]\Ir Sadler's Report on Open- Air Vegptation. 133 



Savoj-s have come through scatheless. The injurious effects of 

 last winter have been as nothing compared with those of the un- 

 genial season of 1879. From the very immature state of the wood 

 we had no flowers on outside Peaches and Xectarines. Plums 

 flowered abundantly, but the fruit has mostly dropped off". The 

 flowers of Pears and Apples were weakly and in many instances 

 deformed, and consequently the crop is very deficient. Small fruits, 

 however, such as Gooseberries, Currants, and Easps, promise a fair 

 crop. Strawberries look well, but the excessive dry weather we 

 are now having is telling on them. 



From ]\Ir Fraxcis Davidson, TIte Palace Gardens, Hamilton. 



June 25, 1880. 

 I regret that, as it has not been the custom at this place to keep 

 a record of the temperatures or rainfull, I am unable to give you 

 anything Hke a precise report in detad of the lowest tempera- 

 tures of last winter and their effects on vegetation. I can only give 

 a general statement, and that very meagre. In our neighbourhood, 

 so far as has come under my notice, the effects of last winter on 

 vegetation have not been nearly as disastrous as those of 1878-79, 

 although we had the most intense frost, the thermometer register- 

 ing on two occasions 2° below zero, — an intensity of frost which 

 Ave did not experience during the very protracted storm of the 

 previous winter. Unfortunately, owing to the wet and back- 

 ward summer, few vegetables for winter use (or indeed for summer 

 use) ever came to maturity ; but where Savoys, Greens, &c., were 

 l)lanted early, thought much smaller than usual, these vegetables 

 survived the winter in very good condition. Few Evergreens have 

 suffered much in our locality. Eoses have fared much worse, but I 

 attribute their death more to the ungenial summer than to the 

 severity of the winter. I intend to keep a better record next winter, 

 and therefore expect to give you a better report in future. 



Report on Arran, Buteshire, 



From The Eev. David LAXDSBOBOUGn, Kilmarnock. 



May 1880. 

 The climate of Arran is very mild. The lowest markings of the 

 thermometer last winter at the lighthouse of Pladda, on the south of 

 the island, was on December 1st and 3d, 31°; January 12th and 21st, 

 31°; February 26th, 36°; March 27th, 35°: the minimum temperatures 

 of winter being thus about 12° or 14° above those of Glasgow. The 

 garden of Cromla at Corrie, to which my remarks, when not otherwise 

 mentioned, are confined, is on the north-east of the island, and is sepa- 



