66 Winter of 1837-8 at Munich, 



frosty, instead of a mild, May. Unfortunately, there was 5^° of 

 frost on the 30th of April, and 2£ on the 1st of May, so that the 

 plants were, indeed, clothed in snowy whiteness, the emblem 

 of innocence; but, instead of youthful joyful ness, they appeared 

 in a miserable icy covering. 



Thus, in the beginning of May, neither gardeners nor farmers 

 could sow their seeds, and the seed corn and garden seeds, which 

 should have been put in the ground in the beginning of March, 

 could only with much difficulty be sown in April; and even such 

 as peas, onions, carrots, &c, which had been sown earlier, by 

 taking advantage of favourable moments, remained dead in the 

 cold soil. Almost every plant in nature was leafless ; the 

 prospect of fruit and wine was doubtful, and it was much feared 

 that those plants which had fortunately escaped the winter, would 

 now fall a sacrifice, in what ought to have been the most beau- 

 tiful time of the year, and this, indeed, proved to be the case 

 with the following: — 



Catalpa syr/wg^folia, which had already put out buds, was, 

 during those cold days, killed back even to the strongest 

 branches ; also ^mygdalus communis and sibirica, the mulberry, 

 the Cercis Siliquastrum and canadensis, Z)iospyros Z>6tus, Zilia 

 alba, all the species of Juglans, Primus pumila, and Ribes san- 

 o-uineum, were all severely injured. The latter lost the points 

 of the present year's shoots (des jahrigen Holzes), but it flowered 

 beautifully on the old wood. The cherry trees also suffered, 

 particularly the WcicJiselm ; also several of the vines which had 

 been pruned, with the exception of the blue August Traube, which 

 is the most suitable for our climate. Hardly a single tree has 

 been entirely killed by the last winter's frost, but they have all 

 suffered more or less; particularly A^cev macrophyllum and 

 nigrum; the young stocks of Ailantus glandulosa, Primus 

 prostrata, Cydonia, and the species of .Elasagnus, only on the 

 present year's wood ; all the Platanus, and .Rhus vernix. R. Coti- 

 nus, which dies almost every winter with us, remained this year 

 uninjured. {R. Coriaria does not stand out here at all). Salix 

 babylonica, and the variety with curled leaves (S. b. crispa) ; 

 several of the ifosaceae, such as ikfespilus germanica and Smith//, 

 Crataegus punctata, prae v cox, elliptica, pentagyna, Pyracantha, 

 and even Oxyacantha, with many others, have also suffered 

 much, but more in consequence of the dryness of the early part 

 of the summer, than from the severity of the winter. This was 

 also the case, in the spring of 1837, with many groups of A^cer 

 tataricum, Neg/mdo J\'a,x\m?6\ium, and many poplars and species 

 of ashes. We may probably live to see similar consequences in 

 future successive years. 



On the contrary, the following, which we consider tender, 

 stood the early winter's cold without the least injury ; viz. A^cer 



