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public, if one in every province would yearly 

 make obfervations in this way, and at laft com- 

 municate them in the fame manner, as aftro- 

 nomers do their meteorological ones to the 

 royal fociety, or academy of Iciences ? 



It will befides be neceflary to remark what 

 fowing, made on different days in the fpring, 

 produces the befl crop •, that comparing thefc 

 with the foliation of different trees, it might 

 appear which is the moft proper time for this 

 purpofe. In like manner it will not be amifs to • 

 note at what time certain plants, efpecially the 

 mofl remarkable in every province, blow ; that 

 it might appear whether the year made a flower 

 or a quicker progrefs. For we fee, although 

 obfervations of this kind have yet not come 

 into ufe, that the mower can guefs at the time 

 proper for cutting grafs, either from the flow- 

 ers of the panmjj! a, the deviPs hit^ the marjh gen- 

 tian^ or the baftard afphodel burfting forth, or 

 from the flowers of the purple 'meadow trefoil 

 withering, or from the ripening of the feeds of 

 thQ yellow rattle^ or in higher places from the 

 yellow hue of the leaves of the leopard's bane. 

 Would botanills like aftronomers note the time 

 of foliation, and flowering of trees and herbs, 

 and the days on which the feed is fown, flowers 



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