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** By this stream and the A/aj^ blossoined thorn 
That first heard his love tale and his vows/' 
And by Spencer in the following: 
** To gather May busket2.Xii}i smelling brere 
And home they haste the postes to dight,*' 
And in Chaucer there is the following line: 
**And fresher than the May with floAvers newe." 
The hawthorn still bears in England the name of " The May," 
and there can be little doubt that its fragrant blossoms suggested the 
name borne by the pioneer ship of the Plymouth colony. 
As the location of the Sacred Mount — the point of dispersion of 
a pnmitive people — was transferred to the migrating Indo-European 
nations from one country to another, in the Old World, so the Saxon 
emigrants transferred the name of " May-flower '* to a new species of 
plant, as they lost their familiarity with the old. To us, living in a 
region \^\\^x^' Epigma abounds, and blossoms in May, it very appro- 
priately bears the name of May-flower, not only on account of its 
beauty and its fragrant flowers, but because it blooms in the spring, 
it IS rightly chosen by the descendants of the loyalists as a fitting 
emblem of those who, on this day loo years ago, first set foot on the 
shores of New Brunswick, Its home is in that region of the North 
American continent which extends from the Atlantic coast of Nova 
Scotia, through New Brunswick and Maine, to Eastern Ontario, Lake 
Superior and the rocky wilds of the northwest. In Ontario and the 
Maritime Provinces of Canada is the home of the loyalists, and when 
the first detachment of these people landed on the rocky shores of 
St. John's harbor in the spring of 17831 there can be no doubt that 
they found the May-flower {Epigad) blooming around them. In 
jts leaves, fresh and green from beneath the winter snow, they would 
have seen an emblem of their own preservation through adversity in 
the past, and in its modest and fragrant blossom an omen of content 
and prosperity in the future. 
In conclusion, it may be added that our reflections upon the May- 
flower lead to the following result: 
The May-flower of the Pilgrims was not the May-flower of all the 
loyalists. ^ 
The May-flower of the loyalists was not the May-flower of the 
inaritime Cana'dians. 
The May-flower of certain of the loyalists was the spring beauty. 
The May.flower of the maritime Canadians may very fittingly be 
medicated to the loyalists. 
Or, to consider the matter from a chronological standpoint, it may 
oe said that 260 years ago the hawthorn was the May-flower. One 
nundred years ago the spring beauty was to some loyalists the May- 
Jower, Now the Epiocsa is to the descendants of the loyalists the 
^ay-flower. -^(J. E. Mather, in Canadian Sa\ Monthly, 
The Continuity of Protoplasm in plants is still attracting consid- 
^rable attention in botanicd circles. An interesting article 
ip,/?^^''^ (June 16, p. 182) gives a resume of the history of the sub- 
Herr Russow, who maintains that in all 
g their entire life the whole of the protoi)lasm is contin- 
^^s, says the protoplasmic threads are seen well in Rhamnus.Fraxi- 
Jectfrom the year 18^7. 
Plants during their ent r 
