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1938.

The year opened dry, dull & windless, with an anticyclone lasting until end of first week,  then mild broken[[?]] weather.

The first snowdrop, one of those planted a couple of years ago under the drawing room window, opened on 9th Jan. after hanging fire for about
ten days; the old clumps at front corner of the house were at this time just pushing through the ground.

Wild weather set in about 10th & continued till end of January, mostly very mild, with intervals of cold & a night's frost on 27th - 28th.  Daisy saw a Crocus in flower in garden on Kimmeys Rd. East & ones in front garden had their noses showing at same time.  First Snowdrop in old patch at front corner of house out on 28th & new patch of Sax. apiculata in front garden out on 26th.  Mistle Thrushes sang vigorously all through the stormy weather!  Daisy saw Coltsfoot well out on 22nd by the Dodder opposite the Water Gate to old Rathfarnham Castle estate.  Hazel [[male symbol, male symbol]] catkins well out by that date on Dodder & various places


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near Ballymore Eustace on 23rd, when we drove to Poulaphouca to see the commencement of the making of the new dam across the Liffey just above the bridge & the famous fall.  A very sad sight!

2nd Feb. 1938.  In afternoon drove to far end of Phoenix Park & had a pleasant walk, it being a fine day, with much sun:  mild after a few cold days.  Two clumps of Sax. oppositifolia with a few flowers open in back garden, side next road, one from Snowdon & one from Binevenagh, both the small-flowered form.  Crocuses now well out in front garden, by path to gate, where the first appeared about 29th Jan.

On 14th Feb. the first blossom opened on the Almond in Kenilworth Square (M.D.S.) & on 15th there were three flowers open (A.W.S.).  On 18th a bush of Forsythia (?) in Grosvenor Road was just ready to open.

The Sax. oppositifolia in front garden (Snowdon form!) had a flower out on the 13th, while that from Binevenagh had several flowers which appeared to have been out for several days.  The Alder in back garden had its male catkins well out on 13th & also bore [[female symbol]] catkins for the first time.  It was brought home & planted by Heigh in 1931, a few months before he died.

Transcription Notes:
Dodder = River Dodder