The day was a mixture of sunshine and showers.

The advantage of this latter in-situ method is less time-consuming than the former because the intercalant does not have to be prepared separately, and no preexchange of the starting clay mineral is required.

If long-stemmed roses are so popular, are stemless roses cheap?

Close by was a plant of the manita, a flower which the Aztecs used to worship ; it is in the form of a hand, with four fingers and a thumb : this they imagined to be the hand of one of their most powerful deities, and adored it ; its colour is a brilliant scarlet.