The Garden Guide

Book: Gardening Science - Soils, Manure and the Environment
Chapter: Chapter 4: Weather and Climate

A variable climate

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1418. A variable climate, such as ours, admits of being studied, both generally and locally; but it is a study which requires habits of observation and reflection, like all other studies; and, to be brought to any useful degree of perfection, it must be attended to not as it commonly is, as a thing by chance, and which every body knows, or is fit for, but as a serious undertaking. The weather may be foretold from natural data, artificial data, and from precedent.