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XXX. 
REPORT ON PHENOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OBSERVED IN 
HERTFORDSHIRE DURING THE YEAR 1910. 
By Edward Mawley, E.B.Met. Soc., E.B.H.S., V.M.H. 
Read at Watford, With March, 1911. 
All parts of the county are well represented, with the 
exception of the north-eastern portion, which unfortunately still 
lacks an observer. 
The following table gives the list of observers, the districts 
they represent, and the approximate height of the stations 
above sea-level. Two of the stations are just outside our 
county boundary, Harefield being in Middlesex and Odsey in 
Cambridgeshire. The sequence is from south to north. 
Station. 
Height above 
Sea-level. 
Observer. 
Harefield (The Scrubbs) ... 
340 feet. 
G. E. Eland. 
Watford (Weetwood). 
270 „ 
Mrs. J. Hopkinson. 
King’s Langley . 
350 ,, P 
Miss G. Vulliamy. 
St. Albans (New Greens Farm) . 
400 ,, 
Miss A. Dickinson. 
Berkhamsted (Rosebank) . 
400 ,, 
Mrs. E. Mawley. 
Hatfield (St. Michael’s) . 
380 ,, 
Miss R. Blackett. 
Hertford........... 
140 ,, 
W. Graveson. 
Sawbridge worth. 
240 ,, 
H. S. Rivers. 
Hitchin . 
230 ,, 
A. W. Dawson, M.A. 
Letchworth . 
300 ,, 
W. P. Westell. 
Odsey, Ashwell . 
260 ,, 
Sir Geo. Fordham. 
The Winter of 1909-10. 
Taken as a whole this proved a very warm and wet winter, 
while the duration of sunshine was in excess of the average. 
The autumn of 1909 had been by no means an ideal season 
for getting in the autumn cereals, and therefore it was hoped 
that during the following winter months the weather would on 
that account be more favourable than usual for cultivating the 
land for the reception of spring corn. But, truth to tell, the 
winter of 1909-10 was, on the contrary, one of the most trying 
for any British farmer who had entertained such hopes and 
wished to make up for the time lost during the previous season. 
For the greater part of this winter there was seldom a period of 
many days together when, from one cause or another, the plough 
could be kept going, and principally owing to the frequency and 
heaviness of the rainfall. The autumn-sown corn germinated 
slowly, but at the end of the winter, although backward, 
presented a fairly satisfactory appearance, notwithstanding the 
