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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



I" March 24, 1863. 



during the last seventeen Tears, of a Belf-registering thermometer 

 at the height of 5 feet from the ground, and protected from 

 radiation and lain; the highest leadings of a Belf-registering 

 maxin.vm thtimcmettr in the full rajs of the sun, and the 



lowest readings of a self-registering minimum thermometer on 

 the grass during the last thirteen years, and also the mean tem- 

 perature, the number of days on which rain fell, and the quantity 

 of rain of each year for seventeen years. 













Mean 



Number of 



Rainfall 





Maximum in Shade. 



Minimum in Shade. 



Maximum in Sun. 



Minimum on Grass. 



Annual 



days on which 



in 













Temperature. 



rain fell. 



Inches. 





deg. 



deg. 



deg. 



deg. 







Inches. 



1846 



89.0 on July 31. 



17.0 on Deo. 13. 







51.5 



164 



25.070 



1847 



83.0 on July 12. 

 85.0 on July 6. 



83.4 on July 8. 



83.5 on July 16. 



18.0 on Feb, 9. 

 18.0 on Jan. 29. 

 16.8 on Jan. 5. 

 19.4 on March 26. 







49.0 

 48.9 

 48.5 

 48.0 



135 

 196 

 172 

 141 



20.810 









30.860 



1849 







22.324 



1850 



123.0 on June 20. 



8.3 on March 26. 



18.450 



1851 



78.0 on June 27. 



21.0 on Nov. 19. 



129.0 on June 30. 



11.0 on Nov. 19. 



48.6 



148 



17.980 



1352 



91.0 on July (. 



19.5 on March 6. 



119.0 on July 9. 



9.8 on March C. 



49.5 



161 



30.7U5 



1853 



81.5 on June 11. 



13.0 on Dec. 28. 



115.5 on June 16. 



5.0 on Dec. 28. 



47.2 



171 



21.185 



1854 



86.0 on July 25. 



11.0 on Jan. 2. 



117.5 on Sept. 11. 



1.0 on Jan. 2. 



49.0 



135 



16.245 



1855 



84.5 on May 26. 



3.0 on Feb. 17. 



118.5 on July 8. 



4.0 below zero Feb. 17. 



46.4 



140 



19.890 



1856 



91.4 on Aug. 2. 



16.5 on Dec. 27. 



121.0 on Aug. 2. 



3.0 _ Dec. 27. 



48.6 



151 



20.680 



1857 



88.6 on June 28. 



18.6 on Jan. 29. 



125.0 on June 28. 



6.4 on Jan. 29. 



50.7 



145 



25.120 



1858 



95.0 on June 16. 



15.0 on No i. 24. 



132.4 on Aug. 12. 



2.0 on Dec. 24. 



49.1 



125 



17.465 



1859 



92.0 on July 12. 



6.0 on Dec. 19. 



131.4 on July 17. 



1.0 on Dec. 19. 



49.8 



146 



22.480 



1860 



76.4 on July 15. 



3.6 on Dec. 25. 



116.6 on May 19. 



1.0 below zero Dec. 25. 



46.6 



19(i 



25.0S0 



1861 



85.0 on Aug. 12. 



10.0 on Jan. 8. 



120.6 on June 19. 



4.0 on Jan. 10. 



48 8 



IGl 



19.020 



1862 



80.0 on July 26. 



16.0 on Jan. 19. 



125.0 on Aug. 3. 



5.0 on Jan. 19. 



49.1 



181 



21.485 



— J. B. McLaeen, Observatory, Cardmgton, January, 1863. 



EHODODENDKON GLATJCUM (Glaucous-leaved Rhododendbon). 



.ft a*, ord., Ericacise. Zinn., Decandria Monogynia.— A small 

 evergreen and very handsome shrub, of the average height of 

 2 feet, with branches of the size of a goose-quill. The leaves are 

 oblong or broadly lanceolate, wiih a mucro, about 3 inches long, 

 and li inch broad deep green above, and remarkably glaucous 

 beneath The umbels of seven or eight flowers grow from the 

 ends of the branches, the flowers being a " pale pinkish-purple," 



the tube campanulate, more than an inch long, and about as 

 broad across the spreading limb of five rounded emarginale 

 lobes. The whole plant has a powerful resinous smell. From 

 Sikkim Himalaya, on the rocky depressed ridges of Chola, 

 Lachen, and Lachoong, at an elevation of from 10 to 12,000 

 feet. Introduced, we presume, in 1850. Flowers in June. — 

 {Gardener's Magazine of Botany.) 



