118 MARCH. 



32. Black Poplar, April -21 



33. Beech, 21 

 34* Acacia Robinia, - . 21 



35. Ash, 22> 



36. Carolina Poplar, 22 



" It is wonderful to observe the conformity be- 

 tween vegetation and the arrival of certain birds of 

 passage. I will give one instance, as marked down 

 in a diary kept by me in Norfolk, in tne year ]755. 

 April the l6th, young figs appear; the 17th of 

 the same month the cuckoo sings. Now the word 

 -koKxug signifies a cuckoo, and likewise the young 

 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 igth of April. 



" To the instance of coincidence of the appear- 

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

 Greece and England, I will here add some coinci- 

 dences of the like nature in Sweden and England. 



" 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- 

 marigold blows when the cukoo sings : according 

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

 the 7th, and the same day the cuckoo sung." 



OATS. 



