I went to several places this day.
The Bartsia coccinea grew in great abundance on several low meadows. Its flower-buds were already tinged with their precious scarlet, and adorned the meadows. It is not yet applied to any use, but that of delighting the sight.
One of the Swedes here had planted an English walnut-tree (Juglans regia) in his garden, and it was now about three yards high; it was in full blossom, and had [[160]]already great leaves, whereas the black walnut-trees, which grow spontaneously in every part of this country, had not yet any leaves, or flowers. The last night’s frost had killed all the leaves of the European kind. Dr. Franklin told me afterwards, that there had been some English walnut-trees in Philadelphia, which came on very well; but that they were killed by the frost.
I looked about me for the trees which had not yet got fresh leaves, and I found the following ones:
Juglans nigra, or the Black Walnut-tree.
Fraxinus excelsior, or the Ash.
Acer Negundo, called the White-ash here.
Nyssa aquatica, the Tupelo-tree.
Diospyros Virginiana, or the Persimon.
Vitis Labrusca, or the Fox-grapes; and