The Spring Wild Flowers 



The Beginning of The Trail From Notes "On The Trail of The Wild Flowers." 



Lucy L. Stratton 



Erie, Pa. 



It is a great pleasure to present to the readers of The Review this charming 

 and intimate account of the spring wild flowers from one, who now at the ripe 

 age of eighty, is still working with them and loving them. Mrs. Stratton has 

 sketched and painted over 1300 species of wild flowers and has her sketches 

 classified and arranged botanically, a personal and glorified herbarium; and 

 she is still painting and writing, a beautiful and inspiring example of what the 

 companionship of plants will do in keeping youthful the body, mind and spirit. 

 — The Editor. 



The valley of the Connecticut on the Vermont-side — an upland 

 farm a mile from the valley — the farm half A^alley and half hill — 

 the hills half wooded and half tilled— all watered by a brook some- 

 times in a glen almost Alpine in its wildness and inaccessibleness, 

 sometimes meandering through a flowery meadow; a lovely view 

 over into picturesque New Hampshire upon the near Moosilank and 

 the not distant Franconia and Presidential ranges : — such was the 

 setting of the over a hundred years old farm house where toward 

 the close of the last century, a summer was spent by the WTiter and 

 the scheme conceived and commenced of securing and drawing in 



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