32 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



promising timber, which a little judgment 

 would have left to attain respectable size, 

 when by judicious selection and care it 

 might be made to furnish a profitable an 

 nual crop, while the woodland should re 

 main a beauty and a joy forever. 



The wild flowers are now very scarce. 

 This morning I found none but the witch 

 hazel, the golden-rod, an aster, the wild 

 carrot, chamomile, and pepper grass. A 

 more extended and careful search would 

 probably have been rewarded by buttercups 

 and daisies (or white-weeds), among the 

 first to come and last to go, by yarrow, 

 chickweed and the mulleins, all of which I 

 have found within two or three days. Even 

 the fringed gentian showed a few of its 

 lovely blue blossoms in a protected meadow 

 only the day before yesterday, their third 

 &quot; last appearance &quot; for the season. Dande 

 lions I have heard of, but have not seen for 

 several weeks. Doubtless we shall have 

 them from time to time throughout the year. 

 I have found them in the Brooklyn park in 

 January and February. 



We have now one of the greatest pleas 

 ures of which the leafy summer deprives 

 us, the sight of the graceful stems and 

 branches of the trees, with all their won- 



