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been able to fhevv what kind of tree Provi- 

 dence intended fliould be our calendar, fo that 

 we might know on what day tlie countrey- 

 man ought to fow his grain. 



The fun ads on the earth by loofening, 

 warming, and preparing it, as the culinary fire 

 does on our meat, for which a certain degree 

 of heat is requifite. For the fun by its heat 

 drives the juices taken in by the roots thro' the 

 vefTels of the tree, which do not return by cir- 

 culation, but become more copious by the 

 daily addition of frelh heat. It. Scan. 23. 



i will here add fome coincidences of the like nature, in 

 Sweden and England. 



Linnaeus fays, that the <wood-anemone blows from the ar- 

 rival of the /wal/otv. In my diary for the year 1755, i find 

 the /ival/cfw appeared April the 6th, and the njoood-auemons 

 was in blow the loth of the fame month. He fays, that 

 the marjh-marygold blows when the cuckoiv firtgs. Ac- 

 cording to my diary the mar Jh-mary gold was in blow April 

 the 7th, and the fame day the cucho'w fung. 



I have many other obfervations by me about the appear- 

 ances of birds and the flowering of plants, but as they were 

 made for one year only, and there are none of other authors 

 to compare them with, i fhall not trouble the reader with 

 them. I have been induced to publifli them for reafons that 

 1 have mentioned in the preface. Vid. the Calendar of Flora, 



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