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= be ‘none of which call for speci 
134 LIES 
GARDENERS’ 
CHRON TELE: 
[AUGUST I, 1874. 
costly shams designed to represent the horrors of — ! 
—to suggest the burned cottages, the dismantled m 
sion, nay, ‘inee the burial-place of the mebatelity 
and the grave of the o. There no accou ne 
for t e. nl a 
aste, so repul 
to the ides connected 
p eastre-grounds, may n find 
imitators. Thereis, too, 
= a pond, by courtesy called a lake, over onc, in 
ocks, the visitor is 
e 
he ‘‘ Please to remember the 
o”? ion. Emerging at m the 
cavernous of this grotto, reise a vain attempt 
to router that it 5 a very large and imposing 
x to be duly impressed with the gloomy y | 
aey ie of the cave rahe visitor is suffered to emerge | 
into the lig f ay on “the bosom of the placid | 
lake.” The.lake is placid gn sg s is — | 
as 
apy i | 
nd; an re for the pretentiousness of te | 
whole thing, it woule y be very pretty. Butit 
really the Gaa of erdee ne in the middle of 
it is placed a white le almost as big 
o me 
s surrenders himself a 
visitor seeks repose 
and tranquillity ; he seat s himself i in the ringing acit 
(see fig. 26). Alas! vain hope. Keip 
water streams in hi ifts his nly to 
| exceptionally sm 
mmits), 
in fall view on = one emi and a inel view of the 
Mediterra: d of Genoa on another. 
More ievecabie i is it to tum to the s Tittle e of 
whose flowers scent the air in all d 
th iov e = glo cba, 
Pye specimen 
of Mr. 
ears pn ae 
are giren n at p. 
» Laurus s Camphora, near Da 
mara. ng 
crops humilis and 
beers ec ae f such stru 
THE DROUGHT. 
A ea ada Feat ont rg f j 
recently ed in PAE by MM. E. 
E Tomoi, and V. Raulin 
The erg of this note is to announce that the 
streams and e sinai of the va of es 
uing summer. 
pusi of the V; 
3 Paris. RPS. 
‘s we may rest assured that the PD and water- 
courses will yield well, up to the ensuing autumn. If 
on the ae the cold season has been n very dry 
the sprin Nation ou will be, throughout the 
hot season, = av point. 
Resting upon guise principles, we, on June 4, 1870, 
gave warning of the 
i 
sa r into two halves a 
May 1 is very coiteent ent for 
the of 
endin 
hedleptogieak? ea In 
season ; an 
the cold one. 
ae past cold seas 
S rainfall fom November 1, rag to siglo = 
184; as “been, ree Sees the basin 
all. sae man = p= 
pril 30, 
ve been the a tee A of 
half its usual amount, show he an inspec- 
tion of the observations collected he the jpn 
metric service of the of the Sei 
with slight rainfall, it may some- 
at partial compensation is afforded by 
of 
ommencemen hot season, ded 
in this hope that we have 
deisel until the present date, the warning which is 
the purport of this note, but nothing of this kind has 
ave at Paris (La Villette) in cee A 
only had 0,87 a instead of hes, whic 
the amoun 
for pis month. This will, thine 
fore, not lessen sie deficiency. 
Terei have, in every on eae faithfully 
e rainfall of the cold seaso 
4 
ched a <— 
In the co 1866-67, it exceeded 13 feet 
2 inches eee 6z cays and in the cold season of 
oe 73 on 34 
mean height of the Seine deduced from daily 
Schade at the > Pont d'Austerlitz, from Novem- 
been exactly 2 feet. 
i a 2 years 
me onths has 
only seven Tanen of 
an 3 feet 3 facies on the scale on the 
a 
Before the construction of ` weir near the Pont- 
Neuf, oe indicatio ons on the scale of the Pont de la 
Tournelle zA with those p that of the Pont 
Aus terlitz 
The springs have, during t 
ended, pree ented characteristics analogous to those of 
eight of which fai ithfully page 
mena of its whe le basin 
gs gradua 
at its maximum at the 
e arch. This year, on es contrary, it en not 
incised throughout the w These facts are 
very clearly proved by the iiias of the ies 
anne, which are to be ht to 
les [which v we are obliged to omit] 
show that in eh ae 
—— greatest, there is thie year less 
e period -in 1870. The streams during the hot 
f 1870 were exceptionally low, a Sori ear 
of 1870 was 
1857. 
In oe condition v ig the ground at 
of the 
re was no y. We may 
the cold season just. 
April, when the yield ‘is ` 
than at the 
that of pripe i368; r that of "a8 by anit -E 
f 1873-74? D the hot 
season of 1873 the yield of the springs was in no | Bri 
respect unusual, t 
easily perceive me that 
months of 1872- 
z 
fu 
O 
O 
BS 
Bars 
ae 
o 
n 
P 
Rap 
„6 C 
2 in at che a 
regained its normal- condit F th the 
yield increased sufficiently until the spring of 1873 
and kept the rivers adequately supplied. This % 
corroborated by the table minima of the 
Seine at Mantes during each hot s from 1857 d 
o 1873, the minimum height of 1 foot 7 inches in 
1873 notably exceeds that 
should, however, be regarded 
oon adopted > the Seine at Mant tes corresponds to 3 
re 
This $ chee of ee in eg lowest beds of the 
soil might have been suffici 
ro 
completely disappeared. 
actual discharge of the springs up to the present 
tim ke 
To up—the principles upon which we rest do 
not Piik us to foresee the weath 
mer 
and autumn of 1874. It may be that they will be — 
very dry, or Bai wet—we are, A Bigs: 
absolute igno; 5 
But, i cera mar be the meteorological charac- 
teristics of the hot season now beginning its hydro- 
logical pregi is now may say that, in 
it 
ust occur; but at s 
this | period of the year 
th ag 
eady orig and 
y increase from n jow until October n 5 
Prof. V. rene seip that that which Messrs. 
rand and Lemo’ 
France, and ecially 
is sides! applicable w the so i 
part one the basins of oe Gpe and the 
can on 
3 
which we the six months Decembe 
sidan atl? only furnis = a veg 
z less an 
In the basin of the Sei e they have not ed 
more than half of the anal a In the south- 
obse 
Botanical S oal of Rordelas by my: 
Marcenx by M. Claverie. 
This dearth of water during the last six months 
appears to have extended over the whole plain 
satin est France, and ` Pyrenees, for M. 
Schroder, jun., tells me that on the mountains snow 
li 
its aiid ievel, “ti oe haighk hood 
and that 
rom the nii 
altogether without precedent at ‘Bordeaux, Daring 
the 160 years which have ela a ob- 
servations were commenced in I7 
six times, viz., in 1750, 1768, 1779, ya a in 1864 
nd 1874. 
oa 
It is es for us, writes Mr. Symons, to 
ress our agreem 
xpe with the views and w in 
the foregoing foi we therefore praci 
the deficiency in in France with ‘that 
Ni 1873. — Rainfall small in Belgium, 
Holland, fo — of England sot i 
Ireland ; near the average in cen 
above it in i the south of France, the pba 
and in Scotland. ee 
nes To ae 
r a ak 
in France may be | 
average ; but in Cornwall, 7 Worcester 
