i:ji CALENDAR, 1823. 



3d. Motacilla al/xt the Wagtail seen. 



4th. Ficaria rcrna tlie Pilewort in flower. 



(5th. FritlUaria Impcrialis tlie Crown Imperial. 



9th. Hi/acintfiits Oricntalis out in the garden. Clarimond 

 and Van Thol Tulips coming into blow. 



J3th. Narcissus incomparabiiis in flower. A Swallow 

 seen to-day. 



19th. Quite a spring day, with a hard shower of Hail 

 before noon. The banks begin to be beautifully covered with 

 Primroses and Violets, and here and there bespangled with 

 Pilewort. 



20th. The Crown Imperial, both the yellow and the red 

 variety, in full blow in my garden and elsewhere. 



22d. Cardamine pratensis Our Lady's Smock common. 



23d. Showery and wet again with Wind. The Cuckoo 

 heard. 



27th. Caltha palustris in the moist meadows. 



29th. Narcissus bicolor in my garden ; also a variety of 

 A T . orientalis, with very large flowers of white petels and 

 yellow large nectariums. A few Swallows seen about. 

 Cowslips abundant. 



I\IAY 1st. Gcntiana acanlis. A very backward ap- 

 pearance for May Day. I noticed Cowslips, Primroses, 

 Dandelions, Our Lady's Smocks, Polyanthuses, Daisies, and 

 other plants, in the garlands which the girls brought about 

 to-day. 



The Peach trees are in beautiful blossom, and the Apple 

 trees coming out rapidly, with also Cherries ; but in general 

 these trees are much later than last year, and are always a 

 week later here than they are near London. 



This spring has been hitherto remarkably unwholesome, 

 and particularly fatal to persons advanced in years. 



