280 Dr. J. Porter’s Floral and 
whorled eupatorium in blossom, the most of them at Cum- 
mington. e asters are also beginning to blossom. 
26. Spear thistle in blossom 
31. Cucumbers fit for the table. 
August 2. Whiteflowered cynoglossum, common eupa- 
torium or thoroughwort and linearleaved epilabium in blos- 
som. Notwithstanding the extreme heat the summer, 
itis still ag healthy ; no prevailing diseas 
‘ ambrosia or man witiawiodd in blossom, and 
high blackbertes ripe. 
~ 6. Green corn fit for the table. 
7 Efensely warm. There are at present some cases of 
oad among u 
. The golden aa of which we have several species, 
are ahd to blossom. I once used a tincture of the 
root of our most common species in brandy, as a tonic in ~ 
my own case of spitting blood from the lungs, with very 
considerable oe The ket’ dose for an adult, is a ta- 
or three times a day. 
9. Finger tied in ‘hinders Grasshoppers very abund- 
ant for two or three weeks past 
10. Warm and pleasant; dlonds cumulous and very 
beautiful. Annual flea bane, burdock, chelone or snake 
head, wild sunflower, fennelleaved cicuta and two species of 
sagittaria in flower; all, except the two first, on the banks 
of Westfield river. 
11. Potatoes fit for the table. 
12. Currant bushes defoliating. 
13. Found the downyleaved spirea, or hardhack, and 
longleaved drosera in blossom, and high blue whortlebe 
ries ripe at the crooked pond. Small berries or the ik: 
mon gaultheria 
18. Collinsona, gto and commom hieracium in 
flower at Cummington 
19. ps sparganium in flower at Hawley. Farmers 
ge arvesting their wheat, rye and oats ; crops very 
se 
24. Very eine Some frost this morning 
on low ee Hemp in blossom. 
1. tobacco in 
' 28. Berries of the mountain ash ‘turning red. 
