4 East and West 
Rocky Mountain country, the area already 
considered is more than ample, and, on the 
whole, better answers the purpose in view. 
Surely in no part of the world has spring a 
more subtle attraction than in the North- 
Eastern States and this is enhanced by the 
rigour which precedes it. April and May 
have here some peculiar quality—spiritual it 
would seem, and certainly psychic—which 
appeals to those emotions responsive to mu- 
sic and poetry. Spring is a resurrection and 
its significance cannot be other than solemn 
and beautiful to the thoughtful mind. The 
blossoming of red maple, alder, and birch, the 
appearance of bloodroot, hepatica, and ar- 
butus, of coltsfoot, dicentra, and saxifrage, 
mark in the sensitive observer certain phases 
of spring in himself, as if the flowers were his 
thoughts made manifest. The peeping of 
the hyla, the arrival of redwings, bluebirds, 
and meadow-larks, the migration of warblers, 
are never without some inner response in him. 
In the West, spring makes no such poetic 
and intimate appeal to us, for there spring is 
not intrinsically a season as it is in the East. 
Instead of our seasons the year is marked by a 
dry and a rainy period. In Southern Cali- 
fornia after the first autumn rains, one sees 
