278 Meteorological Journal at Marietta, Ohio, for 1843. 
very early, so that the Ohio River was frozen over by the twenty 
eighth day of November, both be and below Marietta, but 
continued closed only about a wi poten a fall of rain, with a 
more elevated temperature, set it - The weather at no time 
during the winter was very cold; but it continued for a long 
time, not less than four and a half 1 iths, the coldest morning 
being on the 24th of March, when the mercury sunk to zero, 
being the lowest during the winter. ‘The mean temperature for 
February was eleven degrees less than for the same month in 
both being but seven inches, for 
were chiefly from the west and northwest, which always comé 
to us bearing a small amount of caloric, being deprived of thai 
life-giving property in their passage over the elevated aoe of 
“the far west.” 
The mean temperature of the spring months was 46°:77, pf 
ing about ten and a half degrees less than the spring of 1812, 
Which was 57°11. The most marked difference in the spring 
months of these ‘two years, was in March and April, the formet 
being 23°°75, and April 8° less than the corresponding months it 
the year 1842. ‘T'here was also a remarkable change in the ptt 
gress of vegetation, the low grade of temperature retarding, 
much as the unusual heat of the former year had accelerated ils 
growth ; even to the last of March there was but little more ap 
pearance of spring than in February. In March my floral jour 
nal does not contain the record of the blooming of a single flower, 
but all were still wrapped in the deep sleep of winter; while in 
the past year it commenced with the opening of the month. With — 
many plants there was more than a month’s difference in the ap 
pearance of their blossoms. The contrast is very striking and 
curious, to a lover of floral horticulture, or an observer of the pro 
gress of vegetation in different years. The following dates o ° 
the blooming of plants, will contrast curiously with that ag 
lished for 1842. 
April Ist, crocus in bloom; 2d, crown imperial two inches 
high; 3d, snow fell two inches deep; 4th, blackbird and martil 
appear; 8th, snowdrop in bloom; 14th, Hepatica triloba; 19th, 
early hyacinth; 20th, Aronia botryapium, or Juneberry ; 2181 
crown imperial; 22d, Sanguinaria Canadensis; 23d, hyacinth) 
24th, peach tree begins to open its flowers on the sunny side? — 
