^Miskdmneous Calendar, 281 



31. Visited the crooked pond. The leafless utricularia, 

 water lobeha and floating villarsia or spur stem grow here in 

 great plenty, but the growth of these interesting plants has 

 been so much retarded this season, by the flowing of the 

 pond, that they have not yet blossomed. The last year, I 

 found them in flower the eighteenth of this month. The 

 utricularia grows also at Ashfield and Hawley, the villarsia 

 in a pond near the village of Sand Lake, New-York. 



September 1. Common bidens in blossom. 



2. Farmers cutting their stalks. 



4. Beech drop and bladderfruited picandra in blossom. 



5. Indian corn ripening very fast. 



6. Black cherries ripe. 



9. Drooping neottia and largeflowered bidens in blossom, 

 and common elder berries ripe. The leaves of our forests 

 are beginning to assume the livery of autumn. 



11. Farmers beginning to make their cyder. 



15. Frost this morning. Clear, cold and windy. 



16. Spearmint and witch hazel in blossom. 



22. Leaves of the beech tree turning yellow and falling. 



29. Maple and yellow birch defoliating, the leaves of the 

 maple being, many of them, of a bright scarlet. 



30. Artichoke in blossom. Farmers harvesting their 

 corn ; — crops abundant and very excellent. 



1820. — March 19. The first woodpecker seen. FHes 

 brisk and lively. The crust of the snow, owing to the late 

 storms of hail and rain, is so very hard that a small dwelling 

 house has been moved about a quarter of a mile upon it ! 



20. Farmers are beginning to tap their sugar maples. 



23. Blue birds appear. 



24. Robins appear. 



29. In warm situations the aments of the alder are con- 

 siderably swelled. 



April 6. Buds of the willow considerably swelled. 



7. A fall of snow. 



11. Farmers busy in making sugar. 



16. Found in warm woods the three-lobed hepatica in 

 flower. The first butterfly seen. In many places the snow 

 is still two or three feet deep. 



18. Alder in bloom. The croaking of the frogs hearrd 

 for the first time. 



19. Poplar and claytonia in blossom.- 

 VoT.. III..... No, 2, 36 



