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THE GARDENING WORLD 
August 24 , 1889. 
THE WEATHER. 
The Seventh Edition, revised and enlarged, price 3s. 6d,, post free. 
Ar the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading 
of the barometer during the week ending August 17th 
was 29 67 ins.; the lowest reading was 29 34 ins. on 
Sunday morning, and the highest 29'S3 ins. on Tuesday 
evening. The mean temperature of the air was 59'3°, 
and 3 1° below the average in the corresponding weeks 
of the twenty years ending 1868. The mean exceeded 
the average on Thursday and Friday, but was below 
the average on the other days of the week, the 
deficiency on Monday being 7 "9°. The general direc¬ 
tion of the wind was S.W., and the horizontal move¬ 
ment of the air averaged 11'2 miles per hour, which 
was l’l miles above the average in the corresponding 
weeks of sixteen years. Rain fell on three days of 
the week, to the aggregate amount of 0 19 of an inch. 
The duration of registered bright sunshine in the week 
was 26'8 hours, against 24 5 hours at Glynde Place, 
Lewes. 
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