134 FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 



their forms of working, and withal so mar 

 vellous, that the specialist alone can make 

 much headway in their investigation. 



We saw in the same locality a specimen 

 of the viburnum opulns or bush-cranberry, 

 which I am glad to discover in my neigh 

 bourhood. It was quite new to me when I 

 found it last summer, up in the neighbour 

 hood of &quot;Sky farm&quot; and Mt. Everett, its 

 profusion of richly coloured berries putting 

 to shame the tame prim crudities of the 

 mountain ash. I thought it much more at 

 tractive than its cultivated descendant, the 

 guelder rose or snowball of our gardens. 



The heavy and frequent rains which fol 

 lowed the brief drought have produced a 

 great development in the leafage, and I 

 think that I never saw the forest more 

 dense or luxuriant. The scaffolding of the 

 hills is concealed, and only here and there 

 can we now trace from a distance the 

 lines of crag. Upon the fields we find a 

 succession of colours, pleasant to look upon, 

 though not always gratifying to the fanner. 

 At first I thought that I was to have a beau 

 tifully uniform crop of hay, the turf 

 seemed so green and smooth. Then it be 

 came sprinkled here and there with quaker 

 ladies or bluets, as if some careless body 



