Sl^4 ANALYSIS OF SOME AEROLITES* 



I 



the effects of propagating successive gefterations alternatel)' 

 from the open wall, and from the hot-house, and of intro- 

 duc.ng the pollen from the open wall to the blossoms of the 

 hot-house, with the hope of obtaining varieties which will 



The peach j^g ^^ ^^-^^.^ hardy and early. The peach does not, like many 

 other S|)ecies of fruit, much exercise the patience of the 

 gardener, who raises it from the seed ; for it may always 

 be made to bear when three years old, and there is some- 

 thing in its habits which induces me to believe, that it might 

 be made to bear at two years old. 1 will not Venture to de- 

 cide, whether it might not possibly produce fruit even at 

 the end of a single year ; and therefore, as the improvement 

 of this, and other species of fruit, and adapting varieties of 

 them to our climate, presents an ample and interesting field 

 for experiment, I trust that I shall not labour in it alone. 



Cautions* In prosecuting such experiments, I would recommend 



the seedling peach trees to be retained in pots, and buds 

 from them, only, to be inserted in older trees ; for their ra»- 

 pid and luxuriant growth is extremely troublesome on the 

 wail, and pruning is death to them. 



XVII. 



On the AreoHtes, that fell near Lissa in Bohemia, oti the 3d 

 of September, 1808 : bi/ Mr. Reuss, Counsellor of 



Mines** 



Account of -^ f^E account we have of this fall of stones was collected 

 some meteoric on the spot, by the mayor of the place, four days after it 

 stones that fell , j t7 .u • r ^- n . j r. ju 



Beat Lissa in happened, farther intormation was collected aiterward by 



Bohemia. Mr. Merkl, counsellor of state, who has lodged an official 

 statement of it in the chancery. 



Lissa is a small town of the circle of Buntzlau, four miles 

 W. N.W. of Prague, and as many S.S.W. of Jungbuntz- 

 lau ; two miles N. of Benatek ; two E. of Altbuntzlau and 

 Brandeis; and two W. of Nimbourg, 



• Ann. de Chim. vol. LXXIV, p. 84. Abridged by Mr. Tassaert. 



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