A RETURN OF SUMS VOTED BY THE GOLD 
GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA, N.S.W., FOR THE 
ROMOTION OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
Apart 28, 1859.) THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND . GAZETTE. 361 
so, to what Apo cause is that circumstance heated atmosphere within our 
ascribed ? ems that the effect of deep vail da quite satisfied that if the plan V pot aya, it t) adopted 
cuttings, in pa presume) drawing off water from the | in our north country collieries coul (as Í have no 
grea at subterranean reservoirs, may have 1 d to doubt it can) | applied to ge struc ctures, that i is to say, 
J. Expense o of pu d ill 
of natural 0 | ft principle, that the ird attending. other modes of 
ME Oed Sener jee OU tion of diera 8 other timber may not la be Pontiki io i would 
weder ive expense o of the Bot l and Zool t We Eos Eso. be obviated, por an incessant change of air obtained 
gal Gardens for 1858 and 1859— by asking z how, o on that theory, 9 prese an of heat within the 
t botanist, with ES —— e continuous rains in this part of the 3 are to be e | a glass house or pit. To this end I would simply apply an 
de na is vel sani 900 300 | accounted for; but we refrain, for we feel Į invented I 3 by a Mr. Wa of 
Curator, w. ae os 300 | a wider induction of facts than we are in possession of, | Sheffield, to the highest point di a greenhouse, and 
— ith quarters n 300 200 We are no in i nclusio which I will describe as follows: —It is a bottle-shaped 
noi additional facts, ered from a wider range, may der, [n inches diameter by the e in 
Nee ems inbontons, as. eso — lead to another and less alarming theory our height, with a n similar to a bottle) of the same 
4200 6200 | contemporary m: rceive if he d letter from length, but not more than 2 or 3 inches b ( 
Purchase of plants . „ 150 | Lieut. Colonel H. E. Austen, in Illustrated London in fact to the diagram annexed); the neck of this glass 
Purc agn ofan animals. oo: arenes a ea E News of the 36th Y ult. In answ er to the ‘question, why is divided by the placing within it a piece of zinc 
Parao m food for animal it x > 16 870 hen thn t d, Colon or other metal, which has. the effect of causing one 
150 750 | Austen appeals ot the tru th, now axiomati tically 425 half of the oar iad act as a down draught, this ad- 
incidental expe — 2 in 100 100 | lished, that all storm winds, though they . seemingly MM ng fresh a o the glass structure above which 
Brea of Y eet — works on 5 320 blow at a right angle upon us, in realit along 33 wit the other shaft pumps out the heated 
-— oil à 325 — | parallels, in circles, w diameter vary from’ 0 ia viti aed of the gree iment 
1000 miles. In our hemisphere, these wind circles, or | placing one r gm * of candle alight (to raise the 
2550 5260 eyclones, invariably come Europewards from intertro thin ing th d i 
i ions in the di ion TO W. to N. E.; . simple pu 53 e hea 
RAINFALL, EAST AND WEST.—REMARKABLE | M ad ear 3 pr 5 R or cold and Lr draught ded a 2 » the shaft ph. the 
CONT e er siecidity, Acorde as gyrate and impinge upon | heated er een sonla: dine by the other, as 
[Wz.extract the following from the columns of our | us 2 om a western or eastern parallel. The frequent | be see f brown pa Y 1 
able eye tmt the Whitehaven Herald. of this winter, — Colonel Austen, have all pro- extinguished bu but still incandescent over the 
d rows aper in the Gardeners’ Chronicle 745 and top of the shaft, EET smoke D Ace into 
have 1155 5 brought us the heat and tesi ds bottle by one shaft and ascend meaty by the 
A tin, applied 
ee: — 
Jam “sa dis e ws erue 0.61 e e RE eie T a 
Febru VOTES 1.31 
March to to 28th -. .......- 0.71 
od 63 
Thi gi fi f nearly 2 inches, which, Md 
to 11.84 i ossis arrear at the commencement of 
the present year—shows a total deficieney making 
allowance for, the proportion due to the three days of 
e 
March still to run when the measurement was taken, 
that i is set down n at 13 i. inches. ; Last ear the autumn 
ar t ] the inhabitants of all 
he valley of the Thames to “deepen their wells; and 
r, from having gained by the dd rains, t 5 
A in these, at the end of March, 8i inches 
lower than in August last, and the rutin was pro- 
gressing at the rate of half i inch a wi 
In remarkable contras h the sce: is our expe- 
rience in West rake E fall in this town, for 
the first t aud of the year, as indicated by the 
gauge in the of Mr. William Miller, High 
ped and the qi ‘of A in each month upon 
rain fell, are as follow 
— fae 179 W hich rain fell 
— 1. 30 ACRI | ROB K 
: March $2. EE d ge viene FO » 
E — 
In a note AO . UI node 
— we are farther 0 with the n 
orandum :— So far as ot month has 
y 
thi rteen days of April have been vet; and the rai 
2 either February or March, being 3.715 inches, mien 
a grand total, up to the present moment, of 16. 109 
of the Gulf Stream and Caribbean other. An apparatus made of zin 
Sea. How it is that we in Ouman ae got all the top of sashes of green jouses, w wou do. of i s 
the moistu cs d a fair shar benefit in a ventilating point | of view. If vou are of the 
and its neighbourhood a Loe seen: of "hs heat 1 gh,ina more 
with less than their wonted part of the moisture is a | lucid form, to A, Jour r TE ers the benefit of the 
problem the solution of m it pou be edifying t J. R. 8, FH. S., 15 Pad, ornsey. 
hear. Certainly it is not owing to y extension of Brazil Nuts. TH Jou Wu favour me with th 
either hedgerow or 8 timber’ in our Taie or fells. |t the Brazil Nuts of of 
: Fei shops? I find it stated i in Loudon’ s s Dor Brit- 
nicus” and his 
e e, Correspondenc le otia excelsa; but asit “is also in bot ae these caida 
ntilation.—You have lately t touched. upon. the | as poisonous, it cannot be the Nut 1 mean. I believe 
. ton of ventilation: as em plied to various | the Nut of which I speak is called Cow-Nut in some 
structures, and thus reminded me that this great | places also, about the size and.shape of al of the divi- 
| sions of an Orange with a rough hard s . C. [We 
| cannot t find the statement to which you allude. Londons 
no indexes. At all events Brazil Nuts are 1 by 
Bertholletia, wh nous. | 
Pears.— Can you u inform me what variety of Pear will 
| answer the following description of a said to.be a 
Jargonell e, growing on the wall of a 2 in 2 small 
wn in this county (orti. It has for many 
he last however is 
always injured by the fr e. Wien ‘the fruit 4 tbe “first 
‘crop is about ihe. size a Prune the los- 
gain, and the 
soms a 5 th in 
when the ne crop is at the same stage. If the first 
crop fails the second is always should the 
aem fail the third will appear in 
ough from the rris 1 the season always small. 
this AS a ity merely to local e 
is it a peculiar Genes? Te We e cannot answer this 
"n 
Ligustrum.—May I suggest in reference io: 
article in 8 Gardeners’? Chronicle of April 2, ek 
hen ange 
iy fells the. rh quise the same quarter has been 
even van Mr. Ainsworth supplies the following 
return 
ll of r rain in January, February, ere ue of the years 
Fa 
1857, ae Toy 1859, aZ reading 
Cleator, ebav 
57. 
ar Whit 
18 858. 1859. 
4.92 in 8.49 in. 5.41 in 
February 8.786. „ 0.46 „ 47 „ 
N. r 8,58 75 —.— $s ‘te 5 
Showing for the las t "three sehr e a fall váy nearly | ¢ 
double that of the corresponding period in 1858; 
wi e pre year, seve e mes 
greater than in the neighbourhod of London! Wet, 
in West C 
however, as the season i umberland has been, 
is not the wettest on reco: rning üp the synop- 
tical tables of the late lamented Dr. iller, (Transac- 
tions o 2 Royal Society of E xi, part 1,) we 
e d., vol. x 
in the ecrresponding qu — of 1851 the 
daes s given by the same resonet with the wet 
3 jie W. 5 uc o. Wet days. 
ne! — et days. I t 
m J mary... ae HH ; e 8 10.00 2 
ru 
Mein. o, 75 y: iu 4.56 i 
mean fall or the first quias in the years "1851, 
and 1853— (we re e have not at hand the 
The m 
1852, 
data 
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climate of England has been gradually growing 
or some years past, and raises the question,—If 
A 1 pid ey placed | pe haps the Ligustrum of the ans 
| i potus Catalonian Jasmine, J. grandiflorum. It is delightfully 
oe doit hirhedted sweet, and any one sab - seen — Y y twining its 
atmosphere, in which for graceful branches ound an old s hagus or statue 
xperiment two candles| would not doubt tofi its a applicability j^ festi ve care ands, . 
lighted are placed. while its white colour fulfils a of the co onditiong k 
3 Poia Fal p classie Ligustrum. jeg con 5 the 
Gouna ie 0 dt Jasmine, is habitually used to this s day at the patie 
cate the means of ven- courts in India, to make fragrant chains (of the flowers 
tilation by showing the | threaded), which are throv ver the necks of qnie 
BROKE TE yet ber he nd | whom the princes wish z he onour. C 
Cheirostemon platanoides.— Has this ever flowered ' 
in this uin d F etapa a plant of it in tho green 
in ich showing 
desideratum—which is now e 3 e e dr i P 2 m € 
e, li 
— 9 
S carried out in a manner as freque 
; pine Inter spesa T sn 
ntly fraught making — € ila 
U | mak! ira a pencil m on the ull: at the ex ind 
1 as, good >> AA me s degree the itf of each branch; on dae itagain in the even 
