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between the tufty grass at the bottom toward the 

 stone fence. Saxafrage flowers spring from the 

 leafy rosettes in dry spots where the rock comes 

 nearly to the surface, and in late May moss pink 

 shows its rosy glow here and there. 



"Then there are always guinea gold dandelions, 

 strewn at random, that later turn to down and fly 

 away like veritable flowers of magic. Next, following 

 the white violets, come blue speedwell, bluets and 

 coy windflowers in the moist hollow. A few vagrant 

 ox-eye daisies will hang about the fence edge and 

 nestle in among the shrubs, and Jack-over-the-ground 

 creeps hither and thither with golden cups and shin- 

 ing leaves. 



" In July yarrow spreads its fragrant fern-cut 

 leaves, and covers places where the grass is thin, 

 and bedstraw with its queer, rough stems and white 

 cross flowers, while up under the hemlock trees on 

 the right, Indian pipe raises its ghostly stems, and 

 pyrola flourishes under the beech tree by the bank 

 wall 



" Look across the green now, for the lawn is 

 delicately green, even if not wholly grass. Do you 

 see that purple tint where the slope begins ? It is 

 wild thyme, and next month these purple flowers will 

 be replaced by purple-bronze leaves, and yonder, 



