This April's frosts have done an immensity of damage to
small fruit, peaches, plums, and pears, and to very early potatoes. One of the plants that rather surprisingly suffered greatly in appearance, though not so much in reality, was the rhubarb. Iti great leaves turned from spring green to an autumnal yellow in the first of the north-westerly frosts, though it had endured successfully the harder frosts from the north-east. The same night levelled many flower plants, especially delphiniums and, yet more surprisingly, the young leaves of the ivy. The browning of the white petals of the plums was pitiful. Happily, the apples were far enough hack to be safe ; and did not suffer as in last April, when -wen unopened buds were sterilized by the cold. But that frost was beyond the records. It even broke the eggs of ground-nesting birds.
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