OBSKRVATIONS ON WEATHER AND PLANTS. 
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trillium, painted trillium, bluets, bell flower, dandelion, marsh 
marigold, white baneberry, wild red cherry, with a few plants of 
rhodora and nodding trillium opening. Petals of amelanchier are 
falling. Owing to continued cold and wet weather many early 
flowers, such as the white trillium, wood anemone, mayflower 
and others still preserve their beautiful bloom. For the same 
reason the leaves of the great-tooth-leaved poplar, white or 
swamp maple, red oak, white ash, acacia, sumac and other late 
forms are just expanding into leaves; but nearly all other 
deciduous trees are now in full foliage. 
June 4. — Transplanted acacia, flowering raspberry, sumac and 
other shrubs, the damp weather being in favor of late planting. 
Flowers are appearing on pyrus baccata and its varieties, on the 
Siberian pea tree, purple clematis, blueberry plants and bunch- 
berry (Cornus Canadensis). 
June 11. — Stemless lady’s-slipper, apple trees, lilacs, yellow 
lady’s-slipper coming into bloom. 
June 13. — The first really hot day of the season. Maidenhair 
fern fronds fully expanded. A little later the butterwort 
(Pinguicula vulgaris) is in bloom and other late flowers are 
opening, including the erigerons, forerunners of the asters and 
golden rods. 
October 20. — A beautiful summer but very dry and hot; no 
rains of any consequence after June. The wells everywhere were 
dry. The river St. John which has been very low began rising 
this week from heavy rains in the north. The warm weather has 
continued through the autumn. Occasional light frosts occurred 
after the middle of September, but not sufficient to kill vegetation. 
There were more severe frosts on the nights of the 12th, 16th, 
and 17th, when a very thin surface of ice was formed on pails of 
water standing out, barely sufficient to notice. The fine weather 
has continued through September until late October, but the 
woods have not had so bright a coloring as in other years. The 
deciduous leaves are dry and shrivelled with a few notable 
exceptions such as the brilliant red of the ironwood and the dark 
red of the oak. Several trees and shrubs, such as the black cherry 
and lilacs, still retain their summer green (October 20). 
The autumn was characterized by a great dearth of the larger 
fungi, owing to the excessive dryness. 
