364 Dr. Williams’s Floral, Zoological, and 
_ May 27. Apple trees beginning to blossom. 
99, Early garden lettuce (Lactuca sativa) fit for the table. 
30. Apple-trees in full flower. 
31. Night-hawks arrived. 
Vegetation has put forth apparently more in three days 
past than in all the spring before. Nature seems to revive 
from a state of torpidity, from the warm and invigorating rays 
of the sun. The month of May has been more backward than 
the month of April, 1811. The observation of elderly people, 
that the month of April, old style, was never known to termi- 
nate without producing apple-blossoms, has by no means been 
verified this year, they being now (June Ist.) in full flower. 
The snow upon the mountains, thirty or forty miles back, is 
at agreat depth; so deep, that on the warm day of the 29th 
ourriyver rose afoot from its melting. Diseases of the chro- 
nic kind have been peculiarly severe for three months past. 
‘The gladsome return of the cheering warmth will probably 
renovate the enfeebled constitutions of many of. our aged 
ople. 
June 1. House flies arrived. 
5. Choke cherry (Prun. serotin.) in full flower. | Honey- 
suckle apple (Azalea nudiflora) in full flower. 
8. Piony in full flower. Snowball (Viburnum opulus) in full 
& flower. Flower-de-luce (Iris Versicolor) in blossom. 
11. Early peas in blossom. Carraway (Carum carui) in 
ower. 
15. ae (Robin. pseudoacac.) in fall flower. Field 
_ Strawberries beginning to ripen. 
18. Common red clover in full flower. Cranesbill (Geranium 
maculatum) in blossom. Red raspberry in full flower. 
23. Chili strawberries beginning to ripen. Garden sage Sais 
via officinalis) in full flower, 
29. Our farmers busily engaged in haying. 
30. Large red rose, large white rose, and damask rose (Rosa 
damascena) in flower. 
