The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-18 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

Oar =temporary, the Gardeners' aronic'e, pub-
lishes ebb week reports from upwards of two hundred cor-
respoodenta In all the counties of Sogland, and from mazy
pans of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. of the prospects of
the harvest in their respective districts. The returns of
wheat end barley ate almost uniformly favourable,and pro-
mise a result above the ge. In many i/renege •
"great bleed& "of wheat Is reported—a feet resell:lag of
aeons from the high price of grain during the lest winter,
and the prospect at that time of a truth:manes of the war
The reports of the state of the green crops present a re-
makable eastraw, great complaints being made from mazy
districts. West of rain is generally mention. des the ewe
of failure. The showers of last week, however, will proba:ily
have caused some improvement, without being auffici. etly
heavy or continuous to damage the cereal crops.
Of 147 rename from venous parts of 39 &iglu& cionntige,
82 represent the standing wheat as remarkably good, or
over average ; 67 return an " an ',la" or "medium" crop ;
while 8 only are poeltively unfavourable. The neighbour-
hoods of Berneley, Think, Tante (Cheshire), Durham,
Doddenham (Worcester), Brook Wtegham (Kent), and
Code Castle, are the exceptional dinnete, the wheat there
being light and "under average," or "injured by blight"
and "Hy." Of the barley in the same counties, 83 out if
144 reports speak highly favourably, 39 'teatime average or
medium crop, and 23 ere enfavoerable—including such
IMMO as "sot average," or " leader average," " ripe too
soon," h la the aeighbourhood of Blakemore (Here.
lord), Brasfield (Suffolk), and in some parts of Notting
hellishly., the barley Is said to be "bed,' "light," or
"deficient." Colefired(Olinoestershire) alone repute .• very
bed." The results ee regards the oat cope are equally
encoureolog. High rfour repute employ the terms
" good," " very good," heavy, in; thirty. nine imply
ae "avenge" crop, while sixteen are lose favourable;
though none report to worn terms than " light," " Judd
fount," or " under average." Pees and beam, where re-
ported, present results equally satlafeetory. With regard,
however, to what ere tecionically called " green crepe,"
the replies, as we have already indicated, yield a large pro.
pinion of completing—the iortbeen and tome midland
counties, however, appearing is this respect to be more rot-
tener*. The return item Cheshire, Deihl shire, and moat
puts of Yorkshire speak in the big beat arms; in the two
former counties the green crops are stated to be healthy and
" luagetaut." From Lumen northern and mid laud
counties ere have fifty-two reports, c f which eighteen are
'Telethon to an n avenge," ail unfavourable, and twenty-
eight good. Twenty five other CrlOritiff show a great coo
is Worcesterehire, Oloiceitenhire, Somerset, Wilts,
Surrey, Hempthire, &c., the accounts are generally lad.
Ninety-five repays horn these twenty five counties r solve
themselves late sixteen favourable, nutty-six average, end
failed.
fifty-theee had. In Soffalk turnips Sr. reported to have
The Bench retorts give similar results—the nreighlrur•
hood of Selkirk stone repotting the wheat • coder
average." la Roes, Inverness, AbtfOtf•, and Elgin, the
mops are spoken of as heavy, Weenier, or gotten tau r
avenge. Barley and oats in the same counties receive a
*hennar scarcely legs favourable. Twenty-three returns
of the wheat in tie liana give one aufavoulable, six aver-
age, and siveen 13 gely favourable. Of barley, twenty two
reports give two under average, or indifferent, eight
average, and twelve favourable. Of cats (so important to
our Scottoh treihr, e), thrteen out of twenty-two retorts
are very tay.urahle, eight average, and one only under
avant. Of the green crops, the accounts are venous, save
in the fuer counties first mentioned, which appear to be
uniform, y fortunate—the green crepe there being repotted
to be good or v,ry promising.
The WI returns are also Venter. Wheat, barley, and
oat, urear to be genera ly good. In the county of D.wa
a great extent of wheat is reported. Thirty-Tar mares
of the appearance of the waist welts in Ireland are onapond
of 29 highly favourable Ler ...ay/sage," and one unfa-
vourable; the wheat nos the neighboarbood of Raodeil's
Town, county Antrim, being reported to be "rusted " Of
barley, 16 out of 27 report. are very favourable, 7 "avenge,"
and 4 return "snort," " tufenor," or "ender avenge."
Of oats there ire 36 report., of which 4 give tt inferior " or
" non," 4 "average, ' while 28 ere very favourable. The
Irish green crape appear abet ro have suffered considerably-
-17 out of 36 reports being positively unfavourable. Beans
and peas appear to Dave been little oul•lvated.
A few Welsh reports present the same features. The re-
turns for the United Kingdom any De summed up thus:
Wheat —207 reports. Very fav 4grahle, 129; Pr or
terms equivelent to average. 68; bed, 10.
Barley.-196 reports. Very favourable, 114; average,
64; bad, 27.
Oats.-200 reports. Very favourable, 128; average, 61 ;
bad, 21.
Organ crops.-208 reports. Favourable, 69 ; avenge, 66;
bad, 84.
flume district+ remain etill unreported; bat the above
abstract will sedicleotly indicate the probable character of
the harvest In the United Kingdom.