120 WILD FLOWERS OF APRIL. 



Training the trailing peas in bunches neat, 



Perfuming evening with a luscious sweet, 



And sunflowers planted for their gilded show, 



That scale the window's lattice ere they blow, 



Then sweet to habitants within the sheds, 



Peep through the diamond panes their golden heads." 



CLARE, 



In shrubberies the Laurel (Cerasus pruno-cerasus) 

 appears in flower, and at this time bees abound on 

 the laurels, attracted by the sweet liquor exuding 

 from two glands on the under side of the leaf, which 

 is particularly plentiful on a warm day. Plantations 

 of young Larches with their fresh green foliage and 

 young pink cones make one of the most pleasing 

 exhibitions of spring. 



