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ence in causing evaporation. The late Professor Daniell 

 calculated, that the same surface which in a calm time 

 will exhale 100 parts of moisture, will with a mode- 

 rate breeze exhale 125, and with a high wind 150 

 parts. When the air is chilled during the prevalence 

 of a north-east wind in spring, the sap vessels of 

 plants become contracted by its withering influence, 

 and the circulation of the fluid is arrested ; the blos- 

 soms of our fruit trees already deprived of their fluids 

 by evaporation perish. 



If rain falls heavily this month, you will find em- 

 ployment — besides attending to your plants — in the 

 greenhouse, repairing implements, mats, nets, tying 

 straw hurdles, preparing labels and stakes, examining 

 dried roots and fruit, and sorting bulbs that are un- 

 planted, and making every preparation that the season 

 will allow for future work. 



You may sow French beans in pots under frames 

 with mild bottom heat, as also salad herbs, radishes, 

 potatoes, and celery and cauliflower seeds. And put 

 strawberry plants also in pots or boxes, under the 

 frames, or in a cool greenhouse if you want them later. 

 The finished gardener, who has every convenience of 

 houses, glass, fire, manure, &c. will find it necessary 

 to have the earliest productions at his master's table, 

 or in the market for his own benefit, as the case may 

 be ; but the humbler practitioner, with limited means 

 and assistance, will act more prudently in not expend- 

 ing labour, manure, and seed, in what would probably 

 prove to be ineffectual efforts to anticipate the regular 

 seasons. 



The frame and Bishop's pea, and Mazagan bean, and 



greatest dryness, measured by an hydrometer, has been experi- 

 enced with a south wind, which blew during four days in June 

 1834. There was only one day in those nine years, in which 

 the dryness reached the same degree from a north, east, or west 

 wind. 



