SUMNER 



The impatient wild flowers have 

 come rushing and crowding to 

 greet their friends after a pro- 

 tracted separation ♦ Spring was 

 so long unkind that they grew 

 restive under her restraints, and 

 now, with the first relaxation, they 

 have hurried forth to display the 

 profusion of their charms* The 

 impressed order and decorum of the debutantes 

 has been cast aside in their spontaneous haste 

 for recognition. We look for the Hepatica to 

 raise its woolly flower stems from among the 

 surviving bunches of last season's leaves and dis- 

 play its delicate tints of pink, purple, or blue 

 long before the single leaf of the Blood-root unfolds 

 from the white flower it clasps and guards with 



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