_Weather Prophecy._--Can any of your correspondents inform me as to the
truth or falsehood of a proverb I have heard, namely, that the dryness or
wetness of a summer may be prognosticated by observing whether the oak or
the ash tree comes first into leaf? I cannot recollect which denoted which;
but I should much like to know whether there is such a proverb, and whether
there is any truth in it.