THE WEATHER FOR JUNE. 
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Heliotropium corymbosum (lilac) 
Lobelia propinquens . . . (scar.) 
-cardinalis . (red) 
Nemophilla insignis .... (blue) 
Plumbago capensis .... (blue) 
Sollya heteropliylla .... (blue) 
Verbenas, in varieties. 
Ft. In. 
with Emmeris linearis . . (scar.) 2 0 
— L. azurea.(blue) 3 0 
— Commelina coelestis . (blue) 3 0 
— N. atomaria, var. alba .... 1 0 
— Phlox Druminondii . (crim.) 2 0 
— Fuchsia, in varieties. 2 0 
In conclusion, we shall just remark that those plants usually 
denominated “ florists’ flowers ” are better in beds by themselves, 
than when grouped with other plants, both with respect to 
management and general appearance. 
THE WEATHER FOR JUNE. 
During some of the last days of May, the same dry weather continued 
which had been characteristic of the greater part of that month. On the 
evening of the 28th there were cirri; and the following day was cloudy in the 
morning, but cleared up by mid-day, and the barometer kept rising, though 
only to a small extent. On the 30th there were also morning clouds, consisting 
chiefly of cirrostratu, which reeled about and changed their forms apparently by 
atmospheric action only, and without any regard to the surface wind ; but they 
melted away against mid-day. On the last day of May, which was that of 
new moon, the barometer had fallen a very little ; and light cumuli made 
their appearance early in the morning, but soon melted away, and the day was 
uncommonly bright and the warmest in the month, the mean temperature 
being 63g°, and the highest 76°. On the 1st of June, the barometer again 
fell a little ; but about 2 p. M., the thermometer rose to 79°, and the day was 
the warmest that had yet occurred during the season. At the same time, 
however, there was that extreme transparency in the atmosphere, and clear 
perception of minute and distant objects, which showed that evaporation was 
beginning to be suspended ; and on the following day there were lightning, 
thunder, and rain ; and the fall of the latter upon the heated surface of the 
ground produced an evaporation which reduced the temperature 18° below 
what it had been only two days previously. The 3d and 4th were dull and 
rainy, and so were the morning and evening of the 5th ; but nothing occurred 
which could be regarded as a confirmed rain storm or breaking of the weather,—• 
which seemed a sort of blending of the ordinary characters of April, May, 
and June, in which, however, the last greatly prevailed. After this, the 
weather continued fine, with occasional light showers, though the duration of 
these was short as compared with that of the clear and dry weather. The 
atmospheric tide at the full moon, which happened on the 17th, produced no 
great effect on the atmosphere, and what it did produce came on very slowly. 
This might in part have been expected from the great difference in declination 
between the sun and moon, which threw the poles of the aerial spheroids 
