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the flowers of red-buds, juneberries, wild plums and 

 dogwoods, and near the river a slight yellowish tinge 

 from the blossoms of spice-bush. A little later there 

 will be light pink areas from the flowers of the wild 

 crab-apple and the leaves of the oaks will appear in 

 various delicate tints. Sometimes there will be boats 

 upon the river. The near-at-hand growth along the 

 margins of the river road just mentioned is largely 

 made up of lindens, elms, hackberries, soft maples, 

 sycamores and hawthorns, with here and there a 

 clump of willows. Underneath the hawthorns, the 

 ground is covered with anemone blossoms in the 

 spring and with little red apples in fall. Aside from 

 the trees mentioned, there is a growth of various 

 bushes including our red-branched dogwoods, elder- 

 berries, spice-bushes, Carolina roses, viburnums and 

 a shrub-like stand of pawpaws. In places, also, the 

 ground is covered with mandrakes, adder-tongues, 

 bloodroots, hepaticas, trilliums, bluebells, iris and 

 ferns. This area, mostly covered with original forest 

 extending for several miles along the river, has been 

 converted into a public park. It is not adapted to 

 ordinary cultivated crops because of the inundations 

 that occur at least once a year and sometimes oftener. 

 It can be imagined that this river road, with its 



