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with the bright green stems climbing up among the withered 
leaves of the young oaks. 
e museum seemed yellow amid the all-prevailing whiteness 
and every wand of golden-rod and head of wild carrot stood up in 
the fields around it, a thing of beauty. The greenhouses lost their 
lovely blue and were cased in ice, which descended in avalanches 
when the thaw began. Only two days it lasted, and then a short 
Alders and hazel, catkins, skun cabbages and sco lteat 
pussy willow, and the whitlow grass us! Jin th f April, 
and the elms an aples ventured out into full bloom by the 
14th. In the eee garden on Easter Sunday the staminate 
catkins were surrounded by winged creatures, and the first artist 
of the season had placed his stool and unfurled his umbrella to 
attempt the Corot pictures that have been so lavishly scattered 
along the northern reaches of the Bronx. 
ExizaBetH G. Britton. 
SOME EARLY SPRING FLOWERS. 
Of the early blooming flowers the lily a furnishes a con- 
siderable portion, and prominent among these are the Scil/as and 
Chionodoxas. Of the ae the Siberian seul Scilla Stbirica, 
is one of the prettiest. From a single bulb, which is remarkably 
inches long, each bearing from one to three large blue flowers 
Chionodoxa Luciliae, which is about the same size as the Si- 
berian squill, also has blue flowers, but they are more numerous, 
six to twelve on ee stem, and on much longer pedicels. It 
usually has but two leaves which pes with the flowers. This 
pretty little plant is a native of Asia M 
One of the earliest and most widely known of the spring 
fewer: is the round-lobed liverleaf Hepatica Hepatica, Itisa 
