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rare every way in its fragrant pink dress ? 

 Have your eyes rested on the white blood- 

 root, and rejoiced in the dog's-tooth violet? 

 with maple blossoms, red, yellow and green, 

 and tresses of birch and alder, and the white 

 clouds of shad blossoms, and dogwood in 

 fair array? Have you admired — afar off 

 and doubtfully — the great skunk-cabbage, 

 which has indeed the good sense not to 

 force itself into society, but comes out 

 when little else is abroad ? And yet the 

 thing is extremely well connected, — with 

 plenty of handsome cousins, and some of 

 them in great demand. Your white calla 

 is one .of these, and the rich golden-club ; 

 and sweet flag — which many people call 

 "good enough to eat;" while midway be- 

 tween stands Jack-in-the-pulpit, handsome 

 and poisonous, like some other "■ incum- 

 bents" that might be named. 



If you have followed all these in their 

 coming forth, then are you ready for the 

 June darlings. Wild lilies, in scarlet with 

 yellow linings ; and partridge - berry, in 



