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and March, and the well-known cutting North-Easters in April 
and May, extending into June. 
We now come to the last three tables (VIII. to X.), dealing 
with the phenological observations. 
The first of these (Table VIII.) relates exclusively to the first 
leafing of trees, and may accordingly bo compared with the long 
period of the “ Marsham ” records before referred to. For the 
purposes of condensation the number of the various kinds of 
trees from which observations have been taken has been limited to 
ten, with the addition of a note of the date on which the foliage 
is generally complete, or, in other words, when the woodland 
scenery of the county has assumed its full summer verdure, and 
bare boughs are seen no more. 
Table IX. comprises a selection, from many, of ten garden 
plants or flowering shrubs found in nearly every garden, from 
which it is easy to take down the dates of first flowering, and 
commences with the earliest of our spring flowers, the Winter 
Aconite, and concludes with one of the latest of our horticultural 
productions, the Colcliicum autumnale or Saffron Crocus. (Where 
the dates of the first flowering of the Winter Aconite occur in 
December, it refers to the December of the previous year.) 
The first part of Table X. contains the names of twenty 
common wild flowers selected principally from the list published by 
the Royal Meteorological Society, to which the attention of observers 
is specially drawn. These plants have been arranged in the 
sequence of their natural orders, and not according to their dates. 
Nearly all of these plants are met with in daily walks in this 
neighbourhood, and the casual observer would hardly think that 
there was such a difference between the dates of the first flowering 
of some of them, and how little, apparently, others are affected by 
the weather, and reappear each year with marked punctuality. Of 
the former I would especially draw attention to CaUha palustris 
(earliest flowering, February 1 4th, IS96 ; latest, April 25th, 1888), 
a period of seventy-one days ; and Lamiiun purpureum whose dates 
extend from January 5th, 189G, to March 15th, in 1S88, a period of 
seventy days. And with regard to the latter, it will lie seen that 
