A LABRADOR SPRING 
under the snow for seven long months. Many 
of these, however, merged from green to red, 
to magenta and deep mahogany colour. The 
dark green shining leaves of the goldthread 
also came out intact from the cold storage 
of winter, and the laurel and Labrador tea 
formed great clumps of colour which shaded 
off from pale olive green to dark brown. 
Another abundant evergreen in the bogs 
was the cassandra or leather-leaf, pale green 
and silvery in colour with drooping leaves, 
while the andromeda, undismayed by the long 
winter, carried its dark green, narrow leaves 
erect. These last two and the laurel were in 
full blossom by the end of the third week in 
June, but now were blossomless. 
In the woods the dwarf cornel came out from 
the winter with leaves intact, but blushing 
deep red, while, forming a carpet with its 
tiny green leaves and running branches, was 
everywhere the snowberry, appropriately 
called chiogenes, or born of the snow. Another 
broad leaf evergreen to be found especially 
on gravelly open places near the shores, and 
one which, prone on the ground, spread like 
great mats over several square feet of surface, 
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