. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Revue HorticoU for the use of thewoodcuts illustrating this article by the accomplishedEditor of that journal.] of December 22. The havoc it wrought about Brad-ford will cause it to be remembered a long Charles Harding, in a paper describing the phe-nomenon, said the storm was one of exceptionalseverity, especially over the northern portions ofEngland and Ireland, and in the south of greatest violence of the wind occurred at Fleet-wood at about 9 A m , and for four honrs the vel
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. Revue HorticoU for the use of thewoodcuts illustrating this article by the accomplishedEditor of that journal.] of December 22. The havoc it wrought about Brad-ford will cause it to be remembered a long Charles Harding, in a paper describing the phe-nomenon, said the storm was one of exceptionalseverity, especially over the northern portions ofEngland and Ireland, and in the south of greatest violence of the wind occurred at Fleet-wood at about 9 A m , and for four honrs the velocityexceeded that of any wind recorded in the BritishIsles. The Board of Trade Returns show that167 lives were lost during the gale, and the destruc-tion of property was enormous. Within a day ortwo of the close of the year 1894, temperature forthe preceding three months had been much aboveaverage, and farmers profited by the mildness, forthe after-grass was plentiful, and the cattle could beturned out almost every day. But after that, rightaway into March, more than two months, the tem-. FlO, 114.— CANNA ITALIA: TO SHOW HABIT. (One-twentieth of the natural size.) A SUMMARY OF THE WEATHEROF THE NATURAL following obiervations were commenced atthe autumnal equinox in 1894, and brought to anend with the similar event in 1895, the localitybeing Bradford. The weather during the latter partof September and all October in 1894 was unre-markable. The trees shed their leaves naturallythrough decay, and not from violence of the first frost occurred October 22. On November 12the barometer was very low, but as the weather atBradford scarcely corresponded to so low a reading,one naturally looked for the cause somewhat furtheraway. In South Wales and tbe south-west ofEngland the rain fell in torrents, causing the riversrapidly to rise, and flood the adjacent damage to property and some loss of life wasthe consequence. For some days after, storms andshipwr
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