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5?o. Corn flag. 1 168. H. Gladiolus communis. 



81. Martagon, common^ ui2. H. Martagon vul- 



86. Martagon, iv'^/>, 11 12. Martagon alburn^ 13, 



100. Lilly, white^ 1 109. H. Lilium album. 



III. Hyacinth, dun-coloured^ 11 60. 22. H. Hya- 



, . . c'm&iws ferotinus. 



113. Saffron, meadow^ ^y^. Colchicum autumnale. 



When many calendars of this kind fliall be 

 made in different places and nations in the fame 

 year, it will be eal'y to colled from the blowing 

 of thefe forts of flowers, and from the leaflno- 

 of trees, how one climate differs from another, 

 and why plants brought from the Southern parts 

 feldom produce fruit with us, whereas the Nor- 

 thern plants fucceed very well. Thus at Mont- 

 pelier the fpring is forwarder than at Upfal by 

 31 days, at London by 28, at Falconia by 6 ; 

 and the v/inter comes on as much later in thofe 

 places. 



Botanifls and apothecaries, whofe bufmefs it 

 is to gather plants jufl when they are in blow^ 

 may by this means learn at what time that may 

 be done, and need not feek in vain at an im- 

 proper feafon, and may farther know by their 

 garden plants, what wild ones are to be found 

 in the fields precifely at the fame time ; and on 

 the contrary. 



The night frofls which fo often deftroy our 

 plants, and which i imagine come to us from 

 Lapland, may be knov/n in the fame way. 



Thus the LEAD cold arifmg from the thaws 

 in Lapmarck, happens at the end of the leafing 

 feafon . 



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