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PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MACKAY. 



It will be noticed that the averages of some phenomena 

 in northern Nova Scotia appear to be more advanced than in 

 the southern stations this year. Last year it was noticed that, 

 taking ten common plants, the average season in the south was 

 over eight days earlier than in the north. Whether this 

 announcement stimulated the northern observers to be more 

 constantly watchful than usual in the interests of their climate, 

 or whether it is to be accounted for otherwise, there need not be 

 the slightest suspicion that any of the observers, who are well 

 known to me, put a single figure down in the " interest of any 

 particular climate." They may have made a greater effort to get 

 at the exact facts, which would tend to bring phenomena more 

 promptly to their notice. 



The following table shows another manner of treating these 

 statistics, in order to draw general inferences, which were the 

 figures exactly true and the stations fairly arranged, must be 

 correct : 



Average Date of Floioering of TEN Common Plants, at tJie Stations 

 in Nova Scotia, in 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1895. 



