542 THE PAEKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. XXXH. 



before their suburban cousins — a fact which may ea,sily be Terified 

 by a walk from the suburbs into the city, just as the Elms are 

 beginning to bud, or when the Pear-trees are putting on their 

 early spring liTery. 



The amount of annual rainfall in London only slightly exceeds 

 that of Paris, although any unprejudiced person would feel 

 . inclined to give it as his opinion that the number of rainy days 

 * in London greatly exceeded those in Paris. The French authorities 

 who have been consulted differ somewhat in their calculations, 

 owing possibly to having collected the rain with dissimilar instru- 

 ments. The English figures are from Luke Howard, the French 

 from Gasparin and Bouvard. 



Gasparin. Bouvard. Howard. 



Inches. laches. Inches. 



Eainfall in Spring 5-6 . . 4-0 . . 5-0 



Summer 6-8 . . 6-0 . . TvS 



Autumn 5-3 . . 64 . . 7-5 



Winter 4-6 . . 4-8 . . 6-0 



22-3 2V2 2.5-0 



