| Meteorological Observations at Beloit, Wis. 347 
The year which has just past is considered as having been 
| rather more -productive than usual. Though the spring was 
uncommonly: backward, yet the temperature was so uniform that 
no portion of vegetation was unduly brought forward and conse- 
quently injured by untimely frosts. Fruit, of the various kinds 
which have been introduced into this new country, did remark- 
ably well, and gave a fair promise of the fruzt-full years to come. 
It appears to me that this cannot be otherwise than a very favor- 
able country, both on account of soil and climate, for growing 
frnit of most kinds, such as apples, peaches, grapes, &c.,—cer- 
tainly so, if the last fall can be taken as a criterion of the char- 
acter of future autumns. 
before whole fields are cut down by their reapers. The crop of 
potatoes was good and scarcely at all injured by the “ rot.” The 
Another fact worthy of note was observed in the second flow- 
ering of several species of plants, as stated in the calendar, and 
be deemed uncommon by naturalists. ‘The Cantharis Sedan 
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z _ Clover, which they destroyed in a short time. ‘Their progiess 
"+ » “*-.was from north to south. They were in such numbers, that a 
half-bushel of them could have been gathered.in a short ume, 
With the appropriate means. ‘The chinck-bug, Lygeus leucopte- 
