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REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 
During the first five days of the present month we had variable 
weather, with harsh, sometimes cold and chilly wind from the east or 
northward. On the sixth it set in dry and remarkably warm, and 
continues pretty regularly so nearly up to the present time, though not 
without some of those sudden changes of temperature which are so often 
experienced in this climate. On one occasion the thermometer varied 
from 82° to 52° in the course of twenty-four hours. There have been 
some thunder storms in different parts of the kingdom, which being 
accompanied with hail, have caused some damage to both field and 
garden crops in Cambridgeshire and other places. 
Vegetation, assisted by the previous fine rains, and prompted by the 
high temperature which followed, came on rapidly. Peas and other 
culinary crops were quickly plentiful. Strawberries and cherries are 
already abundant in the London market, the latter not half ripe, by the 
bye ; but such is the avidity with which everything fresh or new is 
bought up, that much money is made of both young fruit, cherries and 
gooseberries; and vegetables, as potatoes, for instance, in a state in 
which they can scarcely be considered either palatable or wholesome. 
The aphis has been, as usual, prevalent, especially on sickly wall trees, 
on hops and other plants, and have required much laborious attention 
to free peach and nectarine trees from their attack. Orchard fruit 
appears to be everywhere plentiful. 
For the last three davs we have had abundant rain, with the wind at 
south-west. 
June 27, 1835. 
