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flowers and the grass has scarcely become green. Spring yellows 
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part by the forsythias or colder bells. These first yellow flowers 
- ances ~ our ener by ants with its pees 
yellow blo sythia-like jasmine 
me is tne about New York fond ee some Stee: and 
the golden currant with the richest yellow blooms and heaviest 
He of them all. The latter will be found om visitors 
m April 6 on, according to the season, as spec and 
nite plants, near the old pines at the north ee ow ees €. 
f the m the ana is a the majority 
of these early-flowering shrubs may be 
Pink and white are the foundation oe ae the next seasonal 
phase at the time ee ag ena: Spiraea and the red- 
buds. The Chin r Japan red-bud, hs one ee 
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round buds in clusters embedded in the bark, along the stems 
and branches. From April 25 on, favorable weather will bring 
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blooms about the same time in the flower gardens near the con- 
igatans and the — Pieris floribunda, called mountain 
fetterbush, is even more beautiful, opening its nodding clusters 
of pure white, urn- be ee in April from buds forme 
nearly ten months befo 
It is not always to ee eae sor oe ak ness to 
open so ane Our first magnolia, rounded 
tree that we count it a shrub, and of which we specimens 
fifteen or twenty years old in both fruticetum and arboretum, is 
Magnolia seiata, De s magnolia; named ac Dr. Hall i. 
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and trees. From woolly terminal buds star- like fragrant white 
flowers open, with about twelve sepals and petals so alike that 
they are not readily distinguishable. If the visitor notices that 
the edges of the flowers are blackened and dead, it is because 
the late frosts have caught them 
