CHAP. I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 39 



1817. 



October 4. neighbours give me quinces. We 



are also cutting up and drying 



peaches. 



5. Very fine and warm. Dwarf Kid 

 ney beans very fine. 



6. Very fine and warm. Cutting Suck- 

 wheat. 



7. Very fine and warm. 65 degrees in 

 shade at 7 o'clock this morning. 

 Windy in the afternoon. The wind 

 is knocking down the jall-pipins 

 for us. One picked up to-day 

 weighed 12f ounces avoirdupois 

 weight. The average weight is 

 about 9 ounces, or, perhaps, 10 

 ounces. This is the finest of all 

 apples. Hardly any core. Some 

 none at all. The richness of the 

 pine-apple without the roughness. 

 If the King could have seen one of 

 these in a dumpling! This is not the 

 Newtown 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 



