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round to west. On the 22d it was north, and from the following day to the end of the month 
easterly. 
Thae was rain onthe 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th,°and 22d, but during all the remainder of 
the month the weather was dry. 
March 5th. Rooks have begun to build their nests; and daffodils are in flower. 
The capsules of several speciesof moss now adorn the banks of hedges and ditches, and the 
tops of old walls. ; 
March 7th. The marsh marygolds (ca/tha palustris) are in flower, and give to all the wet 
meadows a golden hue. Aine 
March 8th. Several kinds of insects crawl out of their hybernacula, in old buildings, par 
ticularly spiders, millipedes, and a species of the slow-beetle, or darling (tentbrio mertisagus 
of Linnzus, blaps mortisaga, of Marshara). 
March 10th. ‘he vernal whitlow-grass (draba verna), and purple dead.nettle (/amium pure 
pureum) are in flower. 4 : " 
March 11th. Some of the smaller kinds of ants are busily employed in opening their 
holes, and clearing their nests. On attentively observing them, they are seen to bring out 
grains of sand or other small objects which incommode them in their habitation, and to de- 
posit them at a little distance on the exterior of their holes, 
March 12th. A caterpillar was this day seen crawling upon theroad, Seven dark coloured 
butterflies were flitting about the fields. 
March 14th. The farina of the male yew-trees is blown off by the wind in great 
uantity. 
; The icecid ofall the small birds is now in the very height of its beauty, Bird-catcherg 
technically call the plumage, at this season, their ‘* wedding garments,” 
The flowers of some of the willows begin to fade. ‘ 
_ March 18th, The leaves of the lilac and weeping willow appear, Primroses and violets 
are in flower. 
‘March 20. Water lizards are seen in abundance in two or three of the shallow and 
gravelly ponds of this neighbourhood. But [have not yet remarked that they have begun 
to spawn. : : : ‘ 
4 ork 21. The roads, which only a few days ago, had pools of water standing in almost 
every hollow, are now quite dry and dusty. ; ' 
_ March 24. The leaf-buds of the mulberry-tree appear nearly ready to burst ; but it is 
probable that these trees wiil not be in leaf, for several days. The leaves of the bramble, 
woodbine, and elder, have been out some time. 
March 26. A species of wood~bug, which I think is cimex baccarum, was this day broughe 
to me. 
_ The scentless violet (wisla canina) and common stitchwort (stellaria holsltea) are in flower, 
March 28. This was a peculiarly hot day for theseason. Insects of numerous kinds were 
in active employment. Bees were flying about such plants as were in flower; sand-wasps 
(ammopbila vulgaris) about sandy banks ; and opatrum sabylosum, several species of curculio, and 
gmall carabi, crawling about among the stunted vegetation of the road-sides, 
March 30. Lapwings fly screaming over the wet meadows. 
March 31. The easterly winds, which have prevailed for the last nine days of the month, 
have been extremely seasonable. They have tended considerably to check vegetation, which, 
during the preceding warm weather, was making too rapid a progress for this early part of the 
ear. I have not yet remarked that any of the standard fruit-trees are in flower. 
Hampshire. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
OWING the lent corn, and potatoe planting, are nearly completed ; the lands have worked. 
remarkably well, and no seed season, within memory, was ever gone through under hap 
jer auspices. The forward pease, as yet, appear thin upon the ground. Beans and oats never 
ooked more luxuriant or healthy. The bop-bine strong, forward, and healthy. The wheats 
Bniversally of fine appearance and high promise; those which were injured in the winter 
either recovered or recovering very rapidly. ares, rye, grass, natural and artificial, in the 
“naa condition, and most’rapid’state of vegetation. The turnips, both Swedish and English, 
ave been eked out wonderfully in the eastern counties, continuing good, andthe cattle thriving 
uponthem to the last. The blossom and shew-for fruit of all kinds, most abundant and beau-. 
tiful, promising an uncommon fruit season, granting no blight intervene. 
The sheep and lambs in a most prosperous state, of improvement, the season remarkable for 
the number of double births. Lamb tor market scarcely ever before so forward; great flocks. 
Gf-couples have, however, come to market, ou account of the high price of hay, and‘the de- 
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