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On the Effects of the Winter of 1879-80. 



Araucaria, Deodars, Cedrus Lihani, Boxwoods, Privets, Ivies all killed. 

 Weymouth Pine blasted by frost. Arbor Vitses alive but much browned. 

 Cupressus Lawsoniana, var. erecta, Finns Gembra, Abies Canadensis alive, but 

 much blasted. Oaks in low situations killed. Yew planted when Lady Bos- 

 wall was born, killed into the ground. Fine Tulip tree injured. Walnut 

 tree killed entirely. 190 fruit trees in garden, consisting of Plums, Apples, 

 Pears, Peaches, &c., had to be dug up and removed. Both wall trees and 

 standards suffered. Over 70 trees in garden at Allanbank, situated on the 

 opposite side of river, had to be dug up completely dead. The fine old Ivy 

 so ornamental at the gate and on some of the old trees, was completely killed. 

 Fifteen years judicious planting by the late Mr Eae is completely wrecked, 

 and the beauty of the place greatly destroyed for many years to come. At 

 Kelloe, about a mile higher up the stream, the gardener informs me that 

 there is not an evergreen left — that on the night of the 26th January, when 

 the thermometer was 20" below zero, the Limes and Oaks were heard to rend 

 with a loud report from the expansion of the sap. This was heard also at 

 Blackadder and Kimmerghame, where there is also great destruction to trees. 



The Great Frost of January, 1881. 

 Observations taken at Blackadder Gardens by Mr Eeed : — 



DATE. 



MAX. 



MIN. 





DATE. 



MAX. 



MIN. 



1 



34« 



30° 





17 



18° 



22° below zero* 



2 



42 



37 





18 



25 



12 



3 



44 



33 





19 



35 



13 



4 



41 



30 





20 



32 



13 



5 



40 



21 ■ 





21 



31 



3 



6 



42 



24 





22 



25 



1 



7 



39 



19 





23 



33 



24 



8 



35 



20 





24 



32 



10 



9 



25 



13 





25 



28 



3 below zero. 



10 



30 



15 





26 



35 



16 below zero t 



11 



30 



21 





27 



24 



12 



12 



26 



13 





28 



27 



17 



13 



30 



24 





29 



36 



24 



14 



34 



6 below 



zero. 



• 30 



34 



29 



15 



29 



1 below 



zero. 



31 



45 



30 



16 



25 



12 below 



zero. 









[At the half-yearly meeting of the Scottish Meteorological Society, March 

 3, 1881, Mr Buchan, the Secretary, said that the thermometer at Blackadder 

 was an exposed one, and could not be taken into account in making compari- 

 sons with other places.] 



* Wood-pigeons observed to fall ofE the trees frozen and starved. Many cases 

 of frost bite. 



t Wood-pigeons allowed themselves to be caught by the hand at the sheep- 

 boxes in the fields. Partridges also caught by the hand, and Water-hens the 

 same. 



