APPENDIX D CXXI 



XXIV. — From the Beport of the Botanical Club of Canada for the 



Year 1902-3. 



By ^he General Secretary, A. H. MacKat, LL.D. 



The phenological tahles compiled from the numerous reports of 

 observers are this year more extensive than usual. Those who want 

 fuller information, therefore, on such subjects as the officers, objects 

 and (constitution of the Club, the schedules of objects for observation 

 and the directions for observation and compilation, are referred to the 

 report of last year, and of previous years. 



The first table contains the observations of the following members 

 of the Club on the dates of the first appearances of the phenomena 

 briefly ind cated only in the table, although precisely specified in the 

 schedules for recording them. Their addresses and stations are as 

 follows, in the order of the table : 



T. A. Good. Woodstock, New Brunswick; J. M. Duncan, Charlotte- 

 to-vvm. Prince Edward Island; John MacSwain, Charlottetown, Prince 

 Edward Island; Dr. Cephas Guillet, Ottawa, Ontario; Mrs. Frank E 

 Webster, Beatrice, Muskoka, Ontario; Dr. J. H. Elliott, Gravenhurst, 

 Muskoka, Ontario; T. R. Donnelly, Pheasant Forks, Assiniboia; Percy 

 B. Gregson, Blaekfalds, Alberta ; J. K. Henry, B.A., Vancouver, British 

 Columbia. 



The first column is the average of about 350 schedules of observa- 

 tions made by as many of the public schools of the Province of Nova 

 Scotia, and other active members of the club among whom) the fol- 

 lowing have been sending in reports: Rev. James Rosborough, 

 Musquodoboit Harbor, Halifax Co.; Miss Louise MacMillan, Sydney 

 Mines, Cape Breton; Mrs. G. Ormond Fgrsyth, Port Hawkesbury, 

 Inverness Co. ; and Miss Janet Keith Bruce Kelley, Yarmouth. 



The last column is the .average of scattered observations from 

 about ten observers in different parts of the south of British Columbia, 

 five being from Vancouver Island or the coast, two from the dry belt, 

 and three from the mountain belt. These observations were made on 

 the schedule prepared and published by the Natural History Society 

 of the Province, and were communicated to me by A. J. Pineo, Esq., 

 B.A., of Victoria. 



A more detailed summary of the observations in Nova Scotia and 

 British Columbia are given in the two succeeding tables. As the Nova 

 Scotian phenochrons are based on about 350 schedules, it will be 

 observed that, as a rule, a good many schedules are averaged for each 

 of the ten meteorological or biological regions of the t'rovince. The 

 individual schedules are annually bound up into a volume which can 



