Although the rainfall of 1880 has been some nine inches in excess of the average rainfall in this State, I have passed one of the most agreeable summers of my life. While the denizens of the St. Johns and Atlantic coast are shivering in the chilling blasts of winter, we on the Gulf coast of South Florida are basking in the sun, with a temperature of 65° at 6 o’clock A. M., 75° at 12 o’clock M. and 70° at 6 o’clock P. M. If any locality north of latitude 27½° can present a more favorable record, Braidentown will yield the palm.
Nous verrons.
S. C. Upham.
Sunnyside Cottage,
Braidentown, Fla., Jan. 7th, 1881.
BRAIDENTOWN, SOUTH FLORIDA.
Editor of the Florida Agriculturist:
Several of your Northern and Western subscribers who read the communication I published in the Agriculturist in January last, giving a synopsis of the climate of the Manatee region during the year 1880, and which was reproduced in my recently published book, “Notes from Sunland,” have requested me to publish in your journal a statement of the thermometer, rainfall etc., in Braidentown for the year 1881. I have furnished the desired information as briefly as possible:
TEMPERATURE.
| Average temperature at 6 o’clock A. M., | 711/8° |
| Average temperature at 12 o’clock M., | 83° |
| Average temperature at 6 o’clock P. M., | 78¾° |
| Highest temperature at 12 o’clock M., July 7th and August 4th, | 96° |
| Lowest temperature at 6 o’clock, A. M., January 26th and November 25th, | 44° |