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boughs of many trees were killed, as well as the foliage, especially 
those of the white oak. All kinds of fruit both domestic and sylvan, 
were annihilated. ‘The poor grape vines again suffered martyrdom, 
and some of the tender kinds were killed to the ground. It was 
useless to protect any thing in open exposures, with mats or blank- 
ets, the steady perseverence of ‘‘ Jack frost,” penetrated through all 
obstacles. A good brick wall, on an eastern exposure, saved me a 
few bunches of grapes, but the strawberries and raspberries were all 
destroyed. The white lilies, chinese peonies, and other beautiful 
plants suffered in the same way. Notwithstanding, all these free- 
zings, here and there a few apples and peaches escaped, where pro- 
tected by the river, or a hill. An orchard on an island in the bend 
of the Ohio, a few miles below Marietta, produced nearly a hundred 
barrels of apples. There is seldom any great evil without some al- 
leviation. The total destruction of stone fruit, may perhaps also 
be the means of destroying the curculio. ‘This insect, being of 
annual production, will thus have no suitable deposit for its eggs, 
whereby to renew the species. 
The wheat crops suffered with the rest of the vegetable world. 
The head even where protected by the sheath, was so frozen as to 
be utterly destroyed in many situations. But a wise and kind pro- 
vision of the Creator, has given this plant the property of throwing 
up new seed stems, where the first are destroyed, and even two or 
three in place of one; so that the crop was tolerably good, but con- 
siderably later im ripening. Some persons, not aware of this princi- 
ple, plowed up their fields and planted them with corn. Rye being 
still more forward than the wheat, was in many instances entirely 
blighted and destroyed. Indian corn was all cut off to the ground, 
but would bear replanting where it did not again shoot up—with all 
this cold, there was also great severity of drought. Grass crops, were 
less than one third their usual amount. Potatoes, were very light 
and poor. ‘The oat crop was tolerably good, and on new lands, and 
rich soil, Indian corn was much better than had been anticipated. 
On the whole the past year has been one that will long be remem- 
bered, and will form an interesting epoch in the history of the sea- 
sons in “ the valley of the Ohio.” 
Marietta, Jan. 26, 1835. 
P. S. The winter thus far, has been mild—on the 5th of Janua- 
ry, the mercury sunk to 2° above Zero, which is the lowest—it re- 
