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Thermotneter. 

 9 A. M. 3 P. M. 



ing of the 11th the thermometer stood at 

 26° Fahr. ; ice was formed, and garden 

 peas killed. Destructive frosts have some- 

 limes occurred in the spring, as, for in- 

 stance, on the 6th of April, 1828, when, 

 not only the growing crops of cotton, maize, 

 &c. were killed, but many hickory trees^ 

 and some persimmon trees were killed by it, 

 their foliage being, at that time, considera- 

 ably expanded. Nevertheless, the culture 

 of sea island cotton and of the sugar cane 

 is successfully pursued. 

 Jan. 14. Weather balmy and delightful. 64 



17. Thermometer at sun-rise 32°; sleeted a lit- 

 tle. On the 18th, ice. 19th. Beginning 

 to moderate. 

 20. A peach tree and plumb tree on the Mico- 

 sookee Lake had a few flowers. 



24. Flower buds of Acer rubrum begin to ap- 



pear on the Micosookee Lake. 

 " Flower buds of Prunus caroliniana begin to 



expand. 

 22. Trillium sessile b. b. Mitchella repens b. 



25. Gelsemium nitidum (Carolina jessamine) b. 

 Feb. 8. Vaccinium corymbosum (whortle-berry) b. 58 



10. Peach trees begin to bloom on Rocky Com- 

 fort. 



" Senecio lobatus b. b. Plumb trees (P. do- 

 mestica) b. b. 



IL Acer rubrum (red maple) b. b. 



13. Corchorus b. in gardens. 



14. Viola villosa, V. lanceolata, V. cucullata and 



V. pedala b. b. 57 



17. Molucca raspberry b. b. Gardens. 



18. Cercis canadensis (red-bud tree) b. b. 



19. Vaccinium myrsinites b. b. 



20. Laurus geniculata b. b. 



21. Iris (hexagona?) b.b. in gardens. 52 



22. Azalea nudiflora (swamp honeysuckle) b. b. 54 



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