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Flowers of May. 



FLOWERS OF MAY. 



In the last number, we chronicled, in their due succession, the opening 

 of the hardy flowers of April, — such of them as bloomed in our sight last 

 spring. Now we continue the record with the flowers of May. 



We begin with a native of our woods, reclaimed and domesticated. A 

 bed about four feet in diameter, covered with the broad green foliage of 

 Trillium, grajidiflorum, on which rest more than a hundred triangular 



