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ELM BUD CALENDAR 



To the Editor of the Transoript: 



One can gain a very good idea of t?ie 

 advance of the season, that is , to say, 

 whether the season , is early or late, by 

 following the development of some tree or 

 plant and recording the dates for successive 

 years at -which the tree passes the various 

 stages in Its growth. Such a series of ob- 

 nervations has been made by the writer 

 upon an elm tree by Jamaica Pond, for a 

 period covering eight years. 







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By examining this record we see that th's 

 season started on March 24, five days 

 earlier than the average. On April 2 it was 

 thirteen days early. On April 9 it was ten 

 flays early. It then went to thirteen days 

 early on Api-11 20, and at the time of going 

 to print it Is twelve days early. This rec- 

 ord seems to explain the disasters to fruit 

 in the West, where the buds prematurely 

 advanced have been caught by the frost. 



RoBEiiT H. Richards 



Jamaica Plain, April 26. 



