s 









is given at p. 349. 11 



M. ships Vindictive, Ros 



gftJSS 



tt« and nearer the 

 ra of the storm, and was womii hwjlljr feflMgrf. 



SJ^VBatoii'i B an 8- u .P^ * ?«hof i volves of U8e mertl y to ena bIe a com ™ andcr * a shi P 



Si'mS'parae^GKiri. t ihoin by many examples, to calculate with con- 



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gf 8 * 



y slig&tly affected. J. I 



«.U£the dest 



e approach of a storm is no longer a matter of mys 

 - Mr. Redfield and adopted by Col. Reid, is as follows 



revolution, holding it up against a strong light. The 

 centre of the whirl. The liquid will serve to represenl 

 the atmosphere, and if the tumbler be moved over j 

 fixed point, in the manner in which a progressive whirl 

 wind gale would move over it, it will show how tin 

 barometer begins to fall as the storm sets in ; how i 

 continues to fall until the centre has passed, and after 



■ the wood was better ripened 

 wall, where there was no disease. 

 In this garden the fruit trees were remarkably healthy. 

 The Apple trees had good crops on them, but there 



very few Pears. Three sides of this garden are 



inded by a hedge fence, consequently there ace 

 fv wall tr> cropped and 



and gravelled with sea gravel, which always looks light 



f vegetables in the greatest luxuriance. 

 The kitchen-garden, on the south side of the pleasure- 

 grounds, is walled in, with the exception of the north 

 side, which is bounded by a belt of plantation. The 



i bearing very fairly ; but the most remarkable 

 of fruit here were those of MoreUo Cherries, 



gardeD, is well cropped and clean. The moat round 



purposes of 



u-, i= well cropped with vegetables, and the wall en 



Liter side is covered with Pear, Plum, and other trees, 



The pleasure grounds occupy the west front of the 

 tir. Thi'V contain health) and large bushy ever- 

 een Oaks and Portugal Laurels. In the flower beds 



re very fine hu-hy plants of fuchsia globosa, which 



mien arc Mirroiinded by a belt of trees, among which 

 •e fine shady walks, the frequent resort of their illua- 

 ious and noble proprietor. The head gardener, Mr. 

 ownsend, is one of the Duke's old soldiers. He has 

 een gardener at Walmer 1 7 year--*. J. C. 



Miscellaneous, 



AVrr MedieiL, 

 meeting of the Academy of Sciences a 



r their ships, and so o 



changes in the at 

 > dark in the n 



!':',„!.' m ''"' 





nronio ana scute anecuons oi me 

 en," said M. Rossignon in the letter 



accinpauyi 











cured by a decoction of Tchan. 





ed by maceration | 







ce, very like then... 





seems to resemble . . 



as that described bv 



ery likely that this Sage is the same 

 Ruiz and Pavon, under the name 







could be grown in France, it would 



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fview. Comptes 





vernier, 1848. 





cess for 



-M. Brochard's 







wood, which differs very little from 



, other methods now 



n use, or at least proposed for the 



! same purpose, is, fi 

 , tus, worked by a ste 



st by means of a pneumatic appara- 







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Letiee of marking on the face ©f the 

 ms of the weather not strictly com 

 Index of the barometer were simply < 

 £ ! into inches and parts of inches, the public generally ; fc |he chiet enginee , 



JZf H,l ug , in A " gust ' I e dge assists in forming a judgment on what will oe 



*^»l;^Z;£ot i trist to make his own observations on the conse- 



«jeapp e a rance80fde ,. !; ,, e3 wfaich follow from the alteration of .the 



which had been prepared in M. 

 at all. ComplesKe* 

 [This is evidently Payne's process. 

 «*.- A small col 



"haussees. ine 

 ilea, and had be 



P ™' ou/h 6 de !' elo P njent of "the law of storms^ i 



