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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 22, 1856, 
mber taken out of the Vindictive, a ship 
Which some marked specimens had ai past, Ae 
aaa in 1832. , When tested as to streng th | 
ded in no 
respect whatever to the common gth 
U age roe 
which gives the temperature to which rads Mer: 
q 
, but. Sareea c d th 
y 
Oak it 
and dural bility. There, however, still rem 
ow far the naer of the 
viz. 
k timber ither one og veo r the other is 
only bending 4} inches, the thir usta ci on 
an aye: Send Ai weighs ad ote lbs., or was deflected 
of e 
press upon zal or ~ it bs s certain Men me 
Scotch creck con ndem: m Dur 
al 
r to that 
uit of trees ; it is, ` 
E de ew and Koki frost are hegre 
5§ inches before bre 
ng cle and “a ‘New Fosih 
ber, bat, it seems to pe Pa ae the dockyard 
old 
an “oppo il ‘opinion aks we 
as had b many y and i 
= now in sat pre in the Royal forests, at ve 
neo New Forest. It is very much to be 
h 
Durmast, he enik; species, 
ay a better climate than that of Sootland ? 
„Sur ingu iry t that ou ght not to paly 
t the ramiperatny 
asionally very 
said some months since, that far esip ex “tia 
mabe on this subject should be made carefully in 
serious attention of pre a Pras sel > 
different parts of the country. If the Durmast i Unner the head of “ BOTANICAL GEOGRAPHY ” we and surface “of a soil up to 300 
found everywhere, under equal atara to pope e 3 present to our readers comments upon feet above it; at about which e tion the diminu- 
tougher, or only as tough, as the n Oak, e chapters in M. se De self i is no longer 
ry great fact will h n aacert rained ; for it it “ Geo aphie i ESR Raisonnée,” which relate irie er 
pene considerably faster than the common Oak, i is | to meteorology and other subjects which hav At Brussels d obser. 
zomer, and moreover will thrive on land | direct bearing upon the every day operations of the | vations, pene ee e detailed by M. De Canpotte, on 
ie light for the common species. gardener and agriculturist. our notice of the! t the > effe cts resulting from te free the thermometer 
MIL writers | admit that it grows faster; in this | work in question in September, 1855, (p. 615): it evels, and the following are the 
of opinion; our pers rsonal ex- will Ber A be unde age od. how high a value we degrees indicated :— 
the sa and a series of pecimens need therefore do 
poet in Regent. Street on Tuesday, 
Two say eg n 
aoe the New Forest, of ‘es same size, and growing 
n the same place. They had been aad by Mr. 
+ 
ns 
e her hs an ri 
su sahjagtk we s hall selec 
treated by any marii and se at w. 
their value and ere st, or for thei 
mport 
poma and economical point of view, they dese 
pE carefully tide d and ite owed 
sse: 
to 
A more striking. While, 
Arniston Mr, Brown selected for comparison ‘he 
trees on that estate, vine of aoe were produced ; 
of 1 
; ir | 
ount of skill or expenditure | 
of time s demanded ; ji „an for yoping out the | 
a PAte ad i gained a a diamete 
m them, no e but the 
** Tindoubtedly it is a common belief that fast- 
gown n timber is less valuable than slow grown, a and 
versd. It is, ere heal, ar from 
Hitherto pn sey tity of heen statin the sim- 
plicity of the i and the ss of t the | 
instruments, hav ofte en proved Sache to the 
proved that this is true. we gave some 
th 
The t ee eer in| 
and we e shall endeavour to revert to the ‘question in 
ness in the observations. 
As roverb, and si rel 
too much to say th nine cases ou 
one attaches my vette to the temperatares | 
h ther 
a week 01 
For Athi of showing that 
belief of the of durability ast 
mistake, a number of interesting ancient oes, | x 
sti Il in good preservation, were exhibited. The d 
rdeners, t! e is no reason 
g yg thoug! 
isa es aoe these should not be as accurate 
ecor d of Greenwich Observa atory. The the er- 
ee of See common Oak hardly requi res proof ; it 
vertheless illustrated by pieces of timber 
ae w into ; and it is moreover often i magined |1 
tha t the relation of ‘the test to the Scale i is 
tava out of 
e hie of an = 
bottom of the «e 
some workmen e 
tion for a 
7 or coracle, Seah 
bout 10 0 feet deep at the 
Sas ” of eae d 
mployed in iggin a foun la- 
bridge ; with it we Kand 
com 
astle by 
same e heig ht a me time, if placed in reason- 
h 
= of this rat 
inas- 
h o 
reached the! pac, of the Slopes, a ‘time no r Bothi far 
more when “Cowy Stakes” were 
one thot ma As little regard is 
paid 1 to the. off as to the oe f the t 
instrument, nad piy fact that. it often everal | 
Mean temperature of the year. 
~~~ At the level jad 46° 
At 10.8 feet al 
Mean temperature at 9 A.M. 
Surface. 10.8 feet elev. 
34°6 34°4 0°2 
44°1 49°3 +52 
58°8 64°4 + 5R 
48°6 50°. + 1°9 
Maximum tempera: 
| Surface. groeg 10.8 feet elev. | Difference, 
to ree 46°9 52°0 + 51 
{one ero ass 57°9 67°6 +97 
| S . 70°09 795 pa 
58°6 iste ROB! |. EN S 
Minimum tempe: babe, a, at 
| 10.8 feet elev. | Difference. 
inter 20°7 T — 134 
par DE vee soe 35°4 33°L — 23 
pk oes see ae ra 51°3 — 07 
5 fe ..cr 
“These results ie e highly instructive. It has 
n the sti ark that the extreme pore 
a regist: ale ae: thermometer at the 
icultural Society’s ens hiswick (whose 
racy is undoubted) are marsa higher and 
wer ase those of neighbouri 
importano 
Ẹ 
the 
n ‘eet from the pur und, 
S; which, b 
In R: 
degrees of difference in the result, pew Ga the | 
observer aae from above or _ below to the point 
of the scale where me eraser ands, is often 
K 10.8 feet elevation s stands i in oe 
one, plac ced 
rded. So, to a repan to a position of 
from 
driven into the ‘at of the aoee These examples 
rnished by Mr. Incrax, g 
Oal 
York, dating back hs the 1 13th es das Ae iece 
of Old London bees from 
tT) 
E 
a be am See fn 
m (a. Ri kersa 
» built in ie: begi nning of Exizasetu’s | 
aaae 6. Part of a staircase in the Abbot’s house 
rior to being occupied by CHARLE s and | 
whet! 
t is seti Deoa not a sek apart showed differ- 
ences of pines re of w pan upwards at the 
same time, ti n the temperature 
the RSE aides most and a 
u 
g ther- 
upper storeys, 
ae 
of u 
ó Candolle ais that, according to M. Mar- 
cet’s bedivations at Gene eva, the temp erature € ort 
jis steadiest ; and if he is still inclined t 
thi li 
5 
to the causes we have named, Jet him at M. p 
4 ihat thie diff, mmer pound 
in winter, but that nevertheless ne priera ia cases 
haan iry the difference is enormous ; a8 yal 
Ca 
T; ” Part of the timber of the Hospit cae 
ary 0 a 8. Part 
= the air at heights hil only a few 
e 20th of Ta nuary, 1838, 
A. when 
of a a Saxon log n; In cxcovating - new | another. Accu ments are now neo vd clevated omean stood 14° above another 50 
hens s in Perec: gm ork, grea mbers ko allat a ont ph sobre tice (th 
ese coffins were found. a o à fo or the trifle that is generally expended| In continental countries the differences are greater 
from centre of the roof oi hoi j. York herm rmometer) ; 1); and simple rules | than in islands, because of the clearness of their 
Minster (end of the 14th century) saved from the | for placing a nd ob ski 
fire in 1829. The = lasi contributed 7 n of experience, and ‘whose position in the ese observations prove that a ‘tree, ny bash, an and 
by Mr. Barnes, of Yor ; and to these we |a herb, growing side by side, are exposed to very 
_ It was hiir rma to say that the Durmast speci- [w would ‘refer = E our readers ‘as wish to have | different ba al of lanpi ure ; and we may 4 add 
| t toy for an instrument, and | sas s Seata mparison of a 
The beam, i poa Sept t ran r of fac cts secumolated i in i England as to 
boss from York art as sound as| ri the eee the Air at different Dis- the, effects of frost ; for, put es aside the erro 
when ee were i into fe buildin the local dis- 
Nothing, therefore, can be 
clearer than t that in ' hung 4 feet above the level of the earth, a height | tusing causes tbat affect every Plate, it follows 
