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8. Farmers very busy in hay-making. Locusts begin to 



10. Elecampane, gay cypripediumj and inflated babelia 

 in flower. Currants ripe. 



12. Indian corn in blossom, and red garden cherries ripe^ 



13. Thimble berries ripe. 



17. White flowered cynoglossum in flower. 



18. Nettle leaved vervain in flower. 

 20. Green peas fit for the table. 



22. Virginia demalis, common elymus, topseed, and a 

 species of aster in flower at Cummington. 



24. Button bush in flower. 



26. Cucumbers fit for the table. 

 31. Spearmint in blossom. 

 August 4. Burdock in blossom. 



5. Downy neottia in blossom. 



6. Common golden rod, and Virginian versia in blossom. 



7. Rye fit for the sickle. Decurrent gnaphalium in 

 flower. 



8. White fringe flowered orchis and bulb, bearing cicuta 

 in fiowe): at the bog near Hawley meeting-house. 



1 0. High blackberries ripe, and green corn fit for the table. 



15. Potatoes fit for the table. Grasshoppers so abun- 

 dant for some time past as to be very injurious to vegeta- 

 bles, particularly to grass and Indian corn. 



22. Currant bushes defoliating. 

 24. Common gratiola in flower. Springs remarkably low. 

 Many rocks in the North Pond, which I do not recollect 

 ever to have seen before, appear above the water. On one 

 of these we cut the figures 1820. 



25. Berries of the mountain ash turning red. 



26. Watermelons ripe. 



29. Black elder berries ripe. 



30. Black cherries ripe. 



Errata in the Calendar, ^c. 



Page 275, date May 19, for granaphalmn read gnaphalium. 

 a 278, " July 2, for mimullus read mimulus. 



