394 PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, CANADA, 1900. MACKAY. 



ORDER OF FLOWERING (MEAN OF " WHEN FIRST SEEN " AND 



" WHEN BECOMING COMMON ") IS THE PROVINCE AND 



IN EACH COUNTY. 



Mean flowering phcnochron.s for 

 whole Province of Nova Scotia. 



113.01 Mayflower 25 Apr . 



133.69 Red Maple 14 May 



135.33 Blue Violet 16 



137.53 Dandelion 18 



137.86 Strawberry 18 



151.96 Wild Red Cherry. . . . 1 June 



153.39 Blueberry 3 



156.93 Apple 6 



157.05 Buttercup 7 



165.05 Lilac . ...15 



We see from the above that the order of the ten plants in 

 our schedule and the tables, is not the exact order of flowering 

 in the Province as a whole. The Red Maple and Blue Violet 

 change places, as do also the Apple and the Buttercup. And the 

 order for the Province is noc that for each county. In Yarmouth 

 and Shelburne, the Dandelion (4) and Strawberry (o) come 

 ahead of the Red Maple and the Violet. The Blueberry (7) in 

 the five South Southwestern counties comes ahead of the Wild 

 Cherry (6); while in the case of the Apple (8) and Buttercup 

 (9) they are in normal order while in the following counties they 

 are mostly reversed. 



The plate (page 392) of curves of the " mean " flowering 

 phenochrons for 1900 of eight plants (two, the Maple and Violet, 

 omitted because they would crowd 4 and 5) throughout the 

 eighteen counties of the Province, which represent the "general 



