y enemies to conter nd against ; = 
ange 0 x "hilare e of Roses on Dog stocks! Like | the varieties ee" very rank plored 
shou 
d be p 
afterwards; but the plants that u and Mexico are, L think, desery y r 4 
“ROS SE STOCKS. for a twelvemonth or more "should eco ie eo | far attention, because mada S oe hee shared 
t, till I have had mor : it of 
re eta not at least > E hut + the bee ee £ ‘Ten 
y not * kar my apendi rong and weak shoots ¢ of the | and higher, I believe, than any mines into D which ha yod 
henr es ‘a without es og fn 1+ å naide out iy ee na 
a Thal ify w ig. |to a par by reich the trees grow | above the level of the sea, I found the subterranean ai 
act e some 1 blooms. Some of |14° Cent. warmer than the e xternal air. The little town 
runed back to about two or thee eyes, SO as 
‘oduce mod 
hical position and dave 
(peir wo “ant foe is man himself, who will n 2 an hog he fall, or pro erate-sized wood | tion, in 6° 43’ S. latitude, and at a hei of 1857 toises 
es in his head, observe and follow Nature The for the aaa season’s pruning. The Bourbons, Teas, | (11, 875 English fet) meth the sea, at the foot of the 
of the Rose a on, and black patch at 38) and Chinas require very little pruning —mere tl rated for its mineral (silver) 
red rust (rubi ), honey dew, blac ap weak and d wood cut out d The summit “ft this almost isolated, castle- like, 
, bud curl, green oss,—am nd las tly, ba ripping frequently, when pruned hard, the; T ae after it, or do | and pee ne moun’ 
Surely, these are enemies enough ; but there is | not bloom at all. The Noisette Rose should be T red | ment of the street of Micuipampa. _The temperature of 
more fatal than all, ‘ea ip who profe esses to = Da th poste lik R a a ae and the satis Ù only to, 
pid, careless, an nd ignorant man! Ia so make throw out t side shoots, as hoy the Mina del Purgatorio ee Cent. (42°.26 Fahr.) ; 
isa dificalty aris arising "fom t e idiosyrcra eir young wood. If you |but everywhere in the in rior (at a height of about 
of Roses on 
0 | rule, 
shoots tied ‘out Ee fall iene. i 
de: ch i 3 
cut 
nE out the 
200 
Ros 
heien is an unive: aad 4°.1 Cent., or 25°. A Fa “di 
whether the Rose is oer feclly dry, an 
hi st be | the Mina de | Guadah 
r. The s limestone rock w 
that 
upe, which is sat the same paa 
I found a internal snp e 14°.4 Cent. Gres 
h | a hr.), the erna from t ernal air being 
s last year, an 
kab] + 
ks 
to, or Sphotarict of, chins: pitent. 
Let 
and a charges wh @5. a what | never komn a Rose that did well Cahn ver good its | the 
e c pr unles 
ap ORE T E 7 
wi 
| fore 8°.7, or 15°.8 Fahr.) 
or eight of r ve 
s presented b; 
ig gga of the ground-ice in "the step’ 
te tha ll $ ury cont Rote: 
wood 
s it was cul od Meer when | | Northern 
Kean, Paul Rican “Cloth of Gold, | 
des Batailles, 
ules M; 
Hie’ s Celik, have iforoieels sgh ae 
va sue. e is, er ahi a el difference betw 
d h rself, 
rst- | | out oy the foreman’s 
L 
astly, 
and water 
mete such eens as powe: 
eae stocks which you sce m are | ae Ye i bi various enemies, or to quickly apply 
ich wa on e for some wise pur 
mencemen ill | v 
urbons on ‘nigh ernaia whieh, observe that it is quite possible that dwarf habited 
an aa a 
, and one “ cui ed” 
I charge ger with neglecting to 
your Roses, and also with omittin: ri th 
are within your r to obviate the | 
pect this ae o of ‘abe erranean ice. a > ce a 
| tions of Greenland Mh prane of Spitzb erg 
Martens and Phipps, and of the shores of the Sea of 
Kara by Sujeff, an atin generalisation | had repre- 
res when you 
mischief. 
perceive the 
Before I conclude I w 
it rz with a constantly frozen and snow 
egetation 
covered ihn even in the pene; The penoa limit 
of sap, } hence the cireulation i is impeded. I Eea found 
t from 
uantity | of the growth of high forest trees in Nor 
not t the > parallel 1 of 67° ide as was 
above re: Obdorsk 
ecidedly th 
rhaps, ye Chave never yet | die. 
start | 
known healthy so a hd their ‘wart 
Finally, let 
skins to | influence of sea w. dth 
4 shrines ar careless | Obi. The age. of yea par river Le 
igh the above, and at oe adopt | up to vg titude of 71°. In nt desert islan 
z ear, W pe 
seen it; that you sen soot Roses that 
year they are are budded, a e dwindled i in arg and 
u hint herein ‘that seems to be enter 
et ars rge herds of reindeer 
E 
of business, your man, in a eneduting | an order, gi 
4 1: 
> 
E 
sufficient veget: 
+41 
Ot hg 
1: 
ll not Bed aih lard 
ppoi 
rih table 
Sibin journeys of Middendorth, « 
for the spiri observation as well as for boldness of 
nd chen a final wrench with both 
or dies. ye 
ego atid this is that the Rose ros eri | which is not 
t t, but “ “hd rand blossom like fke Me 
he 
“Queen of flowers,” enterprise an Ap siian as n laborious research, were 
a 
i 
only | hematit. in bu d a blossom, but | mai ade from 1843 ae “ties and 
t of a red 
ar, there are but “ix T cond Ooni 
se pos a preferre: ee 
toe, Tik it is keib to say t 
this year, 
to in head or root. The 
nurseryman—they are more o: 
oa neal fie and ia = second and last 
urserymen are 
pay ersten ee of Pldeb arnatente. 
And now f mipan y mmi pe pene yee Rose 
grower vey she eer he pre- 
vious deep plant 
= sewers en Forge ak oa 
“ Nature never was a iin? je PR 
cluffe, 
TEMPERATURE OF THE SURFACE OF THE eet ye an ipa 
EART 
T has been remarked agi i 
minima of the variations of pi temperatur 
come et Mg the EE 
ho ours 
F. Rad untry to nearly e N. lat.; and to 
in Turner iii Spencers Tor, Fruitist, and the coat east vo far as the upper Amour and the in of of 
Garden Miscellany. 
pa zk, The first of these pith, ache journeys led 
7 ae unvisited 
ge esting because 
from the east and west 
old continent. The instructions of the 
hat the maxima vars Petersburg Academy of $ him as 
bject of hi expedition (in conjunction with 
the limits of the varions forms ‘of organic life towards 
the high north, depending | principally on climatic rela- 
régi, 
t of tie 
e day and seasons 0 
t the diferent 
the year, reac! ch 
Had the ere: tags ao a 
tree rather than plant it. soi aen 
rind would never have 
rai 
3 
the saco at v very di 
and the thickness of the subt 
, Simirat a eanas and its flower- 
capacities de tthe surf em. Perpe 
ays ve 
variations “cease 
pen 
roots may send wood, but t roots tas ‘ad 
e case 
Yeriainom, a thermom er plac ae” 24 French, 
depth of 
ti Coa ee poten 
S be sensible st epee at the small 
3.8 French = and in respect to a mnual | fr 
jet Boe examined “a: “fatter 
pa by means ne: ae soe E cavations 
m 21 to ee deep, al than 12 points a 
he Jenisei, andon the Len a), at distan 
sp apace hing eee ie 
a the flower. This is precisely the 
berries. Listen to the following extra 
a 
iot we 
Richliew’s treatise, hewn I luckily fell in with when I 
“ When anted the top 
10th of December, ar ar 
of temperature during the year until the | 
ES Aer 
The most important point, „however, for geoth 
ge gs Schergin Shaft at Takutzk (la at 
or 
first began :— he tree is 
k e is planted the top of the | June. Also, i i made b subterranean icy stratum has been 
thera’ iy LR close to the top of the ground; | Forbes in the vi f Edinbur, ings on the re conducting ered for a fora ikiss of more than 382 English feet. 
when trodden do ge i heat o i buried, and power | of different ‘Finds of rock, the m tem. | Thermometers have been inserted in the side walls of 
lid. We hav be be fixed steady and | perature in the basaltic „trap of „Cal T “Hill was | the shaft, at 11 points situated vertically in respect to 
a French Rose treat otk Pianibed by | oj d a depth | each other between the surface of = earth “ordi 
suficiently uni K i T OF et. deepest part of the se shaft reached in 1837. The observer, 
some of th as a lerm ia oo he sunk accordin the theory of the distribution of |i t Jes st 
others were kept at th fall hei i v3 ground, while | heat, the nn stratum in which we begin to | ing in a bucket, and holding by one hand to the rope. 
after a hion, thro h th yad They all lived | find no difference of temperatu e course of the | The series of observatio! ons, of whi 
weak iin ot e Ate a pe a annual cycle i much the less deep beneath the sur- | estimated a s AER 0° a Cent., or 0°.45 Fahr., extended 
da the st many | face as the maxima and minima of temperature in the | over the m Ap ril 1844 to Ju ne 1846.. The 
eben A crown of thé eke yo soddened and year are less distant from eac ther, my fri | decrease of so ek indeed always in propo 
root to the place which was | ‘Roussingault was le this consideration to th t a the ae ponki gon: on the 
i jous a oe ie ethod determining the | ave rs saan of cca with increasing 
os er a T have to advance against you ean tail plae dapat the tropics i d ge £ 
aen you plant a Rose from the dealers, thinking patil within et i. io side of the equator) Eng. f i Fahrenheit. 
sufficient obse therm ometer buried about a foo deg. deg. 
paari ly cut down the head to meet the roots, whic} | spare different lose 50 SCARE Va = k ab 
a word of ad 1 mi suffer damage. I ha itten vo en in p> in Gite s (as is shown by the experi- a atte EEA eer 21.56 
Daata on this subj x but I prefer giving | ments of m y pe “ag the "seashore of Choco, in 200 3.88 23.27 
Tey th vi Sy pap det a I received from Mr. | Tumaco; Salaza at Qui and those of or -+b 
finall my questions, viz., When am I to Arr n, The Ve a ae ia ia, a Marmato, and 
mim pena Ta Also the fall and spring- omg fae a te ley), the temperature ‘The reba ici of a trae general or cos- 
duced TEN how? XI was in- ai not vary two-tenths of a 
the 4 wine rains tab! ished Ro n , Fahr.), Bie was Tenten] within almost the same limits |i in the northern parts of the o! old wie, 5 s soi al 
srl ob Sie Betton dice, as well as the 
and early cessation of autumnal Roses last tt been “derived from hourly observations. | nition t that the limit of the groun as the 
bali tom high cultivation. His letter I oes vee: te la Gi of i od = this agreement limits of pee aren inv te peratures, and of 
with i in from what I have seen I cordially a de ESA same . whet he “thermometric me ei wth of trees, are found in at different Tstitudes 
‘at have been settled t:—“The time top dings” of only one foot pr made on the hot |i “ een E Shermel sîn th sare 
the 15th eWeek Se ie is as soon | shores of the Pacific at Guayaqui and Ss. godt or oe produ the earth oF PATR the nort e eae oe 
hu the Roses that have been moved raed T opioid | aee sx on the Bide of the Yor “on ah, n in t re mi Saaie of Karask at a 
ee is season, about th 
sap to beginning of April, so as to barom 
found the gr 
on oo tl tah veal found by a th of ore easterly part of t i e coast, 
in July 
Sats, F 
dion saw 
asure! 
. irst, or else there temperatures differed at these | in e ice- 
a s best to aed the atone maar in me fally ay Can (25°.2 J Fa hr.) stratum eria as ‘hr a as 3 feet below the herb- 
p they always make better head Two observations made by myself in surface. It o be desired that scientific 
apee neee E 
