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om as w eo one Cyathea Pero the other C. Bixinew, Lacistemez, Violacez, Droseracess, Polygaleæ, | temperature which in the preceding months had 
Cun: mi ; both are new to gardens, and are Euphorbiacese rich i in West Indian species, and many | rg from br depth of ref or pid id the surface 
certainly -viitab acquisitions. First class certifi iable perature, ni throughout 
cates were awarded Ta em. From th e exhi-| two first parts at about 800, which would give a t ifor thou gh the {hives s of the 
bitor also came an extremely useful rosy purple | of 2400 for th he whole work “when co AP ine ned a atosphe ro and the soil are ‘depende ht for their varia- 
Azalea, a hybrid between amena rs ‘apr tia. number t F. Grisè- | tions on the same causes, ae n their amounts they are 
This Mr. Standish me bien to stand bach quite understan e necessity Ms mincing the iia differe nt, Dur inthe day the temperature 
pees trea Bow was ate d upstart species nay Paian days to their proper rank in | of the soil is much higher than that of the air. At 
ae oro estatblishiment nso sentifi society. Paris the temperature of the soil is not unfrequently 
me a venuti mater TRhododendson, named Athen There being no introduction or explanation at 112° F.; and in the summer of 1824 it attained 149° F. 
which was prettily blotched and present published we are unable to state te At nig ht it is sometimes from 14° to 18° below it. ‘The 
petals with yellow. To this eottifeate was also aw arded. | pr earned friend ie ultimately to intro rations by which these changes i in the temperature of 
aie Becca on sie ad Nursery Messrs. Henderson} duce into its work; and same reason | the soil are connected with atmospheric causes and the 
plants, among whic ich were Tinato cial we have no means of ‘explaining his reason for solar radiation it is Hot eas S to trace; who ean, how-' 
Cprtanthiforum, Hye drangea cyanea, a pale rosy dopting for his nat doubt that when in the month of March and 
in the of japonica, and Gesnera dase, 1 a princi iple of which we are uidoyjuiniitėd: Doubtless April the temperatu re of the soil so suddenly and so” 
useful Pi sti variety with bright reddish purple | these things will appear hereafter t efforts of vegeta- 
flowers. Tropæolum Cavendishii, an orange poet but seeing that the natural orde: rs follow o iak Satis tation—the bursting of the germ and ne cle g 
kind in the way of Lobbianum, came from Mr. Catt, of so we Bates seriously ö- | forth of the bud and blossoms. The blac! 
Welwyn, and from the same locality Mr. gee jety 0 i as it is ool rn BODE Se heat, 
sent a very pretty white red-striped dli Unless ae rahe the pa is one of the ca which c -give 
Azalea, Blooms o ch gee were furnished wll be ders Jt copie until the whole eo have ap- a s syen rature hieer than that of the air Soave 4 
by Mr. Daniels. A rid Dianthus was shown | péared, which cannot happen for a year or two. om ae limit not, indeed, plat ced to the operation o of 
by Mr. Laxton, and ike m Messrs. Carter came cut gal e SARS SAFC GE EE | this car 
flowers of the ieee tn me, double white striped To the third edition of Moseley’s Astr Theology t} 
Columbine (Aquilegia caryophylloides). To this | (Longmans fi luct | the fact, that it altho age 
a Certificate was awarded. Saeg gonia, pant ; peinga “Tt is th i object of the following pa to tréat of | able to the absorption of heat, it is also that most 
z Wales, was cimtetbuted fs utbush, cut | those evidences of the wrest an ie ess of God, favourable to its radiation. Since: e, moreover, during 
blooms of the extremely *andsome By aoe which may be seen in the daily sien f the Heavens. | the whole day, Pa a the earth is in the act of receiving 
Falconeri, oe dat Bain nes. A baske t of Fuchsias came They were first published _in the Church of England | heat from the sun, #t'is also in the act of radiating it, 
rom Mr. K Magazine,’ in the year , and were republished in | in some degie unknown’ to us into space; and since! 
other pal eg | the ho ope that they might promote the cause of popular | this process of radiation is going on also all night, it 
ins T action.” is ear we ' [fotons that the radiating Dort of a y a 
a e chapter on the Temperature of the Soil wi ave a greater influence to keep down its temperature 
The Pea ‘min eas E amats k Si yy) — interes st our horticultural readers :— | than its mee Pa properties have t o raise it; and thas 
; and W. W.S ander “It is not only by she Ae operties in respect to heat | we may un nderstand Pi vegetable mould, i, ich’ is 
ere of fhe ocean, or by ine respect to I tn A ly the pred t, is at the aes me fl A api 
? | of the. atmosphere, b EEE. currents, by t e win s, | humid; ‘and why the gardener whitewashes’ the’ 
kaani s:elected a Fellow... The following papers were by rains, an nd by t the dew, that the processes , of veg eta- against which his frut trees are iled : t that 
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. A ief | plants modified ; another vivifying element not less| it ill, it may remain hot. We may also understand 
erip area zom Bee ena i brief lim mportant in its agency is the native temperature of why regions of sand are parched with heat, and why 
i r M. ship V s the soil, There i a heat gn o spe par of the À Y che au in BA reia and interea fos rnd 
Bays Cabs, oh God se ered Ciclaheg 1, 1846, ai ear , increasing from a short distance beneath its sur- | ò t animals of cold regions a white coveri cite an 
ae to Sir W. Burnett, re of a face downwards at the rate of about 1° o t to thosé 
Medical Depar t. ho thermometer for every 15 yards. This central heat | himself being; in this ër an abiioud? etal! 
betwee Hiem eaten the liver of a = ae Ge liver COMER: -BOP in excavations reaching: anywhere ae too, ed is nolvisionary analogy W which the covert- 
weighing about four drams) heyonda certain depth, and in deep mi oppr ng of animals presents in arctic regions to the 
diately pron its poisonous ois gies be a siv is a constant heat. It T not by tl st of ‘the spy sutface. In winter a white 
fatal pr : p rae: 3 ET TA finishing which pi seco oia nie Faery bs para mat ks t the d ji ny T atali ae i ett aden afin 
Bs ce then 30 ‘we reer 12 Danis Pt 12. 124 ft se n in — closed cellars | S | thick white furs. When summer comes, under the 
EaR eones 7 beneath the Observatory of Paris ths’ duration,. 
Pe Ganiatad , 80 tha the aaa from the taking of in 1730 by La Hire, and daring the ast 45 years ther- we inner and =i 
eS poison until T could not bav el | mometri pa ee t v ra sensibility, have ee os fener rie eth a d 
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lected by Capt. T. Toynbee,” by J. Lubbock, Esq.— | P" rature thus observed through a, period ga 1 A oad fi 
: ©The Nervous tet m of the Asteride, with obser- o ET REELS SC i ; 
vations on the Structure of their Organs of Sense, and a hes 82 me sel ge aed } Garden Memoranda. re vo 
Eo or on the ae roper to the surface soil whic ie inti: ae s Ex AMERI 
ws a ae co by this constant subter rranean heat, and | 
and the clothing of animals is mad. 
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Univer "of “Edinburgh. This iak pe ilinstrated | 
of very — anatomical drawings. This i isa paR Pea ten ta lon; e t 
perature. It extends in. different ki anata i Ly 
3 localiti ies to differen t depths, perpe from 40 to 60 or |,exPerienced, is quite as ere Er Eyn a anah 
per aa , but bei as ounde 4 more favoran as kasie dee 
Notices fpi Books, a Luna regions at the depth be a singe foot. If a| Clerense and Smit $ ’s breeds, which aoe numbered 
t be imagined to “hak ugh all those points Pp X 7. 
Edwin Adams—Notes on th e Geology, Minera ology aly the earth’s surface, fe S ARa ote surface p we a: own by the eoa bf ee aot hak $ 
and Springs of England and Wales (Longmans), is a, | is propagated, atid to wht: ppt a variable t their place be ii eq) re i y AU R E BE. 3 
useful little book “for schools. It does not prof feat to perature e extends, it will cover oi imaginary agitada bee ae gee ed sa ; ee Raske enol a aa 
teach much—which is no small merit ; but what —— called ‘t a rage ao aiar Si pation: RL ene gare 2 fg 
teach is done We must however except fro amn sspattintt agree in indicat è temperatur $ ’ 
this tema Ze "s Gloisarial Appendix.” se sould age nl s Aren of invatbë temperature to struck ie Sg variety Paige £ gaged richig 
be rew some one acq with natural be the temperature of that point in a earth’s | Surface under cover © waite satan 
his face bah is frites} bly it. It is not a| clothed with blossoms o i “st wir nt colours, 
‘Black's Handbooks; with m n a corr spend ragin or an even surface, but one having elevations the whole pag re rd iE a ae 
Gin TaN, A. & C. Bla side f these new |and depressions a ve Be rtly aboh corrèspönding | UP ER ae Yý ky a oy mar- 
volum occu A Sus sex; another by | elevations and dep: f the earth’s sttfface, arid | sined peel rout i va wer an a tie AAR p ji 
piene Hereford, and "on mouth. They are val par tiy rape irregularities i in ‘the strata which consti paat = Among ne ite ts the y be named 
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ES ea, by views, and owing to to their s Bo wea ies e are | the earth’s te Uk Pree this Surface there “aia ae elegans, pie pine: “deg s, bicolor 
lishers have managed to introduce useful maps of Fthe taking nig wore ve it, and that of a very remark kable | Hverestianum, fa eaaa a S and las Pie b = a SARs 
counties described. To the second of the volumes | kind. From experiments made at Edinburgh, P | Lady Eleanor Cathcart “tt a3 ae 4 leks oe 
is added a sketch of the geology of oe Strasburg, it appears lise during the tet | Rod dodendrons in; exisperice, its pe aya Pi AE I. 
Mr. Leifchild. onths, January, Febrtiary, and March, the ‘ait 4 1c bl ee peta 
Moore’s Floral azine | ture increases uniformly as we — from the enti tape bya ban Q the le Mpper. ae ERR 
-two- ee o of dns ai ned p inate rface of ih eirin è temperate kinds. ams 
p Bey. Cin as: Reynolds | in the months TEA ‘there at arith the eee 
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iie ia pei; very much ike. ates esa reas the le ae Tong 
nd'a Cattleya Rollissonii, resemblin osdi after | soil, but ‘atc diminishing’ to rs oF he | ie 
its colour is discharged, an Meee eee rc | eneth se retains ate — bright, rss se a nine ae 
variety: of that ee ERE Ea ji preceding ite ind asing as w brownish brownish yellow 5 oat, fne 
Flora of the British’ if So le of minimum temperature, situated between the’ surface dum, claret coloured, | i 
e risebach, M.D. Parts ee P ih lore earth and the foliar Fe aria em salmon ee ah dat spots 5, f Norfolk, 
eve: “As the year advarices et era inimum so soir: Fleur de Bat 08} 4 
Another comimiencemetit oloni: | ks a iay and deeper, until dar! very ai aad Fiz 2 
before us from the oe of fee Colonia Er aaa wae] E TE ars te i if reai Yes thè surface of et rami i with whites, Darofalt sad a : 
ee —— eli mpera ptik ind identifies” itself with it. In A iein Watra Doe 
specific chara U ten in English et ehork | pira a however, the niea temperature’ of the | some rosy parle Y the glowing ermine coloured kinds, 
ina KOENA d cleat sina type: So'as to compress, the sarfaee has began to diminish, and beriedth the 5 d so late as’ sc: se pal to be in full bloom even now; 
matter into the smallest possib ve compass, it it is vedticdde at different’ dépths, more nearly to A how i A Yan de W Weyer, clear rose, very effective and 
that’ six-such parts w ill complete the work. sete of jae ae which oe it actually attains’ in x ss pe A A SEA P aa ee 
The natural orders introduced into those before us are | September to depth of 10 o 20 fe pet; ie ie 5 si ia hit E. rie with, chocolate; Pasithea, rosy ri 
Myristicaceæ, ieee i ‘Sis a n vena oxate nilng -i prac And the! with dark spots; Raphael, bright deep rose, 
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