The Washington critic., 1890-01-27
NOT SOMETHING NEW.
The Country Has Experienced a Num-
ber of Mild Winters.

ber of Mild Winters.
reply to the question if the mildncss
of the present winter had ever been
equaled in the Middle and Northwestern
States, the Atlanta Constitution says;
We have a clipping from the Taun-
ton, Mass, Gazette, which furnishes au
answer TO our correspondent which will
doubtless be satisfactory:
1S3S-39-A very mild winter; only
three or four cold days and no sleigh
ing.
1S40--Dccembe ii, Is and 10 very
mild days; flowers starting,
1s49 16j0--A mild winter robins re-
NAMED all winter. -
1e57-1sjS-AIild winter. December
"a, 1857, a dandelion in bloom was
picked at Weir Village. January 2S,
1858, buds on the cherry trees swelling.
1S60--December 27, mercury is Gl
degrees above to-day.
1S66-Decembe s. full blown rose
was picked in Connecticut to-day.
1S6S.lS69-A very mild winter.
1S69.1S7O-A remarkably mild win
ter December s, trees and shrubbery
in bud and grass green as in May. All
through the month of January dustmen
swept the streets of Boston and New
York; on the 10th, in Olympia, Wash.
twenty-five varieties of flowers were
picked in the open air; farmers plowed
in Massachusetts, violcts bloomed in
New England and peas we're two inches
above ground on Long Island. In this
city buds of the arbutus and pansies in
bloom were picked on January 2S. The
month was degrees warmer than for
forty six years On February 5 the
pussywillow blossomed in Connecticut
ard in Norwich, the same day, the buds
OF the magnolia were an inch long and
Japan ounces were opening their buds.
On the 10th a rosebush full of buds was
seen at Easton, Pa, dahlia in full
bloom at Scranton; dandelions at
Easton and grasshoppers at Bethlehem
On the Goth, at Providence, the chick
weed, snowdrop and violets were in bud
or blossom. March brought early
radishes 10 the market at Alton, Ill.
1S75-1S7G-Mild winter. On Janu-
ary the thermometer was 76 above in
this city, and on February buds were
swelling.
1S77-1S1S-Very mild winter. De-
cember 2S 1877. trees and shrubs bud
ded and dandelions were in bloom in
many places. January 16, ground un-
frozen, blucbirds and robins singing
and grass green as in April. February
2S, crocuses in bloom. December 26,
1877, ten dandelions picked on Boston
Common. On the 27th trailing arbutus
in bloom found at Portsmouth, and
dandclions in blossom; apple and cherry
trees, rose and lilac bushes budded at
Fitchburg. On the Goth dandelions
and pansies in bloom; thirteen full
blown pansies were picked at Wilkin.
sonville, and January / four more. On
December 81 rose bush in Bedford
was in full bloom. On January 12 a
full blown pansy was picked at New
Bedford, and at New London, Conn, a
man picked quart of ripe strawber-
ries from his vines.
1878. 1SS0-A mild winter Decem-
Der Is, 1879, dandelions in full bloom
found at Westerly, r. /. On January
5, 1880, bluebirds were singing In Strat
ford and grasshoppers were seen in New
Haven; 18th, grasshoppcrs seen, buds
swelling, farmers blowing at Ashaway
II. L.; 10th, arbutus in bloom picked IN
yarmouth, Mass. and bluebirds, robins,
larks and woodpeckers seen in Wind
ham County, Me-, and leaf buds of
the honeysuckle grew half an inch
26th, violets and dandelions in bloom
at Newport. and ON the 2Sth grass
growing, farmers plowing in Warren,
L. l., and grasshoppers seen at West
port, Mass. February II, snowdrops in
bloom in Boston Highlands. and on the
~, s,11 1l Cnia
"50o 40' or fight" See "War" Robert
sons advertisement in THE SUNDAY CAP
ITAL.
PANTS reduced to $5. Eseman Bros,
L, 4.