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May 27. Apple-trees beginning to blossom. 



29. Early garden lettuce {Lactuca sativa) fit for the tabic. 



30. Apple-trees in full flower. 



31. Night-hawks arrived. 



Vegetation has put forth more to appearance in tljree dajrs 

 past than in all the spring before. Nature seems to revive 

 from a state of torpidity, from the warm and invigorating rays 

 of the sun. The month of May has been more backward than 

 the month of April, 1811. The observation of elderly people, 

 that the month of April, old style, was never known to termi- 

 nate without producing apple-blossoms, has by no means been 

 verified this year, they being now (June 1st.) in full flower. 

 The snow upon the mountains, thirty or forty miles back, is 

 at a great depth ; so deep, that on the warm day of the 29th 

 our river rose a foot from its melting. Diseases of the chro- 

 nic kind have been peculiarly severe for three months past. 

 The gladsome return of the cheering warmth will probably 

 renovate the enfeebled constitutions of many of our aged 

 people. 



June 1. House flies arrived. 

 5. Choke cherry {Prun. serotin.) in full flower. Honey- 

 suckle apple (Azalea nudiflora) in full flower. 

 8. Piony in full flower. Snowball (Viburnum opulus) in full 

 flower. Flower-de-luce (Iris versicolor^ in blossom. 



11. Early peas in blossom. Carraway (Carum carui) in 

 flower. 



15. Locust-tree (Robin, pseudacac.) in full flower. Field 

 strawberries beginning to ripen. 



18. Common red clover in full flower. Cranesbill (Geranium 

 maculatuin) in blossom. Red raspberry in full flower. 



23. Chili strawberries beginning to ripen. Garden sage (Sal- 

 via officinalis) in full flower. 



29. Our farmers busily engaged in haying. 



30. Large red rose, large white rose, and damask rose (Rosa 



damascena) in flower. 



