Dr. Hildreth’s Meteorological Journal of Marietta, Ohio. 219 
zero, in the city of New York to 11° below, and at Ogdens- 
burgh, N. Y., to —38°. The extreme cold on the Atlantic coast 
Was said to be greater than at any time during the last seventy 
hearly every other year is a failure from the blighting effects of 
lite spring frosts, But for this drawback it would be one of the 
Most productive countries in the world in fruit, and the valle 
tthe Ohio as celebrated pomologieally as it now is for the.growt 
of Indian corn, The unusual heat of the spring is chiefly at- 
tnbutable to the month of May, which was 67°-20, or six degrees 
Move the average temperature, which is sixty-one degrees. The 
Was nearly that of June, and rarely experienced, as there is 
‘oumonly a difference of ten or twelve degrees in these two 
eg he peach was in blossom this year on the 28th of 
arch, and the apple on the 12th of April. In 1857 the peach 
pened on the 2nd of May, and the apple on the 9th. z 
Sunmer.—The mean of the summer months is 71°19, which 
i much below the average, notwithstanding the uncommonly 
temperature of June. The unpreeedented oecurrence of a 
Mi and destructive frost as late as the fifth of June over- 
Med the country with fear and astonishment; at a period in 
this wth of wheat usually considered as past all danger of 
decnee? sudden change of temperature in one night spread 
“ction and ruin to a large portion of the fields of this im- 
Portant Cereal over all the central portions of the valley of the 
