. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ii^^^,1 AN OL I OK-IHK-WAV ROAO IHt rtbLKO; THE SUBURBANITE. THE CRANFORD RIVER THE SCENE OF AN ANNUAL WATER CARNIVAL year, after the months of unlirokeii coldthat made the winter of i903-o4 memor-able. But it was worth all the days spentindoors to be out under the sky when thefirst mild weather came. From the mo-ment when the tender shoots of the skunkcabbag-e (earliest of wild plants, and wel-comer than any flower, with all his odor)appeared along the liberated brooks,Dame Nat
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ii^^^,1 AN OL I OK-IHK-WAV ROAO IHt rtbLKO; THE SUBURBANITE. THE CRANFORD RIVER THE SCENE OF AN ANNUAL WATER CARNIVAL year, after the months of unlirokeii coldthat made the winter of i903-o4 memor-able. But it was worth all the days spentindoors to be out under the sky when thefirst mild weather came. From the mo-ment when the tender shoots of the skunkcabbag-e (earliest of wild plants, and wel-comer than any flower, with all his odor)appeared along the liberated brooks,Dame Nature hurried her growing thingsout of their beds beneath the bare purple hood (like a giantjack-in-the-pulpit) was closely followedby the wee cowering hepatica. Then theyellow violet came, sparsely sprinkledthrough the woods, and finally the alnm-dant purple violet that stands as theofficial sign of spring. These are Aprilflowers in New Jersey. This year theyappeared late, but when it was certainthat Jack Frost had gone north for thesummer the wild plants followed one an-other so rapidly that they seemed tospring up together. And almost at thesame instant th
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