Blooms of the shad-bush 



the species with the clouds of Httle white 

 flowers shaped Hke a thin-petaled star. The 

 shad -bush blooms with the trilliums — but I 

 may not allow the spring flowers to set me 

 spinning on another hank ! 



Searching for early recollections of trees, I 

 remember, when a boy of six or seven, find- 

 ing some little green berries or fruits, each 

 with its long stem, on the pavement under 

 some great trees in the Capitol Park of my 

 home town. I could eat these; and thus they 

 pleased the boy as much as the honey -sweet 

 flowers that gave rise to them now please the 

 man. The noble American linden, one of the 

 really great trees of our forests, bears these 

 delicate whitish flowers, held in rich clusters 



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