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the pas and the pumping power of the | blackish aphides which extend up the peduncle even | of March was fi 
ing os i the sap, are both at high pass the z the base of the leaf—what do you see there? The high, haiitiches but z the wish at ae 7th a 
pes should flow aay from aay lesion in the skin upper side is guiltless of honey-dew, but the under | brilliant isplay of aurora heral 
aik though it should be so small as the oe nt of the | side is thickly sprinkled a pedis of liquid, pane as | of weather. og $ 
sucker of an aphis, nay sometimes, perhaps—and that | large as a big piws head. You can aste that easily | followed b and about 
showers of 
is what I had in my mind when I qualified my expres- | enough, and you find the sweetish flavour of hon ney- | 5 o'clock o a thes morning of the oth m showers were 
sion of belief in the necessity of the interference of the | dew. By-and-bye this will fall on the avis below or accompanied by a good deal of thunder and lightning. 
his or other insects—it may actually Turat its yemen the sun will dry it all up. We want some experi- | Thunder is is rarely heard in the district in the month of 
and exude ofits own accor through prt in of the leaf, | ments yet to show that the honey-dew from each of | March, and in cases where be own for- 
in the same way that bleeding at the nose, or bleeding | the different plants possesses the properties of the sa merly it was only one or two g with a hail 
from the skin when it is permana delicate, some- | of each respectively, and also practical observation of shower, but on the occasion referred to there 
r rs in our to relieve the system ove the aphis sucking e mp xuding “a the apne has | succession of flashes or about an h: 
with blood. Of course if oe aphides perform | le spot ; ad better m on th frost and snow lasted only four days, after which the 
the office of cuppers for it, so much the _better for the | under side of the tat rRe it will be eae trying er was again dry and fine, continui t 
a It will be more gelane. dons, in asmuch asa | and troublesome to the observer, Andrew Murray. little interruption till the close of the month, but there 
breathed vein is better thar AR Y ie ‘a was another storm of thunder and lightning on the 
may een: one or two Morac that s Ne emophila insignis.—There is at present in the | night of the 29th. There was high wind and much 
favour my view of the matter. On which side. of. the pueperies meres a large plot of this well-known annual | rain, accompanied again by thunder and lightning, on 
C a af sho „Ap m GR the honey-dew to be found if | in full flow I have been surprised at the wonder- | April 2, causing the highest flood of the season ; and 
= excreted by t apear. I should say the hard ful effect 1 that catia upon the blue colour has in | again on the afternoon of the 11th there was a con- 
| de, as it “i be more natural for | soothing and invigorating the eye, wearied by over- | tinuous —_ of gprs and pia the fourth 
excrete it Be oris, in ths way of ii mi bs reading or Writing. Have any = your ; age ever | regular sto of the when, even a 
up On which side of the leaf should we | observed this pleasant sensati i ely a | peal of tind is $ rarely kasi, Since April 2 rye 
t to find it if it flows oak punctures made by | faalfncination on my part? William races Kir Paley. have been occasional showers, but no soaking o 
| general fall of rin, and, the wind having p muc S 
| The Season.—According to geen Hopie b in the east, the temperature has been low and un- 
| the Registrar-General, the mean temperature at the | favourable to v re When the wind occa- 
Royal Brian Ciechi in "fie list week of | sionally changed from the east it got intô the north- 
h 
the middle of June the Ash pace wri bare, the leaves 
ne out with Be gone ce, and bran 
bare wit sir ar ‘other niet of 
ie pve — petal covered wi n 
gardens ther great wo e 
but, i gg to "the continence of cold - weather, 
there are few Apples, except in well sheltered 
gardens. It is a feature of the season, however, that 
there are notable exceptions, and late situations are 
more favoured than early e first seventeen 
ays of June were eres wa oe en 
12th there was e fros of 
June the dr tl e pe 
bserved to have penetrated the soil more ly 
fe: a absence of snow, which, when melting, percolates 
natant deeply into the soil ; ; combined with the fact that 
during all = four winter months, ending with . 
Fe ; me when evaporation is at its 
inimum, sik es the earth generally es like 
tise, ne ah e a satu S was almost i 
age s DE TES see = — of ne a pa “a June, found the 
nosey ke i mey 
egree cannot no replaced 
of me except by an amount of rain which w 
be almost disastrous. A change to howay weather 
is much needed, 
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FiG, 15.—BATH POND WITH TENT COVERING. 
the Mallows and Holl: cks in this neigh- 
bourhood since the disease showed rc in Englan: 
to. issue with me on the case so put, for they will | June was 57°, which i = 2, below the corresponding | without being able to trace a sign of it, and Ta 
usan iod in fift ng the week nearly aent inch age tot our in position : 
rth he gen oi rae ge 5E nite fell, Giap ti the ro measured at Greenwich | for e time from = destructive effects. I am 
rnone on the under side. But wait abit, | since the beginning of eed year e 6. "o per which is | unable to say whether it has been conveyed here by 
th ] asanca $ easured in 
newly-introduced sei or whether it has reached us - 
by those occult channels through which other diseases 
t is not frequent, and 
hal half- | That was the wettest year remem y any one 
cia pote thar ‘he smearing living on Tweedside, the nearest approach to it ae 
dew dropping from the been 1856, when the rainfall was 28. 28 inches. he 
ove. Now let us look at the under side. | year ras was dry, but the last two months w pita 
Not till | 
was the ground caret with snow, and ore 
a which vanished in ina | at 
