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refully with a knife and set upright. Apples and peach- 
: nt were torn with the leaves, from the trees, present- 
ry dismal appearance. A man who was plowing corn 
on the island, took shelter under an apple tree, thinking it only 
" a@common shower. He was bare-footed and bare-legged, and in 
t his shirt sleeves. The hail covered his feet above the ankles, 
and nearly froze them before he could reach the shelter of a de- 
’ setted building that stood near the field. Sheep, fowls, and 
small animals suffered severely from the effects of the hail. At 
Marietta, the cloud discharged rain principally, with a few scat- 
tering hail-stones. The wind was light at the time, or the dam- 
} age must have been much greater. Large quantities of the un- 
) _ melted hail remained until the next day. It had quite an effect 
on the temperature at Marietta, as the mercury, which stood at 
68° in the morning, sunk to 62° at 2 o'clock P. M., while the 
| day before, it was at 80°, and the day following, at 76° at the 
‘Same hour, ~ 
Flowering of plants and trees, ripening of fruit &c., in 1840.— 
March 1, Mezereon in bloom ; 2, white maple, and red elm; 
18, early hyacinths ; 20, daffodil and dew-drop; April 2, Pyrus 
japonicus ; 3, peach and white-heart cherry begin to open; 4, 
son; 5, imperial gage; 7, peach in full bloom; 8, winter, 
or pound-pear—puccoon and anemone; 10, service tree; 11, 
Judas tree, or red-bud ; 13, apple nearly open; 16, apple in full 
bloom, early tulips open ; 19, Cornus florida, or dog-wood ; 21, 
tree peony, papaveracea, quince tree; 22, tulips in full bloom, 
apple shedding its blossoms; 25, lily of the valley, yellow moc- 
ason flower, or Cypripedium parviflorum ; 27, Anona glabra; May 
2, yellow Single rose ; 5, Isabella and Catawba grape ; 6, a smart 
', which destroyed many of the grape blossoms; 14, black 
nut, Rubus villosa, or black-berry ; 17, white rose, and white 
Chinese Peony, for which latter flower the rose-bugs have an es- 
Pecial liking ; 22, many varieties of hardy roses in bloom ; 25, 
Gladiolus, and Peonia fragrans ; 26, peas fit for the table, some 
Yeats they are six or eight days earlier ; 27, pine-apple straw- 
'y Tipe; June 6, white lily in bloom; 13, early Russian cu- 
cumber fit for the table, grown without artificial heat; 14, red 
Antwerp raspberry ripe ; 17, Lilium Pennsylvanicum in bloom ; 
19, blight in pear and quince trees, worse than ever before 
known, nearly destroying trees of fifteen years growth ; 20, rye 
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