It is to be feared that all round London the hopes of the gardener have been destroyed by a sadden and severe frost on the night of the 24th inst From the 18th to the 20th the weather was excessively hot for the period of the season, the thermometer indicating 77 in the shade on the 19th; and as high as 95° In the sun on the 21st A strong gale commenced from north-east on the night of the 22d, and continued on the 28d, on the night of which there was 1° of frost; but the blossoms were safe. On the evening of the 24th there was 1° of frost at 10 P. M.; but during the night the thermometer fell to 18° - or 14° below freezing, notwithstanding the heat arising from the ground. Where this heat was prevented from affecting the thermometer by a radiator, the temperature of the air was as low as 12°.

The frost was what is termed a black frost, of the most pervading description. Apple, Pear, Plum, and Cherry blossoms are everywhere killed. There may be a few from later blossoms, and a few naturally late-blooming Apples, but all the most valuable are completely destroyed. Peaches and Nectarines on a good south wall have suffered, but such of the young fruit as were leaning against the warm wall are supposed to be safe. The shoots of Walnuts are hanging wet, black, and soft, as if par-boiled.

There is no record of the thermometer having been thus low in April, near London, in the present century at least.

Accounts from the surrounding counties are to the same effect Near Tnnbridge Wells, the thermometer fell to 25°, and the most abundant young crop of Apricots, Peaches, and Pears, which had been seen for several years, was entirely destroyed. In Hampshire, near the Andover Road-Station, between 4 and 5 o'clock, the thermometer was 14° below the freezing point The whole of the blooms on the Cherries, Pears, Plums, and Apples, totally perished; also the young Apricots, which were larger than Damsons, and all the Greengage Plums, as well as Rhubarb, and every Asparagus head which was above ground. Such destruction has never before been seen by our correspondent.

At Sawbridgeworth, although Mr. Rivers observed the thermometer no lower than 25°, all (he wall fruit which was not well covered, all the standard Pear, Plum, and Cherry blossoms, and the greater part of the Apples, if not all, utterly perished.

Near Worthing the common Box lost nearly all its old leaves; our informant assures us that he found the inside of them a solid plate of ice.

Next week we .shall no doubt have abundant confirmation of this sad announcement - Garden-ers' Chronicle, of April 29.

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