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flowers fhewed to greater advantage ; their 

 beautiful pale red colour had a very fine ef- 

 fec~t j and they fat fo clofe that the branches 

 were entirely clad with them. The other 

 fruit-trees were not yet in flower > however 

 the apple-bloffoms began to appear. 



THE Englifo and the Swedes of America 

 give the name of Currants -j- to a ihrub 

 which grows in wet ground, arid near 

 fwamps, and which was now in bloflbm; 

 its flowers are white, have a very agreeable 

 fragrancy, and grow in oblong bunches ; 

 the fruit is very good eating, when it is 

 ripe; the Jlyle (Sty 1m J is thread- fhaped 

 (filiformis), and morter than the Stamina ; 

 it is divided in the middle, into five parts, 

 or Stigmata. Dr. Linnteus calls it Cra- 

 tcegus *, and Dr, Gronovius calls it a Mef- 

 pilus J. 



April the 22d. THE Swedes give the 

 name of Whipperiwill, and the Englifh that 

 of Whip-poor-will, to a kind of noclurnal 

 bird, whofe voice is heard in North Ame~ 

 rica, almoft throughout the whole night. 

 Catejby and Edwards both have defcribed 

 K 4 and 



f It muft be carefully diftinguiflied from what is called 

 Currants, in England, which is the Rites rubrum. F. 



* Crat/fgus tomentofa, Linn. Spec. PI. p. 682. 



J Mffpilus inermis, foliis o<vato-oblongis t ferratis, fubius 

 tomentojts. Gronov. Fl. Virgin. 55. 



