Scientific amusements . Ants engaged in extracting aphides from a rose-tree (highly magnified). up, although sheltered by thick trees, which necessarilyimpeded the calorific action of the sun ; and he expressedsurprise at the rapid evaporation. An agriculturist amongthe company, however, drew his attention to the fact thatthe roots of the trees were buried in the course of the lO OPfiN-AIK SCIENCE.

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