OBSERVED IN nERTFORDSHIKE IN 1896. 235 



There -were good crops of all the small fruits, but apples, pears, 

 and plums were in most places below average. lu luy own garden 

 the yield of apples was very good, but much damage was done to 

 tluMU by high winds. I estimated at the time that nearly one- 

 fourth of the total number were blown from the trees by high 

 winds during September. 



From Kadk^tt Xiss E. M. Lubbock reports that strawberries 

 were coming again into blossom on October iHth. The same 

 observer mentions the great quantity of acorns on the oaks. Also 

 that begonias, heliotropes, etc., which were then in full bloom, 

 were cut off and bku-kcned by frost during the night of October 

 18tli. On the same night the dahlias in my own garden at 

 Berkhamsted were greatly crippled by fi-ost, but not entirely 

 killed until the night preceding the 28th, which is three days 

 earlier than the average date of their destruction in the previous 

 eleven years. At Watford, dahlias and scarlet-runner beans also 

 succumbed to the latter frost. Miss E. M. Smith states that at 

 St. Albans Gloire de Dijon roses were still flowering in her garden 

 on November 30th. 



The last plant on the list, the ivy, flowei'cd on September 25th, 

 or two days in advance of its average date. 



