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METEOROLOaiCAL AND BOTANICAL ABSTRACT. 



FOR THE WINTER QUARTER, 1867. 



Observatory, Hobart Town. 



The Mean in all cases is taken from the sums of the three daily registers, 

 and not from the maximum and minimum. 



The direction of the wind is registered from cu.rrent3 moving at a height 

 of 192 feet, and the force according to Lind's Wind Gauge. The supposition, 

 however, of an uniform velocity during the month is a very arbitrary one, 

 and the results can be considered only approximately coi-rect. 



The relations of the quantities of rain which fell under the different winds, 

 are registered each evening at sundown. 



The twenty-five years' standard tables are used for obtaining the difference 

 from the average. 



Leafing, Flowering, and Fruiting of a few standard Plants in the 

 Royal Society's Gardens for the Winter Quarter of 1867 : — 



June 6th. — Maclaura aurantiaca leaves commencing to fall. 

 „ 8th. — First early Narcissus flower open. 

 ,, 13th. — Common Privet shedding its leaves. 

 J, 15th. — Snow Flake commencing to flower. 

 ,, 27th. — Pyrus Japonica commencing to flower. 

 July 3rd. — Arbutus Unedo commencing to flower. 

 „ 6th. — Garrya elliptica commencing to flower. 

 ,, 10th. — White Mulberry commencing to break into leaf. 

 ,, 11th. — Almond commencing to flower. 

 „ 24th. — Crocus commencing to flower. 

 „ 31st. — White Hyacinth commmencing to flower. 

 Aug. 2nd. — Sambucus Niger commencing to break. 

 ,, 6th. — Horsechestnut buds breaking into leaf. 

 „ 10th. — Gooseberry bushes commencing to break. 

 „ 14th. — Elm commencing to flower. 

 ,, 21st. — Poplar commencing to break. 

 „ 25th. — Apricots commencing to flower. 

 Note. — The Snow Flake flowered 11 days earlier this season than in 1866. 

 The Sambucus Niger, the Horsechestnut, the Elm, and the Apricot were also 

 a few days earlier ; but the Arbutus Unedo, and Garrya elliptica were a few 

 claya later. 



FRANCIS ABBOTT. 



