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It would take too much room in my 

 Journal, and render it too prolix, were I 

 to mark down the time when every wild 

 plant in this country was in blofTom, when 

 it got ripe feeds, what foil was peculiar to 

 it, beiides other circumftances. Some or 

 my readers would be but little amufed with 

 fuch a botanical digreffion. I intend there- 

 fore to referve all this for another work, 

 which will give a particular account of all the 

 plants of North America -, and I mall only 

 mention fuch trees and plants here, which 

 deferve to be made known for fome peculiar 

 quality. 



April the 12th. This morning I went 

 to Philadelphia and the places adjacent, in 

 order to know whether there were more 

 plants lately fprung up, than at Raccoon, 

 and in New Jerfey in general. The wet 

 weather which had happened the preceding 

 days, had made the roads very bad in low 

 and clayey places. 



The leaves which dropt laft autumn 

 had covered the ground, in depth three or 

 four inches. As this feems to hinder the 

 growth of the grafs, it was cuftomary to 

 burn it in March or at the end of that 

 month, (according to the old ftile) in order 

 to give the grafs the liberty of growing up. 

 ] found feveral fpots burnt in this manner 



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