Fig. 1995. Pyramidal Arbor Vitae. 



CENTRAL EXPERIMENTAL FARM NOTES.— XIIL 



^HE weather during- the past month has 

 been very changeable. There has 

 been no continued spell of very cold 

 weather and no mild weather worth men- 

 tioning. On November 14th four inches of 

 snow fell, and there has been a constantly 

 increasing depth of it until now there is fully 

 three feet on the level and more in some 

 places. The heaviest snowstorm since the 



first of the year occurred on Jan. 12th, when 

 fourteen inches of snow fell. The coldest 

 day was on the i8th, when the temperature 

 was 24° Fahr. below zero, but on the 3rd it 

 was 21" Fahr. below zero, almost as low. 

 There has been more cloudy weather than is 

 usually the case during the month of Janu- 

 ary. On the 1 6th there was a heavy rain- 

 storm which lasted five or six hours and the 



