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REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 
REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 
Except four or five days about the middle of the month,, it has been 
a showery time, and vegetation has consequently progressed rapidly. 
Turnips sown a month back are already hoed out, and radishes are as 
fine as they were in the spring. Spinach, lettuce, endive, celery, and 
all other autumn crops, are growing freely. 
The first frosty nights were on the eighteenth arid nineteenth, which, 
however, did but little damage. The flowers of the dahlias were a little 
tarnished, and the youngest leaves blackened; the shoots of a few 
tender shrubs in low situations were also bitten, while those on higher 
situations escaped. This is invariably the case in the winter season, or 
in any season when there is frost; the plants in the lowest and most 
sheltered situations, being most tender, always suffer most, because, there 
being a more copious evaporation and less ventilation in such places, 
the frost falls much more severely. Shelter is effective against cutting 
winds, but it is no protection against frost, unless it acts as a covering. 
Formerly, when our seasons were more regular than they have been 
of late years, the end of the last month and the beginning of this 
(November) used to be particularly fine and temperate, always consi¬ 
dered a favourable circumstance for ripening late kinds of pears. So 
regularly did this fine weather occur about the time mentioned, that in 
France it was called “ the little summer of St. Martin ,” that saint’s day 
being the eleventh of November. At present, however, there is every 
sign that wet changeable weather will continue for some time longer; 
and in the intervals of fair weather, if the sky be clear on nights, white 
frosts generally occur, and such visitations will require to be guarded 
against wherever there is anything liable to be injured, more especially 
if drenched with rain. 
October 25 th , 1835. 
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