Juse 28, 1860.] THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 585 
very “early, have experienced the effects of the 
s, and we ‘lieve th rage oad early Potato crop 
ual. G 
rass is Good 
couple 
of its one farmers. W. P. 
bv. 
por 5 
ae slow "Grass 
very b ahant; cutting Grass very “thin on the aroa, 
s to be less than half a crop. A. Simpson, Beauly, 
LRCOLNSHIRE —Whe: 
ag ae last year. 
WE 
ordina: 
at must be a light crop, and falling ten days 
It sustained considerable S R from 
~ 
clima! te 
e but fi ; but s still 
asi is ae chanos of pet A being bought adok. cheape' 
bee and but th 
enhance price 
2 
THE Soth 
WEATHER OF gyin PAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS. | 
(Ar E 
ts TOW experienced some months of extra- | 
before "Paoli "and as we depend so much upon our 
sold at rather below previous pric ean temperature of 29°.3, and an actual range of 
9°.1 n the 10th of Ja oct the temperature 
had descended to 24°. 8, and on the 26th was 22°.0. 
In Fe r aoe py fe the 5th was the ho tte: st da, ay, Viz. 51°.5 
coldest, viz., 
m perature reached 57°.8 
s dea ere is a good deat of 
gutter is wan re 
ual to esh 0 hich, 
harve st, w Zip abt ten d to 
h as us 
d with ead of a late 
. 4S. 
was thi 
e 
es 
á 
pe 
a 
to 
the 
e 21st, the thermometer rose to 79°.8 
baring fallen to 30°, the month a with a me 
and Scotland. e highes est Poo ra 
for the abundance or failure of our crops it | hare has been 78, wi te has beef M A low as 39°.5. 
In pari 
aie 
torm Fee a on Monday, the cite ult., 
y stom ba changes 
more 1 
4. Somerby, metres etle: er el: 
urhood are pg 4 ci 
averages of the sa well 
atmospheric om nea a which are nega these 
changes ; and t 
weather under the various heads. 
Epe penei i oe 
s of the e past few moni 
me ade 
to pla 
t form the ‘greatest haat por "iid Which aa 
ane in the different months during the past 
e of | 18 years, viz. :— 
interest ‘heck 
read by the ete eao 
y really useful it will be necessary to 
In the first Ps it 
— 
Greatest 
Cold 
in Fore 18 
are 
est 
rr Greatest 
Heat 
of 1859. 
Greatest 
Month. at 
in ware i 
n never ov: 
rain for 
edt 
each month, and as regar s the former, within 
ards of the Highfield House p ekiri the late | gan 
f | Fe 
g 
© 
oR. 
pak 
oR 
e1] 1+} 
to 
the air several times daily from the 
1804, 
moore 
y ear 
and from that r to the 
yea 
time these observations have been continued 
myself, therefore t the ae series of 50 j Eys a|? 
luable mean n of t dI 
pongge 
a 
BRAKES OH 
Daho ode 
the influences sa reezes, away from large s Mils, 
r | 2} miles S.W. of the “on of Nottingham, bee! near] 
central as regards the geographical position of t 
Observatory. 
a inetd is the mean temperature of the last 
50 y 
ein CO wernt | 
HESVE SAS rare 
oat 
this y 
uary 
February | ae 
a ch 
he e day, 
a good crop, the other, at 
2) ot consider the Whe: ae aie 
than e 
er 
Deg. 79. 
61.3 
60.3 
56.6 ons 
49 4 ae A 8 beyond, Mad fell 3°, 6 iovo 
42.4 mber, “eatin alling Bg 
39.2 any previous ea “H Jan it 
— |a tenth of a sire his ed rth in aie "other ae 
March the temperatu d been 13°. g wag r than 
1860, | and i in April i it ad pek 11°.5 hot 
which has fallen during the 
past 18 months, hard subjoined oan will ex! ard obs 
concise er amount in comparison 
erag 
MR 
a) oe 
January . iay, (to 17th) 
February .. 
March 
+ | April 
a | Ma 
ve table. we wee 
ground; pies a -sown well Pl In 
for some time is pae affect 
November .. 
December .. 
ara 
a 
much pro- J 
not making u 
ae to sow on n late and a 
sae, “Ts 
pri w ae first six 
_ 46.1 
Mean of the last six 
mor nths . 51.5 
+} =. ARR 
To compare ba past winter spring x que 
it will be necessary to plese foe with Jauuary 1859, 
as the w Sab her throughout 1859 was also singular in 
act 
ge 
A 
AIN DURING THE z wid M 
ONTHS IN COMPARISON WITH 
crops; ; the woe er ee very Suddenly degree of the past 18 Months. BARM, 
pitius andali vegetation had been resuscita 
the extent of damage T nee 
ap m Temperature 
f 
Mean Amount of 
the 2° oo 17 
1859 
ears, 
Excess or 
defect of the 
Mean. 
an of 
ears, 
Excess 
1859. "fates ot of the 1859. 
Defect 
and 1860 
ears, 
of the Me: 
Month. 
in last 17 Years. | < 
and 1860, 
SERN AME 
Lang 
Greatest FE 
huon o ea bag | apr r 
Amount in 
Excess of 
of 1859 
last 17 Yı 
August . b 
September 
T 
at 
d 
A eros | tn 
8 
LE 
DONO or we Bo bo 
October .. 
attei 
Hm 
BNbD 
Mean IT E 
6 months 50.8 
th 
Mean of Ist 
6 months 47.2 
hatade 
sho 
Leth 
COON S nN ooe iho 
ag- 
EES 
Excess or 
defect of the Mean. 
vo ow 
2 
A 
deg. 
0.8 
o 
x 
Ama o 
Doe Ooo 
SOS to vibra § 
PIDID OO POND et amt ped pai 
PNR SO e o po co cò 
ssp9 H onopppog 
go 
ped ped pat 
January .. 
February .. 
rena ae 
June (to 17th) .. 
Mean of 1st 6 months 43.8 
a 
SSESS 
I+ 11+ 
nomns 
Wrravw 
| 
i 
w» 
w 
cow oan 
SU DUR co co po 
Hesses 
CUM wD 
peopor 
Senora 
eg 
Faas (to ans 
+ bein Xcess, E of the av 
ee Yearly 2 ace 25.9 inches. 
nah 20.6, or 5.3 inches below th 
Ist to June 17th, 9.7 eng 
y 1s 
A comparison of the pen tables aoe. oe nore first erage oant. 
ct months of 1859 were much warmer than r 
rage— April, San E older; June, of ab 
the usual heat; Ju olyan anit beng much Sean tl Sop. 
ember, October, an colder ; Dee 
as much as 54° eiia uae mean Tn 1860, 
an; February, March, and April, con- 
narn greet tha mean; May, a ual to 
ont Jun Pb the 17th, above 5}° 
us. 
—This be apie seem mbered for the 3 
erna hurricanes that wehavehad. For the,;past fortnight t to June 17th, 1860, 11.2 inches, or 
‘ost u! led Mather, wind and rain with now 
erday we had the meric fall 
ae. 
pee was a great ‘deficiency of rain in 1859 during 
the months of pg os E sani and October, and a 
ember, and December. 
as been a 
here wil poh be so 
a, — on on n 
have 
good as w: 
der 
have ears in a 
ces | the ie great 
on the 4th rs Octo! 
reg 
t changes, 
ber, per, 1839, 
gone fell. to 19°.4. Again: 
rose to 55.5; and on the ith th fel 
December it fell to 7°.0, w on tl 
a sy 17th, orig and 19th In beget a a TOVA 
er rising small range. In September rather 
e 26th at 8 A.M. poe, prigi 
the 31st descended to 28.735, 
In I Neveiaber on the Ist it d 
sea level ; digg et low on the ais 
mperatu 
ps respectively t mean 
temperature of the i the TS being 
7 a that rot the 3 
oy hades arkable for "its coca, t 
to 1, and the mea 
h as 
26th falling 
10th, d 11th, reaching 30. sm on 
|i 1800, in alab the barometer w: 
went up to from 5s. 6d. to 6s. 
of the wool for good mutton. But that brought outa very 
vy supply next market day, with few buyers, and there 
great og 
previous when i 
