Sir JouN Cuttum's Account of a remarkable Frof. 447 
that the farmers were alarmed for thofe crops. ‘The wheat 
was not much affected. The larch, Weymouth pine, and” 
hardy Scotch fir, had the tips of their leaves withered ; the 
firft was particularly damaged, and made a fhabby appearance 
the reft of the fummer. The leaves of fome afhes, very 
much fhelteredin my garden, fuffered greatly. A walnut-tree 
received a fecond fhock (the firft was from a fevere froft on the 
26th of May) which completed the ruin of its crop. Cherry- 
trees, a ftandard peach-tree, filbert and hafel-nut-trees, fhed 
their leaves plentifully, and littered the walks as in autumn. 
The barberry-bufh was extremely pinched, as well as the hy- 
pericum perforatum and hirfutum: as the two laft are folfti- 
tial, and rather delicate plants, I wondered the lefs at their 
fenfibility; but was much furprifed to find, that the vernal 
black-thorn and {weet violet, the leaves of which one would 
have thought muft have acquired a perfect firmnefs and 
ftrength, were injured full as much. All thefe vegetables ap- 
peared exactly as if a fire had been lighted near them, that had 
fhrivelled and difcoloured their leaves : 
penetrabile frigus adurit. 
At the time this havock was made among fome of our hardy 
natives, the exotic mulberry-tree was very little affected; a 
fig-tree, againft a north-weft wall, remained unhurt, as well 
as the vine, on the other fide, though juft coming into bloflom. 
I fpeak of my own garden, which is high; for in the low 
ones about Bury, that is but a mile off, the fig-trees, in pat- 
ticular, were very much cut: and, in general, all thofe gar- 

dens fuffer more by froft than mine. 
Some weather, that was cold for the time of year, had pre- 
ceded this froft. On the 21ft the thermometer had, at no 
time of the day, rifen to 60°; on the 22d, at ten at night, it 
Vow. LXXIV. ris had 
