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The beauties of our Flora are yet difplayed. only to thofe admirers, 
who have fought them, in fields and woods, from fpring to autumn, in 
northern and fouthern climes, in the grand Magniflora and the humble 
lilly of the vatles. Many of the wild flowers would adorn gardens, 
vand embellith groves and meadows: but a great part of thefe are 
known only in their native places, and fome have not even obtained a 
vernacular name. Flowery fhrubs are gradually coming into more no- 
tice; and fome of the fineft will endure the winter of Pennfylvania: 
the Chionanthus (Snow drop, Fringe tree, ) Calycanthus floridus, Bigno- 
nia radicans (Trumpet flower) and the beautiful Lranklinia, all grow 
well near Philadelphia. * Several of the trees moft agreeable by foliage, 
bloom or lofty growth, have a {fpontaneous wide range; and others will 
under a fkillful hand pafs their natural limits.+ 
My remarks on the Animal domains fhall begin with the {mall tribes, 
becaufe fome of thefe do us remarkable mifchief. The Heffan fly has 
for feveral years made great havock in the wheat fields through all the 
middle-ftates. { The canker worms, eaterpillers, and other vermine 
lay wafte our orchards: fome remedies will hopefully refult from the 
enquiries of late begun in feveral places. Holts of locufts fome years 
infeft the woods, and caufe confiderable damage by devouring the leaves 
of trees over large diftri€ts, many of which decay when ‘thus expofed 
to the burning fun: they He in the ground for a period of years, not 
yet afcertained; appear in the latter part of the fpring, when the oaks 
are in perfe@t foliage; and in afew weeks difappear.§ 
Venomous infeéts are rare, and obfcurely known, as they feem con- 
fined to the woods. A fpecies of thefe, called mountain fpider, that 
haunts the inner parts of the fouthern flates, is faid to be large; {trong 
“enough to take {mall birds in his net; and by his fting to produce violent 
pains at the heart, inflammations with alternate cold fweats, tremors, 
frenzy, and death, if proper cure is not-obtained. Inthe middle ftates 
there is a black fpider, whofe bite caufes great pains and a tranfient 
blindnefs, butis not mortal. A largeant witha long fling, common in 
Maryland and further fouth, is alfo very noxious. 
Among 
* The laft-is in Mr. Bartram’s garden fifteen a twenty feet high; and has ‘hot been afiect~ 
ed with the five fevere winters within twelve years, though its native place is Georgia. ‘The 
flowers are large and fragrant, with lilly-like petala, and a tuft-of gold-coloured flamina. 
+ Bignonia Catalpa flourifhesin and beyond Pennfylvania. 
+ Neftling in the joints of the ftalk, they bite it off before the grain is ripe. 
§ They feem to extend far, as many hundred acres upon the Ohio are faid to be fpoliated 
by them; yet is their depredation local and varying, fo that dificrent parts have their turn: 
they were in Pennfylvania eighty years ago, and with the fame qualities, as 1 find by the 
old Swedifh records, which alfo add that the Indians fed upon them. 
