February  6,  1902. 
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JOURNAL  OF  aORTlCULTUllE  ASb  COTTAGF.  GAFbFSi:::. 
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AND 
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THURSDAY,  FEBRUARY  6,  1902. 
The  Weather  of  1901. 
OLLOWING  in  the  footsteps  of 
the  majority  of  its  preiJecessors 
of  the  tast  decades  of  the  Nine¬ 
teenth  Century,  the  tir&t  year  of 
the  T'S'entieth  in  its  prevailing 
weather  was  chiefly  remarkable 
for  deficieucy  of  rainfall.  Unlike 
its  more  immediate  forerunners,  how¬ 
ever,  the  year  until  the  middle  of 
April  was  marked  by  generally  low  temper¬ 
atures,  coupled  with  (taking  the  period  as 
a  whole)  a  fairly  average  rainfall.  As  this 
deficiency  of  temperature  was  most  noticeable 
during  the  last  six  weeks  of  winter  and  the 
first  week  or  so  of  spring.  Nature  generally 
was  very  loth  to  awaken  from  ifs  winter 
sleep  ;  the  season,  indeed,  promising  at  this 
time  to  prove  the  most  backward  of  the 
many  backward  ones  of  recent  years. 
Tnen,  with  the  third  week  of  April,  came 
a  great  and  we’coiue  change  ;  this  month, 
after  comnmnciiig  with  a  forcnight  of  cold 
weather  and  incessant  rainfall,  concluding 
with  a  similar  period  of  brilliant  and  almost 
continuous  sunshine,  associated  with  a  tem¬ 
perature  rising  at  times  to  .summer  heat.  As 
for  once  in  a  way  the  ensuing  month  did  not 
bring  its  usual  coutributinn  of  “May  winter,” 
in  spite  of  an  undue  prevalence  of  somewhat 
cold  north-easterly  winds,  the  spring  proved 
upon  the  whole  very  favourab  e  for  garden 
work.  But  rain  was  badly  needed,  and  as, 
with  the  exception  of  some  hea\'y  thuuder- 
storiii-.  during  tlie  fourth  wcr-k  of  July,  the 
fall  was  g’-'iierally  deficient  throughout  the 
following  summer,  much  of  this  early  proatise 
remained  unfulfilled.  Generally  it  is  fairly 
safe  to  predict  a  bre:ik-up  of  a  summer’s 
drought  some  time  towartls  the  close  of 
September  or  early  in  October,  but  for  once 
this  did  not  occur,  very  little  rain  falling 
during  either  of  those  moiithsor  the  following. 
Readers  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
Apiioiiuinetits  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
ituimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  ofHcially  to  “  THE  EDITOR  ”  at 
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London,  E.C.  and  to  no  otlier  person  and  to  no  other 
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