. The brook book; a first acquaintance with the brook and its inhabitants through the changing year. Natural history. A RAINY DAY 227 Reaching the bed of the stream at last, I found that the rocks on the bank, though washed by the floods in March, had managed to hold fast to many plants of saxi- frage. All winter I had watched the rosettes and hoped to be first to find a flower stalk. But they had shot upwards with the first warm shower and were already in blossom. All up and down the rocky sides of the gorge, wherever a thin sheet of soil could be found to cling to, there was the saxifrage, b
. The brook book; a first acquaintance with the brook and its inhabitants through the changing year. Natural history. A RAINY DAY 227 Reaching the bed of the stream at last, I found that the rocks on the bank, though washed by the floods in March, had managed to hold fast to many plants of saxi- frage. All winter I had watched the rosettes and hoped to be first to find a flower stalk. But they had shot upwards with the first warm shower and were already in blossom. All up and down the rocky sides of the gorge, wherever a thin sheet of soil could be found to cling to, there was the saxifrage, by hundreds. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Miller, Mary Farrand (Rogers), Mrs. , 1868-. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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