h F TREES. tig- 
hten able to fliew what kind of tree Provi- 
dence intended fhould be our calendar, fo that 
we might know on what day the couritrey^ 
man ought to fow his grain. 
The fun ads on the earth by loofening, 
warming, and preparing it, as the culinary fire 
does on our meat, for which a certain degree 
of heat is requifite* For the fun by its heat 
drives the juices taken in by the roots thro’ the 
veffels of the tree, which do not return by cir^ 
culation, but become more topious by the 
daily addition of frefh heat. It. Scan. 23. 
i will here add fome coincidences of the like nature, in 
Sweden and England. 
Linnaeus fays, that the wood-anemone blows from the ar- 
rival of the f wallow . In my diary for the year 1 755, i find 
the fry allow appeared April the 6th, and the wood-auemone 
was in blow the 10th of the fame month. He fays, that 
the marjb-marygold blows when the cuckow fings. Ac- 
cording to my diary the maVjh-mdrygold was in blow April 
the 7th, and the fame day the cuckow fung. 
I have many other obfervations by me about the appear- 
ances of birds and the flowering of plants, but as they were 
made for one year only, and there are none of other authors 
to compare them with, i fhall not trouble the reader with 
them. I have been induced to publifh them for reafons that 
i have mentioned in the preface. Vid. the Calendar of Flora. 
