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E. MAWEEY-PHENOLOGICAL PHENOMENA. 
gardens were unusually gay with the blossom of autumn and late 
summer flowers. 
According to the returns of farm produce in Hertfordshire, 
published by the Board of Agriculture, the yield of wheat was as 
much as 32 per cent, below the average for the previous ten years, 
of barley 22 per cent, below, of oats 15 per cent, below, of beans 
24 per cent, below, of peas 2 per cent, below, and of mangolds 
2 per cent, below" the average. On the other hand, potatoes were 
9 per cent, above, turnips were 12 per cent, above, hay (from 
permanent pasture) was 7 per cent, above, and hay (from clover, etc.) 
11 per cent, above their respective averages for the same ten years. 
The fruit crops, according to the returns sent in to the 
* Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ were, taking the county as a whole, all 
more or less in excess of the average, except pears and plums, the 
yield of which was below average. 
The last plant on the list, the ivy, came into flower at its 
average date. 
The swallow took its departure five days earlier than its mean 
date for the previous thirteen years. 
