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following day. Some severe weather with northwest gales be- 
tween the 20th and last of month, alternating with milder weather, 
southwest winds and rain. The deciduous trees have not shown 
this season their usual variety and beauty of coloring in their 
foliage, and there has been apparently no Indian summer up to 
date (October 31). , 
Observations of Plants in Wild Garden, Ingleside, 1903. 
May 9. — The weather dry and variable, with cold nights. The 
spring opened earl}^>, as in the previous season, but cold winds, 
absence of rain and occasional frosts have retarded vegetation. 
White violets and dog-tooth violet in full bloom, with a few of the 
following : Dandelion, viburnum lantanoides, blue violets, lonicera 
cdiata, strawberry. Going out of bloom: Mayflowers (in 
Garden), dirca palustris, red maple. 
May 16. — Weather cold, with northwest winds for the past 
few days. Heavy frosts at night and ice forming in places. In 
bloom : Painted and purple trilliums, gold thread, bluets, vibur- 
num lantanoides, wind flower, caltha palustris, uvularia; amelan- 
chier and white trillium unfolding. White birch, red maple, 
amelanchier, trembling poplar, horse chestnut, black cherry, red 
cherry, lilac just coming into leaf. 
May 25. — Cold, with northwest winds for the past three days. 
Weather bright and sunny. Rain needed. Red oak, elm and 
populus grandidentata just coming into leaf. In flower: trillium 
cernuum, dewberry, rhodora, blueberry, actsea alba, bog bean, 
cornus canadensis. 
May 31. — Plants in bloom: Trientalis americana, clintonia 
borealis, nemopanthes canadensis, viola pubescens, cypripedium 
acaule, red cherry. 
June 8. — Frost first few nights in June, but not heavy enough 
to do damage. No rain, except a few scattered showers since 
April 29. Everything very dry, and forest fires raging for the 
past fortnight doing much damage to the timber lands, and de- 
stroying buildings in the Inglewood, Musquash and other districts 
west of the St. John river. Nothing growing in the parched and 
smoke-laden atmosphere. 
