A LABRADOR SPRING 



under the snow for seven long months. Many 

 of these, however, merged from green to red, 

 to magenta and deep mahogany colour. The 

 dark green shining leaves of the goldthread 

 also came out intact from the cold storage 

 of winter, and the laurel and Labrador tea 

 formed great clumps of colour which shaded 

 off from pale olive green to dark brown. 

 Another abundant evergreen in the bogs 

 was the cassandra or leather-leaf, pale green 

 and silvery in colour with drooping leaves, 

 while the andromeda, undismayed by the long 

 winter, carried its dark green, narrow leaves 

 erect. These last two and the laurel were in 

 full blossom by the end of the third week in 

 June, but now were blossomless. 



In the woods the dwarf cornel came out from 

 the winter with leaves intact, but blushing 

 deep red, while, forming a carpet with its 

 tiny green leaves and running branches, was 

 everywhere the snowberry, appropriately 

 called chiogenes, or born of the snow. Another 

 broad leaf evergreen to be found especially 

 on gravelly open places near the shores, and 

 one which, prone on the ground, spread like 

 great mats over several square feet of surface, 



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