74> Calendar of Flora, Fauna, and Pomona. 



wet, windy and mild. A flower or two on old Marigolds 

 and on the Pnrple Hepatica. Daisies in abundance. 



1825. Jan. 3. — It is very unusual at this time to have such a' 

 number of plants bearing flowers as we now have : The Great 

 Leopard' s-bane, Polyanthus, Primrose, Lychnis dioica, An- 

 tirrhinum Cymbalaria, Galium Mollugo, G. j)(dustris, and 

 G. Aparine; Thlaspi Bursa Past or is, and many Confervas.* 



Jan. 8. — Barometer as high as 30-60 f; a clear day 

 aofain. This winter in one respect resembles that of 1816-17 ; 

 namely, that we have rapid changes from slight frost to warm 



rain without any permanent weather. Jan. 20. — Thrush, 



Redbreast, and other birds begin to singif. 



* On Frulay, January 7th, the bees were flying about in the garden of 

 Rose Mount. Sunday the 9th resembled a day in March. Tlie sky was 

 without a cloud, there was scarcely a breath of wind, and in the country 

 in the morning the Blackbirds were singing as if welcoming the spring. 

 The pastures have a fine, fresh and healthy appearance, the wheat braird is 

 strong, thick in the ground, and nearly covers the soil. Vegetation is going 

 on inthe gardens, and the usual spring flowers are making their appearance. 

 The Christmas Rose, the Snowdrop, the Polyanthus, the single or border 

 Anemone, the Hepatica in its varieties, and the Mezereon are in full bloom. 

 The Narcissus is making its appearance, and the Crocuses are showing co- 

 lour. This morning, at six o'clock, the thermometer in Nelson-street in- 

 dicated 44 degrees. On Sunday the barometer gained the extraordinary 

 height of 31-1)1 ; this morning it is at 30"8. — G/asgoiv Chj-onicle. 



■\ On the !)th the barometer with us reached 30'80, and is said to have 

 been as high at Worcester as 30-96. — Edit. 



\ The Editor of the Norwich Mercury says. There is now standing 

 upon the mantle-piece of the room in which we write, a glass containing a 

 Rose, a Pink, Primroses, Violets, Polyanthuses, Stocks, and Wall-flowers, 

 all grown in the open air, and plucked from our garden a day or two ago. 

 On the 17th we heard the Thrush singing for the first time this spring- 

 winter. — Costessey, Jan. 20. 



The winter has been remarkable for mildness on the other side of 

 the Atlantic, as appears from the following extract: — "We cannot call 

 to mind in our own time a solitary instance of the same continued mild- 

 ness of weather at the same season of the year. In almost every section 

 of the country the weather seems to have been equally pleasant. — The 

 Savannah Republican says, ' The beautiful idea of the poet — of ^yinter 

 lingering in the lap of May ' — is at this time completely transposed in our 

 climate, for May is smiling in the arms of December. Our thermometers 

 are more than thirty degrees above the usual freezing point of the season. 

 The grass begins to dress itself in green ; the sweet jessamine and wood- 

 bine in the gardens of our city have expanded their fragrant leaves, and 

 j)resent to our view full-bloom flowers ; the rose partially covers its stem 

 with luxuriant leaves, and the infant bud of Flora's favourite modestly be- 

 gins to peep forth through the sheltering foliage ; the trees of every de- 

 scription start their buds to join the jubilee ; the peach is in full bloom, 

 and the mocking-bird, the early messenger of spring, chants forth her 

 praises for the continuance of mild and congenial airs.' — Both Savannah 

 and Darien papers speak of ripe mulberries and danisons. Peaches have 

 already swelled to the size of a nutmeg. — The North River is nearly if not 



Suite free from ice as far as Troy." — New York Commercial Advertiser, 

 'ec. 31. ■ The 



