NEW ENGLAND CLIMATE. 



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taken from the registers of the Horticultural Society, and at 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, as stated from the American Alma- 

 nac. I have selected, for the first statement, the year 1836, 

 which seems to have been an uncommonly rainy year in England, 

 and for the second, the twelve months from May, 1847, to May, 

 1848, merely changing the order of the months. Rain in inches 

 and decimals. 



28.73 



43.049 



Yet nothing is more common than the remark that our climate 

 is a drier and brighter one than that of England, and this is 

 perfectly true. Their rains fall in moderate and drizzling 

 showers, while ours are more violent, and are followed by fair 

 and cloudless days. To this frequency of rainy days, and the 

 great rarity of the blazing weather which we often experience 

 during our summers, for weeks together, is England indebted for 

 the deep emerald green of her verdure, which we should in 

 vain strive to imitate. In return, our bright summer suns give 

 us a striking advantage over England in the raising of fruit. 

 The apple, pear, peach, cherry, and plum can be raised in the 

 climate of New England, as far north as Boston, on standard 

 trees. Artificial modes of training are, with very few excep- 

 tions, not considered as worth employing, while in a largo 

 portion of Great Britain, there is not one of those trees except 

 the apple, which does not require, or at least will not amply 

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