_ cinity whose trunks are six feet in circumference ; the g 
Climate &e. of Washington County, Ohio. 207 
- Peach trees are usual- 
by the 20th of March; and at Bellepre, twelve 
miles below, and a little to the south of Marietta, I have seen 
them in blossom the last of February. Apple trees general- 
ly blossom the ¥st of April, and by the fore part of May have 
fruit of the size of a musket ball. But the most blooming pros- 
pects are sometimes turned into sadness and disappointment, 
by an unexpected frost about the middle of April; usually 
taking effect after a spell of warm growing weather; and 
may, perhaps, be in part occasioned by the great tio 
of caloric, from the rapid growth of vegetation through our 
forests and fields. ; 
Fruit trees, of all kinds, suited to the climate, grow with 
wonderful rapidity ; peaches being often produced the third 
year after the stones are planted, and apples in four or five 
years from the seed. Engrafted scions have been known to 
bear fruit the same season in which they were set. So rapid 
is the growth of apple trees that there are several in this vi- 
years ago. Cherries, plums, quinces, &c. flour- 
subject to the same disease, so destructive to this beautiful and 
useful tree, as that which has prevailed in the eastern states. 
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of the beetle family, (scolytus pyri) very small, but sufficiently 
large to kill the largest trees in a few seasons, by destroying 
the laburnum under the bark of the branches. The remedy 
used by myself for several years, has been to cut off the de- 
caying branches, below, in the sound wood, as fast as they ap- 
pear'to be diseased. Under this course, some of the large: 
and oldest trees have regained a healthy appearance. Near 
