25. Our mountain scenery diversified. Weather very warm. Garden potatoes and garden corn, planted on the 27th April, breaking the ground. Garden beans, cucumbers, squashes, watermelons, &c. planted.
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.