546 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL. 



hemlock, huckleberry, laurel, locust, maple, mulberry, oak (willow-leaved), 

 plane, poplar, sassafras, spruce, sweet gum, tulip tree and walnut. The 

 catalpa, a southern tree, escaped from cultivation, has perhaps suffered 

 the most. 



2. Under orchard trees, the reports of injury are many, the peach, per- 

 haps, leading all others. There are many indications that the scale 

 helped on the destruction by weakening the various kinds of orchard 

 trees that were destroyed. 



3. Under small fruits the blackberries and raspberries suffered 

 severely while currants, gooseberries and grapes did not escape. Some 

 report injury to strawberry plants. 



4. There was considerable loss of crimson clover and wheat and rye. 



5. The garden crop plants suffered somewhat, and special mention was 

 made of spinach, parsley, asparagus, onions and rhubarb. In many in- 

 stances plants in cold frames were killed. 



6. The injured ornamental plants make a long list, the boxwood and 

 privet perhaps leading all others. The following are some of the sorts 

 of plants that may be mentioned : Roses, English ivy, honeysuckle, deutzia, 

 forsythia, snowball, spiraea, hollyhocks, digitalis, lavender and many 

 spruces, young evergreens, Irish junipers and retinosporas. 



Notes Upon Weather of Our Growing Season. 



The growing season as herein considered embraces the half 

 year made up of the months of April, May, June, July, August 

 and September, that is, the middle six months of the calendar 

 year. The figures used herewith are obtained from the Monthly 

 Reports of the State Weather Bureau through the courtesy of its 

 Director, Professor E. W. McGann. 



Rainfall: Upon page 549 is a table showing the rainfall for 

 the State for each month of the growing season for the past six- 

 teen years, that is, covering the time that the writer has been con- 

 nected with the Experiment Station. A glance at the column of 

 averages to the right shows that the average of variation is within 

 two inch, that is, 3.49 inches for April and 5.45 inches for July. 

 The two warmest months, July and August, are the ones that lead 

 in rainfall and the second half of the six months exceeds the first 

 half by exactly four inches. The total for the season is 25.28 

 inches, which is practically a half of the total rainfall for the 

 whole year. The total for each year shows a variation from 18.83 

 inches in 1895 to 36.87 in 1889, while the season of 1904 was very 

 close to an average. The summers that have bee^i wet often show 

 a month of exceptional precipitation, as in 1889 July gave 10.19 

 inches or nearly double the average rainfall. The next year in 

 rank of moisture shows a great rainfall in August of 9.43 inches, 



