IS not desirable to repeat on all occasions. A more 
serious matter is the propagation of error on the part 
of writers well versed in some portions of their sub- 
ject but retaining all the exploded ** science ” of half a 
century or a century ago, as if nothing had been learnt^f 
in the interval. Would that such writers would take 
a lesson from the spirit of the excellent remarks of 
Mr. MawleyY 1^0, whil^ the service the 
data of scientific meteorology, aptly says “ That the 
judicious cultivator . . . will study the requirements 
of his plants, and disregarding all fashions, save only 
the weather’s varying moods, endeavour always to 
shape his treatment to the prevailing circumstances.” 
So writers on practical matters would do well either 
to shape their treatment of the subject according to 
the prevailing knowledge of the day, or if not con- 
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