I HAD occasion to remark in a letter to NATURE (No. 1477, vol. lvii., February 17, 1898) on the unusually early flowering of many winter and spring flowers in the December of 1897 and the January of 1898; so many of these records have been surpassed already during the recent remarkably mild period that I am venturing to put a few of them before your readers. For the last twenty years I have kept a record of the first flowers of about eighty species of wild and garden spring flowers in this county, and the season named above is the only example which at all approaches the present one in the precocity of flowering.