Glimpses at the plant world . The Spring-Beauty. spring-beauty with its gracefully hanging buds andpink-and-white bells, which is to Western childrenwhat the sweeter Mayflower is to those who live inNew England, came very early in the spring, andgrew plentifully both in woodlands and in grass-fields, particularly along the fence-rows. About GLIMPSES AT THE PLANT-WORLD. ihe same lime, at the roots of old stumps or insheltered nooks we mightexpect to find clumps of thelarge, thick leaves of thebloodroot unrolled enoughto show the pale stems,each crowned with thewhite flower whose petalsso soon f
Glimpses at the plant world . The Spring-Beauty. spring-beauty with its gracefully hanging buds andpink-and-white bells, which is to Western childrenwhat the sweeter Mayflower is to those who live inNew England, came very early in the spring, andgrew plentifully both in woodlands and in grass-fields, particularly along the fence-rows. About GLIMPSES AT THE PLANT-WORLD. ihe same lime, at the roots of old stumps or insheltered nooks we mightexpect to find clumps of thelarge, thick leaves of thebloodroot unrolled enoughto show the pale stems,each crowned with thewhite flower whose petalsso soon fall from the yel-low centre in a snowyshower. On the side ofa low hill stood the onlyservice-berry tree in ourneighborhood. When itshook forth its filmy whiteblossoms we felt that thewild-flower time had reallybegun. Later, on the bor-ders of the woods theshowy dogwoods hung outtheir white or sometimespale rose-colored flowery branches bothof service-berry and of dogwood were easily. Bloodroot. 4 GLIMPSES AT THE PLANT-WORLD. brought down so low that we could grasp them ;but later on, when the beautiful orange and pale-green flowers of the stately tulip-trees came, theywere far beyond reach. Sometimes a pelting rainbroke off a few of these great flowers ; and asI afterwards picked them from the ground andlooked into their cups, I thought what a won-derful place it must be away up in the tall treetop,among the multitudes of blossoms and green airy gardens that I longed for, however, arevisited by many winged insects, among them akind of glistening, bronzy-green beetle ; for suchlittle creatures are pretty sure to be found crawl-ing about in the flower-cups of the tulip-tree. Itwas not until late June that the bunches of creamytassels on the chestnut-trees gave promise of ourfavorite nut. While speaking of tree-flowers, I ought not toforget the fruit-trees in the orchard near the used to watch the little knobs of buds all alongthe twigs and branch
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