THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



THE REVELRY OF THE FULLNESS OF LIFE OF THE PUSSY WILLOW IN JUNE AND JULY. 



reason admire me in June when I give 

 you a premonition of the fuhiess of Octo- 

 ber joys? You have forgotten that I 

 shared in the spring because you will not 

 remember me now. Perhaps I have too 

 many rivals but you will, in September 

 or October, go into ecstacies over the 

 fruit of the milkweed, and even later for 



the jovs of fruiting goldenrod, hawk- 

 weed and innumerable members of my 

 faithful kin." 



Thus may the pussy willow complain 

 because no other plant receives admira- 

 tion more transient and as wrong as it is 

 transient. The pussy willow in June is 



