ARTICLE IV. 
OBSERVATIONS ON WEATHER AND PLANTS, 1908-9. 
By Dr, G. U. Hay 
Ingleside, May 4, 1908. — The cold backward weather of 
March and April was relieved by a few spring-like days during 
the last week in April. Few signs of vegetation yet. Flowers 
of red maple and leather-wood ( Dirca palustris) appearing; 
flower buds of round-lobed hepatica opening; the mottled leaves 
of the fawn lily (adder’s tongue) showing in sunny places; a 
few ferns ( osmundas ) pushing up their woolly fronds, and the 
catkins of alder and willow elongating. 
St. John , May 7. — Coltsfoot ( Tussilago farfara ) well in 
bloom, and a few white violets appearing in sheltered places in 
Rockwood Park. On the nth, a fine warm day, a few flowers 
of red maple, fawn lily, fetid currant, Labrador violet in bloom. 
White violet and coltsfoot abundant. Red-elder buds bursting. 
A red-cherry tree broken by the storms of winter was in haste 
to put forth leaves and blossoms, while the upright trees of the 
same species were still in bud ! 
Ingleside , May 15. — Arbor Day. Planted cherry-birch, 
white-ash, red-ash, ash-leaved maple, ironwood, American horn- 
beam, Siberian pea-tree, and others. A pleasant day and com- 
fortably warm. White violets and fawn lilies in full bloom. 
Ploughing began on the 16th ; on drier lands earlier. 
May 17. — Found the following plants in bloom: Dandelion, 
strawberry, mountain-fly honeysuckle ( Lonicera a’/faia),. gold- 
thread, a few blue violets in sunny places. The leather-wood 
shrub a mass of bloom, and the red-maple crimsoning the woods 
everywhere. The fetid-currant has been in full leaf for more 
than a week past. (This is our first shrub to come into leaf). 
A few small red-cherry shoots are in leaf on sunny hillsides. 
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