CLIMATE, SEASONS, ETC. 



1817. 



May 20. Fine and warm. A good cow sells, with a calf by 

 her side, for 45 dollars. A steer, two years old, 20 

 dollars. A working ox, five years old, 40 dollars. 



21. Fine and warm day ; but the morning and evening 

 coldish. The cherry-trees in full bloom, and the 

 pear-trees nearly the same. Oats, sown in April, 

 up, and look extremely fine. 



22. Fine and warm. Apple-trees fast coming into 

 bloom. Oak buds breaking. 



23. Fine and warm. Things grow away. Saw kidney- 

 beans up and looking pretty well. Saw some beets 

 coming up. Not a sprig of parsley to be had for 

 love or money. What improvidence ! Saw some 

 cabbage plants up and in the fourth leaf. 



24. Rain at night and all day to-day. Apple-trees in 

 full bloom, and cherry-bloom falling off. 



25. Fine and warm. 



26. Dry coldish wind, but hot sun. The grass has 

 pushed on most furiously. 



27. Dry wind. Spaded up a corner of ground and 

 sowed (in the natural earth) cucumbers and melons. 

 Just the time, they tell me. 



28. Warm and fair. 



29. Cold wind ; but, the sun warm. No fires in par 

 lours now, except now-and-then in the mornings 

 and evenings. 



30. Fine and warm. Apples have dropped their blos 

 soms. And now the grass, the wheat, the rye, and 

 every thing, which has stood the year, or winter 

 through, appear to have overtaken their like in Old 

 England. 



3 1 . Coldish morning and evening. 



June i . Fine warm day ; but, saw a man, in the evening, 

 covering something in a garden. It was kidney- 

 beans, and he feared a frost ! To be sure, they are 

 very tender things. I have had them nearly killed 

 in England, by June frosts. 



2. Rain and warm. The oaks and all the trees, except 

 the Flowering Locusts begin to look greenish. 



3. Fine and warm. The Indian Corn is generally 

 come up ; but looks yellow in consequence of the 

 cold nights and little frosts. N.B. I ought here 

 to describe to my English readers what this same 

 Indian Corn is : The Americans call it Corn, by 

 way of eminence, and wheat, rye, barley and oats, 

 which we confound under the name of corn, they 

 confound under the name of gfain. The Indian 

 Corn in its ripe seed state, consists of an ear, which 



