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the 11th at Helston ; on the 20th at Chislehurst ; on the 24th at 
Carlisle ; on the 26th at Weybridge ; on the 28th at Oxford and 
CuUoden ; on the 29th at Eastbourne ; on the 30th at London; on 
the 31st at Strathfield Turgiss. 
Hardy Apple was in blossom on the 20th of March at Helston; on 
the 30th at Oxford ; on the 31st at Eastbourne. 
Cherry was in blossom on the 14tli of Marcli at Brighton ; on the 
_'2nd at Oxford ; and on the 31st at Carlisle. 
Plum was in blossom on the 7 th of March at Strathfield Turgiss ; 
on the 12tli at Helston; on the 13th at Oxford; on the 24th at 
Weybridge Heath ; on the 28th at Culloden ; and on the 31st at 
Carlisle. 
Rooks began to build on the 22nd of March at Brighton. 
Second Quarter (^April, May, June). — The weather at the end of 
Marcb and till tbe first week in May was very changeable, there 
were alternately a few days of warmth, and then a few days of cold, 
the warm periods preponderating both in duration and in excess of 
temperature over the defects of temperature and cold. Till May 
.jth the temperature was in excess to the amount of 2f^ on the 
average daily. From the 6th of May to the 12th of June, with the 
exception of three or four days of moderate warm weather at the 
end of May, the weather was cold, the sky mostly cloudy, the nights 
of low temperature with hoar frost and frequent rain, the average 
deficiency of daily temperature was 3^°. On June 13th a warm 
period set in, and for some days the weather was fine, bright, and 
hot, but towards the end of the month it was again changeable, 
there was an excess of daily temperature above these averages 
of 3|°. Some heavy thunderstorms took place during the hot 
weather in June 17th, 18th, and 19th, principally over the Northern 
and Midland Counties. 
The changeable weather which had thus prevailed nearly 
throughout the quarter, sometimes warm but frequently cold, till 
the middle of June, caused all cereal crops to be in a backward 
state, as they did not receive sufficient warmth and sunshine ; 
their forward state in the early spring was entirely lost through 
the low temperature and harsh weather in the month of May. 
Under the influence of the bright sunshine and hot weather about 
the middle of June, everything progressed satisfactorily and rapidly ; 
at the end of the quarter vegetation generally was about ten or 
twelve days later than in an average season. The wheat crop was 
generally in ear or in bloom. The storms in June had, in some 
places, laid the wheat, and in others, blown off the blossoms, but 
