. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . Spring T HE earliest blossom, the skunk-cabbage flower, visited by bees in snowy March,— Revels of the sprouting maple-seeds. — Peeping frogs: spring music fromthe swamp: Hylodes, Hyla, and cricket-frog. Imitation of Hylodes. Tree-toads in March.—Vernal greeting from the pines. Clicking cones. Hygro-metric hocus-pocus of pine-cone.—The squirrel as a botany teacher. Spiralarrangement of —Spring blossoms: avant-courrtires among thewild flowers. Blossoms under snow. Poetical allusions.—Quickening
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . Spring T HE earliest blossom, the skunk-cabbage flower, visited by bees in snowy March,— Revels of the sprouting maple-seeds. — Peeping frogs: spring music fromthe swamp: Hylodes, Hyla, and cricket-frog. Imitation of Hylodes. Tree-toads in March.—Vernal greeting from the pines. Clicking cones. Hygro-metric hocus-pocus of pine-cone.—The squirrel as a botany teacher. Spiralarrangement of —Spring blossoms: avant-courrtires among thewild flowers. Blossoms under snow. Poetical allusions.—Quickening infants, beech babies, and maples in swaddling-clothes. Great oaksfrom little acorns grow. Masquerade of the maple-seeds.—A butterfly sere-nade: musical wings of the yellow-edge. Caterpillar swarms of Antiopa.—A rosy-winged rattling locust and his agile emerald companion of the springwoods.—A water-fairy: filmy opalescent sylph of the snow-pools.—Birds ofApril. The poets harbingers. Bird songs in onomatopoeia. The grackles clatterin. The partridge an
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