398 A year's weather. 



are not uncommon here during this month, and our average 

 September heat in day runs 3 or 4 degrees warmer. We were 

 colder by i degree at nights, so that on one or two nights frost was 

 felt. On the evening of the 18th we had 2 degrees of frost in 

 shade and 5 degrees in the open^ the range of temperature on that 

 day being 38 degrees. 



The following are the comparative rainfalls : — 



40 years' mean. 1891. 1892. 



January 4-S5-ins 3-40-ins 2'27-ins. 



February ... 3'38-ins 0-22-ins 4.43-ins. 



March 2'91-ins 3-90-ins 1-07 -ins. 



April 2-61-ins 2 48-ins 1-36-ins. 



May 2-45-ins 2-26-ins r55-ins. 



June 2-39-ins 2-86-ins 1-83-ins. 



July 2-60-ins 1'62-ins l-76-ins. 



August 3-01 -ins 6 •48-ins 4-40-ins. 



September.. 3-49-ins 3 03-ins 1-90-ins. 



Total ... 27-69-ins 26-25-ins 20 57-ins. 



A glance shows how favourable we are as regards rain this 

 year, our year's rain so far being slightly over five inches and five- 

 eights less than last year during the same period. 



The cold weather has stopped the flight of butterflies, but 

 their great number and variety this year will be long remembered 

 by many observers. It will be recollected, too, as a year when the 

 Clouded Yellow was plentiful, though not so numerous as in 1877, 

 many correspondents have seen it so common as to be particularly 

 attracted by it. The foliage of the trees, except the sycamore, and 

 plane, is still holding on, and does not show any abnormal 

 appearances. The ruddy glow of the hawthorn berries is one of 

 the prettiest sights this autumn in our lanes, and later on when the 

 leaves have gone they will be more noticed. We have many 

 flowers still in the hedgerows. 



In September, 1792 — one hundred years ago — the price of 

 wheat in Cornwall was 5s. 8d. per bushel. 



Weather: — 4th, people very busy at harvest work. 7th, 

 cutting second crop of clover. loth, a strong gale of wind, 

 attended with violent storms of rain and hail 3 corn considerably 

 damaged. 12th, fall of rain, nearly one inch. 14th, swallows 

 sporting on the wind in flocks. i8th, furze in autumnal bloom. 



