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the weather plant is an BEN iu jg plant ; i? that if it is placed, 
NE en with a magn mpass with its north branches 
wards north, in an apparatus ‘of his own special, but, after all, 
very Pate, construction, and is therein grown and cultivated in the 
E. and sim p e manner described by him; it will then, and "ad 
ct: 
with truly marvellous precision, 48 hours beforehand, and likewise 
earthquakes, or subterraneous Atetik, both at a "ie and 
locally, with respectively three to eight days’ previous notic 
Any number of weather ps placed under such qunm m 
aem ate ae b is Professor Nowack's experienos n ex 
plant have been fully recognised by a great many who had origi 
approached the matter with the utmost disbelief and ridicule. The 
Archduke Reiner is a firm believer in the plant's merits, and os shown 
Mr. Nowack much encouragement in his work, and whole townships, 
a sige unions, farmers, &c. have furnished IRAE to like 
effect. he, chery, of the Austrian Tourists’ Club, on the Sonn- 
ka at an altitude of 1,511 métres, in the Styrian Alps, vol 
known to many English tourists, which supplies the various br 
the club with weather forecasts ‘during the season, has now for ian 
e 
sceptical that forecasts of great importance can be reliably ie ae 
by the aid of the weather plant, 
I am, &c.. 
Clapham xl S.W., C. W. RADEKE. 
November 1 
Little further was heard of the weather plant till July of last year 
when Mr. Nowack called at the Royal Gardens with the following 
letter of introduction on the part of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 
Major-General Ertis to Roya GARDENS, KEW. 
Marlborough rea Pall Mall, S.W; 
Dear Sik, y 1889 
Tux Prince of Waies desires Ls Tem Bu give a ee 
introduction to you, to Mr. J. Nowack, an Aust ntleman, 
is anxious to a known his theory. of the weather plant in 
England, 
drawn 
l Hi hness, when in | Austria, had his attention 
to Ar ds lai 16 Oro PH nee Rudolph who was much — in 
its success. à 
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