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OBSEBVATION8 ON SOILS. 



Obsebtations. — 1. Cypripidium acaule in flower. 3. Slig^ht sprinkle in the morning^. 4. Poa pratensis in flower 

 5. Rain early a. m. anti 4 to 7 p m. 6. Rain 6 to 7 a. m. 7. Rain 6 to 8 p. m. anil 12 m. at nigiit. 8. Rain 9 to lU 

 a. m., and 9 to 10 p. m. 10. Rain 4 to 5 p. m. and light showers from 7 to 11 p. ra. 11. About J[ of the top of the 

 Black Walnut tree is covered with leaves, the rest was killed by Are last September. 18. Rain 2 to 4 p. m. with 

 thunder, and from 9 to 12 p. m. occasional showers. Very warm. 19. Slight showers occasionally from 10 a m to 

 3 p. m. 20. Rain from 10 p. m. to 2l8t 12 m. 21. Rain 7 p. m. to 5 a. m. of the 22d. Thunder. The Black Walnut 

 begins to send out new shoots. Triticum in flower. 22. Scirpus tenuis in flower. 23. Heavy shower 3 to 5 p. m. 

 and 9 to 10 p. m. 24. Conium maculatum, Verbascum blattaria, Lilium philadelphicum and Glyceria fluitans in 

 flower just 8. of Albany. The Phleum pratense begins to flower. 28. Heavy rain 3 p. m. to 9 p. m. of the 29th. 

 Thunder. The new shoots of the Black Walnut increase rapidly in size and number. 30. Rain 5 to 7 a. m. and 4 to 

 6 p. m. Heavy thunder storm. 



IKiiub.— North 34, South 13, East 4, West 94, Northwest 2, Northeast 1, Southwest 4, Southeast 0. 



Wtathtr. — Rain on 12 days. Warmest ilay 16th. Coldest day 1st. Highest temperature 94 degrees. Lowest tem- 

 perature 42 degrees. 



