The mercury in the thermometer reached 96 degrees only twice the past year; and the lowest point indicated was 44 degrees on the morning of the 26th of January and 25th of November--12 degrees above the freezing point. We had no frost during the year. My alligator pears, cherimoyas, custard apples, sapodillas, sour sops, pine-apples, cocoanut trees, and other tropical fruits are growing luxuriantly; and my wife's camelia japonicas, hibiscus, and rose bushes in the open air, are in full bloom. In conclusion, allow me to reiterate what I said last year: "If any locality north of latitude 27-1/2 degrees can present a more favorable record, Braidentown will yield the palm." S. C. UPHAM. _January 2d, 1882._ SYNOPSIS OF THE WEATHER RECORD AT BRAIDENTOWN FOR THE YEAR 1882. During a three years' residence in Braidentown, I have kept a thermometrical record of the weather, also a register of the rainfall. A synopsis of my observations for the years 1880 and '81 was published in the _Florida Agriculturist_, in the months of January, 1881 and '82. In my "Notes from Sunland," published in the fall of 1881, I gave meteorological tables of the temperature and rainfall at Braidentown, commencing with the month of January, 1880, and ending with March, 1881--fifteen months. In those tables I gave the record of the thermometer at 6 o'clock A. M., 12 o'clock M., and 6 o'clock P. M. For the information of my readers, and also of numerous correspondents at the North and West, I publish the following summary of the temperature and rainfall for the year 1882: TEMPERATURE. Average temperature at 6 o'clock A. M., 71° Average temperature at 12 o'clock M., 83° Average temperature at 6 o'clock P. M., 78° Highest temperature at 12 o'clock M., July 19th, 96° Lowest temperature at 6 o'clock A. M., December 17th, 38° ============================================= | |Days on|Cloudy and| | | which |Partially | | | Rain | Cloudy |Clear |Rainfall.| Fell. | Days. |Days. ----------+---------+-------+----------+----- January, |2-1/2 in.| 5 | 9 | 22 February, |1-1/2 in.| 3 | 6 | 22 March, | 5/8 in.| 4 | 10 | 21 April, |3-7/8 in.| 7 | 20 | 10 May, |1-5/8 in.| 6 | 19 | 12 June, |7 in.| 10 | 23 | 7 July, |7-1/4 in.| 20 | 22 | 9 August, |7-1/2 in.| 15 | 15 | 16 September,|2-1/8 in.| 9 | 13 | 17 October, |3-5/8 in.| 9 | 11 | 20 November, |1-1/2 in.| 5 | 11 | 19 December, |4-1/4 in.| 8 | 12 | 19 ----------+---------+-------+----------+----- Total, | 43-1/2 | 101 | 171 | 194 ----------+---------+-------+----------+-----