02 THE HEDGE-BANK. 



Primrose.* I do not mean to say that you will, 

 at this early season, ever find the hedges as 

 thickly set with primroses as the sky in a winter's 

 night is with stars, (for a spectacle so cheering you 

 must await the arrival of a more genial season,) 

 but, that by dint of vigilant searching, you may 

 discover in some sheltered nook a plant which has 

 thrown out a bunch of genuine spring leaves, en- 

 folding two or three half-expanded primrose buds. 



SNOWDROP. 



If you can call to your recollection a corner, shel- 

 tered from the east and north winds, (a bank 

 sloping, perhaps, towards the south or south-west,) 

 where the soil has not been disturbed for a great 



* Primula vulgaris. 



