closes the interesting fact that the season at Oquawka, which is on 

 the Mississippi River, is much earlier than that of New Bedford by 

 the sea, though both places are practically in the same latitude. The 

 Spring plants of the former region l)lo(jming from ten to fifteen days 

 earlier, and those of May, June, and Jul}', from three to four weeks 

 earlier ! 



An article in the " Garden and Forest," date of Jan. 14, 1S91, on 

 " Winter Flowers in Oregon," by E. W. Hammond, gives a list of 

 eight interesting plants blooming the latter part of January. While 

 the species mentioned are wholly unknown to New England, yet it is 

 clear, from the fact of their early blooming and from the additional 

 fact stated, that alders, hazels, and willows, bloom there early in Feb- 

 ruary, "the alder in January if the Winter be mild," that the season 

 on the Pacific coast, in latitude one degree farther north, is six weeks 

 earlier than here ! 



The flowers of the same locality bloom from year to year with sur- 

 ]n'ising regularity as to time, excepting an occasional variation of about 

 a week in the Spring plants, so that a person desiring to search for a 

 particular plant learns the exact time it is in bloom, and does not 

 make a fruitless search by going too early or too late. A fVieiul of 

 the author desired a s])ecimen of Acorus Calamus ; knowing of a lo- 

 cality where it was found thirty years before, he visited the spot at 

 the time indicated in the Catalogue and found it in full flower ! 



By this arrangement, furtheimore, the distribution of the genera 

 through Spring, Summer, and Fall, and the prevailing colors of the 

 flowers of each season are more readily ascertained. 



The colors of the flowers, when seen by the critical eye of an artist, 

 do not appear in a single instance to I)e absolutely pure, simple, and 

 solid, but mixed and blended in varying degrees. 



The favorite color of Nature in this region is yellow in its diflerent 

 tints and combinations. In number of species there are as many of a 



