THE FLUTTER 

 FROM THE TULIP-TREE 



January 26th 



ALKING through the woods on our way 

 home we observe the snow here and 

 there sprinkled with brown paddle- 

 shaped objects about an inch and a half 

 in length, which at first glance appear to 

 be the seeds of the ash previously described. But upon 

 examination we see that they are of an entirely new 

 model, having a heavy and blunt curved extremity. 



One of them is to be seen in my windrow of seeds 

 on page 282. To one familiar with the woods these 

 paddle seeds offer a temptation not to be withstood. 

 Somewhere near by we may confidently look for the 

 lofty tulip-tree, where the remnant seed-broods are still 

 nestling by the thousands in their mimic cup or cone- 

 shaped clusters at the tips of the branches, each bringing 



