240 Meteorological Observations at Marietta, Ohio. 
these were loaded with coal from Pittsburgh and Wheeling. A 
flat boat-of ordinary size carries 1500 or 2000 barrels of produce. 
The year has been fruitful in cereal productions. Excellent 
crops of wheat, corn, oats and hay, while the potato has escaped 
destruction by that odious epidemic called “the rot,” and thou- 
sands of barrels have gone to the markets on the “ father of riv- 
Strawberries were abundant, and melons, until the heat and 
drought of September killed the vines. 
Floral Calendar, §¢.—Feb. 23d, Garden crocus in bloom. 
_March 2nd, Robin appears; 16th, Blackbird; 19th, Fruit buds 
of the pear and peach swollen and ready to open; 23d, Hepatica 
triloba in blossom; 28th, Peach and Plum in.bloom in warm ex- 
posures ; 31st, Hyacinth, Dodecatheon media, Pyrus japonica. 
ril Ist, Pear in blossom ; 2nd, Peach and cherry ; 4th, Cor- 
nus Florida, Judas tree and Sanguinaria canadensis; 5th, cut 
Rhubarb stems two feet long, protected only by an empty flour 
barrel; 7th, Wood anemone ; 10th, Apple in full bloom; 15th, 
Hard frost, thermometer 28°, peach killed, some pears escaped ; 
22nd, set out in the garden, Dahlia tubers, Amaryllis, &c.; 24th, 
Quince in blossom; 25th, Tulips in full bloom, not much injured 
by the frost; 28th, Harebell and Uvularia. 
ay 2nd, Hard frost, thermometer 28°; 3d, Chickasaw plum; 
5th, Crab apple; 6th, Hard frost, 29°, ice one-sixth inch on Wa 
ter in a bowl,—corn planted the 9th of April not yet up; 9th, 
Yellow Cypripedia; 12th, Rose-colored Peony; 15th, Purple 
mulbery, crimson Peony; 19th, Ribes villosa, and Prunus Vil- 
giniana ; 20th, Syringa aromatica; 21st, Purple tree Peony ; 
26th, Syringa Philadel.; locust blooms very little, hurt by frost; 
28th, Garden pea on table. 
June 16th, Catalpa tree; 21st, Cucumber raised in ope? 
ground protected from frost by boxes, fit for eating 
July 14th, Ribes villosa or blackberry ripe. 
Aug. 25th, Brown Beurre pear ripe ; 30th, Doyenne pear—these 
escaped the frost, being protected by buildings near them. 
Oct. 24th, First frost to kill Dahiia tops. 
Marietta, January 1, 1852, 
