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VII. — A Calendar of Natural Periodic Phenomena : kept at Bodmin 

 for the year 1874. — By Thomas Q. Couch, F.S.A. 



" II semble, en eflet, que les phenomenes periodiques forment, pour les 

 etres organises, en dehors de la vie individuelle, une vie commune dont on 

 ne peut saisir les phases qu'en I'etudiant simultanement sur toute la terre." 

 — Quetelet. 



N.B. — The names printed in Italics indicate animals and plants 

 marked for special observation. 



fl., means flowers ; foL, foliates ; defol., defoliates. 



The time of flowering is to be noted when the flower is suffi- 

 ciently expanded to show the anthers ; of foliation, when the leaf- 

 bud is so far open as to show the tipper surface of the leaves ; of 

 fructification, at the period of dehiscence of the pericarp, in de- 

 hiscent fruits ; and, in others, when they have evidently arrived 

 at maturity ; of defoliation, when the greater part of the leaves 

 of the year have fallen off. 



This year may be generally described as a fertile one. For 

 this account of the crops and the obvious causes which forwarded 

 or retarded them I am indebted to Mr. Tellum of Tregawn, and 

 Mr. R. Olver of Trescow. 



Wheat — in consequence of the dry spring, was very sliort in 

 the straw, but the grain was good, and the yield throughout the 

 district above the average. 



Barley was also short in the straw. On light soils the crop 

 was much below the average, but on deep loamy grounds the 

 yield was good, and the sample excellent. The early crops were 

 well saved, but the later ones much injured by rain. 



Oats were short in straw, and deficient in grain, the season 

 being much too dry for them. The worst grain crop of the year. 



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