"dew-drops" were considered to be shed from the bosom of the morn into the blooming flowers and rich grass-leave

lation "dew-drop." What was popularly and poetica

stars begin to peep out of the almost cloudless sky, let us take a look at the produce of our vegetable

ordinary laws of radiation and condensation. There is no generally filmy appearance over the leaves; the moi

t fringe the edge of the blade are all placed at the points where the nearly colourless veins of the blade come to the outer edge.

ments suggested by Dr. Aitken is to lift a single grass-plant, with a clod of moist earth attached to it, and place it on a plate with an inverted t

ut forty inches. Place a glass receiver over it, so as to check evaporation, and leave it for an hour. The plant will be found to have

grow to any size, the blue appears, showing that little water was held in the veins. The whole leaf soon gets coloured of a fine

to be wetted by the water. It is because of the rejection of water by th

ops which first make their appearance on grass on dewy nights are

blade, forming a drop of some size; but the true dew collects later on evenly all over the blade. The false dew forms a large glistening diamond-drop, whereas the true dew coats the blade with a fine pearly lustre. Brilliant globules are produced by the vital

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