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JULY 15th. 
Climate. — Thundersho wer. — Subsequent Fresliness.~Fog. — Agricultural 
Productions. — Weeds. — Canada Thistle. — Burrweed. — Spurry. — Blue 
Bird. — Baltimore Oriole. — Humming Birds. — Dewberry.— Raspberry. 
— Timothy Grass. — Indian Wickup. — Orange Lily. — Fox-coloured 
Sparrow. — Orange Comma Butterfly. — Pearly Eye. — Eyed Brown. — ■ 
Compton Tortoise. — Remarkable variety of Forked Butterfly. — Banded 
. Purple. — Dragon Moth. — Coerulean. — Pink Arches. — Twin Gold-spot. 
— Clouded Cream. — Spotted Lemon. — Drab Plume. — Caterpillar of Va- 
pourer, — of Grey Comma Butterfly. — Dragon Fly. — Hoof Boletus. — 
Toad Beetle — its Larva and Pupa-— Habit of counterfeiting Death.-^ 
Skunk — its fetid Odour — Mode of Emission — Habits. — Blue and Gold 
Cerambyx. — Black and Yellow Whame-fly. — Punctured Beetle. — 
Sweet-scented Milkweed. — Resort of Insects. — Dandelion. — Scatter- 
ing of Seeds. 
Charles. — What a strange climate is ours ! a climate of 
extremes. A few months ago the thermometer was down 
to 30° below Zero: now it is ranging from 90° to 100° 
above : showing an annual range^ that perhaps scarce any 
other part of the world can equal. 
Father. — It has been very hot lately ; and the cloud- 
less atmosphere^ through which the sun darts the full blaze 
of his beams, makes the heat in the open air exceedingly 
oppressive^ almost too hot to labour. But the thunderstorm 
of last evening cooled the air, and laid the dust^ which rose 
before in choking volumes. 
