THE NATURALIST'S CALENDAR 



The mode in which the following rural calendar of the 

 year has been composed, was to copy out from the journals 

 all the circumstances thought worthy of noting, with the 

 several dates of their recurrence, and to preserve the earliest 

 and latest of these dates, so that the calendar exhibits the 

 extreme range of variation in the first occurrence of aU the 

 phenomena mentioned. To many of them only one date 

 is annexed, only one observation having been entered. 

 This is particularly the case with respect to the flowering of 

 plants, with which the book of 1768 alone was copiously 

 filled, and it is to be noted that this was rather a back- 

 ward year. 



Of the abbreviations used.y?. signifies flowering ; /. leafing ; 

 and ap. the first appearance. 



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