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TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF 



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(a). The two Larches shuiild be separated, as being not 

 evergreen, and in their monthly average 2, 19, 32*5, 24, 17, 

 5"5, they are more allied to the Deciduous trees than to the 

 other quick-growing Pinacete. 



(b). Four of the quick growers, Nos. G, GO, 11, and 92, were 

 much affected by transplantation early in the period, but, as 

 it turns out, their averages, (5, 21 '5, 23'5, 19'o, 20, 9, do not 

 seriously affect the general proportions. 



(c). The two remaining quick growers^ Nos. 8 and 91, 

 exercise a preponderating influence on the average of the 

 two later months, 5^ 21'9, 15, 16"5, 25, 17. 



(d). The remaining twelve trees, all of comparatively slow 

 growth, some of them certainly abnormally slow, yield 5'5, 

 31, 29, 19, 11, 4"5. The effect of excluding the quick growers 

 is to materially reduce the proportions for August and Sep- 

 tember, to increase those of May and June, while April and 

 Jidy remain tlie same, and to alter the monthly sequence 

 by putting May slightly ahead of June. 



Perhaps the fairest general average for the evergreen is 

 obtained by deriving it from the averages of the spefiics, 

 excluding trees affected by transplantation. 



Gknkiul Monthly Peecentagb of eleven Eyeegueen Specie.^ 

 (Young Trees). 



This average does not greatly differ from that obtained 

 from the whole number of trees, excei)t by placing May a little 

 ahead of June, and slightly increasing the amount for these 

 two months at the expense nuunly of that for August. 



Tlie annual monthly range in tlie twenty trees was from 

 3-5 to 8 in April, 16 to 30-5 in May, 21 to 29 in June, IG to 

 23 in July, 13 to 20 in August, 5 to 12 in September. 



