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26. Windy and cold; in the morning a beautiful rain-. 
ow. 
27. Dwarf cornel and hispid gaultheria in ower. The 
latter is sometimes used by the common people as a substi- 
tute for tea. 
28. Clear and cold. This morning the ground is white 
with frost. i 
29. Frost this morning. 
31. Our orchards are now in full bloom. 
June 1. Large convallaria in flower. 
ria, veratrum or poke root, water erysimum, trientalis, wa- 
ter cress and a beautiful species of gooseberry bush in flow- 
er, the most of them on the banks of Westfield river, Cum- 
mington. The delicate trientalis is the only native plant, 
that we have of the seventh class. 
4. Visited the bog in Goshen, where I found the black 
chokeberry, the glaucous kalmia, the dwarf and rosemary 
leaved, andromedas, a species of eriophorum or cotton 
grass, the stemless cypripedium or lady’s slipper, and two 
species of vaccinium in flower. To the botanist this is an 
interesting spot, and I would take the liberty of recommend- 
ing it with emphasis to the attention of botanists. The 
pine, larch, mountain ash, sarracenia and many other very 
7. Very warm; towards night a thunder shower. Black 
hen | pright wood, 
sorrel and raspberry bush; at Williamsburg the locust tree 
high blackberry and thimble est and wild colum- 
bine, red clover and common potentilla ; and at Northamp- 
