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I liave not materials for forming an accurate Floral Calendar for 

 Wilmington, but the following notices show the flowering time of a 

 few plants in the spring of 1832: 



Daffodils in flower, Feb. i 



Red Maple " 8 



Peach and Plum " 12 



Flowering Almond " 26 



Phlox subulata " 27 



Vaccinium corynibosum ■ March i 



Cardamine Virginica " 6 



Thlaspi bursa-pasloris " 10 



Red Cedar and Elm Feb, i 



Jonquils " 10 



Cercis Canadensis " 26 



Epigsea repens " 26 



Luzula Campestris " 27 



Viola cucullata and lanceolata 



March 6 

 Bayberry (Myrica) " 10 



In 1831, Daffodils blossomed January 1st, and the White Hya- 

 cinth at Christmas, which is about their usual period of flowering.'' 

 — Moses A. Curtis, A. M., in " Catalogue of Plants Growing Spon- 

 taneously Around Wihnington.'" 



The following list of plants, with their dates of flowering in 1885, 

 is taken from the note book of Miss Hettie E. Watson, Secretary of 

 " The Curtis Club," of Wilmington: 



Alder, .. -. February I 



Chickweed " 2 



Blue Violet, " 2 



White Violet, -- " 3 



Arbutus, " 3 



Jessamine, yellow " 3 



Huckleberry ( Vaccinium 



corymbosum,) " 3 



Chrysogonum Virginianum " 3 



Bartonia verna, " 3 



Cedar, .., " 5 



Long Leaf Pine stam, " 5 



Long Leaf Pine pistillate, " 16 



Schallott, " 16 



Gill " 16 



Redbud, " 16 



Cypress, " 16 



Red Maple, " 16 



Red Cedar, " 16 



Elm, •... " 16 



Prunus Carolinianum, " 19 



Mistletoe, " ig 



Cydonia Japonica, February 20 



Pyxidanthera barbulata, '* 26 



Short Leaf Pine stam, " 26 



Short Leaf Pine pistillate " 26 



Oxalis yellow, . . March 7 



Watercress, " 7 



Pepper grass {Lepidium 



Virginiciun " 23 



Nasturtium, " 23 



Willow catkin, sterile " 26 



Willow fertile, " 26 



Strawberry, yellow, (/^r«o-<7- 



ria Itidica, )... " 26 



Strawberry, white, {F. Vir- 



giniana), " 26 



Peach , " 26 



Sassafras, " 27 



Golden Club, {Orontium),. " 28 



Rubus trivialis, April i 



Euphorbia, " i 



Willow Oak, {Qtiercus Phel- 



los, " 4 



