1890
May 2
Cambridge & Belmont, Mass.
of cultivated land which must have offered
them some special attraction.
  During the drive homeward late in the
afternoon we saw about a dozen White bellied
Swallows accompanied by two or three
Swifts flying over the swamp behind
Black's.
  Vegetation is rather far advanced but perhaps
not much ahead of that of [average?] seasons.
Shad bush is on the point of flowering but
we saw no blossoms actually out. Cow slips
are in bloom, birches, barberry bushes, privet
and most of the other earlier shrubs 
covered with small leaves. A cherry tree in my
garden opened its first flowers April 28th.