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Entered as Second-Class Matter June 12, 1909, at Sound Beach Post Office, under Act of March 3, 1897. 



Vo! 



ume 



VII 



MARCH. 



Number 10 



Ready for "The Burst of Spring." 



"What more can be said of buds? 

 lias not every botanist had extended 

 chapters in his text-book, every school 

 journal its yearly repertoire of, 'how to 

 study buds', and are there not innumer- 

 able leaflets for the study of buds issued 

 by all nature study centers for dissem- 

 ination of aids in nature study?" 



Yes, every naturalist has said a great 

 deal about buds since Thoreau, more 

 than a half century ago, compared him- 



BUDS OF RED MAPLE IN READINESS. 



IT'S A REAL "BURST." 



self in his "Winter" notes to the par- 

 tridge that goes budding as a sort of 

 hardship fare in lack of more appetizing 

 things. 



Perhaps Thoreau intended to eulo- 

 gize the buds as he did his own wild- 

 ness in comparing himself to one of 



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