FEBRUARY 33; 



cleared away or hidden under Nature's wealth of new flower 

 and leaf. 



Fields are fast showing the new beauty of the reviving 

 grass, and the green stretch of park-land is set as with great 

 grey pearls, which are but the collected pools of rain of the 

 past days. Here and there are scattered the fallen arms of 

 the trees ; and beneath them all are the many tokens of 

 mingled life and death. 



Here among the skeletonised leaves and fallen beechmast 

 (displaying its seeds still more brilliantly), the celandine has 

 spread its first perfect leaflets. How good to be out in the 

 country "when shy buds venture out," when the first warm 

 sunlight is caressing the land, and to behold the larch-twigs 

 swelling, and the bud-filled willow-branches hastening to 

 burst into golden, fragrant " palm." 



