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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. 



