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and fall to the ground. Potatoes were generally good and free 
from “the rot.” Indian corn was a fair yield, while the hay 
crop was never better. Our soil and climate aré so constituted 
that if one of the staples fails, some other will supply its place ; 
and it is not probable we shall goiter from famme, as they do in 
many parts of the earth. a 
e mean of the autumnal months is fifty-four degrees and 
thirty-two hundredths, being nearly five degrees warmer than 
that of 1848. Frost did not materially injure vegetation and 
garden plants until the first of November, when the cold destroyed 
the bloom of the Dahlia. 
Floral Calendar.—March 7, White maple in bloom; 8th, 
Robin appears ; 17, Hepatica triloba in bloom. Red elm, garden 
crocus 
April 4th, Apricot, Sanguinaria canadensis; 7th, Peach; 8th, 
Sugar tree quite green on side-hills; 11th, Green gage and cherry 
in bloom; 12, Pear; 15th, thermometer at 24° this morning, 
froze hard; 16th, thermometer 23°, some snow fell; the fruit 
blossoms to a large extent killed, and early garden vegetables; 
25th, Tulip in bloom; 27th, Apple; Late cherry ; 29th, Judas 
tree and Service berry. 
May Ist, Ranunculus; 2d, Quince tree; 5th, Black haw; 7th, 
Cornus florida; 11th, Frost on fences back of town; 19th, frost 
s; 24th, Locust tree; 29th, Hudson strawberry ripe. 
June 3d, Early peas fit for table; 15th, Russian cucumber, 
ised in open air; 19th, thermometer 121° in the sun’s rays at 
2p.m.; 22d, the Rust noticed on the wheat, but began as early 
as the 15th in some places. 
July 2d, Wheat harvest begins; 3d, Catalpa in bloom. 
Marietta, January 23, 1850. 
Art. XXX.—Chemical Examinations of the Waters of some 
of the Mineral Springs of Canada; by T. 8. Hunt, Chemist 
and Mineralogist to the Geological Commission of Canada. 
In the course of my official duties it has devolved upon me 
to examine the various mineral waters of the province and to 
submit the more important of them to accurate analyses. ‘The 
first part of the results of these inquiries have already appeared 
in the Report of Progress for 1847, 1848, which was submitted 
to his excellency the Governor General on the Ist of May, 1849, 
from which I extract the analyses that follow. Some remarks as 
to the mode of collecting the waters may not be out of place here, 
as showing the precautions taken to prevent errors and to trans- 
port the waters unchanged to the place of analysis. Unless ott 
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