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or four years since. It will doubtless prove to be the greatest 
scourge to western fruit growers ever seen in the valley of the 
Ohio. 8th, purple mulberry ripe; 12th, Catalpa in blossom; 13th, 
Sambucus; 15th, common raspberry ripe; 16th, red Antwerp, 
wheat fields on warm sandy. lands fit for harvesting; 17th, red 
cherry ripe; 20th, bass-wood tree in bloom; 29th, golden drop 
apple ripe ; 30th, whortleberry and dewberry. 
July 1st, early Chandler apple ripe ; 3d, apricot ripe ; 26th, wa- 
ter melon ripe. r f 
August 31st, Indian corn ripe, and the farmers on the Ohio riv- 
er cutting it up for harvest. The pastures on the hill sides, which 
usually at this season are dried up, are now as green as in April 
or May, owing to the abundant rains of this month; and they 
continued so through September. 
_Summer.—The mean temperature of the summer months is 
71-05°, which is a little below that of 1845. There was a long 
continuation of heat, so that by most people it was considered 
the hottest summer they had ever known; but the thermometer, 
not so variable in its sensibilities as man, declares the heat not to 
be greater than that of ordinary years. 'The mercury at no time 
tose much above 92°, and only on a few days was as high as 90°. 
In September the heat was as great for the first fourteen days as 
in August, and there were seventeen days in which the tempera- 
ture at 2 Pp. m. was at and above 80°, while in Sept., 1845, there 
year having been equal to this for the rotting of apples. 'The 
summer months were remarkable for the amount of rain, there 
falling nearly twenty inches in June, July and August, while in 
the year preceding there was less than twelve inches. ‘The har- 
Vesting of grain began earlier than usual, while the crops were 
very abundant and fine, free from the destructive mildew which 
falls upon it in certain conditions of the atmosphere while the 
gtain is in the milk. Indian corn was never better, and was ripe 
the last of August, or early in September. Potatoes, especially 
the early planted, were nearly free from the disease called “ the 
accounted for by the unusual heat of September. October and 
the fore part of November were very pleasant, but terminated 
