Chap. L CLIMATE, SEASONS, Lc. 17 



a sprig of Parsley to be had for love or 

 money. What improvidence ! Saw some 

 cabbage plants up and in the fourth leaf. 

 May 24, Rain at night and all day to-day. Apple 

 trees in full bloom, and cherry bloom 

 faUing oif. 



25. Fine and warm. 



26. Dry coldish wind, but hot sun. The grass 

 has pushed on most furiously. 



27. Dry wind. Spudded up acv^rner of ground 

 and sowed (in the natural earth) cucumhers 

 and melons. Just the time they tell me. 



28. Warm and fair. 



29. Cold wind ; but the sun warm. Nofire^ 

 in parlours now, except now-and-then^ 

 in the mornings and evenings. 



30. Fine and warm. — Apples have dropped 

 their blossoms. And now the grass, the 

 wheat, the rye and every thing, which 

 has stood the year, or winter through, 

 appear to have overtaken their like in 

 Old England. 



31. Coldish morning and evening. 



June 1. Fine warm day ; but saw a man, in the 

 evening covering something in a garden. 

 It was kidney-beans, and he feared a frost! 

 To be sure they are very tender things^ 

 I have had them nearly killed in Eng- 

 land, by Ju?ie frosts. 



2. Rain and warm. — The O-eiks and all the 

 trees, except the Flowering Locusts, be- 

 gin to look greenish. 



3. Fine and warm. — The Indian corn is 

 generally come up ; but looks yellow in 

 consequence of the cold nights and little 

 frosts. — N. B. I ought here to describe 

 to my English Readers what this same 

 Indian Corn is. — The Americans call it 

 J^oruy by way of eminence, and wheat. 



