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gardens. The Purple as well as the Yellow Goat's Beard is 

 in full flower ; but this weather seems to retard its meridian 

 closure of the flowers, often for above twenty minutes. 



2d. Weather showery. There are still in flower, in the 

 gardens, Iris lurida, I. Germanica, I. Pseudacorus, Hemero- 

 callisjlava, Hesperis matronalis, Aquilegia vulgar is, Papaver 

 orientate, P. Cambricum, P. nudicaule, Asphodelus luteus, a 

 few Roses, &c. 



3d. Weather calmer and warmer, but we had a few gentle 

 showers.* 



4th. Clouded and calm, with gentle showers. Senecio 

 squalidus still in full blow. 



5th. Cnicus pratensis in flower in my garden ; it is not 

 common yet in the fields. I hear that the Corn Rose Papaver 

 llhaeas is in flower at Walthamstow to-day ; those sown in 

 my garden are not yet in bloom. Rhododendra, Azaleas, and 

 other shrubs, in flower. 



8th. The common Peony in flower. 



9th. The weather is now warmer, without much Rain ; 

 but the preponderance of clouded over clear Skies still pre- 

 vails, and is unusual at this time of year. 



10th. Lychnis dioica, L. flos cuculi, the several Gera- 

 niums, the Ranunculi, &c. are now numerous every where. 

 Tragopogon porrifolius and T. pratensis are numerously in 

 blow ; but in general the gardens are comparatively dull, the 

 VERNAL FLORA having subsided, while the SOLSTITIAL 

 plants, or those which come into flower about midsummer, 

 are not yet out. 



* This present showery weather, in this district at least, seems very 

 wholesome ; we have rarely had a season of less sickness. Is this from the 

 peculiar electric state of the Rain and Atmosphere generally ? For some 

 ruiny seasons are as remarkably unwholesome as the present is healthy. 



