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dooryard, as in the field and by the roadside, in 

 some indefinable way a look of spring. One hint 

 of spring comes even before its flowers you 

 can smell its coming. The snow is gone from 

 the garden walks and some of the open beds ; you 

 walk warily down the softened path at midday, and 

 you smell the earth as it basks in the sun, and a 



Ladies' Delights. 



faint scent comes from some twigs and leaves. Box 

 speaks of summer, not of spring ; and the fragrance 

 from that Cedar tree is equally suggestive of sum- 

 mer. But break off that slender branch of Caly- 

 canthus how fresh and welcome its delightful 

 spring scent. Carry it into the house with branches 

 of Forsythia, and how quickly one fills its leaf buds 

 and the other blossoms. 



