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PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS:-(Continued).

Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule), flowering. 33. Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium ang.), flowering. 34. Twinflower (Linnaea borealis), flowering. 35. Pale Laurel (Kalmia glauca), flowering.

Day of year corresponding to the last day of each month.

Jan.
31
April 120 July 212
Feb. 59 May 151 Aug. 243
March 90 June 181
Sept. 278

Oct. 304
Nov.

334

Dec. 365

[For Leap years increase each number except that for January

by 1]

28. Pigeon Berry (Cornus Canadensis), fruit ripe.
29. Star Flower (Trientalis Americana), flowering.
30. Clintonia (Clintonia borealis), flowering..
31. Marsh Calla (Calla palustris), flowering.

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36. Lambkill (Kalmia angustifolia), flowering.

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37. English Hawthorn (Crataegus oxyacantha), flowering.

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38. Scarlet fruited Thorn (Crataegus coccinea), flowering.. 39. Blue Flag (iris versicolor), flowering,

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41. Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar advena), flowering. 42. Raspberry (Rubus strigosus), flowering.

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Raspberry (Rubus strigosus), fruit ripe..

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44. Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus Crista-galli), flowering 45. High Blackberry (Rubus villosus), flowering..

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47. Pitcher Plant (Šarracenia purpurea), flowering. 48. Heal-All (Brunella vulgaris), flowering..

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Common Wild Rose (Rosa lucida), flowering. 50. Fall Dandelion (Leontodon autumnale,) flowering 51. Butter-and-Eggs (Linaria vulgaris), flowering... 52. Expanding leaves in spring made trees appear green(a) first tree, (b) leafing trees generally...

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73. Opening of (a) Rivers, (b) Lakes without currents. 74. Last Snow (a) to whiten ground, (b) to fly in air. 75. Last Spring Frost (a) “hard” (b) “hoar)"

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76. Water in streams, rivers, etc., (a) highest, (b) lowest

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77. First Autumn Frosts, (a) "hoar" (b) "hard".

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78. First Snow (a) to fly in air, (b) to whiten ground. 79. Closing of (a) Lakes without currents, (b) Rivers.. 80. Number of Thunder Storms

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January 11; February 3; March 12; April 15; May 14; June 21; July 4; August 7; September 5; October 12; November 4; December 1.

Day of year corresponding to the last day of each month.)

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128

117

131

135

124

146

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130

97

105

101. Senecio Jacobaea (St. James Ragwort); Is it found within the school sections

If so, to what extent? etc.

102. The Brown Tail Moth? etc.

NOTICE.

Change of Dates for the Phenological Schedules.

It is decided to have the schedules of observations henceforward sent in twice a year (with the semi-annual returns). This arrangement will enable the Education Department more easily to compile the information in periods of the calendar year so as to be more readily comparable with phenological observations in other countries, and with the voluminous meteorological statistics collected, compiled and published by the Dominion.

The schedule sent in at the end of the first half of the school year is intended to cover the time from the 1st of July to the end of December-thus completing the Calendar year.

The schedule sent in at the end of the school year in July is intended to cover the observations from the 1st January to the end of June.

Where the same teacher is employed in the section during the whole calendar year, the schedule sent in during the first week of February is commended to cover the whole calendar year, from the 1st of January to the 31st of Deceember. Such a schedule will be complete in itself for the whole calendar year, and the fact of its repeating the contents of the June schedule will be no inconvenience to the compilers, while it will reflect favorably on the teacher.

This course should be followed by a teacher new to the section, provided the previous teacher left the record on file or in the register. Whenever the observations for the Calendar year can be given complete, there is an advantage in giving it Complete in the schedule sent in with the February returns.

A schedule without the half year or year which it covers being entered in the first line of the second page, or without the compiler's name and address must be rejected-no matter how good the observations may appear.

PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

List of Schools sending in Schedules of Local Observations for the School Term ended July, 1913.

The number of observations recorded in the schedules sent in from each school named below is that made hurriedly while arranging them in the sets to be sent to the various compilers, who will critically examine and report on each schedule to eliminate errors or doubtful records. The number of observations generally indicates, however, the interest taken in the work by the respective schools. Even a few accurate observations are of value; and some of the schools sending in schedules of a low number of observations are appreciated highly as documents of scientific value. Accurate and full schedules are not only more valuable from a scientfic point of view, but indicate generally a strong educational interest in the study of Nature in the school.

The teachers of Nova Scotia have already acquired a reputation beyond that of any other part of America for their voluntary devotion to and success in the cultivation of the observing faculties of the pupils under their charge. And already our first line of biologists, a few widely known already in the world, has made its appearance.

The three columns give respectively, (1) the names of the teachers, (2) the names of the school sections, and (3) the numbers of observations recorded.

The Province is divided into its main climate slopes or regions not always coterminous with the boundaries of countries. Slopes, especially those to the coast, are sub-divided into belts, such as (a) the coast belt, (b) the low inland belt, and (c) the high inland belt, as below:

No.

Regions or Slopes.

Belts.

I. Yarmouth and Digby Counties, (a) Coast, (b) Low Inlands, (c) High

II. Shelburne Queens & Lunen'g Cos. III. Annapolis and Kings Counties,

IV. Hants and Colchester Counties,

V. Halifax and Guysboro Counties, VI.A,Cobequid Slope (to the south), VIB,Chignecto Slope (to the n'hwest), VII. North'rland Sts Slope (to the N'h), VIII. Richmond & Cape Breton Co's., IX. Bras d'Or Slope (to the southe't),

X. Inverness Slope (to Gulf, N. W.),

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Inlands.

(a) Coast, (b) North Mt., (c) Annapolis Valley, (d) Cornwallis Valley, (e) South Mt.

(a) Coast, (b) Low Inlands, (c) High Inlands.

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