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10th. Planted corn and rice, 



12th. Dogwood displays its beautiful blossoms, as also the 

 red-bud. 



18th. Trees in general begin to shew their buds and blos- 

 soms, excepting the nut-bearing kinds, linden &c. — Planted 

 cotton the 22d. 



APRIL. 



Continue to plant cotton daily. 7th. Good pasturage in the 

 wood-land. 



10th. Peas ripen — Hickory, Walnut and Chinquepin begin 

 to bud. — 1 1th. Abundance of pasture in the wood-land. 13th. 

 Garden-peas gathered to eat. 15th. Roses blow. 25th. Wind- 

 sor-beans and Artichokes ripe. — Strawberries ripe since the 

 12th. 



MAY. 



5th. Irish potatoes begin to be fit to gather. 10th. Black 

 Mulberry ripe. Gathered ripe turnip and cabbage seed. 12th. 

 French beans fit for use. — 17th. Rye and wheat fit to reap — 

 The present is one of the most delightful months of the year, 

 being free from sudden storms, and agreeably temperate; it is 

 generally one of the driest months, but the present is an ex- 

 ception to that rule. 



JUNE. 



12th. Cotton begins to blossom and the weather becomes 

 hotter than usual at this season. When the Thermometer is 

 at 96°. under a gallery compleatly shaded, though exposed in 

 some degree to the influence of reflection from the bare surface 

 of the earth, if in such circumstances it be removed into a 

 deep shade, under lofty trees, at 3 hours P. M. it will fall to 

 91 or 92°. If suspended to a tree exposed to the full influence 

 of the sun-beams it rises quickly to 121°. — it perhaps might 

 have risen higher, but being unwilling to risk the bursting 

 of the Thermometer, as it is graduated only to 1 25 °, I removed 

 it without farther trial. In a cellar under the house, dug 4JL 

 feet into the ground, the Thermometer stood at 72°. — 15th. 

 Tender Indian corn fit to use. 



