26. Damson plum (_Prunus domestica_) and yellow or wild plum (_Prunus chicasa_) in flower. Elder (_Sambucus canadensis_) in flower. Carolina chatterer arrived. 27. Garden gooseberry (_Ribes grossularia_) and avens (_Geum rivale_) in blossom. Weather intensely warm. Thermometer at 86° at 2 o'clock, P. M. yesterday. 29. Apple-trees in full flower. Night-hawk arrived. 30. Choke cherries (_Prun. Serotin._) in flower. 31. Lilac in full flower. The weather till the last week in May was very cold and rainy. Perhaps we have never known more gloomy weather than that of the first twenty days of the month. The last week in the month of May was unusually warm and fine. Vegetation has put forth more within this week than it has in all the season before. The blossoms on apple-trees are scanty, and there is but little prospect of fruit. Peach-trees in the vicinity of this place were all killed by the extreme cold winter. _June_ 1. Hummingbirds arrived. 2. Honeysuckle apple (_Azalea nudiflora_) in full flower. 3. Blue-eyed grass, (_Sisyrinchium anceps_) _Krigia virginica_, and thorn-bush (_Cratægus coccinea_) in flower. Garden seeds, planted on the 25th ult. have vegetated 3 or 4 inches high. Garden rhubarb (_Rheum tataricum_) in flower. _June_ 4. Garden rocket (_Hesperis pinnatifida_) in flower. 6. Yellow water lily (_Nuphar advena_) in full flower. Flower-de-luce (_Iris virginica_) in flower. Garden peas in full flower. The weather for twelve days past has been unusually warm and sultry. The thermometer, much of the time in the middle of the day, has stood at 84°, and vegetation has put forth with astonishing rapidity. 8. House-flies arrived. 9. Horse-radish (_Cochlearea armoracea_) and peony in full flower. 10. Chives (_Allium schænoprasum_) in full flower. 11. Smooth stem lichnidea (_Phlox maculata_) in full flower. Our farmers busily engaged in hoeing their corn. 12. Fumitory (_Fumaria officinalis_) in full flower. 13. Field strawberries beginning to ripen. 14. Locust-tree (_Robinia pseudacacia_) in full flower. 15. Locusts appearing in the south part of the town. The last time of their appearance here was in the year 1801. Their periodical returns are once in seventeen years. Their appearance in the years 1733, 1750, 1767, 1784, and 1801, is recorded on the town-book. They first attack the leaves of the black oak (_Quercus nigra_.) 16. Small red rose in flower. 17. _Rosa caroliniensis_ in full flower. 18. Garden sage (_Salvia officinalis_) in flower. 19. Mock syringa (_Philadelphus coronarius_) in flower. 20. Tulip-tree, commonly called cypress or white-wood (_Liriodendron tulipifera_) in blossom. 21. Carnation pink (_Dianthus caryophyllus_) in flower. 22. Our farmers commenced haying. An immense crop of grass on the ground. 23. Side-saddle flower (_Sarracenia purpurea_) in flower.