CLIMATE, SEASONS, ETC. 



1817. 



October 7. of all apples. Hardly any core. Some none at all. 

 The richness of the pine-apple without the rough 

 ness. If the King could have seen one of these in a 

 dumpling I This is not the New town Pipin, which 

 is sent to England in such quantities. That is a 

 winter apple. Very fine at Christmas ; but far 

 inferior to this fall-pipin, taking them both in their 

 state of perfection. It is useless to send the trees 

 to England, unless the heat of the sun and the rains 

 and the dews could be sent along with the trees. 



8. Very fine, 68 in shade. 



9. Same weather. 



10. Same weather, 59 degrees in shade. A little white 

 frost this morning. It just touched the lips of the 

 kidney bean leaves ; but, not those of the cucumbers 

 or melons, which are near fences. 



11. Beautiful day. 61 degrees in shade. Have not 

 put on a coat yet. Wear thin stockings, or socks, 

 waistcoat with sleeves, and neckcloth. In New 

 York Market, Kidney Beans and Green peas. 



12. Beautiful day. 70 degrees in shade. 



13. Same weather. 



14. Rain. 50 degrees in shade. Like a fine, warm, 

 June rain in England. 



15. Beautiful day. 56 degrees in shade. Here is a 

 month of October I 



16. Same weather. 51 degrees in shade. 



17. Same weather, but a little warmer in the day. A 

 smart frost this morning. The kidney beans, cu 

 cumber and melon plants pretty much cut by it. 



18. A little rain in the night. A most beautiful day. 

 54 degrees in shade. A June day for England. 



19. A very white frost this morning. Kidney beans, 

 cucumbers, melons, all demolished ; but a beautiful 

 day. 56 degrees in shade. 



20. Another frost, and just such another day. Threshing 

 Buckwheat in field. 



21. No frost. 58 degrees in shade. 



22. Finest of English June days. 67 degrees in shade. 



23. Beautiful day. 70 degrees in shade. Very few 

 summers in England that have a day hotter than this. 

 It is this fine sun that makes the fine apples ! 



24. Same weather precisely. Finished Buckwheat 

 threshing and winnowing. The men have been 

 away at a horse-race ; so that it has laid out in the 

 field, partly threshed and partly not, for five days. 

 If rain had come, it would have been of no con 

 sequence. All would have been dry again directly 



