REFOKT OX niEXOLOGICAL PKENOMEXA OBSERVED IN 

 HERTFORDSHIRE DURING THE YEAR 1893. 



By Edward Mawlet, F.R.Met.Soc, F.R.H.S., 



Phenological Recorder to the Royal Meteorological Society. 

 Read at Watford, 17 th April, 1894. 



I AM pleased to be able to record that since tbe last Eeport was 

 issued there has been a welcome increase in the number of 

 observers, the following new stations ha\'ing been added to the 

 list — Broxbourne, Watford, Radlett, and Baklock. The distribution 

 of the observing stations is also very satisfactory, the southern 

 part of the county being represented by Watford and Radlett, 

 the south-east by Broxbourne, the west by Berkhamsted, the north 

 by Hitchin and Baldock, while the central portion finds repre- 

 sentatives at St. Albans and Hertford. 



The following list shows the localities represented, their approxi- 

 mate heights above sea-level, and the names of the observers. 



The plants on the list came into flower as a rule in the different 

 localities in the following order — Hertford 1, Hitchin 2, St. Albans 

 3. Broxbourne 4, Harpenden 5, Great Berkhamsted 6, and 

 "Watford 7. Placed in this way all the old stations arrange them- 

 selves, as in the two previous years, according to their respective 

 heights above sea-level, the lower levels giving the earlier, and the 

 higher the later, dates. This, however, is not the case with the 

 new stations, judging by the observations sent in last year. 



The Winter of 1892-93. 



Duiing December the weather remained fairly mild until just 

 before Christmas, when a severe frost set in which lasted four 

 weeks. After this long frost had broken up, mild weather again 

 mostly prevailed until the close of the season. The memorable 

 frost of this winter proved very trying to vegetation generally, but 



