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THE MONTH OF APPLE BLOSSOMS 



Henry Ward Beecher 113 



AN ANGLER'S WISH .... Henry van Dyke 117 



APRIL Lloyd Mifflin ng 



MRS. JUNE'S PROSPECTUS . . . Susan Coolidge 119 



SPRING Donald G. Mitchell 121 



A TOUCH OF NATURE . . . Thomas Bailey Aldricb 122 



A SPRING RELISH John Burroughs 123 



THE GLADNESS OF NATURE . William Cullen Bryant 126 



THE RETURN OF SPRING .... Bayard Taylor 127 



A SPRING SONG 128 



SPRING IN THE SOUTH .... Henry van Dyke 129 



THE SPRING James Speed 130 



AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY 



William Cullen Bryant 131 



A VIOLIN MOOD R. H. Schauffler 132 



SPRING Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 133 



APRIL DAYS Alfred Tennyson 134 



LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING 



William Wordsworth 135 



V 

 TREES 



THE MARSHES OF GLYNN . . . Sidney Lanier 139 



TALKS ON TREES .... Oliver Wendell Holmes 141 

 INSCRIPTION FOR THE ENTRANCE TO A WOOD 



William Cullen Bryant 148 



THE APPEAL OF THE TREES . J. Horace McFarland 150 



A BALLAD OF TREES AND THE MASTER, Sidney Lanier 150 



WoODNOTES Ralph Waldo Emerson 151 



PINE NEEDLES William H. Hayne 155 



