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fig ; and the reason given for it is, that in Greece 

 they appeared together. I will just add, that the 

 same year I first found the cuckoo-flower to blow 

 the IQth of April. 



" To the instance of coincidence of the appear- 

 aACe of the cuckoo, and the fruit of the fig-tree in 

 Greece and England, I will here add some coin- 

 cidences of the like nature in Sweden and Eng- 

 land. 



" Linnaeus says, that the wood-anemone blows 

 from the arrival of the swallow : in my diary for 

 the year 1755, I find the swallow appeared April 

 the 6th, and the wood-anemone was in blow the 

 10th of the same month. He says, that the marsh-' 

 marygold blows when the cuckoo sings : according 

 to my diary, the marsh-marygold was in blow April 

 the 7th, and the same day the cuckoo sung*/' 



OATS. 



White oats should be sown now, in preference 

 to any other season ; and, in the general conduct] 

 of them, the farmer should, by all means, avoid 

 the common error of sowing them after other corn 

 crops, by which they exhaust the land. They should 

 always receive the same preparation as barley ; nor 

 ought a good husbandman to think of their not 

 paying him as well for such attention as that crop. 

 It is a very mistaken idea, to suppose it more pro- 

 fitable to sow barley on land in good order than 

 oats. I am, from divers experiments, inclined to 



Slillingflcet. 



think, 



