VI. PHENOLOOICAL OBSERVATIONS, CANADA, 1898, COMPILED 

 BY A. H. MAC-KAY, LL.D., Halifax, from Observations 

 of the Botanical Club of Canada, and of over seven 

 hundred of the Public Schools of Nova Scotia. 



(Read April 17th, 18!)9J 



In order to continue the publication of the series of the 

 observations of the Botanical Club of Canada, 1 give hereafter a 

 table of the observations made by the thirteen members 

 making a phenological report for 1898. I can but give a sum- 

 mary of selections from seven hundred reports from as many 

 localities in the Province of Nova Scotia. That these observa- 

 tions are of very great value in measuring the phenological 

 conditions of the various portions of the province can be readily 

 inferred from the facts, that each report comes from a school in 

 which numbers of pupils were observing on their way to and 

 from school under the direction and stimulation of the teacher, 

 and is therefore likely to be in most cases more accurate than 

 one made by a single observer ; that the reports represent 

 every part of the province ; and that they represent more or less 

 numerous localities in each county of the province. 



For the compilation of the tables which immediately follow, 

 ten of the most complete schedules or reports from each county 

 were selected (except in the cases of the counties of Queens, 

 Antigonish and Guysboro, where the full schedules were not 

 sufficiently numerous, and were respectively five, five and six). 

 From these were selected the same TEN plants which had the 

 time of "first flowering " and the time when "flowering was 

 becoming common " both recorded. From these averages or 

 mean dates of flowering have been found, which we may 

 speak of as " phenochrons," the times of the appearances of 

 the phenomena observed expressed in the terms of the days of 

 the year. For such computations it is necessary to have some 



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