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of May* and all the following months till Otfober, 

 arc like our Swedijh months of June and July. 

 So exceflive and continued a heat muft certainly 

 have very great effects . I here again refer to my 

 meteorological obfervations. It muft like wife be 

 afcribed to the effects of this heat that the com- 

 mon melons, the water melons, and the pum- 

 pions of different forts, are fown in the fields 

 without any bells or the like put over them, and 

 yet are ripe as early as July, further, that cher- 

 ries are ripe at Philadelphia about the 2 5th of 

 May, and that in Penfyhania the wheat is fre- 

 quently reaped in the middle of June. 



4. THE whole of September, and half, if not 

 the whole of 0<5?0&r,are the fineft months in Pen- 

 fylvania; for the preceding ones are too hot. But 

 thefe reprefent our July and half of Augujl. The 

 greateft part of the plants are in flower in Septem- 

 ber, and many do not begin to open their flowers 

 before the latter end of this month, I make no 

 doubt that the goodnefs of the feafon, which is 

 enlivened by a clear fky, and a tolerably hot fun- 

 fhine, greatly contributes towards this laft effort 

 of Flora. Yet though thefe plants come out fo 

 late, they are quite ripe before the middle of Oc- 

 tober. But I am not able to account for their 

 coming up fo late in autumn ; and I rather afk, 

 Why do not the Centaurea Jacea, the Gentiana, 

 Amarella, and Centauriutii, of Linnaus, and the 

 common golden rod, or Solidago P'irgaurea, flower 

 before the end of fummer ? or why do the com- 

 mon noble liverwort, or Anemone Hepatica* the 

 wild violets (Viola martla Lann.) the mezereou 



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