MID-APRIL 45 
spring is here,’ all nature seemed to sing— 
the plants, the birds, the insects all heralded 
it. It was now the growing time for most 
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PLATE XII: ‘How marvellously does spring change 
her garb after only a few hours of sunshine.’ 
plant life, but some of the earliest flowering 
species had already bloomed. (Have you 
ever in March caught the subtle odour of the 
daphne, the earliest of our indigenous bushes 
