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convinced that this method marks more precifely 
when we may expedl the flowering of any plant, 
or the return of any bird, &c. than the bare men- 
tion of the day of a common calendar month, 
and at the fame time marks it more univerfaliy. 
Thus, when Ariftotle fays^, That the nightin- 
gale fings continually day and night for fifteen 
days about the time when the young leaves begin 
to expand and thicken the woods, he not only 
marks a time, when they might expedl to hear 
the nightingale in Greece, but in every other 
countrey ; for thus it happens in Sweden and Eng-r 
land, as may be feen in the following Calendars ; 
whereas if he had faid, it appeared in fuch a day 
of the month, it would bear true perhaps for 
that year only; and in fact we find in the old 
almanacks the fame author marking days very 
difbant from one another, for the appearance of 
the fame birds, and thus it muft be likewife in 
relation to plants. 
Thus far for the Swedifh Calendar. As ta 
my own, 1 ft. i have marked every circumflance 
down as i found it in my journal, and hope the 
learned reader will pardon any mi flakes v)hich 
might happen, either from w T ant of judgment or 
attention. It is poffible, that i might put down 
fome plants as firft being in bud, or -flower, or 
* His words are o]&v to J'curuvifiat i. e. when the 
mountain is thickening, where it is certain the word mountain is 
ufed for the trees which generally g^ow upon it. Thus 
Homer applies the word cnt/os v\cl to sp za, for that reafon, Iliad, 
A. 157. and Euftathius upon the place fays, Irzcv cfs or/, 
cjcioe/Ja [s-zv, ts it tci ^ 
$}U£S cLTrOTiteTlKO, S loL TV UAJK hcUUOV. 
Pliny tranflates this p adage, dehfanie fe frondium genuine* 
It 3 eaf» 
