252 Meteorological Journal at Marietta, Ohio, for 1847. 
March 6th, Crocus in bloom. The rest of the month was cold 
and stormy, retarding vegetation. 29th, Triloba hepatica in 
bloom, usually out the fore part of this month, as early as the 
garden Crocus, in great variety and beauty ; 30th, early hyacinth. 
April Ist, Acer saccharinum in bloom; 5th, apricot; 6th, cot- 
ton-wood; 7th, crown imperial; 8th, peach, in warm exposures, 
is opening its petals, Pyrus japonicus, mirobolans plum; 9th, 
primroses; 10th, dwarf iris, Sanguinaria canadensis; 11th, peach 
in full bloom, also June berry; 12th, imperial gage; 18th, severe 
frost, killing fruit blossoms; 21st, pear in bloom, Arkansas plum ; 
23d, cherry ; 24th, harebell; 25th, red-bud or Judas tree ; 29th, 
Cornus florida, tulips. 
May 3d, Cornus florida in perfection; 4th, smart frost, apple 
shedding its blossoms; 5th, papaw; 11th, Magnolia tripetola; 
12th, black haw; 13th, yellow moccasin flower. The pink col- 
ored variety in my garden, from near Galena, in the north of Illi- 
nois, does not bloom until the last of the month or first of June, 
preserving its more northerly habit, although a resident here of 
eight or ten years. 15th, yellow Harrison rose, white Scotch, 
&c.; 23d, locust, Robinia acacia; 26th, Ribes villosa; 27th, 
black walnut. 
June 2d, rose-bug, melolantha sub-spinosa appears in great mul- 
titudes on roses, &c., but congregates in the largest numbers on a 
pecan tree; 3d, Osage orange in bloom; 8th, persimmon ; 12th, 
white lily ; 14th, cucumbers grown in the open air fit for eating ; 
17th, yellow Antwerp raspberry ripe ; 22d, Catalpa in bloom. — 
_ Summer.—The mean of the summer months is 69°°42, which 
is a degree and a half below that of 1846. The whole of this 
season was very cool and wet, retarding the ripening of melons, 
Indian corm, sweet potatoes, and many other articles beyond the 
usual period. July was excessively wet, there falling near seven 
inches of rain, and making it difficult to cure the crops of hay, 
and save the shocks of wheat from vegetating while standing in 
the field; considerable grain was lost from this cause, but it was 
free from rust and mildew. / 
_Autumn.—The mean temperature of the autumnal months is 
52°°55, nearly four degrees below that of the preceding year. 
The greatest difference was found in September, being a variance 
of seven degrees from 1846. October and November were very | 
rainy months, occasioning a flood in the Great Kenawha, which 
did much damage to the salt manufactories along its margin in 
November, a prelude to the great flood in December following. 
In this month there were 10:84 inches of rain, nearly nine © 
them in about five days, or from the 9th to the 14th of the month, 
three and a half inches falling on the night of the 10th, and two 
and a half on the night of the 13th, with daily intermediate rains 
the 10th the Muskingum rose fifteen feet in a few hours, and 
