1833- 
Floral Calendar of Middle Florida. 
* Thermometer. 
9 A.M. 3 P.M. 
ing of the 11th the thermometer stood at 
26° Fahr.; ice was formed, and garden 
peas killed. Destructive frosts have some- 
times occurred in the spring, as, for in- 
stance, on the 6th of April, 1628, when, 
not only the growing crops of cotton, maize, 
&c. were killed, but many hickory trees, 
and some persimmon trees were killed by it, 
_ their foliage being, at that time, considera- 
ably expanded. Nevertheless, the culture 
of sea island cotton and of the sugar cane 
is successfully pursued. 
Jan. 14. Weather balmy and delightful. 
17. Thermometer at sun-rise 32°; sleeted a lit- 
tle. On the 18th, ice. 19th. Beginning: 
to moderate. 
20. A peach tree and plumb tree on the Mico- 
sookee Lake had a few flowers. 
pear on the Micosookee Lake. 
Flower buds of Prunus caroliniana begin to 
ex and. 
22. Trillium sessile b.b.. Mitchella repens b. 
25. Gelsemium nitidum (Carolina jessamine) b. 
Feb. 8. Vaccinium corymbosum (whortle-berry) b. 
10. tae trees begin to bloom on Rocky Com- 
sas lobatus b.b. Plumb trees (P. do- 
.b. 
mestica 
ii. Acer rubrum (red maple) b. b. 
13. Corchorus b. in gardens. 
14. Viola villosa, V. lanceolata, v. eucullata and 
V. pedata b. b. 
17. Molucca raspberry b.b. Gardens. 
18. Cercis canadensis (red-bud tree) b. b. 
19. Vaccinium myrsinites b. b. 
20. Laurus geniculata b. b. 
21. Iris (hexagona?) b. b. in gardens, 52 
22. Azalea nudiflora (swamp honeysuckle) b.b.. 54 
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24. Flower buds of Acer rubrum begin to ap- 
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