176 PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 



These sheets of phenochrons are also bound up aiuiually and 

 deposited with the volumes of the fundamental schedules. The 

 system of dating adopted is the annual instead of the usual 

 mensual dates, on account of simplicitv in the computation of 

 the phenochrons. 



As some of the regional schedules of 1910 have been 

 accidentally misplaced, the general table of regional phen- 

 ochrons is not yet ready for printing, and may simply be bound 

 up for the archives. The regional table for the calendar year 

 1911 have been compiled by Mr. John Burris Reid, clerk in 

 the Education office, and is published here rather to advertise 

 the fact that the original local schedules and sub-regional 

 j)henochrons are available for any s]3ecial studies of ISTova 

 Scotian phenology. To explain the table, the following instruc- 

 tions to comjjilers of the ""belt" and "region" phenochrons are 

 repeated. 



"A province may be divided into its main climatic slopes or 

 regions which may be seldom coterminous with the boundaries 

 of counties. Slopes, especially those to the coast, should be 

 subdivided into belts such as (a) the coast belt, (b) the low 

 inland belt, and (c) the high inland belt. 



In ITova Scotia the following regions are marked out, pro- 

 ceeding from north to south, and from east to west, as orderly 

 as possible: 



No. Regions or Slopes. Belts. 



1. Yarmouth and Digby Counties, (a) Coast, (b) Low Inlands, (c) 



High Inlands. 



2. Shelburne, Queens and Lunen- 



burg Counties (a) Coast, (b) Low Inlands, (c) 



High Inlands. 



3. Annapolis and King's Counties, (a) South Mts., (b) Annapolis Val- 



ley, (c) Cornwallis Valley, (d) 

 North Mts. 



