THE SYEmGA. 



St/y'Dif/a [iratulijlora. 



\ RINGAS are suggestive of the 



highest glories of the spring. 



The "enamelled meads" and 



the flowery banks are more 



lovely in spring-lime than Tom 



Tiddler's ground eould ever 



have been, for his parterre was 



dotted with only gold and 



silver. Here on these green 



prairies and bosky bants we 



have rubies and amethysts 



and carbuncles and jacinths in 



endless variety, and in presence 



of them can afford to tell the 



truth that Tom Tiddler's 



ground is nowhere. But we 



speak of the higher glories 



of the spring, and those who 



look higher will see them arrayed on the leafy boughs 



of fruit trees, thorn trees, syringa trees, and trees of many 



shapes and names. The flowering trees are, beyond all 



doubt, the finest of all the furniture of the English 



garden in the best days of the flowery spring. This 



syringa, a familiar tree, cheapest of all in man's market 

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