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som, 18th; strawberries and peaches, 19th; apple, 27th ; prospect of crops and 
fruits cheering. 
Newark, N. J—Month cool, mean temperature nearly 3°. 5 less than aver- 
age in 25 years; blossoming and leafing nearly two weeks later than usual. 
Elwood, N. J—May remarkably wet and cloudy, 22 days rainy, of which 
14 were in succession; vegetation 20 days later than usual. 
Dover, N. J—Wilson’s strawberry begins to blossom, 16th; pear and cherry, 
16th; peach and lilac 23d; first warm day, 31st; no corn planted yet. 
Greenwich, N. J—May equably cool; frost and ice 9th; wheat heading and 
clover blossoming, 31st. 
Fallsington, Pa—Very wet May, but 2 wholly and 5 partly clear days, 
and east wind 25 days. 
Horsham, Pa—Very wet and backward May ; few have planted corn. 
Dyberry, Pa.—May wet, cool and backward; forests show green on 27th; 
fair promise in crops and fruits. 
Whitehall, Pa—Frost 11th and 12th; plum in blossom, 15th ; peach, 18th; 
pear, 21st; apple, 25th; corn planted, 30th. 
Factoryville, Pa—Corn planted very late, prospect good for hay, oats and 
apples; cloudy and wet month, but no high winds. 
Tioga, Pa—Hard freeze and ice, 9th, 10th, 11th; from 12th to 25th rain 
every day; much corn must be planted in June. 
Ickesburg, Pa—Seventeen-year cicada heard on Ist; light frost, 9th, 11th, 
and 12th. 
Fountain Dale, Pa—Great rain 12th to 14th, (3.26 inches,) more than in 
any one fall in ten years. 
Grampian Hills, Pa—May closes with fine prospects for grass, wheat, and 
probably fruit; corn and oats are late. 
Franklin, Pa—F¥rost on 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th; apple full bloom, 22d; 
vegetation backward. 
Connellsville, Pa.—Thunder showers on 2d, 6th, 7th, 14th, 27th, and 29th. 
Woodlawn, Md.—Dogwood blossoming, 7th; apple, Sth; hoar frost 10th; 
lilac full bloom and rye heading, 18th; Boughton wheat heading, 26th; red 
Mediterranean, 29th. 
White Day, W. Va.—F¥rosts on 10th, 20th and 21st. May backward ; 
wheat crop more promising than for years; oats and grass good; fruit reported 
injured by frosts. 
Surry C. H., Va—Chuck-wills-widow or North Carolina whippoorwill heard 
on 9th; blackberry in blossom, 14th; strawberries ripe, 26th. May was cloudy 
and wet, with much lightning and thunder, but calm, mild and agreeable. 
Comorn, Va.—-May wet and cold, corn and oats late, the latter unpromising. 
Johnsontown, Va.—First humming-bird, lst; clover blossoming, 8th ; slight 
frost, 9th; locust trees in blossom on 21st, three days earlier than last year. 
Goldsboro’, N, C.—Cool weather injurious to some crops ; cut worms damaging 
the corn. 
‘Oxford, N. C—Seventeen-year locusts appeared, 23d; are very numerous, 
31st. ; 
Albemarle, N. C-—Wheat sown last September was harvested on the 30th in 
fine condition ; wild grapes in full bloom, Catawbas as large as squirrel shot, and 
strawberries nearly over, on 31st. 
Gowdysville, S. C—Karly wheat heading on 1st; locusts appeared on 10th, 
very numerous in some places. [T'wo correspondents in the south call them 
“thirteen-year”’ locusts: is that their term of disappearance there ?| 
Atlanta, Ga.—The seventeen-year locusts have appeared all over the coun- 
try. 
Mout. Ala.—First half of May wet; from 7th to 16th cool; last half dry 
and sultry ; the seventeen-year locusts quite numerous. 
