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REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 
REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 
Few of us can remember a more inclement autumn than has been 
lately experienced. Extremely keen frost set in at the end of October, 
though, luckily for those whose potatoes were still in the ground; it 
did not continue. The leaves of both pear and apple trees were killed, 
and many still remain on the branches as if they had been severed 
from the tree. This is a circumstance which but rarely occurs in this 
country, the leaves being usually shed before frost sets in to kill them 
on the tree. 
If frost has been thus so severely felt in the southern parts of the 
island; how much more intensely must it have been felt in the northern, 
both in gardens and fields, where, in the latter, the corn was yet green? 
So distressing are the accounts from the northern extremities of the 
three kingdoms, that a very sensible impression has been made on the 
London markets, lest the supplies of grain from those quarters should 
be deficient. A similar calamity has happened, it seems, in the United 
States of America, but from what cause is not said; and already many 
cargoes, drawn from the granaries of London and Liverpool, where they 
have been long bonded, are now on their way across the Atlantic. 
Such visitations are not unfrequent in cur changeable climate, and, 
were they only productive of loss and disappointment, sudden changes 
would be serious evils ; but they teach the gardener especially an useful 
lesson—they arm him with precaution for the future, show him which 
are the hardiest of his various products, and how the more tender may 
be kept in safety. 
November 25th, 1836’. : 
