26. Butternut defoliating. 28. Elm beginning to defoliate. _October_ 2. Chestnut burrs opening. Tree defoliating. 8. Sugar-maple and sycamore defoliating. 26. Blackbirds arrived again. Squirrels in plenty in our woods, though chestnuts and walnuts are scarce. Butternuts plenty. Cider and apples in great abundance. _November_ 20. Wild geese returning to the southern regions. 1812. _March_ 21. Blackbirds, woodpeckers, and robins arrived. Wild geese passed over. 23. Bees out of the hive. _April_ 3. Black ducks arrived. Large flocks of pigeons passed over. 9. Flower-buds of the elm considerably swoln. 11. Skylarks arrived. 12. Frogs begin to sing. 13. Leaf-buds of the soft maple (_Acer rubrum_) much swoln. 13. Leaf-buds of the gooseberry much swoln. 16. Early garden peas sown. 19. Dandelion (_Leon. tarax._) in full flower. Blue or meadow violet (_V. cucullata_) in flower. Leaves of the lilac beginning to expand. Our farmers busily engaged in ploughing for sowing. 23. Peas and oats sown, and Indian corn planted. 25. Swallows arrived, and whippoorwills begin to sing. 27. Leaves of the gooseberry, and willow (_Salix Muhlenbergii_) beginning to expand. _May_ 5. Martins arrived. 10. Asparagus fit for the table. Blood-root (Sang. canadensis) in full flower. 11. Chili garden strawberries beginning to blossom. Flower-buds of the lilac swoln. 12. Elm in full flower. Leaves of the meadow violet beginning to expand. 13. Garden violet (_V. tricolor_) in flower. 14. Field strawberries in full flower. Shad-bush (_Aronia botryapium_) in blossom. 15. English cherry beginning to flower. 19. Winter pear beginning to blossom. 22. Hummingbirds arrived. Large white plum (_Prunus domestica_) in full flower. Butternut beginning to flower. 23. Flower-buds of the peach (_Amydalus persica_) beginning to expand. Gooseberry in flower. _May_ 27. Apple-trees beginning to blossom. 29. Early garden lettuce (_Lactuca sativa_) fit for the table. 30. Apple-trees in full flower. 31. Night-hawks arrived. Vegetation has put forth more to appearance in three days past than in all the spring before. Nature seems to revive from a state of torpidity, from the warm and invigorating rays of the sun. The month of May has been more backward than the month of April, 1811. The observation of elderly people, that the month of April, old style, was never known to terminate without producing apple-blossoms, has by no means been verified this year, they being now (June 1st.) in full flower. The snow upon the mountains, thirty or forty miles back, is at a great depth; so deep, that on the warm day of the 29th our river rose a foot from its melting. Diseases of the chronic kind have been peculiarly severe for three months past. The gladsome return of the cheering warmth will probably renovate the enfeebled constitutions of many of our aged people.