360 Meteorological Journal of Marietta, Ohio. 
cholera and yellow fever with all their collateral branches, from 
eir accustomed haunts. It isa summer long to be remembe 
for its blessings. The quantity of rain is fourteen inches and 
sixteen hundreths, an ample supply for the consumption of the 
most hungry vegetation, while in 1854 it was only nine inches | 
and ninety-six hundredths. The maximum height of the ther- 
mometer was 96° on the 17th day of July. 
utumn.—The mean temperature of the autumnal months is 
53°°38, being nearly the same as in 1856, or 53°31. November 
this present year was somewhat below the mean of that month, 
but not so low as in 1842, when it was at 87°00. The latter 
art of the month was uncommonly cold; from the twentieth to 
the thirtieth day the temperature was many degrees below freez- 
ing every morning but one, on the twentieth it was at 12°, and 
on the 26th at 10° above zero; while a little west of Davenport 
in Iowa it was at ten below. On the 19th snow fell to the depth 
of two inches, greatly increasing the cold, as it seldom or never 
omes excessive when the ground is bare. By the 25th of the 
month large sheets of ice had formed in the Ohio, and in two 
days after was so full of it as much to impede navigation. One 
steamboat was sunk a few miles below Marietta, the hull being 
cut through by the ice. By the 26th the Muskingum river was 
frozen over above town, but opened again with the mild weather 
early in December. 
The effects of this early severe cold was very injurious to the 
potatoes, many acres of which yet remained in the ground, and 
were in a great measure destroyed; others already harvested were 
left in the open fields in barrels, and suffered nearly as much as 
those in the earth, and many thousands of bushels were lost 0 this 
way. The continual wet weather in October had retarded the 
harvesting of this crop to a later period than usual; though we 
seldom expect cold weather until the month of December. 1 
of the corn crop was destroyed by the effects of the cold — 
wet weather that followed; and although cut up and placed in 
shocks in the usual manner, yet the hard freezing injured we 
immature grains, and with the warm wet weather which wise 
in December, caused it to mould and rot, rendering worth 
thousands of bushels all over the State of Ohio. 
Floral Calendar—March 3d, Bluebird seen; 13th, pe 
heard; 21st, Garden Crocus in bloom; 23d, Hepatica trilo oe 
25th, Forsythia viridissima opening its blossoms; 30th, net 
tree; 31st, Red Elm,. Early Mpacinth. April 4th, Forsyt rie 
full bloom, much killed by the cold in January; 13th, ha - 11th 
, thermometer 22°; 16th, Crown Imperial, two feet high 1 fall 
ard. frost, thermometer 23°; 24th, Crown Imperial ™ om 
bloom; 27th, Sanguinaria Canadensis; 30th, Peach, in W 3d, 
Xposures, begins to open. May 2nd, Peach in fall bloom; “ 
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