------------+-------------------------- |Rainy Days. | |Clear Days. | | |Cloudy and Partly | | | Cloudy Days. ------------+---+---+------------------ January, | 5| 19| 12 February, | 3| 24| 5 March, | 3| 24| 7 April, | 1| 29| 1 May, | 12| 4| 27 June, | 18| 8| 22 July, | 12| 6| 25 August, | 18| 8| 23 September, | 13| 15| 15 October, | 10| 19| 12 November, | 3| 15| 15 December, | 6| 17| 14 +---+---+------------------ Total, |104|188|177 ------------+---+---+------------------ Rainfall during year, 69-1/2 inches. * * * * * At least one-half the days classed as "cloudy and partly cloudy" were clear one-half of the day, and a majority of the "rainy days" were clear three-fourths of the day. During the gale on the 29th and 30th of last August, which was so destructive on the Atlantic coast of the State, rain fell here almost uninterruptedly for nearly forty-eight hours, but the wind did little or no damage. The rainfall during the two days was six and one-half inches, the heaviest of the season. I have resided here during the past fourteen months, and, up to this time (January 7th, 1881), there has been _no frost_, and my tropical fruits and plants have grown luxuriantly every month of the year. The year just closed, in its dying throes, kicked the mercury in the thermometer down to 38°, and a slight frost occurred on the opposite side of the Manatee River, and also in the hammock four or five miles south-east of Braidentown. The water protection--being surrounded on three sides by the aqueous fluid--has rendered Braidentown _exempt from frost_. 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 27-1/2° 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_: