i8o ROUND ABOUT CHICAGO 



in low pots with their own woods earth, and cover 

 the pots with crape paper of the same shade as 

 the blossoms, and you will have prepared your 

 sweetest Easter gifts. Choose the recipients with 

 care, and admonish them to plant the hepaticas, 

 when they have done blooming, in a sheltered corner 

 of the lawn near the front fence; and next spring, 

 and many succeeding springs, every passer-by who 

 has known the country life, but especially the 

 old people, will cry out at sight of them, and lean 

 over the fence to gaze at their soft-tinted, waving 

 petals, first harbingers of spring, and talk to the 

 children about them, and go away smiling and 

 reminiscent. 



In the ravines with the hepaticas, but on the 

 warmer south slopes you will find dancing 

 anemones, sweet, fragile and unpickable. Let 

 them alone. 



By the time the hepaticas are gone to sleep 

 the violets will be up in the woods along the 

 Desplaines and at Beverly Hills, and a little 

 later in the ravines to the north, and later still 

 the Flossmoor woods and Stewart Ridge will 

 be blue with them. 



Take a few of the roots and do as you did with 

 the hepaticas, and also pick many bunches of 

 blossoms, mixed plentifully with their own green 



