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Fletcher tells me, the guelder rose and Japan quince were in 

 flower on the Experimental Farm. 



That the late mild season was general over a great part of the 

 land of "Our Lady of the Snows," is shown by the following 

 reports of other observers in northerly regions of our country. 



Mr. John A. Dresser of Richmond, Que , sends the following 

 from the phenological observations ot the school at Nicolet Falls, 

 Que., (15 miles from Richmond) made by Miss Annie Dresser : — 

 October 30th, buttercup ; October 31st, dandelion ; November 3rd, 

 blue and white violet ; November 5th, creeping buttercup ; Novem- 

 ber 6th, strawberry blossom. Similar observations, except of the 

 violet, were made three miles from Richmond by Miss Bertha 

 Dresser, and at Richmond in the St. Francis College School by 

 Miss A. L. Beckett. 



" On the 2nd October," writes Dr. Robert Bell, "in a bruld 

 15 miles N.E. of the town of Chapleau (on the C. P. R., N.E. of 

 Lake Superior) I found the blue-berrv bushes covered with a pro- 

 fusion of flowers, and in the same brul^ a tew strawberry blossoms. 

 Young white birch bushes, 2 to 3 feet high, had burst their buds 

 and some of them showed the green of the young leaves. The 

 ground in the hru\6 was dry and warm with granite rocks cropping 

 out near by and all well exposed to the sun and sheltered from the 

 wind. We had had several days of warm sunny weather just 

 before the abov^e date (2nd October)." 



On October 16th, Mr. W. J. Wilson, collected the trailing 

 arbutus {Epigea repens) in flower between Jack Fish and Manitou- 

 wick Lake, on the main canoe route between Michipicoten Har- 

 bour and Missinabie station on the C. P. Ry. He also saw the 

 shrubby cinquefoil {Potentilla fruticosci) in flower in several places 

 up to October ist. 



Mr. J. A. L. MacMurray brought Dr. Fletcher a good large 

 bunch of the flowers of the smooth blue-berry, Vaccinimn 

 Pennsylvaniciim^ and marsh xwa-ugoXdCaltha palustris, both of which 

 he had found blooming profusely in the French River Valley, 

 Ontario, in the month of October. He also saw wild straw- 

 berries in flower in many places. 



Mr. A. W. Hanham, writing from Manitoba to Dr. Fletcher, 

 says : "At Brandon, in October, I noticed stray plants in bloom 



