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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
The spicy fruit of the checker-berry ( Gaultheria procumbens ) 
form bright red clusters of berries on dry wooded hillsides. 
May 19. — Flower and leaf-buds of amelanchier bursting. 
First potatoes planted. 
May 20. — Leaves of poplar ( Populus tremuloides ) expand- 
ing in open sunny places; first white trillium (T. grandiflorum ) 
unfolding; bellwort ( Uvularia sessilifolia ) and wood anemone 
in bloom. 
May 30. — During the past ten days the buds on the trees 
have expanded into leaves, except on the oak, acacia, great-tooth- 
leaved poplar and black walnut, which are later than the others. 
The rhodora, the earliest of the heath plants to bloom, is begin- 
ning to enliven the bogs and waste places with its rose-coloured 
petals. Yellow and blue violets; the white, painted and purple 
trilliums ; clintomia, cornus and blueberry ; the wild red cherry — 
all in full bloom. The petals of the amelanchier trees, which 
have been the glory of the woods for the past ten days, are be- 
ginning to fall. The buckbean (M enyanthes trifoliata) is unfold- 
ing its bearded petals, and a few pyrus ( Siberian crab) buds 
are bursting into bloom. 
June 7. — All the trees have unfolded their leaves except the 
acacia, and very beautiful they look in their fresh foliage. The 
yellow lady’s-slipper is in bloom, and a few blossoms are appear- 
ing on the 'Siberian pea-tree, the red-berried elder and the purple 
clematis. A large crab-apple tree on a neighbouring farm was 
a mass of bloom yesterday (June 6). To-day the petals are 
beginning to fall. Stemless lady’s slipper in bloom. 
June 16. — There has been interrupted fine weather for more 
than a fortnight, giving farmers a fine opportunity to get in their 
crops. There was a slight frost on the night of June 2nd, but 
the temperature on some days has been unusually high. The 
lilacs, which began to burst into flower on the 8th, are now a 
mass of bloom. To-day there is a refreshing down-pour of rain. 
June 22. — Marsh violet ( Pinguicula vulgaris) and Rosa 
