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A COLgARISOII OF llARCK , 1945 AM) APRIL, 1944 



The Fiihrer of the ¥/eather raust have been badly shaken by world events 

 when he ordered the v/eather for March, 1945. He made the unprecedented mis- 

 take of ordering April v/eather instead of March v/eather. The accompanying 

 chart shows hov; closely the daily mean temperatures for March, 1945, follow 

 those for April, 1944. The mean temperature for March, 1945 was 44.4°, or 

 1.5° above that for April, 1944, and 10° above tlie normal for Marcli. The 

 mean temperature for April, 1944 was 42.9° which is 2,8° bolow normal. 



The unseasonable v/oather in March oxplains the erratic behavior of 

 trees this spring. The period of bud breaking, leaf development and blossom- 

 ing has been much prolonged. Progress vms so rapid in March thc-t some trees 

 l-oafed out or blossomed. Then came cool weather, and everything almost stood 

 still. Trees that had not blossomed during the early warm v/eather vfore held 

 up by cool days and did not bloom much earlier than normal. These unusual 

 conditions have also affected insects. 



Trees and insects uro subject t'l air temperature but each in its own 

 way. Consequently unusual weather dislocates the normal relationship botv;een 

 different kinds of trees, different kinds of insects^ and bet^'Veen trees and 

 insects. 



--J. K. Shaw and Irene Zatvrka 



WHENCE CAtffi THE LIAI^ "STRAY/BERRY?" 



Several explanati ms have b'sen offered for the origin of the word 

 "strawberry." Some have associated it with an ancient custom of selling the 

 wild fruit strung on strav/s )f timothy grass, v/hile others have thought the 

 resemblance of the old, dry, runners to strtw night account for the name. 

 A popular assumption is that tho name resulted fr'jm the practice of mulching 

 the plants with stravi. However, in the earliest mention of the fruit in 

 English vrritings (John Lydgate, 1430) it is called "straeborry, " a narao believed 

 to have c tme from the Anglo-Saxon word "streouberrio," v/hich was derived from 

 "strae" or "strohen" and means to scatter. Hence the name strawberry probably 

 refers 1 1 tho manner in which the runners are scattered or strovm about tho 

 mother plant. 



