282, Dr. J. Porter’s Floral and 
20. So warm that we sat with open windows. The 
round leaved violet in blossom. ‘The first miller seen. 
22. Red maple, swamp willow, and dog’ s tooth violet in 
blossom. 
23. Martins arrived. 
24, Wild strawberry, chrysosplenium or olden saxifrage, 
ee corydalis, and two species of sedge in blossom. 
. American elm, Lombardy poplar, ad. mane leaved 
avsiedes in flower. 
26. The song of the wren heard for the first time. Dark 
eye ium in flower. 
Sugar maple in blossom. 
30. ‘Two leaved mitella and three leaved panax in flower. 
T. oe month of April has been uncommonly warm and pleas- 
ant; and vegetation is remarkably forward, indeed, it is a 
common remark with us that it was never known to be so 
forward at this season of the year. 
Bey 1. Fly honeysuckle in blossom. 
sh tree, and blue, Canada and yellow violets in 
biceaien 
Ss Cusrark 5 in ‘blossom, 
- Viburnum, sweet gale or Dutch Pt and sweet- 
scented _ violet in fipwer 
5. elion in blossom. 
6. Yellow willow in blossom. 
7. Indian-turnip and wood anemone in flo 
8. Beech tree, shad tree and red-berried older i in flower- 
9. Iron wood in flower. 
10. Plum tree and heart leaved tiarella in flower. The 
buds of the mountain ash appear. 
11. Pennsylvania saxifrage in “blossom 
12. Apple tree, red cherry tree, and heart feoned epipac- 
tis in blossom, In the afternoon a copious thunder shower 
with some hail. 
13. Thunder shower with hail. 
af Cowslip, chickweed, and smooth veronica in flower. 
first swallow seen. The gihees leaved coptis or 
wld dread and bluish houstonia in flower. Farmers plant 
mg potatoes and Indian corn. a 
21. eed first bob of lincoln see 
nie. | nm cerastium or ‘ce ear chickweed i in blos- 
som. 
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