JaxvaxnY 12, 1861.] 
= ск CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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assistance in their powe 
, and commonly 
ds and resell them 
s these government officials 
tha cause y M iain and hindrance to trade 
in this country. 
I have by "this mail ко 
containing my diary о 
hope I dy find it tiik 
eek. 
viá Southampton, a 
r trip to Fusi-Yama, 
and I [It 
appear n 
oukuhamna, Oct. 20,1860.—1 have ibp la 
1 | 
ийет, be a short letter, an 
wh 
ы; = а gpl trust they will co 
The inclosed list. will 
will 
"- 
red worthy of a ad has 
the 
en 1 and 2 
тк taas | ыу 
Y ren ес and the man said 
as atl 14* — but t Тошу vouch for 
may put it pm thus 
, thermometer 
„„ 
^» 
| | Dee. "зи, : A.M., thermometer 
» - 
8 
9. 
„э 
, p 4-6 
0 - - 
as brought out rod the e hall 
Tut continued эрекче; È cold 
here began a steady rise 
É 8 thick es horizontal i. 
I have compared it 
cold 
Meri 
oors аА тапу уч: 
that last 
Mee 
2-44 
rest by 3°, so 
y 
as they think pro the 
| shrubs, &c., here 
that e had it below zero, 
16°=16 degrees. | 
7'=25 : | Cs 
with 
T 
who 
per. The effect of last year's fros! 
was most deplorable, c I n pue pe few | 
‚ chang in the morning of the 30th 
have e а pa 2 the severest frost I have ever experienced. 
| W € t its ravages may be time alone can tell, The А есд, == 
| bro — Fitllyrons are quite black in every ins! 
road.leaved Holly and Magnolias, "Ber- 
seems to 
ngs o the T te 
aki РА ambra s E 'registerin g thermometers, 5 feet 
Po. ced o oppo posite each other, on а wire trellis 
alk. eger; ‚ Gardener to J. Noble, pros 
rmometer ror ed was 1 ing 
house is abo 00 yards trom tbe — an 
about 15 to tad feet — the. vel of v ut there are 
| mi he shore. At souse on the 
shoreit w: ; in ror ee má—— of пота 
three V. four miles vide 
minu walk fro 
sea, ihe К ermo dct 
o of temperature, as it is interestir 
the sea on the tem 
94th ins Friday, 9st 
peret situation is high, 
w 
| 
garden well; tho. f ce 
ч my gardening friends, who hav may | is N.E. The ano ууу d. the "E measured in 
give you all pa t cula "t | form some idea of what they ma ex peo Aucuba qmm situation rather чаб: ring U inches; аа n ety t =“ 
Мт. Hodae,. — Jritish Consul at Hako odadi, i бе| агре and small, killed to the ground ; Evergreen Oaks, planted | appeared, and I ТЕ to say that the Broccoli is to a very 
now here, en route for England. He takes home with | 30 years. ара «зи — He: Д the “ground ; serious amount affected, т cd of » 1 на droopi: thair 
i r, icl ге filled | nearly all the Ivy killed to the ground ; Laure us- | heads already, and the Bay: also very much browned at the 
hip шг Pry plan ts for Kew, which I have fille um — to We G = аы in ыру elis, points ү Rt we have indications оа ти return of the e frost, the 
u and some p ge - | glass standi at mi ly 8° vu 
ч уж. also filled а case for the French Minister, to | bris, with Araucaria imbricata per i quite killed ; | 5558 батар ns, Baih, ГА reezing. 
о to Paris, and one ot Tea plants for the captain of сеа D vnd кше, all re ie d тай м Specimens. к ты give an d A 4 Дере ok peo T5 give th E: E 
.M.S. “ Berenice," for Bombay. These little matters ы ack owing extra sters о е'в an Tiek er- 
* Frank М. Coldiwelis, g rw 2 4. Gi ноп n Walden, Essex. Whio 
take up much time; but keung received many kind-| "The efcts of (he severe frost in d will bo long monete the Botanie IN s Uns medium 
nesses, I am anxious and glad to show my gratitude as | felt. On the morning of the 25th the mercury fell to 1 er town and country. The two thermome gine 
far p I possibly can. below zero, and on the morning of the 29th to 7" below zero by side, about 4 feet above the surface of the ground : 
to Yeddo. on the 22d, and stopa month. This is The destruction among the shrubs in the garden here Adie's ryson's. 
"e pd d dts МЫ ы, great ; largo bushes of Auot ie japoni Garrya elliptica, Arbu- | . Monday morn., Dec. 24 .. 5° below Бу 
the Minister. Е: ат іп hopes of finding - some fine 
plants there. 
No. Yeddo, E $ 1860.—An opportunity of 
sendin ng qe tters England but so seldom offers, 
f 
Iam Lom аанын. to take a + жыша of the present one, and 
tea 
The British Legitbii^e mail leaves to- day, and tbis 
letter will be from the Foreign Office in London. 
This is а most beautiful city, some of the buildings 
in it are as fine as urope, e Mp e 
and А I never saw во clean а 
before. walks — in the immediate v x 
of and in the very to tself are beautiful, such as 
ou would appreciate in the neighbourhood of London. 
e great drawback is the hostile feeling of the 
officials, which sooner or later will, I fear, bring us into 
trouble with Jap 
At ur es for sale with 
out first vig. Ж нь Ъу tbe € officials at the 
thm he E told what price to ask. or going 
p yourself, it is "Pon impossible, for li 
ә МА directly you e to sell you thiug. я 
was told foreigners must pay 2d., = I could not get it 
You need not suppose we are in any danger | re 
s all this; I merely tellit to jt; to show the feel- 
of the officials, who all the tim tend to be our 
— ME 'at all events for th 
reum TT as СЕБЕ «E: 
Altogether 8 а most in 
zais =з tbinge 1 Aayo happente more favou nu me 
could have expected; but I am satisfied i in my 
eva uin it will ve pome time before Europeans 
{stol far inland in Ј. 
All — + c 
be eontinvet.) 
T 
Home Correspondence. 
"ck 9 xoig 
extensive ө Tabie d Мы АУ 
column :— - 
M. i 
Although my neighbou: Chater only. 
апа laughed at when c4 
cold experienced he 
fog slightly secured the 
ly obscured the 
ы оп the 25th, the 
tuses, Phillyreus, 
mi- 
find that the Welling- 
rost witbout injury, also the 
2 тет with a 
of birds, 
a glad to 
acm to have ^m "ihe f 
Berberis J japonica and Beali. 
severit, y of the weather, and Tg 
ma со 
Qin at present; 
of the MÀ неу" alle disap 
oca illian m Culverwell, Tho: 
wish to know the effect of the intensity 
ре of the country, I beg to send yon 
facts relating to 16, tbat occurred at Chatswi 
. 24, at 6 o'clock Б the Ар bn thermometer re at 
ien down to5* above 
cold I have never 
таей in so sho P Mme. This P 
intensity had a remarkable effect — the ces T t whic 
fong т анса the park. About 9 o'clock А.м. the river be 
aes У 
red. 
жч 
very а in s тафо like a steam 
about 40 D 50 le into the atmo- 
n Shen, of 
and 
a dense body 
and the “idos” of the. valley 
S co at distance T 
ithin 
moved 
singular form: ve the whole аксы уез: 
floating poema оу of snow. At 11 o'clock bei сп са 
the Аа descended 19° below zero, 
t this 
Me c of 
Et 
of a 
eer vegetation i itd Er now s epe 
covered м dene 
say, as th 
inform us if De 2 
ex 
w 
| tivi 
div: 
э or tr their. water. © the last four 
days the minis ND mperatu ture here is as dome, vis vix. T D 
4th Jan., 19°+; Bth, 28° + ; 6th, AUS Tth, 20°+ ; 8th, 10°+. 
ALS Lyord, Баа KEasthorpe Hall, Ма 
t real а 
of the 20th, зат hamer 3 КҮҮ о 
snow fell.. Night mild. Оп the night of the 2156 the thermo- 
meter 17° of frost; 92, 15°; and night of 23d, 26°; 
the t the] lowest Н bas been. Itis5'lowertban minimum 
of 1859. This is unusually low for this part of the aig 
lants e y will I fi 
єз tar Уе afternoon 
the m 
"clock Р. x qo 6 inches оё|, 
Tuesday morn., ,, 25 .. 
Wed. morn., » 
Тһитв morn, 
Frida 
Royal жы Garden, , Edinb rgh, Ji 
I find on irige re that ie. Lans Bay. А Ны fad 
— 2 -— нче ае неу and some Hollies, are ^ kill from 
on the 25th. Peach trees are also 
» 
coal would be а scarce Le for the canals are frozen over 
and афо stopped in this loeslity. J. байа, The Ga rdens, 
Willer: шу, рои caf 
The registered at thisplace on the night 
of the pP (^y 94th "i hi month were as follows :—16° by а 
С со е ace M er of Newman's, which has been 
h has been — with еа veri- 
fied тна a Royal. Society K ow ur aca y pota 
4° Negretti and Zambra 
These two last. are self- registering thermomet i TP on 
modus. which have not. TE by бна. 
thermometer, чаровей Mis therthimeter 
stand made of louvre board, open on the top to the north, 
but which rege the thermometer from ali sun in summer. 
Of the other ne was suspende! o 
ві relin е Neben s but 
the uteris ett stand, which I pen Y Le т montbs. 
ago, intercepts radiation, ce "n ould have 'a degree 
dece ар nr ge the John Rogers, e Hill, 
e e ecl of ot the night РЕ the Tth and morning of thë 8th ex- 
ceeded that rion. D E. by 1°,-being 4° below zero. 
R, Elphin y, Suffolk, Jan. & , 1861. 
On the міні гы fe p Severe Weather.—Féw 
people ene kazy meteorological 
observait variations of поре 
hich ex xist i m midana Я жай in areas compare 
vely circumscribed, which produce a 
"hos the 
vergence ley Jag 
rather than climatic, Ties тек capable of being modified 
if not removed, there can be little doubt; the know- 
mon of the existence of an evil is often the first step 
to its removal. Ву а fair comparison of observations of 
temperature from" different parts of the country, we 
eral Bai nui ; suggestive 
1а acqua ainted with а garden i їп Nottine- 
eut uj 
with NEN 
Mount е 
тор а, ре PS рны. 
A.M, contin so to ascen. 
The Tio Preceding evening showed п no o indications of such a severe 
frost, a thick fog ен rra ng 
ometer indicating 20° 
rct; 
indieating 
tinued 
pods of seeds, d another spot been pointed 
A: p Bird ж pe о оп бя north vod gas so well : 
that pproaching it the mail coach 
many places in in Notts ar 
are in this iniy and d бағ loves m 
Mw сс The w 
to give the par- 
at Belvoir Castle 
- 30, 1860. Im 
were taken 
с on а stand such as is used b 
