Late August and Early September 



Clintonia were everywhere conspicuous as 

 they rose above their large polished leaves. 

 Among delicate masses of the clover-like 

 foliage of the wood - sorrel lurked a late 

 pink - veined blossom. And where we 

 looked only for gleaming clusters of scar- 

 let fruit we found the white, petal-like 

 leaves of the bunchberry. If in June we 

 were saddened by the first transmutations 

 of flower into fruit, apparent symbols of a 

 year that is no longer young, in Septem- 

 ber we are compensated by these unex- 

 pected emblems of its eternal youth. 



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