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med carefully with a knife and set upright. Apples and peach- 

 es, half grown, were torn with the leaves, from the trees, present- 

 ing a very dismal appearance. A man who was plowing corn 

 on the island, took shelter under an apple tree, thinking it only 

 a common shower. He was bare-footed and bare-legged, and in 

 his shirt sleeves. The hail covered his feet above the ankles, 

 and nearly froze them before he could reach the shelter of a de- 

 serted building that stood near the field. Sheep, fowls, and 

 small animals suffered severely from the effects of the hail. At 

 Marietta, the cloud discharged rain principally, with a few scat- 

 tering hail-stones. The wind was light at the time, or the dam- 

 age must have been much greater. Large quantities of the un- 

 melted hail remained until the next day. It had quite an effect 

 on the temperature at Marietta, as the mercury, which stood at 

 68° in the morning, sunk to 62° at 2 o'clock P. M., while the 

 day before, it was at 80°, and the day following, at 76° at the 

 same hour, 



Flowering of plants and trees, ripening of fruit ^c, in 1840. — 

 March 1, Mezereon in bloom ; 2, white maple, and red elm ; 



18, early hyacinths ; 20, daffodil and dew-drop ; April 2, Pyrus 

 japonicus ; 3, peach and white-heart cherry begin to open ; 4, 

 damson ; 5, imperial gage ; 7, peach in full bloom ; 8, winter, 

 or pound-pear — puccoon and anemone; 10, service tree; 11, 

 Judas tree, or red-bud ; 13, apple nearly open ; 16, apple in full 

 bloom, early tulips open; 19, Cornus florida, or dog-wood ; 21, 

 tree peony, papaveracea, quince tree ; 22, tulips in full bloom, 

 apple shedding its blossoms ; 25, lily of the valley, yellow moc- 

 ason flower, or Cypripedium parviflorum ; 27, Anona glabra ; May 

 2, yellow single rose ; 5, Isabella and Catawba grape ; 6, a smart 

 frost, which destroyed many of the grape blossoms ; 14, black 

 walnut, Rubus villosa, or black-berry ; 17, white rose, and white 

 Chinese peony, for which latter flower the rose-bugs have an es- 

 pecial liking ; 22, many varieties of hardy roses in bloom ; 25, 

 Gladiolus, and Paeonia fragrans ; 26, peas fit for the table, some 

 years they are six or eight days earlier ; 27, pine-apple straw- 

 berry ripe ; June 6, white lily in bloom ; 13, early Russian cu- 

 cumber fit for the table, grown without artificial heat ; 14, red 

 Antwerp raspberry ripe ; 17, Lilium Pennsylvanicum in bloom ; 



19, blight in pear and quince trees, worse than ever before 

 known, nearly destroying trees of fifteen years growth ; 20, rye 



