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rthl mec as pantable as Ta foul Peden cone 
asked by y every who tasted the 
| other no one would be indu aced to —_ twice. 
ns, We 
wal ye favour most like that 
of the Pine ine or § viie Bla - The berries of the 
CA 
atford. [This disposes of the Rn 
and i of which h the halms had been cut, I dug w with 1 mf } mercury.* e Aneroid arog is so called fr 
own bands. The produce as to quantity s was a a fair on | the Greek ; ; its "derie ation rea what m a and the | 
asio quality ex iadaa. ist, beca con’ o liquid in The a a 
J find among the lot. The digging was complet one its construction. Tota. abe de tivation. of A Jgni 
my er with the same result. The yield i in the I believe to be a priv ory er mpos, humidus. I find 
manured en-ground was the largesi est; but the| the word ynpos or vepos ycophron’s Cassandra. It 
tubers dug from the meadow, though few, not more | would then mean th re t of umidity | Johns, 
perhaps two or three ents) to a root, were | of the atmosphere. nti gropelos t 
of large size. I believe that if the g 1 in whict but it 
they were been dug with a spade and pul- be wrongly ‘compounded, and should be Disina: 
v being simply turn Woglog. 
with a plough, the yield would have been much| Meteorology. lt ow e duly consider the pesii 
But let tl njecture pass. en I|tendeney of the winsome to run into a comparativ: 
came 1 I foun aoe abundant ty of humidit: me of os ape for weeks, months, à BRITISH ASSOCIATION : 
erop of tubers varying from the size of a Hazel r years, and tha over very extensive areas | Wright read a 
Nut to that of a Wain ut; but kml them there of the ‘earth's surface, > wil I think, appear consistent Cells o of | Bees, by 
was a m of diseased tubers, tinted i 
th 
about E. ay erg which is exactly — Mr. Johns 
1 x}. rthless. ess. | 
~ Soriettes. 
aei 
MEETING at Lerps.—Dr. 
ew. mm the Formation | the 
B. Tegetmeier. Having 
n discolo a soft, and | co 
w were pushing shoots prematurely, 
the piger or prabote or drifting of rain- 
clouds, ut to a systematic course or law of weather 
ae Mt inference is—first, ges Sad is a good pl 
as soon as the werd ged “a, 
poat mr y raised. seedlings are aa liable to be 
infected as pl as raised from old sets, yng equally 
require bcs treatment sas been fou 
to | yet bat-im t-imperfec ectly acquain Tha‘ 
the nied has long since been en Bee i is hier hrd 
from the fact that some have piain s endeavoured 
ah out cyéles of the weather. little 
t b 
h owever, 
to the latter. I do not Pr forth this serba =- 
rmation of the correctness of your 
is I believe a postulai 
a| of the science: the reason is obvious. 
wer seo been in possession of a register ‘of the 
exten ding over a ry Pger mber of years to 
table rags ihat. “if the aee — of a splat be 
destroyed before the appearance one meee ae 
a | a long tra 
o | important t discov veries in 
10 Bri itain, the existence of 
t Ba rolls on, and the 
toms continued ——— of meteorologi ical observers 
has now ril aj us in possession of data part non over 
wise Cr entor, with. w — bret am desirous of 
r ey pro- 
been made in this de in w 
| with a view to determine te tial fr form of the oo of 
bees, results, I 
8 
the margin so 
other avata were soar in contact 
pa a formed, the cells became fat- = 
the irregularity of their arrangemen 
naor rily hexagon yr When the block was iiir 
mployment of the excavated wa 
Ag ‘eae 
ont 
in of years which wili meag i lead to 
this on, iagted science, | 
With th 
in the formation of the sides of kosy era was rendere 
The 
discovery of a cycle of 11 years in the seasons of 
experiment h: ted wit 
vations mi modificato s as to t the 
lock of w 
byt 
whi ant 
we of them until I h d t that tl 
roduced seedlings. Thinking that I 
be this coe te armed I oo 
ves swine away, 
Aer a ee become a pa 
rem tne ad mere as it mn sed where it 
meni ch of water, “yr left it 
SSesSR ree sssEee 
556 
F as 
R 
hele applied to some other 
purpose. I was on artis point of erat den it on the doors | 
of spring, when I fan pag id — hee between | 
a p of the -e 
of watching ~ jer r inng mikis rae ra 
actual enount oa rainfall i cae the 
each year 
average fall for the iria pa of the yole, 
Anant ts remarkable symmetry or gradation, is 
vicinity of London 
miea 
that the petri “were in all peste meee 
that the wax excavated was always used to raise tl 
f cells, and thai 
& 
ste ran a8 
ers were form 
cylindrical. Mr. Charles Darwin, 
Average | Difference in 
! 
Year of the | 
mc, eel | Quantity. 
Cyele. the Year 
en 
similar results. When these sugea aii ari are taken 
into consideration, in a with the co that 
Inches, 
0.00 
the rudiments of the 
first-formed cells are always hem a 
b the outer 
s 
s3 
— mar 
Dona 
pM 
1.23 
S eqni from the bosom of every pair of seed-leaves, all 
eon ood see planted them. The solution 
ed-leaves having been inom. wd 
prod 
ree yea ears it per- 
n the river and i = those 
in nidis- 
having failed i 
covering it, and can therefore only announce the fact. | is 
The ee nt has been found to differ from our native 
ly decreased in q 
ditches to which it has long The cause of | stop 
am un i 
we 
: 
pa 
3 
2 ee 
E aH SOO HISAR we 
~ 
= 
PIE 
ie 
z 
= 
o fall < of rain for the driest year 
it increases 
the past years 
of the cor 
is is’ owing to other 
e 
as to let me know whether 
a can om done 
entire destru ion of Elm 
m 
Dying Elms at Hampstead. — —Would you be so “yr 
tact wit me i- 
| goal and if wage 
ge ‘thin euppost on alone can ~ 
or in which one-half of a 
cell § is rire aye fee thia, p Pgh apr Wo In all such 
cases it will be found that in | to the 
to 
1 development is 9 not 
The formation of the sal a opr pre cells surrounding 
the queen ce ee 
the circular boreme gered d 
thisi in the hive, he found ya Ethe wal of the Gok ae were 
d directly upon tl rcular bases, but te 
a small grub, w 
as other cells were built Seraka to them , the coloured 
rte a tine h long. It gen 
a 
i sides of the tells—conseqnuently, the colour, ere 
repay the farmer for getting it out of the water and 
conveying it some distance to the land. Swans and 
are exceedingly fond of it, and will soon cause a 
inanifent 1 reduction of its quantity in places 
many 
= which te Scott. 
If you re cd a “of mthing no Sodi oe a use, 
would be co! t favour on me. John 
siderable portion of the sides of the cells. These 
vations have been mu uch | facilitated x the Ey 
(You. wil a an pio of your en 
paj 
, p- The insect that 
cae Seolytus destructor. All 
of glass, sou “thin strata of a sn 
form med, t “a of heat is so effectually 
Peover 
ork without the men gen 
th hive with. any opaque e material, an 
een ATE hod, which, 
ry is 
rated solution of. corrosive mee 
eperme Toa - be had duty free, is 
d | expensi 
With this 
X 
wie tai f n 
dar k. Crade 
be, they a 
“very ‘many ne the beet uai ekrir birds of 
sunny clim d 
rer be able to “nh in pe arena and 
pior being fed y 
h ct is to poison ms surface, 
and hes on the LE, ririn in the crevices o! of 
they may “be nen 
Dr. Whewell peter 
=e: ay ae Wooler. chan 
to i fesd, and oust a pcorgrin, 
ie hemead it will en perforate 
vei with which the tip is 
irs less habitable. One tree only should be tried, 
aderi remedy, which is ipak sporin; may 
~ aly ke others. The person who vee #0 must 
er ars om 
some of | th 
brated and Ten render 
ath.) 
on e si deserving 
or heart when ogre atin ia very| E 
than nice curled Borecole or 
ts, both+of which — a much larger | mee 
esti oul thet e of y 
apiculata. a ‘our correspondent, 
tat ‘the te fiavont of the berries of en Plant by eo no 
ery careful, as it i cen pai no ; 
i cel 
Mr. Ellis On the Cause of. the 
of = ar Risin Presper Cells. 
ae 
known ae addition 
wah a eyes; a 
1 in such a 
erior to that | of E. Ugni, 
I ha 
two years re kaping, > the plants in the honse ‘ager 
ve grown both species for 
deners Conii fi 
: ymg 
ne on which M| 
without spirit or 
i ear, E. v false bube fruit j bet ri 
and bore eg E: an 
form | vi bandani, nia sparingly. The when 
retty plan’ kaik more 
Bes vhs H Ese a which I dindets) thag the | 
Cll. 
he ger 
Í cases ont of a ce} asta in ogee ark. 
