130 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
intermittent, and less in amount than the average ; there were but 
few days when none was recorded, and fewer still when the daily 
amount approached to half the possible total, the net result for the 
entire month being only one-fifth of that number of hours. On the 
whole the month from a gardener's point of view was an average 
October, in which ordinary routine work could be carried steadily on 
without interruption from unfavourable weather. 
The results obtained from the observations made at the Garden 
are shown in the following table : 
Mean temperature of the air in shade 
Highest „ „ „ 
Lowest „ „ „ 
on the grass 
Number of nights of ground frost 
Mean temperature of the soil at 9 a.m. 
Highest „ ,, „ 
Lowest „ 
• 49° 
65 0 on the 12th 
. 30° „ 30th 
. 23 0 „ 1st 
11 
At depth of 
1 ft. 2 ft. 4 ft. 
5i-4° 53-2° 54'3° 
54° 55° 57° 
47° ' 49° 52° 
Mean relative humidity of the air at 9 a.m. (complete saturation being repre- 
sented by 100) 92 per cent. 
Rain fell on 12 days, to the totalldepth of 2-86 in. (equivalent to about 13J 
gallons of water to the square yard). Heaviest fall on any day 1-04 in., on the 31st. 
The prevailing winds were from between south-east and north-east. 
The average velocity of the wind was 3 miles an hour. 
There were 69 hours of bright sunshine, equal to 21 per cent, of the greatest 
possible amount. 
There were 6 days on which no sunshine was recorded. 
November. — As a rule this is one of the most stormy months of the 
year ; in the present instance it was unusually quiet and calm, but 
at the same time exceptionally cold. At Wisley there was frost upon 
the ground, more or less severe, on twenty nights, the lowest tempera- 
ture recorded being 8 degrees, twenty-four degrees of frost, on the 
night of the 27th-28th ; the temperature in the screen, four feet 
above the ground, falling to 17 degrees on the same occasion. Taking 
the country generally, it was one of the coldest Novembers on record, 
and in some districts the thermometer failed to rise to the freezing- 
point for several days in succession. The rainfall at Wisley was very 
close to the average amount, but it fell infrequently, and the relatively 
large total was due to the falls being heavy. Upon the whole it was a 
bright month, and the sunshine recorded was in excess of the average. 
From a gardener's point of view the weather was seasonable, and the 
cold had the effect of bringing all growth to a standstill. 
The results obtained from the observations made at the Garden 
are shown in the following table : 
Mean temperature of the air in shade . . . .38-4° 
Highest 56 0 on the 12th 
Lowest „ „ „ . . . . 1 7 0 28th 
,, on the grass ..... 8° „ 27th 
Number of nights of ground frost ....... 20 
At depth of 
1 ft. 2 ft. 4 ft. 
Mean temperature of the soil at 9 a.m. . . . 41*9° 45° 48-1° 
Highest „ „ 48 0 49° 5*° 
Lowest „ „ 37° 4*° 45° 
