FAMILIAR 

 FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



The Pioneer of Spring. Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus fcetidus). 



CHAPTER I. 



EAKLT WILD FLOWERS, CATKINS, AND SPRING 

 PEEPERS. 



THE borders of the road are like the embroidered 

 margin of a fine garment, full of beautiful and elabo- 

 rate detail. If I wished within a limited space of 

 time to gather a variety of wild flowers, I should 

 follow the highway and leave rolling meadows and 

 rocky slopes to themselves ; for, sooner or later, each 

 condition peculiar to the flower of the hillside, forest, 



