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KAL 



KIT 



19 



25 



31 

 19 

 20 

 22 



lies in the 44th degree of latitude, 

 in the spring of the year 1789. 



Leafing Blossoming. 



Gooseberry, April 16 May 12 



Enghsh Willow, 28 

 Wild red Cherry, 29 - 

 Lilac, - - - 30 

 Currant, - - May 1 

 Alder, - - ... 5 

 Apple Tree, - . - 6 

 Thorn Bush, ... 7 

 White Birch, - . - 8 

 White Maple, - - - 9 

 Beech, - - - - 10 

 Plum Tree, - - - 12 



Hazle, 14 



Elm, 15 



Summer Pear, - - 17 

 Wheat Plum, - .- - - 

 Common red Cherry, 19 

 Damascene Plum, - - 

 Grey Oak, - - - 20 

 White Oak, ... 23 



This plan of keeping a kalendar 

 of the flowering of plants, has been 

 followed up for many years by a 

 Roxbury farmer, and it is much to 

 be desired that in all parts of our 

 country,gentlemen would keep and 

 regularly publish such a record. 



KALI, Salicornia, glass wort, or 

 rock weed, a sea plant which grows 

 upon rocks near the shore. By 

 burning of this weed a hard fixed 

 salt is obtained, which is a princi- 

 pal ingredient in the composition 

 of glass. Rock weed is also an im- 

 portant manure. 



KALMIA, angustifolia, a shrub 

 commonly called laurel, or lamb 

 poison. It is an evergreen, with 

 narrow leaves of a dirty green co- 

 lour. The flowers are red, grow- 

 ing round the upper part of the 

 stem. It grows plentifully in low 



flat land, which has never been 

 ploughed. It indicates a cold soil. 

 But I mention it in a work of 

 this kind, on account of its poison- 

 ous quality. Sheep and goats, es- 

 pecially young lambs and kids, will 

 eat it, when compelled by hunger, 

 by which they sicken and die. The 

 way to cure them of this sickness, 

 is drenching them repeatt-dly with 

 milk, mixed with oil, or fresh but- 

 ter. Or, a tea of rue, given in sea- 

 son, may have the same good ef- 

 fect. 



KID, the young of a goat. See 

 Goat. 

 KILN, a fabric for admitting heat, 

 to dry or burn various things. Malt 

 is dried on a kiln. Another sort of 

 kilns is used for the burning of lime 

 stone. A limekiln should be con- 

 structed of a sort of stones which 

 will endure the fire. But if such 

 cannot be easily obtained, hard 

 burnt bricks will answer, and last a 

 good while. The shape of a lime 

 kiln should be like that of a pitch- 

 er, widest in the middle, and gra- 

 dually narrower to the top and 

 bottom. The fire will be the more 

 confined, and act the more power- 

 fully. In countries where lime- 

 stone is plenty, each considerable 

 farmer is furnished with a lime kiln, 

 in which he makes lime to manure 

 his soil. This practice might 

 doubtless be imitated with advan- 

 tage, in a few places in this conn- 

 try, where this sort of stone is at 

 hand. 



KITCHEN GARDEN. The 

 species of manure for a Kitchen 

 Garden, must depend upon the soil. 

 Rotten dung is preferred by gar- 

 deners, as, in the course of fermen- 



