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.
June 1. House flies arrived.
5. Choke cherry (Prun. serotin.) in full flower. Honeysuckle apple (Azalea nudiflora) in full flower.
8. Piony in full flower. Snowball (Viburnum opulus) in full flower. Flower-de-luce (Iris versicolor) in blossom.
11. Early peas in blossom. Carraway (Carum carui) in flower.