. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . WINTERS ROSETTES ^Pl 1^ w : C i^m:;t:;i^ilr Lt^ ::.l DeccDiber i^th E are going to have an early spring, saida rural philosopher to me one late Feb-ruary day, pointing, as proof of his asser-tion, to the numerous clusters of lushgreen leaves disclosed everywhere in hisgarden upon the melting of the weeds are starting already, he says, pulling up aclose clump of peppergrass leaves. And yonder is aflat starry tuft of sorrel leaves as green as April grass,and near by a hundred-pointed starry rosett
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . WINTERS ROSETTES ^Pl 1^ w : C i^m:;t:;i^ilr Lt^ ::.l DeccDiber i^th E are going to have an early spring, saida rural philosopher to me one late Feb-ruary day, pointing, as proof of his asser-tion, to the numerous clusters of lushgreen leaves disclosed everywhere in hisgarden upon the melting of the weeds are starting already, he says, pulling up aclose clump of peppergrass leaves. And yonder is aflat starry tuft of sorrel leaves as green as April grass,and near by a hundred-pointed starry rosette of theevening primrose hugging the frozen ground—all proofsof an early spring. Yes, the spring is in the heartsof all of them, and has been abiding there for severalmonths. How few of them ever get the credit forthe hope and faith of which they are the perennial elo-quent symbols ! The snow covers thousands of all our eversrreens are accounted for in our bot- WINTER S ROSETTES 241 any. We find no adequate mention of these quiet res-olute rosettes which are everywhere disc
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