PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, CANADA. (1915 Schedule). (For the months January to June 19 ; or the months July to December, 19 ) Province... Locality or School Section. County. .X... District .No.. The estimated length and breadth of the locality within which the following observations were made.. .... miles. Estimated dismiles. Estimated altitude above sea level.. tance from the sea coast.. .feet. Slope or general exposure of the region.. General character of the soil and surface... Proportion of forest and its character... Does the region include lowlands or intervales? . . . . . . . . and if so name the main river or stream.. ...... Or is it all substantially highlands?..... Any other peculiarity tending to affect vegetation.... The most central Post Office of the locality or region.. Name and Address of the Teacher or other Compiler of the Observations responsible for their accuracy. Nova Scotia Phenochrons. (Wild Plants, etc.-Nomenclature "Gray's Manual"). as in "Spotton" or 1. Alder (Alnus incana), catkin shedding pollen. 3. Mayflower (Epigaea repens), flowering.. 4. Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense), shedding spores. Blood-root (Sanguinaria Canadensis), flowering.. 5. 6. White Violet (Viola blanda), flowering. 7. Blue Violet (Viola palmata, cucullata), flowering. 8. Hepatica (H. triloba etc.), flowering... 9. Red Maple (Acer rubrum), flower shedding pollen. 10. Strawberry (Fragaria Virginiana), flowering.. fruit ripe. 11. 12. Dandelion (Taraxacum offinicale), flowering. fruit ripe. 19. Wild Red Cherry (Prunus Pennsylvanica), flowering. 20. fruit ripe. 21. Blueberry (Vaccinium Can, and Penn.), flowering. 23. Tall Buttercup (Ranunculus acris), flowering. PHENOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS:-(Continued). Day of year corresponding to the last day of each month. Jan. Feb. March April 120 July 212 Oct. 31 304 59 90 June 181 Nov. 334 [For Leap years increase each number above except that for January, by 1] 28. Pigeon Berry (Cornus Canadensis), fruit ripe. 32. Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule), flowering. 35. Pale Laurel (Kalmia glauca), flowering. 36. Lambkill (Kalmia angustifolia), flowering.. 37. English Hawthorn (Crataegus oxyacantha), flowering.. 38. Scarlet fruited Thorn (Crataegus coccinea), flowering. 39. Blue Flag (Iris versicolor), flowering.. 40. Ox-Eye Daisy flowering. (Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum), 41. Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar advena), flowering. Raspberry (Rubus strigosus), flowering.. 42. 43. Raspberry (Rubus strigosus), fruit ripe. 44. Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus Crista galli), flowering. 49. Common Wild Rose (Rosa lucida), flowering. 51. Butter-and-Eggs (Linaria vulgaris), flowering... 52. Expanding leaves in spring made trees appear green (a) first tree, (b) leafing trees generally. When Becoming Common. 73. Opening of (a) Rivers, (b) Lakes without currents.. 76. Water in streams, rivers, etc (a) highest, (b) lowest.. Day of year corresponding to the last day of each month. (a) (b) [For Leap years increase each number above except that for coming in Spring Going North or Going Sonth or leaving in Fall. 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. Phenological Schedules. It has been 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 of 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 intended to cover the whole calendar year, from the 1st of January to the 31st of December. 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. |