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again slightly, after having been free of ice for some days; 7th, 

 water spider on brooks; 22nd, "Camberwell beauty" butterfly 

 flying about ; gnats dancing in the air ; swallows first seen ; migra- 

 tory thrush sings ; 24th, hermit thrush first seen ; 25th, frogs heard ; 

 meadows getting green, and rhubarb sprouting; 26th, poplar (P. 

 tremuloides) in blossom; 30th, frog spawn in ponds; pine in 

 new leaf. 



May — 2nd, red maple buds in forward state; ord, birch and 

 hacmatac in bud; blue violet in blossom; 4th, brown snake first 

 seen ; 5th, wild gooseberry in leaf; 6th, gray hunting spider on stone 

 walls ; 22nd, frost occui'red ; 29th, apple trees in full leaf; blue- 

 berry in blossom. 



June — 4th, clouded yellow butterfly about; 5th, birch and red 

 maple in full leaf; balsam poplar in leaf; dandelion in seed; 6th, 

 pigeon-berry in blossom ; buttercup in flower ; 8th, Bermudiana 

 in blossom ; 9th, ash in young leaf; 11th, red spruce in flower; 

 apple in blossom; large tiger swallow-tail butterfly about; 12th, 

 ground juniper in flower; withrod flowers just formmg; loth, 

 timothy grass in flower; 14th, yellow potentella in blossom; ITth, 

 lilac in fall bloom; 18th, white weed in full bloom; 19th, ash in 

 blossom; 21st, firefly first seen; 29th, ash in full leaf; lilac blos- 

 soms fading. 



July — 6th, blackberry in fall bloom; withrod in blossom; 9th, 

 timothy grass ripe; 10th, white acacia in bloom; 15th, strawberries 

 abundant; wild rose in blossom; gad-fly abound and troublesome 

 to cattle; 19th, brooks and watercourses dried up; cattle suffer 

 for want of rain; 25th, cracking locust first heard; 30th, black and 

 red spruce bear cones in abundance. During this and the succeed- 

 ing month vast quantities of medusa were observed floating about 

 the harbour. 



August — 7th, blueberries abundant; 21st, red maple leaves turn- 

 ing crimson in wet places; 28th, golden rod in flower. 



September — 5th, Michaelmas daisy in full bloom ; 9th, field cricket 

 sings in pastures; 21st, mackerel abundant in the harbour; 22nd, 

 maples, birch, and poplar turning colour rapidly in the forests; 

 23rd, blueberry leaves changing colour ; pigeon-berry still in flower. 

 October — 2nd, pine sheds its leaves; 7th, grasshoppers still 

 about. 



