84 APRIL. 



seen by many, but understood by few. They 

 seem to constitute a kind of harmonious in- 

 tercourse between God and man. They are 

 the silent language of the Deity. 



Mr. Young has endeavoured to ascertain the 

 time of sowing by another method; but the 

 temperature of the season, with respect to heat 

 and cold, drought and rain, differs in every 

 year. Experiments made this year cannot de- 

 termine for the next. The hints of Linnaeus 

 constitute an universal rule for the whole 

 world; because trees, shrubs, and herbs, bud, 

 leaf, and flower, and shed their leaves in every 

 country according to the different seasons. — 

 Hunter's edition of Evelyn's Sylva. 



The kite now approaches farm-houses and 

 villages in search of food and materials to con- 

 struct his nest ; at all other times he carefully 

 avoids the haunts of man. In April, or early in 

 the next month, the lapwing, or peewit, (vanel- 

 ius cristatus) lays her eggs and sits, for she 

 makes no nest. The beech, the larch, and the 

 elm are now in full leaf. The larch also ex- 

 hibits its red tufts of flowers, which soon expand 

 into cones, and the fir tribe show their cones 

 also. The yellow Star of Bethlehem blooms in 

 woods and by small streams. Also the vernal 

 squill among maritime rocks, and the wood- 

 sorrel on banks and in shady places. 



