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heard for a few days past. Making sugar is now the em- 
ployment of our farmers. 
15. So warm that we sat with open windows. The al- 
der in blossom, its beautiful aments waving gracefully over 
the snow. The buds of the hazel are also tipped with red. 
16. The threelobed hepatica or liver leaf begins to show 
its buds. ra 
17. A severe storm of rain, snow and hail, attended with 
some thunder and lightning. 
21. The hazel and hepatica in blossom. 
22. The croaking of the frogs is heard for the first time. 
23. Found the clatonia or spring beauty in flower at 
Worthington. Some deep snow-banks still. | 
24. Sun eclipsed. 
26. Farmers are now beginning to plough. 
27. Roundleaved violet in blosso n. 
28. Woodpeckers and blackbirds appear. 
29. Swamp willow in t ossom. : Soe 
May 1. So warm that an umbrella is. agreeable. Ery- 
thronium or adders tongue in blossom. , 
. Early corydalis or colic weed and two species of sedge 
in blossom ; the trees are beginning to put forth their leaves, 
the chirping of the wren is heard, and the groves are full o! 
music. 
3. Lombardy poplar and Canada violet in blossom. 
4. Observed the balm of gilead, red maple, yellow birch, 
rhomboidal trillium, sessileleaved uvularia or bellwort, the 
delicate chrysosplenium or golden saxifrage and field equis- 
etum in flower. The sun shines with a scorching heat, and 
a bank of snow is still to be seen on the hills, 
but the long delicate 
over our head, appear 
