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METEOROLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL ABSTRACT, 



FOR THE SPRING 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 currents moving at a height 

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

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

 and the results can be considered only aj^proximately correct. 



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, Floioeriug, and Fimitingofa Few Standard Plants in the 



Royal Society^ s Gardens for the Spring (Quarter o/*1867 : — 



Ash commencing to flower. 



Moutan Peony commencing to flower. 



Vines commencing to break. 



Oak commencing to break. 



Pawlonia Imperialis commencing to flower. 



Carpinus betulus (Hornbeam) commencing to leaf. 



Ailanthus glandulosus commencing to leaf. 



Tilia Europea (Lime) commencing to leaf. 



Morus Niger (Black Mulberry) commencing to leaf. 



Maclaura aurantiaca (Osage Orange) commencing to leaf. 



Ulmus campestris (Elm) commencing to shed seeds. 



Melia Azederach commencing to leaf. 



First ripe Strawberry gathered. 



First ripe Cherry gathered. 



Black Mulberry in full blossom. 



Bougainvillcea spectabilis in full flower. 



of the above plants were a few days later this season 



FRANCIS ABBOTT. 



