396 
JOUEyAL OF THE EOYAL HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
Mean temperature of the soil at 0 a.m. 
Highest 
liOwest 
At 1 ft. At 2 ft. A: 4 ft. 
deep. deer. deap. 
A 63 =.6 59^.4 
70=-2 65°.5 Gl".2 
60=.3 60 M 57^-5 
Mean relative humidity of the air at 9 a.m. (complete saturation being repre- 
serted by 100) 64 
Bain fell on 8 days to the total depth of 1.37 in. 
(Equivalent to about 6 gallons on each square yard of surface in the Gardens.) 
Heaviest fall on any day .. 0--57 on the 22nd 
August. — Exceptionally warm and dry. The days were, as a rule, 
about 6 degrees warmer, and the night temperature about 3 degrees 
warmer, than is seasonable. On the coldest night the thermometer on 
the ,erass fell to 37 degrees, or 5 degrees short of the freezing-point. 
The rainfall was singularly light, being only about one-fourth of the 
average quantity for the month. 
Mean temperature of the air in shade 
Highest 
Lowest... 
Lowest temperature on the grass . . . 
Mean temperature of the soil at 9 a.m. 
Highest 
Lowest 
bo-. I 
&S^.2 on the loth 
45=.0 .. 22nd 
.. 36=.9 on the 2l5t and 22nd 
At 1 1>. 
66 =.7 
69=.l 
64^.1 
.At 2 ft. 
65°.0 
6o=.9 
64°.3 
At 4 ft. 
61=.9 
62=^.3 
61-.3 
Mean relative humidity of the air at 9 a.m. (complete saturation being repre- 
sented by 100 1 67 
Plain fell on only 5 days, and to the total depth of 0*60 in. 
(Equivalent to about 3 gallons on each square yard of surface in the Gardens.) 
Heaviest fall on any day 
0-29 in. on the 31st 
September. — Warm, with average rainfall. The days were, as a rule, 
about 2 degrees warmer, and the night temperatures about half a degree 
warmer, than is seasonable. On the coldest night the thermometer on 
the grass showed 8 degrees of frost. The fall of rain was about the 
average quantity for the month. 
Mean temperature of the air in shade 
.57=.S 
Highest 
86 -.3 on the oth 
Lowest 
.32^9 
29th 
Lowest temperature on the giass ... 
24 -.4 
.. 29th 
At 1 :t. 
At -2 :r. 
At 4 ft. 
deep. 
deep. 
deep. 
Mean temperature of the soil at 9 a.m. 
59-.5 
60°8 
60°.4 
Highest 
66°.7 
63°.8 
62M 
Lowest 
52M 
56°.3 
5S°.l 
Mean relative humidity of the air at 9 a.m. (complete saturation being repre- 
sented by 100) 72 
Eain fell on 16 days to the total depth of 2 47 in. 
(Equivalent to about 12 gallons on each square yard of surface in the Gardens.) 
Heaviest fall on any day 0*98 in, on the 29th 
Octolcr. — Seasonable in temperature and dry. The days were, as a 
rule, about 1 degree warmer, and the nights about 1 degree colder, than is 
