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neighbourhood it just touched 32°, though in some parts of 
England it was much more severe. Here it would have done 
very little mischief, but unfortunately it was followed by a day of 
bright sunshine and the effects were disastrous and far-reaching ; 
and I shall have more to say about it further on. The rainfall of 
May was 2°12, of June 2°19, of July 3:46, of August 2°67, of 
_ September 3-12, of October 4°30, and of November 5:49,* and 
there were no autumnal frosts until the morning of December 1st. 
The total result was that during the twelve months there were 
_ but 26 days on which the thermometer was below the freezing 
_ point, and the accumulated degrees were 151. That is really a 
- very small amount of frost, and when you add to this that nearly 
the whole of this was in the early part of January when 
vegetation was for the most part dormant, and that the low 
readings probably lasted for a very short time, we may say that 
the minimum temperature was much above the average. But the 
rainfall was also much above the average ; it amounted altogether 
to 36°34. This great amount of rain of course implies a great 
amount of cloud, and that means a small amount of bright 
‘sunshine ; and even on days when there was no rain the sky was 
dull and sunless in an unusual degree. 
' Such very shortly stated has been the weather of the last 
twelve months ; and ‘now we can see what were the effects on 
the garden, and we shall at once see that the effects were largely 
brought about by the bright weather of 1893. In my last paper 
I ventured to make two forecasts. One was that we were not 
dikely to have a very severe winter ; and we certainly had not, 
for we cannot call that a severe winter in which hard frost only 
occurred on a few days in December, and ten days in January. The 
other forecast upon which I ventured, was that the long hot 
- * Thave taken these rainfall amounts from the Record kept by 
Rey. C. Miles, Almondsbury. They are slightly in excess of the Bath 
ecord, but I think they are more accurate for Bitton. 
