Moon's Passage over the Meridian. The Moon will pass the first meridian of this country at the following times this month, which will afford opportunities of observing her in that position, if the weather prove favourable. The times marked are true to the nearest second, when her centre coincides with the meridian, viz.: June 1st, at 41 m. after 9 in the evening Wh 2d, 3d, 10th, 11th, 12th, : 29th,- 18 Wh And .10 4 in the morning Out Is I Is 4 5 8 in the evening 5 Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites. There will only be one eclipse of these satellites this month; and which will be in the morning of the 14th, when the immersion will take place at 8 m. past 3. Other Phenomena. The Moon will be in conjunction with a in Scorpio, at 44 m. after 7 in the morning of the 4th of this month; with ẞ in Taurus, at 1 m. past 7 in the evening of the 18th; with Mercury, at 33 m. after midnight of the 20th; and with a in Leo, at 59 m. past 10 in the morning of the 23d. Venus will be in conjunction with Saturn on the 11th, when the former planet will be 11' south of the latter. Mercury will attain his greatest elongation on the 16th, and be stationary on the 30th. Georgium Sidus will be in opposition at 45 m. past 3 in the afternoon of the 27th; and Venus will be in conjunction with Jupiter on the 29th when she will be 001 outh of that inlenet -garden is usually in all its glory at the nt of June, if the weather have been vourable to vegetation. The region of ts odours and endless hues, is an object and delight to man alone, and constihis most pleasing and innocent recreane but man is it an object of the slightest he general sense of beauty, as well as of ems familiar to man in the creation. The amon with him, enjoy the gentle breath hey lie down to repose on the flowery near the peaceful humming of the bee; ne green fields and pastures: but we have hink, that it is man only who sees the eauty over the happy prospect, and rethat it is hidden from the brute creation, and upon sense, but on the intelligent mind. age and every nation, flowers have been cherished, loved, and admired. In the they graced the festivals, and adorned the e deities. A goddess, ever blooming and perintended their interests, and her marthe gentle Zephyrus must have singularly the welfare of her delicate subjects. They showered on the heads of heroes, been o the chaplets of Hymen, and chosen by Love as his most appropriate gifts, and most intelligible symbols. Affection has delighted to strew them on the graves of the departed, and Poetry has sung their praise, till the wearied ear turns from the ofttold tale. Who will assert that in modern days flowers are less honourably distinguished?-who that has seen the Epergne laden with their mingled blossoms; the most dainty dishes garnished with their brilliant tints; or the splendid drawing-rooms and gay boudoirs, where they grow in tubs, or float in vases, or stiffen in saucers filled with moistened sand-who, above all, that has beheld them in bunches, bushes, and arborets mingling with the tresses, towering high above the heads, or, as in recent times, hanging confusedly about the throats of our most fashionable females? Flowers of all hues, and without thorn the rose.' their cl ard his l ages, an ew additi arren hea eauty in With how much care, too, do we tend the firstlings of the year,' and endeavour to persuade them to expand their bright petals, and breathe their delicious scents a little earlier than the laws of nature permit! In the language of that exquisite poem, The Flower and the Leaf,' the choicest offering which Flora's altars ever received, When buds, that yet the blast of Eurus fear, Oh Fri are tastes ivated as and kept i ful pursui Botany and e sady of la ealth an nervousn ected by ourable ad obs abroad Stand at the door of life, and doubt to clothe the year, we tempt them forth, and promise them our fostering protection, Then, at our call emboldened," the hyacinth, the narcissus, and the crocus, burst their sheaths; we delight to deck our rooms with these children of early spring-we display them exultingly at our windows, and, Qui possit violas addere, dives erit.' Faint, however, are the pleasures which flowers afford in cities, when compared with those which they bestow upon their admirers in the country. There, the florist rears them near his home, watches them, improves them by culture, takes a tanist of Leb msigni the per becom ders, soms useful ns, while health and cheerfulness reurs. There, the botanist explores the raverses the hills in pursuit of some to his herbal or his knowledge, and the and dull common acquire interest and eyes.png eidt geld of ndly to the best pursuits of man, ndbeni vid studies of this description, when cule amusement, not the business of life, e subserviency to higher and more useTo heildst ppears to be peculiarly adapted to the s, as it tempts them to the enjoyment of cise, which though the best friends to beauty, the most effectual remedies for and ennui, are yet very generally nege flowers of the human race. It is faso, to the acquisition of habits of inquiry ation, and sends the eye constantly xpeditions of discovery. It is not a boO can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and arren; on the contrary, wherever a blade pears, he is on the watch for rarity or I seldom returns from a ramble without ty to relate, some treasure to display. Two te inspection, how much of amusement ction may be derived from the study of hat study in which Israel's wisest monarch he who spoke of trees from the cedar n to the hyssop on the wall!' The daisy, nt as it apparently is, (yet immortalized by Dryden, and graced by the song of Burns) on closer observation, an expanse of wonister of miracles. Scores of minute blospose its disc and border, each distinct, each ch delicately beautiful. The convolvulus suckle appear to the careless eye to twist in a similar manner round every thing in their neighbourhood; but the botanist discovers that they are governed by different laws, the former always twining itself according to the apparent motion of the sun, the latter in a contrary direction; and when busy man attempts to alter this arrangement, he invariably injures, and perhaps destroys, the plant. as a purs and plea ful guide structive BOTANIS will feel valuable sions: i troducto ed, how more le The heath, so common in the northern parts of this kingdom, valuable to the poor as a substitute for more expensive fuel, and to the sportsman as a cover for grouse, affords to the botanist a striking instance of the care extended by Providence towards his creatures. Its seed is the food of numerous birds, in regions where other sustenance is scarce; and the vessels which contain it are so constructed as to retain their contents for a considerable length of time, instead of discharging them when they become ripe. Indeed, the more we study, the closer we observe the operations and provisions of nature, the greater will be our wonder, the higher our admiration. Every separate plant has doubtless its own history, its distinct uses, its peculiar inhabitants; and, like St. Pierre's strawberry, may furnish a study too diffuse, too deep, for the life of an individual. too dry other ha explain to cons quently inds b The physiology of vegetables is a most curious and entertaining branch of the science of botany; and, owing to the great improvement of our microscopes, may be pursued to an extent far beyond the most sanguine hopes of former students. In some recent experiments, the growth of wheat was actually rendered visible to the eye; a bubble of gas was seen to dart forth, carrying with it a portion of vegetable matter, which instantaneously formed into a fine tube, and one fibre was completed. In short, with instruments like our's, what may we not hope to accomplish in studies, unexhausted and inexhaustible as are those of Nature'? times, suit al the Br and sp investi for the scienc ance useful Britis the |