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rugosa are in bloom. Ripe strawberries first observed yesterday, 
though reported a week earlier from up-river. 
July 3. — Acacia ( A . viscosa) in bloom. 
The remainder of July was alternately fine and showery. 
August was a fine-weather month, with but little rain. A slight 
frost September 4th and the night following ; again on September 
23rd. The month was very dry and warm, with numerous forest 
fires, which were quenched by an abundant rain on the 29th, — 
the first of any consequence during the month. 
The month of October and the greater part of November 
were fine with many perfect days, peculiar to this season. The 
autumn foliage was more than ordinarily beautiful. The first 
severe frost of the season occurred on the night of October 4th. 
May 5, 1909. — The past winter has been exceptionally fine, 
with no extremely cold weather, and with occasional light falls 
of snow. The month of April was generally wet and cold, con- 
tinuing so during the early part of May. Farmers began 
ploughing May 4th. 
May 13. — Leather-wood, red maple, white violet, blood-root, 
fawn lily in full bloom in open places. Trillium grandiflorum 
with white petals showing. A few blue violets in bloom in 
sunny spots. 
May 20. — Flowers in bloom: Trillium grandiflorum, bluets, 
blue violets, ' hobble-bush ( Viburnum lantanoides ) , gold-thread, 
mountain-fly honeysuckle. Purple and painted trilliums just 
coming in bloom. Great abundance of catkins on white birch 
trees. Trees and shrubs in leaf — small white birches, cotone- 
aster, pyruses, elder. 
May 21. — Fleavy frost last night, with ice in low places, and 
again on the night of the 24th, killing tender garden plants just 
above the ground. 
May 24. — Dandelions, strawberry plants and a few amelan- 
chiers in bloom. 
