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June 4. Garden rocket (Hesperis pinnatifida) in flower. _ 
6. Yellow water lily (Nuphar advena) in full flower. Folwer- 
de-luce (Iris virginica) in flower. Garden peas in full 
~ flower. . 
The weather for twelve days past has been unusually warm 
and’ sultry. ‘The thermometer, much of the time in the mid- 
dle of the day, has stood at 84°, and vegetation has put forth 
with astonishing rapidity. = 
8. House-flies arrived. 
9. Horse-radish (Cochlearea armoracea) and peony in full 
eal ower. 
10. Chives (Allium schenoprasum) in full flower. 
11. Smooth stem lichnide (Phlox maculata) in full flower. 
~ Our farmers busily engaged in hoeing their corn. 
12. Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis) in full flower. 
_ 13. Field strawberries beginning to ripen. : 
14. Locust-tree (Robinia pseudacacia) in full flower. 
15. Locusts appearing in the south part of the town. The 
last time of their appearance here was in the year 
1801. "Their periodical returns are once in seventeen 
years. Their appearance in the years 1733, 1759, 
1767, 1784, and 1801, is recorded on the town book. 
They first attack the leaves of the black oak (Quercus 
nigra.) 
16, Small red rose in flower. 
17. Rosa caroliniensis in full flower. 
18. Garden sage (Salvia officinalis) in flower. 
19. Mock syringa (Phailadelphus coronarius) in flower. ; 
20. Tulip-tree, commonly called cyprus or white-wood (Lirio- 
dendron tulipifera) in blossom. 
21. Carnation pink (Dianthus caryophylus) in flower. 
22. Our farmers commenced haying. An immense crop of grass 
on the ground. 
23. Side-saddle flower (Saracenia purpurea) in flower. 
24. Common St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) in full 
