Nov. 17.—Some local people have reason to consider Wednesday, November 13, as their lucky day—they were the ones fortunate enough to be among the winning ticket holders at the races—to others, the day was just another day; while to those of is with exposed gardens, it was a day ihat we shall remember for some time. We had been looking forward to another week-end amongst the dahlias and we had already decided which flowers to take to the flower show on Wednesday. Now we have to change all our plans, for the temperature during the night of Wednesday last fell low enough to blacken the foliage of some of our best salvia; make the zinnias decide to call it a day; damage the dahlia blooms and dis colour some of the chrysanthemums, Itis only natural that we should notice the first approach of frost more than subsequent visits; but last Wednesday's happenings were in some ways, peculiar. some exposed gardens, plants facing north-west were affected and others, of the same kind. facing north-east, were untouched, In another garden, we notice that the top leaves of salvia and sweet potato plants are now absolutely black, while in still another garden, only those leaves on the south side of salvia beds were affected. In the latter case, the gardener had T 3 lia
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