Barometric Pressure ft’elevation). Temperature of the Air. 
1891. 
Mean. 
Range. 
1891. 
Mean. 
Range. 
January 
24-571 
187 
January 
57-5 
23-5 
February 
24-567 
230 
February 
59-8 
21-5 
March 
24-570 
166 1 
March 
62-2 
25-7 
April 
24-570 
168 
April 
63-8 
23-5 
May 
24-511 
311 1 
May 
63-3 
17-5 
June 
24-510 
220 
June 
61-6 
15-2 
July 
24-506 
202 
July 
62-1 
16-5 
August 
24-519 
175 
August 
62-5 
20-0 
September 
24-554 
190 
September 
63-3 
20-0 
October 
24-528 
252 
October 
62-2 
15-5 
November 
-24-550 
208 
November 
60-9 
18-0 
December 
24-563 
218 
December 
60-6 
16-5 
The twelve months 
24-543 
.364 
The twelve months ... 
61-6 
31-5 
Highest reading ... 
24-694 on 
Feb. 14 
Mtiximum temijerature 73-0 on April 16 and May 
Lowest reading ... 
24-330 on 
May 21 
Minimum temperature of 
air 41*5 
on January 14. 
The highest temperature in^the sun’s rays during the year was 148-8 on March 22. against 149-0 on May 10 
last year. 
The lowest on grass was .33-8 on March 1, against on February 18 of the year before. 
The mean amount of cloud was ()-3, against 6-6 last year. The cloudiest months this year were October and 
December, with a mean of 8-.5 each, against April of last year with a mean of 7-5. The brightest month was August, 
with a mean amount of cloud of 5-0, against February Last year with a mean of 6-0. 
4. — Henaratooda Garden. 
The condition of this branch remains excellent, and the various newly-introduced economic 
plants are progressing most satisfactorily. 
Rainfall returns were kept here during the year for the first time, with the following result ; — 
Rainfall at Henai-atgoda, 1891. 
Fall. 
Days. 
Fall. 
Days. 
January 
1-93 
4 
July 
4-82 
13 
February 
3-.32 
7 
August 
543 
9 
March 
8-29 
11 
September ... 
7-01 
21 
April 
11-19 
13 
October 
22-51 
28 
May 
14-44 
19 
November ... 
16-91 
... 11 
•Tune 
t4-.30 
17 
December ... 
10-58 
19 
Total for year, 1-20-17 in. on 172 days. 
Conaparing this with PerMeniya, it is to be noticed that though the fall is slightly (2-46 in.) 
greater, it fell on much fewer (40 less) days. Even the very much heavier falls in November and 
J une occurred in both months on less days. 
This heavy rain did a good deal of damage to the paths, but most have been remade and 
stamped. Some old Liberian coffee has been removed to allow one path to be widened, and a 
good many old trees, too much crowded, have been cut out. 
The Conductor’s little house has been roofed with tiles in place of the old thatch. 
It remains a subject for regret to me that this pretty and interesting little Garden has so few 
Visitors. Besides a party of the boys of the Royal College (40 in number), only 34 persons came 
during the year. Probably the wet weather had something to do with this diminution of the 
number of the previous year ; but it is chiefly the want of a place to stay at during the necessary 
Waiting for the trains that makes a visit to the Garden a matter of discomfort. 1 have been in 
communication with the Government Agent as to the desirablity of the establishment of a small rest- 
house somewhere between the Garden and the Riiilway station, and I believe that he has selected a 
®ite, and that a building will be erected very soon. 
.'). — AnurAdhaptjra Garden. 
The season of 1891 has been on the whole a favourable one. This prt of Ceylon shared in 
the generally heavy rainfall, as much as 7.5-04 falling. On the whole it was well distributed, 
though there was the usual dry period from .lune to September, during which four months there was 
a rainfall of only 1-68 in., August being absolutely rainless. An unusually heavy fall of 19-42 in, 
occurred in May, and the last three months of the year were very wet, 36-54 in. falling, of which 
tt were recorded in December. 
of th ^ result the trees, shrubs, and other plants in the Garden are looking very well at the end 
® year, and much growth is apparent in most of them. The mastic and divi-divi trees are in 
It, and the sandalwood in flower. Teak has done remarkably well ; young trees, six yeai-s old 
