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 5 & 6. Clear and warm — wind SW. 



7. Clear and cool — wind N.— red-headed wood-peckers, (picus 

 erythrocephalus,) are seen about the garden. 



8. Clear and pleasant — wind SW. — apricots, peaches, red 

 maple, (acer rubrum,) hazlenut, primroses, narcissus, jonquils, 

 &c. in flower. 



9. Morning cloudy, with every appearance of rain — wind NE. 

 — clear at noon — ground ivy, (glechoma hederacea,) and puccoon, 

 or Indian paint, (sanguinaria canadensis,) in flower 



10. A NE. drizzling wind has continued all day. 



11. A fine clear day — wind ESE. and S. — spice wood, (laurus 

 benzoin,) Lombardy poplar, (populus dilatata,) and skunk cabbage 

 in flower — the little sparrows (fringilla socialis,) are plenty 

 now. 



12. Clear and warm — wind SW. 



13. Fine weather continues — wind NE. Barn swallows, (hi- 

 rundo americanus,) and purple martins are now plenty. 



14. A cold, disagreeable day — wind NE. — afternoon showery. 



15. The finest day we have enjoyed this spring — caltha 

 palustris, Trillium sessile, trillium grandiflorum, jeffersonia di- 

 phylla, ANDROMEDA calyculata, and service-tree, (pyrus botryapium,) 

 in flower. 



16. Fine weather continues — wind NE. 



17. Warm and pleasant — in the afternoon wind SW. 



18. Warm and cloudy — wind NE. — at 10 A. M. cleared up. 



19. Morning and part of the afternoon clear and fine — in the 

 evening cloudy, with the wind NW. 



20. Morning disagreeably cool, with white frost — afternoon 

 fine weather — hyacinths in full bloom. 



21. Clear and warm — goldfinches, (fringilla tristis,) have 

 arrived. 



22. Fine weather continues — chimney birds {uirundo pelasgia,) 

 and house wren, (motacilla domestica,) have arrived — cow bunt- 

 ings are pairing. 



23. Very warm — the plants suffer much from the prevailing 

 drought — wind SW. — red bud, (cercis canadensis,) and European 

 horse chestnut, (^esculus hippocastanum,) in flower — wood-robin, 

 (turdus melodius,) chewink, or tohee-bunting, (emberiza ery- 

 thropthalma,) and summer yellow -bird, (sylvia citronella,) have 

 arrived. 



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