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Apple Blossoms 26 



Beauty of Wild Apples 26 



Loring'sPond 28 



A Lilac Bush — the Last Remnant of a Home . . 28 



Rhodora 30 



Wild Pink 30 



Ferns in the Woods 32 



Flowering Dogwood 32 



StIMMER: 



Pincushion Galls 36 



A Nighthawk's Nest 36 



Red-winged Blackbirds and Nest .... 38 



Clintonia ......... 40 



Early Morning Fog from Nawshawtuct Hill . 42 



Buttercups by the Roadside ...... 44 



Lupines ......... 44 



Lady's-slippers 46 



Wild Calla Lily 46 



Great Fringed Orchis 48 



White Pond 50 



Mountain Laurel 50 



Trees reflected in the River 52 



Wild Roses 54 



Water-Lilies 56 



Orientation of Young Pine Shoots . . . .58 



A June Landscape from Fair Haven Hill ... 60 



White Clover 60 



Tarbell's Spring 62 



A Waving Rye-field 64 



Yellow and Red Lilies 66 



An Old Unfrequented Road 68 



