92 PHEXOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, CANADA, 1898. MACK AY. 



simple method of indicating the point of time. For the con- 

 version of the ordinary mensual date to this annual one, or 

 vice versa, all that is necessary to assist the operation of 

 mental arithmetic, is to have such a scheme as the following- 

 before the eye : 



Day of the year, corresponding to the last day of 

 each month. 



January 31 



February 59 



March 90 



April 120 



May 151 



June . . . . 181 



July 212 



August 243 



September 273 



October 304 



November 334 



December . . . 365 



(For leap years increase each number except the first by 1.) 



Below is a table of phenochrons for the flowering of ten 

 plants in each county, and for each county, for the spring of 

 1898, in Nova Scotia, based on ten of the best sets of observa- 

 tions made in each county. The first column is the average 

 date of the ' first flowering " observed, the second is the average 

 date when the flowering was considered to be "becoming 

 common." The counties are arranged in the order of their 

 phenochrons based on the average of both columns. 



