MR. 0. 15. PLOWRIGHT ON RIME-FROST OF JANUARY 1889. 19 
from one another. A piece of wire-netting, stretched along the 
side of a held at Wolferton, was transformed into a sheet of 
gigantic lioney-comb of hoar-frost, the cells of which were confined 
to the south side, and were an inch and a half in depth. The 
telegraph wires were converted into ribbons of icy crystals, not 
into cables; and so heavy was the deposit upon them that, out 
of the fourteen which emanate from the Lynn Post Office, only 
one was in working order on the morning of the 7th. 
The fringe of rime upon all the objects pointed either soutli or 
south-west, and it was upon this side of the trees that the branches 
were broken. Those trees which occupied isolated positions, either 
in fields or by the road-sides, suffered most injury from the break- 
ing of their branches by the weight of the rime deposited upon 
them. In woods and plantations the trees, for the most part, 
escaped damage, those only on the south or south-west margins 
of the woods being injured. The total weight of the rime which 
the branches of some of the trees sustained must have been 
enormous. Many persons noticed how the arms were gradually 
bent down more and more as the rime accumulated, until at last 
tlioy gave way. This Mr. Herbert G. Ward witnessed on the 
morning of the 6th, with some Black Poplars, at Terrington 
St. Clements. At Congham Miss S. A. Pung was struck by the 
remarkable manner in which the branches of some Oak trees, 
standing in a hedge on the south side of a narrow lane, were 
bowed down to such an extent as to touch the hedge on the 
opposite side of the road, so that travellers along this lane passed 
beneath an arching canopy of hoar-frost. The boughs began to 
break off the trees as early as the evening of the 5th. At about 
5.20 p.m. on this date, a very large limb broke off one of the fine 
Elms opposite Middleton Hall. The Honourable Miss M. Milles 
measured this arm, and found it to be 1 foot 10 inches in diameter. 
It was, however, not perfectly sound. On the morning of the 6th 
many persons witnessed the fall of branches from various trees. 
The morning was perfectly still. Mr. Charles Bristow heard and 
saw a branch break off a Birch tree on South Wootton Heath at 
about 11 a.m. Mr. S. X. Marshall, at his house at West Lynn, 
watched the fall of the branches, one after another, from a number 
of Black Poplars which surround his garden, at various times 
during the day. On the following Monday, Mr. Alfred Burlingham 
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