. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . andthere sprinkled with brown paddle-shaped objects about an inch and a halfin length, which at first glance appear tobe the seeds of the ash previously described. But uponexamination we see that they are of an entirely newmodel, having a heavy and blunt curved extremity. One of them is to be seen in my windrow of seedson page 282. To one familiar with the woods thesepaddle seeds offer a temptation not to be near by we may confidently look for thelofty tulip-tree, where the remnant seed
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . andthere sprinkled with brown paddle-shaped objects about an inch and a halfin length, which at first glance appear tobe the seeds of the ash previously described. But uponexamination we see that they are of an entirely newmodel, having a heavy and blunt curved extremity. One of them is to be seen in my windrow of seedson page 282. To one familiar with the woods thesepaddle seeds offer a temptation not to be near by we may confidently look for thelofty tulip-tree, where the remnant seed-broods are stillnestling by the thousands in. their mimic cup or cone-shaped clusters at the tips of the branches, each bringing THE FLUTTER FROM THE TULIP-TREE 275 to mind the orange-spotted yellow magnolia-tulips oflast July. One glimpse of them is enough for me—achallenge which I never permit to pass unhonored. Thenearest club or stick or stone is soon flying up amongthe branch-tips, and what a mazy, whirling, dizzy, dan-cing response is mine in the flying cloud which follows!.
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