>^J^^'I ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



TnK AvKHACK Datks fou TiiK " Fiii-ST Flowering" of Ten Plants— Continued. 



PLANTS 



Mayflower 



Blue Violet 



Kf.l Maple 



Daiideiion 



Strawberrj' 



Wild Red Cherry. 

 Tall Butti'rcup . . . 



Inilian Pear 



Apple 



Lilac 



Average , 



103 2 

 130-2 



129 6 



130 

 120-6 

 14G-8 

 U9-0 

 143-6 

 154-2 

 162-6 



134-28 



108-2 

 131 1 

 146 

 134-2 

 134-4 

 152-7 

 152 6 

 148 6 

 159 5 

 172-5 



143-98 



In the counties of Antigonish, Guysboro and Queen's the figures 

 given above lare the averages of only five or six localities instead of the 

 normal ten. In some of the counties the majority of the observers were 

 observers for some time under the Botanical Club of Canada, and were 

 thus more likely to know where to look for the earliest flowering as well 

 as when to look for it. This element is sufficient to make the averages 

 of such counties perhaps a day or two in advance of others, so that it 

 would require a series of years to demonstrate the average phenological 

 position of the counties. Then again, some of the counties may have 

 had more than an average number of elevated stations, while others 

 may have had a greater number of valley stations, which make a differ- 

 ence of a fraction of a day in the general average. The following scries 

 would be, perhaps, a better test of the phonological position of each 

 county, provided, as mentioned before, the exact day when the flower- 

 ing should be said to be "becoming common" could be determined by 

 each observer. 



