( in ) 
The earliest. Tlie latest. 
Sycamore in leaf, 
April 4th, 
at Carlisle ; 
May ^bth 
at Hull, 
Horscchestnut 
„ ' til 
Osborne ; 
,, iiOtll 
Jime 3rd 
99 
Hull. 
Field elm „ 
„ 8th 
it 
Carlisle ; 
99 
Hull. 
Hawthorn „ 
„ hth 
5> 
Hc4ston ; 
JMay -otn 
99 
Hull. 
Lime 
„ IPtli 
J> 
Carlisle ; 
June 1st 
99 
Hull. 
Oalc „ 
„ 21st 
99 
Strathfield ; 
,, 14th 
99 
Hull. 
Hazel „ 
„ 22nd 
99 
Hull ; 
May 30th 
99 
Hull. 
"Walnut „ 
„ oOtli 
May 10th 
99 
Carlisle ; 
oune zutu 
99 
Hull. 
Common poplar 
99 
O.xford ; 
„ 16th 
99 
Hull. 
Oriental plane 
„ 13th 
99 
Oxford ; 
1 Oil, 
„ l.-Sth 
99 
Hull. 
Lilac in blossom, 
April 4th 
99 
Helston ; 
„ 22nd 
99 
Llandudno. 
Yellow broom „ 
„ 'Jth 
99 
Hekston ; 
„ lOtli 
May 14 th 
99 
Torquay. 
Hardy pear „ 
„ 12th 
99 
Oxford; 
99 
Hull. 
Cherry „ 
,, 13th 
99 
Ox lord ; 
12th 
June otn 
99 
Carlisle. 
Laburnum „ 
,, 13th 
99 
Helston ; 
9> 
Hull. 
Hardy apple „ 
„ 22ud 
99 
Llmdudno ; 
May 20 th 
99 
Milltown. 
Honeysuckle ,, 
May ICth 
99 
Strathfield ; 
June 27tli 
99 
Hull. 
jNlountain ash „ 
„ lith 
99 
Strathfield ; 
„ ^Znd 
99 
Hull. 
White broom „ 
„ ISth 
99 
Willi . 
May 30th 
99 
Milltown. 
WTnpnf ill on* 
>V liCclt ILL Ctll ) 
•Ttiup !^r(l 
99 
Helston ; 
June ITtli 
99 
Osborne. 
Oats „ 
„ llth 
Helston ; 
Wey bridge ; 
„ 24th 
99 
Cardington. 
Wheat in flower, 
„ 5th 
99 
„ 25th 
99 
Llandudno. 
Cuckoo arrived, 
April 13th 
99 
Guernsey ; 
May 13th 
99 
Berraerside. 
Swallow 
„ 12th 
99 
Oxford ; 
„ 6th 
99 
Kelstern. 
Nightingale „ 
„ 4th 
99 
Oxford ; 
April 9th 
99 
Strathfield.' 
Third Quarter (July, August, Septemher'). — Excepting a period of 
genial weather from 13tli to 21st August, the temperature through- 
out the quarter was low, chilly, and unpleasant, especially fiom 
the loth to 25th September. The mean readings of the barometer 
were below the average in July and August, but showed an excess 
in September. The mean temperature of the quarter at the Royal 
Observatory, Greenwich, was 58°'5, and l°-2 below the average for 
the corresponding period in 106 years. The mean differed but 
slightly from the average either in July or August, but the mean 
in September was as low as 52°*9, and showed a deficiency of 3'*7. 
The mean temperature of September was lower than that of any 
September since 1803; between 1770 and 1804, however, there 
were 4 instances of a mean temperatui'e for September lower than 
that which prevailed in the September of 1877. 
The measured rainfall of the quarter at the Greenwich Obser- 
vatory was 6*4 inches, and was an inch below the average amount 
in the corresponding period of 62 years. The rainfall in the first 
nine months of this year was 20 inches, and exceeded the average 
by 1-8 inch, owing principally to the marked excess in January 
and April. In July and August the rainfall was 2*4 and 2-9 inches 
respectively, differing but slightly from the average amounts ; in 
September the rainfall only measured I'l inch, which was less 
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