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which may be best determined by the respective forwardness 

 6f trees and slvrubs. 



That great naturalist, Linnseus, did not approve of farmerti 

 confining themselves to certain set days or weeks, for commit- 

 ting their seeds to the earth. The seasons are much forward- 

 er in some years than in others. He, therefore, recommends 

 to his countrymen, as a better practice, to take notice at what 

 time the trees unfold their leaves. Nature is so uniform in her 

 operations, that the forwardness of trees is an unfailing indica- 

 tion of the forwardness of the spring. And the genial warmth, 

 which causes trees and shrubs to put forth their leaves, will be 

 sufficient to cause seeds to vegetate. 



it would b6 desirable, if gentlemen would keep and regular- 

 ly publish a record of the flowering of plants, according to the 

 example exhibited in the following account of the leafing and 

 blossoming of trees and shrubs, which was taken in that part 

 of New-Englaad which lies in the 44th degree of latitude, in 

 the spring of the year 178^. 



