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4. Wye, Kent. Observations made by Mr. 0. H. Hooper, 

 M.E.A.O., in 1908, and published in Journal oj the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, vol. XV. (1908) pp. 683-686; see this Journal, vol. xxxvi. p. 559. 



5. Herefordshire. . List drawn up for the year 1894 by Mr. John 

 Watkins at the Pomona Fmit Farm, Hereford, published in Year- 

 book, Herefordshire Fruit Growers' Association. 



6. Victoria, Australia. Taken from " SteriHty in Fruit Trees," by 

 E. Wallis, in The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of 

 Victoria, ix. (1911), pp. 10-19, and relating to several districts in 

 Victoria in 1910. 



7. New York, U.S.A. A number of observations made in New 

 York, not exactly comparable with one another, as they were made 

 with varying numbers of trees, and not always in the same year, but 

 no doubt approximately accurate. From "The Eelation of Weather 

 to the Setting of Fruit; with Blooming Data for 866 Varieties of 

 Fruit." U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Geneva, New York, Bull. 299; March 

 1908. By U. P. Hedrick. 



8. Oregon, U.S.A. Eecords made in 1907-8 in the College Orchard, 

 Oregon, by C. I. Lewis and 0. 0. Vincent, pubHshed in U.S.A. Exp. 

 Stn., Oregon, Bull. 104; February, 1909. 



9. Virginia, U.S.A. The average of varying numbers of observa- 

 tions on the flowering time of apples extending over about ten years 

 to 1904 given by H. L. Price in " Meteorological Data and Bloom 

 Notes of Fruits," U.S.A. Exp. Stn., Virginia, Bull. 155; May, 1905. 



It is somewhat difficult to make exact comparisons between these 

 lists, because they do not all deal with the same varieties nor even 

 start with the same earliest flowerer and end with the same latest. 



Further, in several of the lists, unlike our own, which gives the 

 time when about half the flowers are fully out and when probably 

 there is the greatest chance of fruit setting, the date of the opening of 

 the first flower is used as a basis of comparison. This seems scarcely | 

 so reliable a basis as that adopted in our own lists, since not infrequently j" 

 one flower opens some time before the bulk; on the other hand the ' 

 method removes the personal factor " in the record. This difference I 

 may slightly interfere with the order in the various lists. I , 



We have thought it best for purposes of comparison to divide the H 

 time from the earliest date given to the latest in each list into j.i 

 four almost equal periods, and to arrange the varieties in four groups, U 

 numbered respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, beginning with the earliest. In the k 

 Table the sign - or + following a number means the flowering time m 

 was near the beginning or near the end of the period named respectively. 

 These figures in the following Table therefore represent the order of |: 

 flowering in the respective locaUties, and the degree of uniformity they |i 

 show is to a large extent a measure of the reliability of a list drawn up 1 1 

 in one locality as a guide to the planter in another. The varieties are j 

 given in alphabetical order, and those of purely foreign interest, which i 

 do not appear in either of our English lists, are omitted. ■ 



