THE SEASON OF FLOWERS 185 



where they stand fluttering beside the waxy 

 May-apples, in the misty green of the maiden-hair 

 and meadow rue on the cool shadowy slopes. 



As I read my new seed catalogue lately, I was 

 delighted to find that the white trillium is being 

 domesticated, and that the plants can be bought. 

 I wonder if, treated as a garden pet, it can ever 

 be quite its own wild shy self. 



While the trillium is being threatened with 

 extinction on the north shore, the blushing 

 arbutus and the rare sweet linnaea on the dunes 

 are safe, because it takes long and patient search 

 to find them, and he who will take that trouble, 

 loves them too well to harm them. 



In mid-May, the wild crab-apple blossoms be- 

 gin to open, and it is best to gather the branches 

 that are in bud, and let them spread their petals 

 in water, for the flowers are too frail to transport. 

 You can find them in many places: at Sag back 

 of the churchyard, along Western avenue between 

 Tracy and Morgan Park, at Glencoe and 

 Ravinia, at River Forest, and best of all at Palos 

 Park, where on every hand great pink thickets 

 brighten the fresh young green of the landscape. 

 Indeed, if you have not seen Palos Park in crab- 

 apple week you have missed the loveliest sight 

 that Nature spreads for you the whole round year. 



