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the numerous well-kept lawns barely showed the advent of their 
green carpet. In the low a green being absent, the most 
conspicuous elements in the landscape were the pale-barked 
beech-trees and the dark- sees oaks. 
The outlook for spring appeared more encouraging in Virginia. 
significance of two een in the red-maple is a problem asain: 
solution by som 
The alder Cine was blooming, but it was two months later 
than in this locality the preceding year. The rolling hills of 
hammocks of the Carolinas should have been gay with bright- 
with its pale gold bells. Conifers were blooming—the cypress 
(Taxodium) in the swamps, and the pines (Pinus) on the hill- 
sides. 
Georgia ener a see more advanced vegetable life. The 
plum family stood out mently, represented by the wild- 
plum Game eran as white flowers, the semi-cultivated 
copiously decorated with the red-bud (Cercis canadensis), and 
in wet places pitcher-plants (Sarracenia), and in high grounds 
tansy-mustard (Sophia) flourished. Variou us oaks were in bloom 
id 
silhouetted against the black-purple clouds of an approaching 
cyclone, in a most beautiful lacework. 
The bark of the trees in southern Georgia and in northern 
Florida attracted our attention. It was almost universally gray, 
a sombre gray like that of the often accompanying Florida-moss 
(Dendropaen. They are not only gray, but rough. Now, in 
rthern regions and in the tropics, southern Florida included, 
we re find a variety of smooth, often highly colored barks—another 
