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fell on every day. during the first half of the month, and snow at 
15olton on both the 4tli aiul 8th, and at Cockonnonth on the 9th.” 
August, 1879, “was a cold and very wet month.” 
September, 1879, “from the Gth rain fell almost daily.” 
“The Aveather during the Avhole Quarter ending September, 
1879, has been cold, Avet, and sunless, being a continuation of the 
bad Aveathcr of the eight preceding months.” 
“The cloven months ending September, 1879, had a momi 
temperature of 4G-14— there are only t\\’o such seasons in this 
century, 1813 — 14 and 1815 — IG.” 
“The rainfall for the nine months ending September, 1879, Avas 
unprecedented, amounting to tAvonty-nino inches. The year 1828 
Avas the nearest, but that Avas 24 inches les.s.” 
October, 1879, “ Avas dull and sunles.s.” 
November, 1879, “exceedingly cold.” 
December, 1879, “remarkably cold, and Avas the fourteenth montli 
in succession of Ioav temporaturo. On the 7th there was a minimum 
temperature of - 1 degree at Cambriilge, Nottingham, and Stockton.” 
January, 1830, “was exceedingly cold, and Avas the fifteenth 
month in succession whoso mean temperature was below the 
average. The moan temperature of this month was o\ degrees 
beloAv tlio average for 39 years.” 
Let us hear the same Avitness as to the season 1880 81 
October, 1880. “The mean temperature of the air Avas 3.4 
degrees below the average of 149 years. Going back to 1 77 1, there 
are but seven years in which this month had so low a mean • and 
but throe years in this century, 1808, 1817, 1842. The ra'infall 
Avas e.Kceptionally largo; it Avas the coldest October since 1842 
and the Avettest on record.” 
November and December had about the usual averacre of botli 
temperature and rainfall. ° 
January, 1881. “The Aveather from the 12th to the <>7th 
remarkable for its severity; there Avas snow eA^ery day from" the 
9th to the 27th, e.xcepting the 25th,” and Ave all remember what 
the 18 th Avas. 
Noav, the Lombardy Poplar is a native of Persia, and the date of 
its introduction into Lombardy is unknoAvn ; but though it Avas 
carried to England by Lord Rochford, ambassador at Turin in 1758 
it did not roach Tuscany till 1805, thus showing that it did not 
