THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[APRIL 99, 
eager of its fri 
In туш this we mean по disrespect whatever to 
ention. We wo A: not disparage it in the 
. On the contrary, rightly used, and 
understood, it is an excellent adjunct to 
ture. it is the value of which is 
e 
rass а 
he merely saw 
or а couple of 
He үст {һе nc pit л bell 
ps 
ing its edges i into the water, covered the 
is 
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wers were |; 
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secured by art. Ina WanpiAN case plants are 1n а by the раа in consequence of intelligens 
state of semi-sufocation In "a re they breathe | received from obse 
reely. Ріг ost unrestrained 
is as ne 
Фе uitting them 
E 1 at the алар case is intende 
n animal ; and "T 
to render i impos 
We venture to add 
e | properly so called, is 
s done кіс аи more than 
de it was suggested 
that so far as gardening, 
concerned, the WanbpIAN case 
value; an 
[n short, it is t pci eee a оф de Эт. Bark- 
bread an man of pro- 
longing life under icut Mire pai 
IT must be evident, from the valuable series ofl" 
AWES (at p. 214), 
misleading every 
icate, with even tolerable precision, 
was effected years |i 
rvers ät Montbéliard and Dile 
that the Saône would most probably rise to 4 
" í 
се г. The 1 оне 
on the morning of the 13th to the height.of 
4 inches. Th ears, that; the: authorih еб 
1 m 
A limits stated, and the height to which the 
e was within eight inches а Me ы, whi 
kes calculated to attain. The 
now, fenior that the indications ef fg 
rain gauge are usefully ae а in determining tha 
system of drainage which s uld be adopted | 
different localities, E owe quantities of 
hen itis asce Бем 
average, 4 es 
94 ovi iti isevident that the area of th 
not the smallest difference in ecipitated òl 
principle between these old contrivances and the аһа mir ualed by that of a week in am Meet —— T са | 
WARDIAN саве. ria; and figures which express the general gr But sf tho dnåicàtioiis ot dió sid SA 
But all such plans were merely preservative; n ual result of such extreme cases- tell the пећ respects, it сайпо& be denie ч” lan 4e 
thought of cultivating plants im close cas ses, cultivator pathing ; no distinction is made between и =ч h P йн nevertheless, pred 
though they found the latter Улуг for keeping | occasional torrents and a steady deposit throughout |, са oer, ЖМК a кера oes di 
plants alive. A cutting under a bell-glass was sut- | the year. But "f now that i en а пиу АА & ges € 
rounded with moist air until it had formed roots ; | there are 200 days in which rain was ыа а n vider ваг CICUS pr 5 EQ 
but the moment the action of roots was in the other у 20, we perceive immediately that can à 
і rred to the open air. Gardeners never | the one must be а damp, and the other an евна 
dreamed of Бай las were б under a bell-glass, even | dry region 
Elo m bell-glass we capacious as the dome rain gauge used 
pt E. Wann did, when he pro; e case 
his name, was to contrive а portable 
and i т, made о te 
The small by Mr. 
| asserted that he т in 1853 only 150 days on which 
Xr 
aor 
rain fell, and this indicated a season dry for 
But the large gauge dein that the ac of 
that the 
days was 249, an ason was unusually 
wet; as we know it w. ыр this explained res 
even in the abse ain, there was so little dry- 
8; for it is clear that with days on which 
moisture was able to dense, there could have 
rA ner system in a state " "osa i» 
houses, or plant cases, were open 
they were also ее with 3 E pe shells, oj 
halt oana niate which no such | no sort of comparison with that ot à ihe Tule ir ocn 
amount of light could Mos as plants zean nS iid the | ments now in et Pi 
preservation of their vitality. erly th s must be all нч th 
constructed, ADR case dae. P In what wr rit can be b ter 
аз а me: И lants to great, dis to raio 
. It also has its value im places“ e- the meteorological — for in 
filled wi у or where it is of rain is, natural | Y 
ATi. drea c pei 
of health ; Tad о races such as 
Mosses, will even irr heré; and 
or in some 
e shall be told no doubt м 
b te wel nd fon plants have wes 
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which they are managed. А 
neither care nor skill; its operation is essentially 
E: t it Киз D own ener des every way.|some persons, who may уров that registers of 
все Ja ssessor to | the amount of rain are merely to be looked upon as 
Ee on—in d - to Keys the a uriosit But even with all their 
„it ceases to a " ARDIAN, and | pi рее they are по doubt of con- 
af ‚ога е. fidele Yee * iS is well esae "by ће. 
i jantı e cul 1 owing undou : After P 
the absence of е freest access - light. and to air | inundation from the pani Iba uso e T 
more nemo нана. 1840, а society was formed ke into account the 
m т g of the waters in connection with the of 
seem good ne ens of that river. uantity of 
tain- and snow was registered at 33 station 
е exact 0) of | relation „изе ШУ fall of rain and s "— well of - 
its dem І to he бесе ed. 
as which is į to be 
hus 
si W 
EE 
проп | se 
philosophy. t га 
2> maa мех a an val эч hou nen 
t| the total d s ie e Ue, 8 тылын Pony dt 
ly | zontal area, dar 
lating, by weight or measure, 
th | which falls i in n ded locality or part of the country in | ren 
It cannot be alleged that the indications by the |" 
large gauge used at Rothamsted were in excess of |° 
the truth; it could not indicate more than occurred. 
Condensation may have pw something, or it may 
not being qu 
some extent inaccurate ; but i 
s phenomena, that which has the iow direet influ- 
e 
ce over o 
Tiseine s gardener or йт, accustomed ^ the 
dry clim the Eas unties, seeing in 
Galway journal kept from a Linch ua ge, , tha there 
nch more rain there than in Norfolk 
and eah s the West of [eg with dry land 
bandry at his fingers’ en 
hat would be doin a perpetu 
routine that m been accustomed to, and with 
no science rely upon, as ery well 
happen. 8 di a man would have ын thankfal if 
he had never heard of a rain gauge, or allowed him- 
self to be allured by the seduction of what is called 
р 
drizzle, with the 
TO es заң *of calcu- | a 
uantity of water 
which the instrument is ae aced. 
con 
n very little no from the surface of the the 
il. 
r may be regarded as ы 
„Хе ден) vis is vin ti 
e 
Tiin nches in 12 months, the gr 
indicated by the larger gauge, v this was 
tion to the actual amount of rain wh 
und.. 
The. 
Me would ps. Бе small; and 
nientsize were generallya | 
different localities might, n 
eda 2 yas wa zi : 
for In-th ! 
upon this and other 
with the views of our corresponden 
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VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY.—No. je Хө | 
65. mo етут thoagh destitute of miri vei 
is by n eous возаи 
Ве о by 0s A 
sides de; art “which is Брой o р. "oe € 
nd fo; 
Vine? at each m sometimes of more M rar 
the olia, and 
observed. Оп adi 
December, 1845, the Mayor of Lyons was informed | рее пал Nov. 
evime а 
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