FAMILIAR 

 FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



The Pioneer of Spring. — Sliunk Cabbage {Symplocarpus fottidus). 



CHAPTEE I. 



EAELT WILD FLOWEES, CATKINS, AND SPEING 

 PEEPEES. 



The borders of the road are like the embroidered 

 margin of a fine garment, full of beautiful and elabo- 

 rate detail. If I wished within a limited space of 

 time to gather a variety of wild flowers, I should 

 follow the highway and leave rolling meadows and 

 rocky slopes to themselves ; for, sooner or later, each 

 condition peculiar to the flower of the hillside, forest. 



