THE WILD FLOWERS ROUND QUEBEC, (l) 

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OUR MAY WILD FLOWERS. 



" Oft in the woods we long delayed 

 When hours were minutes all too brief, 

 For nature knew no sound of grief ; 

 But overhead the breezes played, 

 And in the dank grass at our knee, 

 Show pearls of our green forest sea, 

 The star-white flowers of triple leaf, 

 Which love around the brooks to be 

 Within the birch and maple shade. 



— (Lord Lorne's Poem on Quebec.) 



I have been asked to state what are the first wild 

 flowers, noticeable in spring, at Sillery, and around 

 Quebec generally. 



April snows have scarcely disappeared, ere the Wil- 

 low with its golden catkins is in bloom. 



" The first gilt thing 

 Decked with the earliest pearls of spring." 



In the neighborhood of warm springs, vegetation is 

 of course more rapid than elsewhere. 



(1) These familiar and concise notes are based on a valuable 

 paper on the Wild Flowers op Quebec, delivered before the 

 Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, by Samuel Sturton 

 and recorded in its Transactions. 



They have had the advantage of revision and additions by 

 a lover of flowers, George M. Fairchild, jr., of Ravenscliffe, 

 Cape Eouge, P, Q. 



