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The Spring of 1852, in Illinois. 



Among our winter birds are quails, woodcock, crows, wood- 

 peckers, including the golden-winged woodpecker, prairie 

 hens or pinnated grouse, (mischievous birds, they destroy 

 fruit-buds, stripping the trees of them,) snow owls, hawks, 

 snow-birds, mourning doves, &c., &c. Below, I give the 

 flowering of a few of our earliest native flowers, for a few 

 years past, 1847 to 1851, inclusive : 



Bloodroot, Sanguinaria 



canadensis, 

 Erythronium albidum, 

 Claytonia virginica, 

 Hepatica triloba, 



Ranunculus sp., 



Viola sp., 



Dicentra (Corydalis) cu- 



cullaria. 

 Anemone nemorosa, 

 Castilleja (Bartsia) coc- 



cinea, 

 Mertensia (Pulmonaria) 



virginica, 

 Oxalis violacea, 



Wild Strawberry, (Fra- 

 garia,) 



Polemonium reptans, (Ja- 

 cob's Ladder, 



Phlox sp., 



Uvularia perfoliata, 



1847. 



April 29, 

 ab.Ap.21, 

 April 8, 

 April 13, 



April 29, April 19, 

 April 29, April 19, 

 Seeding 



1848. 

 Prev. to 

 April 8, 

 ab.Ap.l3, 

 April 15, 



April 23, 

 April 29, 



May 5, 



May 5, 

 May 11, 



May 11, 



May 13, 

 May 5, 

 May 13, 



April 21, 

 April 27, 



May 2, 

 Prev. to 

 April 21, 

 May 2, 



April 22, 



May 2, 

 April 25, 

 April 27, 



1849. 

 Prev. to 

 April 13, 

 April 25, 

 April 13, 

 M'rch 31, 



April 26, 

 April 25, 



April 13, 



May 9, 



April 13, 

 May 8, 



April 28, 



May 13, 

 May 11, 

 May 9, 



1850. 



April 22, 

 April 29, 

 April 7, 

 April 7, 



April 26, 

 April 22, 



April 26, 

 May 30, 



May 14, 



May 3, 

 Mayl5,& 



Sept. 18, 



May 4, 



May 14, 

 May 20, 

 May 16, 



1851. 



April 15. 

 April 24. 

 April 29. 

 bl.&eeed 

 April 29. 

 April 29. 

 April 15. 



April 28. 



May 15. 

 May 10. 



AprU 29. 



May 15. 



April 29. 

 April 29. 



Above, you have flowering of 15 kinds of native plants. 

 These are selected, as most of them are noted, for each year ; 

 and many others might be added, as blooming in March, 

 April, and May, that is, previous to June. Among these, are 

 Red-bud or Judas Tree, Shad-bush, Pedicularis sp., Thlaspi 

 or Capsella, Onosmodium, Trilliums, Geranium Mac'm, Do- 

 decatheons, Convallarias, Aquilegia, rare, Podophyllum, Cyp- 

 ripediums, Caltha, Gnaphaliums, Staphylea, Prickly Ash, 

 Smyrnium, Cardamine, Viburnum, Saxifraga, Triosteum, 

 Cornus, Potentillas, Dentaria, Cotton Grass, Aphyllon, Nu- 

 phar, Thesium, Rubus, Tradescantia, Equisetum, &c., &c. — 

 Yours, respectfully, Edwarb S. L. Richardson, Kendall, 

 Kendall County, Illinois, April 9, 1852. 



