Fig. 86.—Aeriel and submerged | {the Arrow-head (Sagittaria). 
Or LEAVEs. 
We have considered buds, which enclose in their green envelope 
the promises of spring. At the hour marked by awakening nature 
this cradle of the leafy organs will open itself step by step, and in 
a short time the gardens, the fields, and the woods will be clothed 
with a dazzling down of verdure. 
The season of the renaissance of leaves is that which exercises 
the softest influence on the human soul, when the new vegetation 
begins to decorate the fields, and gives to the boughs and branches, 
long denuded by the hoar-frost, that cloud of vernal green so vivid 
and.dazzling which brings with it that delicious impression which 
no animated beings can deny themselves. The reviving verdure is 
the forerunner of fine days, the first adornments of the fields 
announcing a brilliant cortege of flowers, a plentiful tribute of 
savoury fruits. Renovated nature offers at once to the eyes and 
the mind a most seducing picture, and what pleasure do we not 
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