M ON THE FOLIATION 
fpring approaches, and experience fupports us 
in this conclufion 5 but no body hitherto has 
been 
begin to creep out of their holes, and climb up the plants, 
you mull leave off digging about vines and take to pruning. 
That when the artichoak begins to blow, and the grajbop- 
per chirps upon trees, which, as Theophraftus obferves, was 
about the fummer folftice, then goats are in full feafon, &c. 
That when the fig leaf is about as big as a crow’s foot, the 
time for failing comes on. That when the voice of the 
crane is heard overhead, then is the time for ploughing. It 
26 true, the poet frequently marks the feafons by the rifings 
and fettings of the flars, and as agronomy, befides its many 
important ufes, is connected with finer fciences, has fome- 
thing in it very Unking to the imagination, and has been 
cultivated by men, who had leifure to make calendars for ge- 
neral ufe, it was natural that it fhould get the afcendant over 
rules furer perhaps in themfelves, and more adapted to the 
purpofe of the hufbandman, but which were deftitute of the 
advantages abovementioned, and were moil probably looked 
on only as poetical embellifhments. 
It is wonderfull to obferve the conformity between vege- 
tation, and the arrival of certain birds of paffage. I will 
give one inflance as marked down in a diary kept by me in 
Norfolk in the year 1755. April the 1 6th young figs ap- 
pear, the 17th of the fame month the cuckow fmgs. Now 
the word kokkuO; fignifies a cuckow, and likewife the young 
fig , and the reafon given for it is that in Greece they ap- 
peared together. I will juft add that the fame year i firft 
found the cuckcw flower in blow the 19th of April. 
To the inftance of coincidence of the appearance of the 
cuckow, and the fruit of the fig- tree in Greece and England, 
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