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during the night, and was given to Mr. B. Edmund Freame, of 

 The Chantry, Gillingham. 



BOTANICAL NOTES. 



Rev. C. W. H. Dicker sent the following note : On April 

 3 I happened to be passing " Weatherbury Castle " and went 

 up to the top. I found the S. face of the brick obelisk (to a 

 height of some 30ft.) bearing a luxuriant growth of the white 

 violet ; no other plant was visible on it. 



Rev. James Cross, of Baillie House, Wimborne, sends a note 

 (here reprinted) in continuation of one on p. 183 of Proc. 

 D.F.C., Vol. XXIV. : The sheaths of the sycamore buds of 

 a tree opposite to my front door began to fall 



In 1900 on Ap. 25 1907 on Ap. 19 



1901 May 1 1908 Ap. 28 



1902 Ap. 12 1909 May 1 



1903 Ap. 10 1910 May 2 



1904 Ap. 21 1911 Ap. 19 



1905 Ap. 15 1912 Ap. 1 



1906 Ap. 17 



On April 19, 1911, there were only a few sheaths, but on 

 Ap. 1, 1912, the earliest date since the commencement of 

 the record, there were quantities. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



From (N. M. R.) Wey mouth. An exceptionally hot and 

 dry summer, with persistent rain in the latter part of the year, 

 there having been a measurable quantity on each of the last 

 5 days of November and on every day in December, making 

 36 successive rainy days. A mild winter to the end of the 

 year, when there were still geraniums, a few sweet peas, &c., 

 in flower in the open garden. 



