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31. Visited the crooked pond. The leafless utricularia, 
water lobelia and floating villarsia or spur stem grow here in 
great plenty, but the growth of these interesting plants has 
been so much retarded this season, by the flowing of the 
pond, that they have not yet blossomed. The last pe I 
found them in flower the eighteenth of this month. The 
utricularia grows also at Ashfield and Hawley, the villarsia 
in a pond near the village of Sand Lake, New-York. 
September 1. Common bidens in blossom. 
2. Farmers cutting their stalks. 
4, Beech drop and bladderfruited/nicandra in blossom. 
5. Indian corn Fipening very fast. 
6. Black cherries ripe. 
9. Drooping neottia and largeflowered bidens i in blossom, 
and common elder berries ripe. The leaves of our forests 
are beginning to assume the livery of autumn. 
11. Farmers beginning to make their cyder. ; 
15. Frost this morning. Clear, cold oe windy. 
16. Spearmint and witch hazel in blossom. 
22. Leaves of the beech tree turning yellow and falling. 
29. Maple and yellow birch defoliating, the leaves of the 
mee being, many of them, of a bright. scarlet. 
30. Artichoke in blossom. Farmers harvesting their 
com a aces he tand very excellent. 
820.—March 19. The first woodpecker seen. Flies 
brisk and lively. The crust of the snow, owing to the late 
storms of hail and rain, is so very hard that a small dwelling 
house has been moved about a quarter of a mile upon it! 
. Farmers are beginning to tap their sugar maples. 
23. Blue birds SPDeat 
24. Robins appear. 
29. In warm situations the aments of the alder ares con- 
siderably swelled. | 
April %. "“Bads of the willow considerably swelled. 
7. A fall of snow. 
11. Farmers busy in making sugar. 
16. Found in warm woods the three-lobed oo m 
flower. The first butterfly seen. In many places the snow 
is still two or three feet deep 
18. Alder in bloom. ' e croaking ‘of the eb heard 
for the first time. 
19. Po ri — daytona in blossom. 
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