THE EARLIEST WILD FLOWER 



When I picked my arbutus 

 in February, and when Bur- 

 roughs and Dr. Abbott gath- 

 ered their Claytonias the 

 latter in 





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February we 

 could doubtless 

 all have found our 

 hepatica too; and I 

 am equally confi- 

 dent that my early 

 March blooms of rock- 

 flower and everlasting 

 were never so early as to 

 have stolen a march on 

 the liverworts. 



