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The Weather of the past Season and its Effects on the Garden. By 
the Rev. Canon ELLACOMBE, M.A., President. 
(Read December 12th, 1894). 
I am glad that our Secretary has put. this heading to my paper. 
It is the same as the heading to my paper this time last year, and 
it at once suggests that what I have to say on the subject this 
year is not anything very new, but is a continuation of last 
year’s paper. And this is exactly what I wish to bring before 
you now, for the condition of the garden this year is so intimately 
and curiously connected with the weather and its effects on the 
garden last year that my last year’s paper is really quite 
incomplete without this year’s record. 
I suppose none of us can remember two successive years so 
entirely unlike as 1893 and 1894. The one bright, clear, dry and 
sunshiny beyond all experience, the other dark, cloudy, wet and 
sunless to a really unpleasant extent ; and yet I have little doubt 
that as the weather of this year was to some extent the result of 
the weather of last year, so I am sure that the condition of the 
garden was far more brought about by the weather of 1893 than 
by the weather of 1894. 
Let us very shortly see what the weather has been since the Ist 
of December, 1893, to November 30th, 1894. Up to the 30th of 
December there had been but four days of frost, on one of which, 
the 3rd, the thermometer fell to 19°, but the 3lst brought in ten 
consecutive days of frost, not very severe except on the 5th and 
6th when the thermometer fell to 14° and 13°. There was again 
frost on the 23rd and 24th. The rainfall of December was 
2°59, and of January 2°63. In February there were five days of 
slight frost, and the rainfall was 3°43. In March there were 
four days of slight frost, and the rainfall was 2°15. April was a 
fine month ; there was no frost, but there was a rainfall of 217. 
In May there was one frost on the 20th; here in Bath and the 
