162 Phenological Obseevations. 



February. 



Rainfall, 0-62. Barometer — lowest, 29*3 inches on the 27th ; 

 highest, 30-6 on the 15th. The weather was mild during- the 

 month. There was a very hard frost on the night of the 12th, 

 when the thermometer registered 20 deg. of frost. The hazel 

 came into bloom on the 12th. 



March. 



Rainfall, 2-15 inches. Barometer, lowest, 28-9 ; highest, 

 30-5 inches. First half of the month was mild, showery weather. 

 The later half was cold east wind, with four nights of very hard 

 frost from the 26th to 29th. There was IJ inch of snow on the 

 30th which went away in a day. Coltsfoot flowered on the 23rd. 

 Sowing oats began on the 25th. 



April. 



Rainfall, 8-12 inches. Barometer, from 2915 to 30-2 inches. 

 There was a little frost on three or four nights during- the month, 

 while the day temperature was high. By the 7th the fields were 

 looking nice and green, and lawns required cutting. Wood 

 Anemone flowered on the 4th, blackthorn on the 23rd. Saw first 

 Wasp on the 17th, and Swallow on the 21st, and heard Cuckoo 

 on 29th. 



May. 



Rainfall, 1-85 inches. Barometer, from 29-2 to 30-6 inches. 

 There was a trace of frost on two nights, but the month on the 

 whole was warm and growing- and May-like. I see on many of 

 the days the temperature at 9 A.M. was between 60 and 70 deg. 

 Small White Butterfly first seen on 1st, Corncrake heard on 18th, 

 Horse Chestnut flowered on 11th; Hawthorn on 21st. Queen 

 Wasps were very plentiful during the first half of the month. 



June. 



Rainfall, 3-26 inches. Barometer, lowest, 29-5 ; highest, 

 30-45. The w-eather during- the month was very warm, with just 

 sufficient rain to keep all kinds of crop growing healthy ; few of 

 the turnips round here required to be re-sown, and I saw very 

 little of that new disease on the shaws of the young plants which 

 was prevalent for one or two years before. Ryegrass a fair good 



