. Country life reader . arly; but it is generallythe latter part of April before The winking Mary-buds beginTo ope their golden eyes. —for that is Shakespeares way of telHng us that themarsh-marigolds are in bloom. How gorgeous they make the marshy hillside ap-pear, and is it any won-der that the children aretempted to go out incrowds to gather cow-slips, as they call them?But alas! it means al-most without fail a pairof wet feet and then, per-haps, a scolding at , besides, the mari-golds look more beautifulafter all in the marsh,stretching away in bankafter bank among thedead reeds an
. Country life reader . arly; but it is generallythe latter part of April before The winking Mary-buds beginTo ope their golden eyes. —for that is Shakespeares way of telHng us that themarsh-marigolds are in bloom. How gorgeous they make the marshy hillside ap-pear, and is it any won-der that the children aretempted to go out incrowds to gather cow-slips, as they call them?But alas! it means al-most without fail a pairof wet feet and then, per-haps, a scolding at , besides, the mari-golds look more beautifulafter all in the marsh,stretching away in bankafter bank among thedead reeds and tangledundergrowth than they doin hand, for the stems are coarse and thick and the indi-vidual flowers are often disappointing. But there is somecompensation at least in the fresh April sun, the beauti-ful soft blue of the sky, and the call of the red-wingedblackbird as he flits like a flame of fire across the before the marsh-marigold has appeared, thehepatica, which is commonly spoken of as the earliest. Anemone. THE EARLY SPRING WILD FLOWERS 115 spring flower, may be found pushing up through the pro-tecting leaves on the sheltered hillside. It is strange thatthis delicate flower should appear before the leaves haveventured out; but it is perhaps not so bold as it appearsat first sight, for if you look closely you will see that ithas protected itself fromthe cold by a fine furcoat of fuzzy hair. Theleaves, too, you will find,like the flower, spring fromthe root, and this mayhelp to explain why theyare longer in all the earlyspring flowers are scent-less, and depend solelyon their white or yellowcolor to attract the in-sects; but the hepatica isan exception and is theonly one that is reallyfragrant. On the same hillside slope there is another common springflower, which resembles the hepatica and which has a verybeautiful name—the anemone, which in English meanswindflower. No one is sure why it is called it is because it flowe
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