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.