208 NOTES—CLIMATOLOGY. 
At Simonstone most of the naturalists deviated from the Hawes 
road to examine Hardra Fors; and thus terminated the very pleasant 
excursion to Swaledale.-—W.D.R. 
NOTES—CLIMATOLOG Y. 
serene Frost.—I have been a grower of ferns for 30 years, and nev 
w our out-of-door native species suffer as much as they did in the ‘frost at the 
end n igida, was completely demoralised, 
hung its fronds, and its unrolled croziers drooped to the ground 
dilatata suffered e ferns were in northern aspects, and bot < 
h d in sub-alpine districts, the last a most 
rigida me is Ingleborough, one would think had got acclimatised, and 
, whose h k 
heedless of re ype eather.— JOHN EMMET, Boston Spa, June Ist, 1 
[It is, fortunately, not often that this country ¢ xperiences such severe frosts as 
the one named, in the latter end of May; hence it is equally seldom Sgr our out- 
of-door native ferns are called upon to bint to such unusual terms. The usual 
periods for frost occur before the ferns have either grown their foes or even 
thrown up thet eir ‘croziers.’ It is quite certain that with a temperature several 
egrees Laseie iy ae point at the end of May, a// young vegetation must, and 
did suffer.— Tj 
Unse. ae ae in Mid-May (Staveley near a }— 
Whit- ada, May ei Sie 1891, by Tagine remembered i ae ral Yorkshire for 
nin elem able weather. Ont o pre ceding A ther bet gers hailstones, 
a fe hat 
ay, and 
Wednesday, when the thermometer ranged between 70° and 80° in the shades it 
would have been difficult to believe that in four short days the — of the country 
would be wrapped in a veil of snow. Yet so it sa Lope Early on Whit- 
Sunday afternoon snow began to fall, and in a urs it covered the 
ground to the depth of three inches. ‘ Winter ingeing “chil i lap of May,’ 
sang the poet long ago of another land, but here in our o in the ‘ merry 
of May’ i g. 
During the progress of the storm one was struck with many anomalies caused 
by the unseasonable geen Pastures, which but now delighted the aay with 
r 
ad 
ong the falling fakes, while Starlings ry Blackbirds, as they passed to and 
fro feeding their young, appeared bewildered. One saw, too, the bright green of 
€ mountain-ash heavily coated with snow, ene delicate young nese of the birch 
oming gradually obits the thorn trees, whi s would have 
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bright- pansies, hehaae med allisum and r hite, being dually 
uried beneath the all-spreading shroud, whilst from out the mantle of snow which 
con its foliage, pee pink blos of th age gs 
incongruous sights, but more sad scenes were destined to mee 
ut m CS 
morrow, The twelve degrees of frost which followed in ‘he che filled pe ime 
r and completed ‘ the winter of our discontent. 
riting a month after the event, the argh Ys es a the storm has become 
beech ppears asl if 
scorched t by a sudden o no midi y Sain forth its eaves. 
ere a hears an ash ata Pit of ie the la tesa rome breaking forth to replace 
the des ei terminals. The walnut trees, standing up amon the eae foliage 
of the sycamore and hornbeam, still as pare and geent as when held in the grip 0 
winter, lend a weird look to the landscape. In the hedgerow the privet and 
oe have suffered, and the lower buds of the roan-tree, laburnum, and 
camore have fallen unopened.—E. P. KNUBLEY, Staveley "Rectory, Leeds, 
wih June, 1891. coe ieee 
Naturalist, 
