PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, CANADA, 1900.—MACKAY. 385 
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PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, NOVA SCOTIA. 
THE TIME OF FLOWERING .OF TEN PLANTS, SPRING OF 1900, 
THROUGHOUT THE PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA. 
(Compiled from Phenological Observations made in the Public 
Schools of the Province.) 
The counties are arranged in the order of latitude and longi- 
tude, beginning with the South and West. For the ease of 
comparison the same order will hereafter be followed. 
The tables contain merely the phenochrons or average dates 
of appearance at ten stations on the “coast,” “lowlands” or 
“highlands,” as the case may be—the names of the plants being 
omitted for the purpose of condensation. But the ten plants in 
order are the following throughout the whole table : 
Mayflower (Epigeea repens). 
Blue Violet (Viola cucullata). 
Red Maple (Acer rubrum). 
Dandelion (Taraxacum oflicinale). 
Strawberry (Fragaria Virginiana). 
Wild Red Cherry (Prunus Pennsylvanica). 
Blueberry (Vaccinium Can. and Penn.) 
Buttercup (Ranunculus acris). 
9. Apple—cultivated (Pyrus malus),. 
10. Lilac (Syringw vulgaris). 
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The phenochrons of “ first” flowering, and flowering “ becom- 
ing common ” of these ten plants on coast, low inlands and high 
inlands, and their general averages, are all lined across the page 
for the ease of comparison of the effects of coast waters and 
altitude. The classification of the observation stations into 
these three groups was made by the Inspectors through whom 
the schedules were sent to the Education Office. 
As arule, ten of the best schedules are averaged in each 
column. When ten good schedules for each of the three divi- 
sions of each county could not be had, the ten best schedules for 
the county are averaged, etc. 
