8 JouRXAL. — June. [Part I. 



and the latter eat cob and all. It is eaten, and is a very 

 delicious thing, in its half-ripe, or milky state ; and 

 these were the " ears of coin " which the Pharisees 

 complained of the Disciples for plucking off to eat on 

 the Sabbath Day ; for, how Mere they to eat icheat ears, 

 unless after the manner of the " Noble Lord" above 

 mentioned 1 Besides, the Indian Corn is a native of 

 Palestine. The French, who, doubtless, brought it 

 originally from the Levant, call it Turkish Corn. The 

 Locusts, that John the Baptist lived on, were not (as I 

 used to wonder at when a boy) the noxious vermin that 

 devoured the land of Egypt ; but the bean, Avhich comes 

 in the long pods borne by the three-thorned Locust-tree, 

 and of which I have an abundance here. The wild 

 honey was the honey of wild bees ; and the hollow 

 trees here contain swarms of them. The trees are cut, 

 sometimes, in winter, and the part containing the 

 swarm, brought and placed near the house. I saw this 

 lately in Pennsylvania. 



4. Fine rain. Began about ten o'clock. 



5. Rain nearly all day. 



6. Fine and warm. Things grow surprisingly. 



7. Fine and warm. Hather cold at night. 



8. Hot. 



9. Rain all day. The wood green, and so beautiful ! 

 The leaves look so fresh and delicate ! But, the Flow- 

 ering Locust only begins to show leaf It will, by and 

 by, make up, by its beauty, for its shyness at present. 



10. Fine warm day. The cattle are up to their eyes 

 in grass. 



11. Fine warm day. Like the very, very finest in 

 England in June. 



12. Fine day. And, when I say fine, I mean really 

 fine. Not a cloud in the sky. 



13. Fine and hot. About as hot as the hottest of our 

 English July Aveather in common years. Lucerne, 2-^ 

 leet high. 



14 / Fine and hot; but, we have always a ircese when 

 it is hot, which I did not formerly find in Pennsylvania. 

 This arises, I suppose, from our nearness to the sea. 



15. Rain all day. 



10. Fine, beautiful day. Never saw such fine weather. 



