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THE GARDENERS: CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 26, el 
mens, not in the middle of the river C yal f 
ou 
quantity of oxygen wht Bang eo to 9.50 
er lo _ prea ap ver 
different ; at Auteuil the perc y 6, and 
this went on ually erai ateg till ‘i Sant Denis 
it was only 2, and at Epinay only 1 per Th 
see that within a few miles the Sain m7 oxygen 
auu 
we 
varied from 9 to I t. At Saint Denis er the 
places just below it, thé pollution had reac its 
f and had di , and f 
n 
organic matter in a state of decom- 
positi Further down the river the water became 
Sera ure again—at Poisy there was 6 per 
oxygen ; at comes 8} per cent.; at #2: Verner 
; near at sepia ro} per ce 
As was to be expected, po greatest pollution of the 
waters of the Seine corresponded nearly with the 
filt and 
the river again until they have undergone almost per- 
fect natu fication, and n- 
dowing the soil with -= fertilising matter which 
would ot! ost in the river. 
This plan, as is has been partially 
tried out on the plain of Gennevilliers opposite the 
h of sewer collector at Clichy, and the 
Municipal Council has d 
etermined 
work, which will entail serious expenditure 
sewers, and t ti 
stations, are estimated to co 
ec 
the report of M. 
000 Ee or conduits 
Vauthier, voted a sum ci to 
and gutters to carry the sewage water over the piain, 
and since th steam engine 
erection of a second 
has been manag ay on. This new engine is to raise 
cond, and is estimated to cost an 
expense o 
criticised, and the 
useless, me the plain of 
ready seit -ama secon 
by the miarat Saint and 500 eee with th 
000 
ed, are 
pie city has eT 
totally 
would filter the the iesnas by the 
os nah the pene cae extent Sood or. oot at 
th Weather. 
` STATE OF THE WEATHER AT BLACKHEATH, LONDON, 
_ For THE WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1874. 
eir 
oog © $3 eo 
ERA 2 FER <5 
E 2 A Ang 
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| efa |In; 
32.4 ~ 7433, 92 N.N.E. 9.00 
aara tsb tf SNE oor 
Fatt : 
33.5 — $930.3 88$ WSW:, og 
32 7.0.25.8 7 | N.W. oc 
-2 30.8 — Soss 79 | aw. 
ng 26.2, 99 |E: NEo.co 
3-6 - 8 | D ia 
o 
— in inhoud of f London the reading 
Se a teen sea increased from 
i over the coun am eine 
a eratur os vajed f 3 
d by the 
am please him to see written 
29.27 inches at the amig of the week to 30.09 
i totes decreased to 29.58 
E he following day 
of the corresponding 
uced eet oben nia hiala over a 
kaiaa of sihen 
The hi 
the ground range 
the 13t 
value o 29: 
En H 
on the 18th, i the least 33° 
the 1 
The an daily temperatures of the air ae all 
much kelo their averages, their values being as 
follows : :—13th, 36°. ui 14th, eA E h, 30° Paes 
16th, 31°.5 ; 17th, 32°.4; 18th, 31°41; ioth, 33°.5; 
and the e departures i in eect md the respective oe 
5 OG, 8°.5, and i The 
temperature of the air Fae the week was 32°.9, me eing 
elow the average of the SH Btn week, as 
Siia from fifty years’ observa 
SRe ighest readings of a paaa rl sier Damene 
ned bulb i in keras placed on ee in the rays, 
° and 59° on the 17th and 18th respectively, 
a 16th ‘the eta values w 
ight of a thermometer on 
grass with = bulb fully exposed to the sky were 224° 
he 15th and 18th, 224° on the 19th, and 233° on 
th, 
On the 15th the sky was overcast throughout, but 
at other times the amount of cloud was very var rable 
he general setae of the wind was N.N.E. ; 
strength was brisk on the 13th and 14th, but gentle ca 
the remaining day 
Snow fell Rekvily on the morning of the 16th, and 
occasionally on the 18th and 19th, Rain fell on the 
I 
oe amount of rain and melted snow measured was 
nch, 
pr ge and the extreme high day temperatures 
ranged hatas n45 a Sunderland and 383° at Notting- 
ham, Eccles, age ; the general average all 
The mean low eat 
Eeles 17 at 
the general average 
pe ange the 
The mean high 
rved by day v varied from 414° at 
and to 348° at Wol Makin ton, with an aver- 
308°. The ow tem mperatures 
by night ranged es 314° at 
m Wolverhampton and -a nchester, the pe aver- 
-Y gnn an daily range of tempera- 
Tany the iii range- being at 
nd the leas t at Leeds, 6°. The 
mperat or the week was 324°, the highest 
being at Sunderlan d, 363°, and the lowest at Wolver- 
hampton, 29}°. Eccles the mean temp 
h 
oa Ms ad K a a 
ee and 187° at Leicester 
was 22}°, The mean of 
wW 
a ES. 
TE 
oO rs 
@o 
S, 
28 
very day in the ee at Norwich to 
the amount oft threes arters of an inch, but at New- 
castle- i was m 
et i 
average fall over the country 
inc ie aa ea pe oe 
daring the yey morning hours 
16, and has all the week 
JAMES GLAISHER, 
Obituary. 
DEATH OF A FELLOW APPRENTICE OF THE LATE 
Loupo ** Decem 
Snow fell Reavy 
of Wednesday, Deet 
remained on the g 
ea G. seeps see 16, at his resi- 
en onag formerly of 
Edin Mr. JOSEPH PAROITA E aged 9o vents, 5 
Se oe occas ceased the last Link of 
previous generations of gardeners has been 
ved, connecting the last ern ab the first © 
Of + eeines which latter produced so many re- 
yet bears his name, “ Archibald Place,” 
adk e baile over, and one of the fashionable districts of 
e- city. 
A sketch of the bcd 
ayes 
os fe John ae on 
ae + 
sent to 
ities it 
ighest temperature e the air at 4 feet above 
from 33° 
of the early life of die 
old comrade 
of so m a a > alter the 
t thejsame tim 
tate i =e of ihe pa 
which he did in the following let 
yin Wingscourt, July 27, 
espec 
pa : 
reques 
alluded = 
1872,. 
rE ias orn on Toba 
I was bound an apprentice 
ve years of age) to Mr. John 
alry, Edinburgh ; and at that ‘ia Lou 
t‘ According t 
did, but Mr. Mawer h died very s ddenly, an 
end was put to my apprenticeship, when very lit s 
than three years of it had been served. Lou s know- 
ledge of the French language must have h 
pa 
n 
hrases._ atin, la 
I wa the greatest proficient o 
After leaving Dalry I ae hes Oct 
Are Dirleton, East Lo thian, where 1 
ars ; and in 1802 RAE a 
Son’s nursery, New Cross (Kent) Road, ‘a 
a 
my this tien, “hiding “it 
the traits of character 
| are extracted 
Sr 
ibald was for many yea 
een. stated that after the plan 
looked at on every side, ex d 
Mr. M‘Nab found it difficult to remove h 
_ ll 
si he reco ecti ion of 
with Epi 
ra e un he ter, = I ‘ Are! 
left Dalhousie or came to Ireland, where [= 
be 
was ord FA 
r many years, 
ies bes collection of plants. 
nt, he, with 
Colonel Pratt, which the son still occupies, and 
th died, chibald 
€, 
r 
ood gardener ought to 
ne s pan Beg Sio ow that calling r 
actical horticulturist, the princip 
vegetable p obsidio and trigonometry were | 
. He drew p d penmi fatan and 
cy. 
ereraa with the Srg agp of the Latin and 
prenages, all of which he could bring to his 
he 
were vouchsafed to him until withi 
eath, when he departed this life full of 
mourned and eres ll w. 
of knowing him, 
aca: 
THE FoRESTs OF RusstA.—The following 
from a — by Mr. Werekha 
forests of Russia an roducts. The: 
deciatines, 
$ ‘A deciatine is pearly 37 ache 
7,938,000 
