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plants begins its season with earliest 

 spring and terminates it not with the first 

 light frosts of fall, but when November 

 brings some real winter weather, and then 

 only goes to rest to delight us afresh 

 with the coming of another spring. 

 Almost every day throughout its long 

 season the hardy garden is changing 

 with the changes of the season, some- 

 thing new is coming into bloom, and 

 before it becomes monotonous its season 

 is over and its place taken by some 

 other flower equally beautiful and inter- 

 esting but entirely different. Our gar- 

 den is never tiresome; its past is a 

 pleasant memory, its future a delightful 

 anticipation, and its bloom an accurate 

 calendar of the seasons. Is this triJe, or 

 only fanciful writing? It is true, every 

 word of it hard but pleasant facts. 



Snowdrops are in bloom with the first 

 pleasant weather in spring; some springs 

 they are in bloom during the first week 

 in March. They are quickly followed by 

 scillas and crocuses, and then comes the 



