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THE BIRD CHERRY. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



SOW faint and intimate are the first tokens of Spring's 

 approach ! Long before her green banners are hung 



I 3J£iS ti out in triumph it has ceased to be true that " there 

 is no sign of Spring." And yet the signal may be no 

 more than that the buds have stirred. All through the winter, since 

 the last leaves of autumn fell away, they have lain close to the 

 protecting twig, but now they spread away from it, in the first 

 motion of growth that comes with rising sap : or having rested across 

 it, between the bare earth and the grey sky, they now turn upward 

 to the light of the spring sunshine. 



