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April IV. 
vii. DUCK, tame , 145. Anas bofchas , fits . 
/Fi/i DUCK returns . 
V. An inundation of fnow water . 
SWAN, 37. W DAKER* 
HEN, 58. 8. Radius crex , by their ap- 
pearance proclaim the fpring. 
'Rivers are unbound, and ice floats down. 
N. B. TJpfal, for 70 years, has never 
been frozen beyond the igth of .April, according to 
the obfervation of O. C elfins, fen. 
PIKE, 1 12. Efox Indus, fpawns. Uhls 
fifh gives over fpawning when the frog 
begins. 
xi. Snow water foaks into the earth . 
Subterraneous places are inundated. 
FROG comes forth . 
Winter jhelters ought to be removed from 
garden plants, that they may not be too 
much drawn up. 
Hot-beds for melons Jhould be flown, 
Solvitur acris hyems grata vice veris et Favonii. 
Hor. 
III. BUDDING MONTH. 
From the return of the WHITE- WAGTAIL, 
Mot axilla alba, 75. 1. to the coming of the fw al- 
low or from the flrft flower to the leafing of the 
firft tree, during the whole time of the flowering of 
the bulbous violet. 
A Favonio veris initium ridtant. Cicero. 
April IV. 
xii. Hafel-nut tree, 439. Cprylus avellana. 
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