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all groAvth in ash, and adds the same for beech and 
walnut, Avith injury to maple, sih^er balsam, 
Nordmann’s Douglas firs, Ceclrus Deodara, holly, 
willow and “ undoubtedly many others,” in 
addition to most already named, 
blooming strawberries have escaped 50 to 100 
per cent, of the earlier kinds being lost for 
fruit, 90 per cent, of apple; a few early-set 
cherry, plum and pear saved. At Malton, as 
reported in the Leeds Mercury Agricultural Notes, 
May 27, potato shoots were killed two inches doAvn. 
The same notes report grass blackened at Beverley, 
gooseberries and currants destroyed at Doncaster ; 
sleet again, on the 25th at Bichmond, mangold 
AAuirzels cut off at CroAvland, S. Lincolnshire^ where 
also, round Holbeach, wheat vras yellow and many 
turnips had to be re-soAAm. The Beverley report 
speaks of ‘‘ nothing like it since a severe frost. May 
81st, nearD 30 A’ears ago.” Was this the 1855 
frost or, perhaps, 1856, Avhich at York AAms only 
L higher ? Here the thermo, never fell below 
30° in MaA' between 1859 and 1876. 
From Bolton Abbey, Wharfedale, specimens sent 
shoAv just the same as noted of oak, ash, and beech ; 
the autumnal efiect of the latter among the spring 
green, is most extraordinary. Higher up the moors 
snoAv six inches deep was reported. 
further soutli the frosts Avere less severe, apparently. 
Postscript —By early autumn all trees but beeches 
had practically recovered their leafage. On these 
it Avas very poor. On oaks, careful examination 
shoAved a deficiency and an unusual proportion of 
leaves on the inner branches. 
Only late 
J. EDMUND CLABK. 
