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being bound down to it by Nature herself: a farmer, 

 therefore, who would use this sublime idea of Lin- 

 naeus, should diligently mark the time of budding, 

 leafing, and flowering of different plants. He should 

 also put down the days on which his respective 

 grains were sown ; and, by comparing these two 

 tables for a number of years, he will be enabled to 

 form an exact calendar for his spring corn. An 

 attention to the discolouring and falling of the leaves 

 of plants will assist him in sowing his winter corn, 

 and teach him to guess at the approach of winter. 

 Towards the end of September, which is the best 

 season for sowing wheat, he will find the leaves of 

 the 



Plane Tree, tawny. Ash, fine lemon. 



Oak, yellowish green. Elm, orange. 



Hazel, yellow. Hawthorn, tawny yellow. 



Sycamore, dirty brown. Cherry, red. 



Maple, pale yellow. Hornbeam, bright yellow. 



Appearances of this sublime nature may be com- 

 pared to the writing on the wall, which was seen 

 by many but understood by few. They seem to 

 constitute a kind of harmonious intercourse between 

 God and man. They are the silent language of the 

 Deity. 



Mr. Young has endeavoured to ascertain the time 

 of sowing by another method ; but the temperature 

 of the season, with respect to heat and cold, drought 

 and rain, differs in every year. Experiments made 

 this year cannot determine for the next. The hints 

 of Linnaeus constitute an universal rule for the whole 

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