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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
petals, but still in bud in deep shades. Frost for several nights 
during the past week. This morning (May 15th) the thermom- 
eter registered 37 0 F at seven o’clock, followed by a bright warm 
day. 
May 18. — During the past three days the weather has been 
warm ,and dry. Farming operations were begun and carried 
briskly forward ; buds are rapidly unfolding and the whole face 
of nature has undergone a surprising change within a few days. 
The white petals of the hepatica are nearly all fallen. Blue 
violets and strawberry plants in full bloom. A few dandelions 
have opened in sunny places, and one or two amelanchier trees 
are almost in flower, a few white trilliums (Trillium grandi- 
fiorum) brought from Ottawa, and planted in the spring of 1905, 
are opening into flowers, while others near by, brought from the 
same place and planted ten years ago, still keep their buds obstin- 
ately closed, opening ten or twelve days later. (The spring is a 
fortnight earlier usually at Ottawa than about St. John). 
May 20 . — The genial sunshine of the past four days with a 
strong north wind today has shaken innumerable buds into leaf 
and flower. Sanguinaria, uvularia, houstonias, amelanchiers, 
painted trilliums, gold-thread are rapidly coming into bloom, 
while the blossoms of the fly-honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliata), the 
wind-flower (Anemone nemorosa), fawn lily, the long pendulous 
tassels of the mountain alder, the flowery involucre of viburnum 
lantanoides and the white trilliums are fully expanded. 
In ferns, the fronds of osmundas and the ostrich fern are 
from three to twelve inches in height, while the woodsias on the 
rockeries and the phegopteris in the meadows, are fully unfolded. 
The elder (Sambucus pubens), pyrus, carpinus, trembling popular 
and small birches and alders have their leaves fully unfolded. The 
larger birches, amelanchiers, black and red cherry, maples are 
moving rapidly from bud to leaf. The flowers of the red maple 
have been falling for several days in the open, but they still 
redden the deeper woods where there is an indefinable mingling 
of red and brown and green “and nothing perfect” 
June I. — Nights very chilly, with frosts, on May 31st and 
June 1st. Easterly and northeasterly winds have prevailed with 
cold rains for a week past. In flower everywhere — purple 
