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Auricula in flower to-day near Ilford, and the yellow variety 

 of the former is just coming out. The Van Thol Tulip and 

 Hyacinths and Narcissi also in blow. The Cuckoo first 

 heard to-day. 



15th. Primula elatior the Oxlip in flower at Hartwell : 

 the Van Thol Tulips and other garden plants are rather 

 earlier here than in Essex. 



16th. Cardamine hirsuta and Orchis mascula in flower. 

 A straggling Swallow seen at Hartfield. 



17th. Narcissus elatior, N. bicolor, and N. calathinus in 

 flower at Hale End, besides several double varieties. Nar- 

 cissus Tazetta, both the yellow and white sorts, now in flower 

 in the open ground. 



18th. Vinca minor in bloom every where. 



19th. Cardamine pratensis and Slellaria Holostea in 

 flower, but the latter is very scanty yet, and only out on a 

 warm bank at Hartwell. 



20th. Doronicum Pardalianches, Fritillaria imperialis, 

 three varieties^, and many varieties of Daffodils, Narcissus, 

 and Hyacinths, in flower in the garden at Hartwell. Orchis 

 mascula in the fields. 



Riding to-day through part of Surrey, Kent, and Sussex, I 

 could not help noticing how rapidly the spring has advanced 

 within a few days. Daisies, Pilewort, Periwinkles, Dande- 

 lions, Violets, Heartseases, Wood Anemones, Cowslips, and 

 Primroses, are now very abudant, and adorn the banks and 

 thickets in profusion every where. The Wryneck Jynx 

 torquilla has been arrived some days; and I have already 

 heard the Willow Wren Ficedula salicum and the Stone 

 Curlew Fcdoa Ocdicnemus. 



21st. Anomone hortensis the Garden Anomone in blow. 



22d The Swallow again seen : this bird is, however, of 



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