The Season has been, and still is, a trying one for fruit trees. December, up to the 20th, was mild. Winter then set in with cold and snow, and from that time to March 1, every week possessed the peculiar phases incident to one part of extreme cold and another part thawy. The changes were frequent and severe, the mercury sometimes sinking 40° in twenty-four hours-The effect on Peach and other delicate buds can not be mistaken. From March 7 th to the 17th, there was every appearance of the coming of spring; the temperature was so mild that the snow was gone, except in cold localities, the frost nearly out, and in many places the ground getting dry; birds were singing in joyous melody, frogs, commenced the serenading of spring, wild geese and pigeons passed by to the north. On the night of the 17th the wind changed suddenly from S. W. to N. W., and the howling set up by old Boreas was of any but an amusing or agreeable character. His cold breath, as it fell upon the earth, undid all that the previous warm days had accomplished; and he blew so furious a blast through the 18th, that there was no sign of thawing that day. The wind was not so high in this vicinity, however, as at many places east and west of us, and but very trifling apparent damage was done.

The morning of the 19th, the mercury stood at 6°, and a cold day followed. Indeed, the weather has been severe to the present time. Had the same clouds floated through the atmosphere, and the same winds raged in their fury during the short days of December, that month would have been memorable for its severity. Now, the latter half of March must claim supremacy as affording an atmosphere the most revolting to man and beast of any time of the same number of days of the past winter. How far this out-of-place severity will extend into spring, is yet to be known; but we hope the north wind has labored so long and strongly for the last ten days, his breath is nearly spent, and that his icy reign will be followed by more gentle but enduring breezes from the warm southwest W. Bacon. - Elmwood, Richmond, Mass., March 28.