in the eastern part of J\lassachusetls. 203 



spring are weeks and even months later in the north of New 

 England than the same species in the south, yet the autumnal 

 plants in the north flower earlier than the same species in the 

 south of New England. At Lubec, Maine, on the 23d of 

 July, 182S, I found Fiburnum cassinoides, V. pyrifolium 

 Auct., in height of flower in the woods, (which is generally in 

 height, about Ipswich, in the middle of June,) and also, at the 

 same time, Prenanthes alba and e'J'sler spectabilis in flower, 

 which do not generally begin to flower, in the eastern part of 

 Massachusetts, until August, or later. 



The following table is computed from the observations of 

 sixteen successive years, from 1825 to 1840, inclusive, em- 

 bracing several very early, very late, and middling springs, all 

 which appear, on the whole, to balance each other. 



1831, exceeding early through- 1835, '37, '38, exceedingly lata 

 out. 



'25, '27, '30, very early. 



'28, 'S3, '39, rather early. 



'40, very early in the beginning 

 of March; late in the be- 

 ginning of Aj)ril; exceed- 

 ingly early in the beginning 

 of May; then cold again the 

 last of May. 



It is well known that the late Hon. .lohn Lowell, whose 

 memory will be ever dear to the horticulturalist, as well as to 

 all the lovers of public spirit, benevolence, and goodness, for 

 many years kept a journal of the earliest flowering of the 

 cultivated fruit trees, abstracts from which he occasionally 

 published in the JVew England Farmer. It is greatly to bo 

 wished that this journal may be published, as from the long 

 course of years over which it extends, as well as from the 

 well known accuracy of the observer, it would probably fur- 

 nish more correct results than any observations during a short- 

 er period. 



[It would give us great pleasure to publish an abstract of 

 Mr. Lowell's journal, could it be obtained, in our pages: it 

 would be a most interesting paper. — Ed.] 



throughout. 

 '29, '32, '34, '36, late. 

 '26, rather late. 



The mean in the table is the mean of all the years. The 

 extremes include also the year 1841. The mean of the two 



