68 Floricidtural and Botanical Notices, 



by very little clew. Nobody here hardly ever remembers so 

 early a frost, but it indeed appears in general unison with the 

 extremes of this year. A few agreeable days in the month of 

 May could scarcely be enjoyed, because a damp coldness pre- 

 vailed during the whole month ; though this, with the heat that 

 followed, was certainly favourable to vegetation, and put a check 

 everywhere to the voracious caterpillars. We experienced an 

 almost insupportable heat during the months of June and July, 

 when the thermometer continually varied between + 23° and 25° 

 of Reaumur (80° to 85°Fahr.). On the 15th of Juty, at 2 o'clock 

 in the afternoon, it was at +26*5° Reaum. (90° Fahr.), and it was 

 feared that it would rise still higher during the dog days ; but, 

 after a storm on the 26th of July, when the vicinity of Lands- 

 berg, on the Lake of Geneva, was visited by a destructive fall 

 of hail, the temperature became so low with us, that it was felt 

 painfully. At first, it was supposed that this was occasioned by 

 the storm, but we were soon informed that the like is experienced 

 even in warmer countries. Thus passed away those days (which 

 in other years are so warm), in continual rain and cold, till the 

 10th of August, when dry and warm weather again set in, and 

 the countryman, in most places, had the satisfaction of housing 

 his fruit. A tract of country, however, including Regensburg, 

 and a mile and a half round it in breadth, and five miles in 

 length, was visited by a tremendous hail storm on the 5th of this 

 month, when birds and small animals were found killed by it, 

 and the hope of fruit was annihilated for many years to come. 

 {Garten Zeitung, No. 36. p. 286., Aug. 1838.) 



Art. V. Botanical, Floricultaral, and Arbor icultural Notices on 

 the Kinds of Plants newly introduced into British Gardens and 

 Plantations, or which have been originated in them ; together with ad- 

 ditional Information respecting Plants (whether old or new) already 

 in Cidtivation: the whole intended to serve as a perpetual Supplement 

 to the " Encyclopedia of Plants,'" the " Hortus Britannicus," the 

 " Hortus Lignosus," and the " Arboretum et Fruticetum Britan- 

 nicum." 



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