FIRST SPRING FLOWERS 



managed to evade the hungry mouse, are opening, and 

 the first orange-gold crocus tempts the mischievous 



SNOWDROPS 



sparrow, why then it is spring at any rate spring 

 within us and the heart is young again. 



There is a halo of charm around these first 

 spring flowers of the garden, a feeling of a 

 faithful tryst, and we stoop in ecstasy to 

 greet the brave forerunners who, while 

 winter still commands, have outstripped their 

 comrades and hastened to proclaim, even at the 

 cost of their own life's cycle, that just below the 

 cold bare ground lies hidden the bursting array of 



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ACONITES 



