INTRODUCTION. 



BEFORE i fet forth the Calendar of Flora, 

 or the delights of the year, arifing from 

 mere lublunary things according to its progrefs, 

 and that from obfervaticns made in the climate 

 of Upial, ann. 1755. i think it necefiary to fay 

 fomethino- by way of introdudion. Time moves 

 on flov/ly j every thing is in progrcfTion and mo- 

 tion, and has its allotted time, as the wifefl of 

 men Solomon obferves •, to which purpofe Virgil 

 fays, Stat fua cuique dies, 



Aftronomers have exerted all theirpower to mea- 

 fure time. To them we owe the accurate divifions 

 of it; for they by obferving the courfe and mo- 

 tion of the celeflial bodies, have been at lafl ena- 

 bled to reduce it to ftated periods, and to divide 

 it in fuch a manner into years, months, weeks and 

 days, that we have calendars conltru^led for com- 

 mon ufe, as a rule by which to obferve and num- 

 ber its equal parts. 



As theftars radiate, fliine,'and adorn the celeflial 

 regions of the fummer months, fo flowers beautity 

 and illuminate the earth v/ith a Vv^onderful va- 

 riety of bright and delightful colors. Thus, ac- 

 cording to the ftile of the chymifls, that which 

 is above is as that which is below. 



How much time foever and labor botaaifts 

 have befhowed for many ages back, in order to 

 know the names, nature and vertues of plants, 

 they have not hitherto arrived at that degree of 

 perfe6tion, as to be able to equal the fuccefs of 

 aftronomers, in noting the properties and phas- 

 nomena of each of them. 



Every 



