46—1849.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



1^11 off- Fro n-. • 



They fall at the moment they are r< 



kerbs I have observed the last-mention 

 esse of newly-transplanted individuals, 

 nevertheless expanded their flowers ; thei 



sheds its flowers, I have already stated what is to 

 be done. 



acription' of malady either prevents the gen 

 fecundated, or, when fecundated, from forming the ma- 

 of theVine is produced by the 



i I suffice to remove a ring of bar! 

 lines broad from the wood of the precedin.: 

 is taken from older branch) 



narrower, and care must be taken not to touch the wood. 

 The operation must be performed eight or ten days be- 

 fore the flower expands. Ti 



its causing the 

 descending sap to be better dis'ributed and to flow into 





RELATIVE AMOUNTS OF EVAPORATION AND 

 FALL OF RAIN. 



ty 4.569 inches ; and he then asks, and with good 







fectly saturated, tends 





*hich the perennial supply of 

 *| v ers is preserved 1 " Havinj 



preserved ? " Having registered the ob 

 -"us auuded to, I beg to offer some remarks 

 a*y tend to explain the difficulty in question. 



The amount of evaporation is not estimated in the 

 meteorological journals pnblia 



observations made in their garden at 

 it the indicatiens of Daniell's hygrometer 

 ^e given, and also the force of vapour as deduced * 

 *«m ; and from these data the amount of evapo 

 *■» doubtless been calculated for Daniell's « M 

 O'otfcal Essays," according to tables founded or 

 ton's experiments. But it must be observed that 

 *»bles refer to the evaporation from the surfa 

 *<tier and not from the earth. That from the fi 

 »nay be greater than the amount of rain ; that fro 

 ktter must be as much less as to afford a supply 

 e .1«&l to the quantity drained from the Ian - 

 overs to the sea. This general fact, I presume 

 J* readily admitted ; but the experiments that 

 **& made, in order to determine the relative an 



earth. At Orange, the evaporat 



; may remark that although by n 

 f the hygrometer, we may Jo rrn^ ™ m "PP™*^ 



i falls in the space of ground they occupy. Tie 





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