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the flowering time of a few plants 



Daffodils in flower, 

 Red Cedar and Elm, 

 Red Maple, 



Jonquils, 



Peach and Plum, . 



Cercis Canadensis, 



Flowering Almond, 



Epig^ea repens, 



Phlox subulata, 



Luzula campestris, , 



Vaccinium corymbosum, 



Viola cucullata and canceolata 



Cardamine Virginica, 



Thlaspi bursa-pastoris, 



(Myrlca.) 



in the spring of 1832. 

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In 1831, Daffodils blossomed January 1st, and the 

 white Hyacinth at Christmas, which is about their usual 

 period of flowering. 



Memoirs 



American Academy, Vol. IV., there appears to be a dif- 

 xference of about two months in the flowering time of some 

 of these plants at Wilmington, and the same at Boston and 

 Albany ; but this is true only of early flowering species 

 which are ready to expand in the first warm day of Spring. 

 As a general rule, plants blossom at Wilmington, from 



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Draba verna and Poa annua open as early as December, 

 so that there is no month in which vegetation Is not going 

 on, though Spring does not commence until February. I 



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