CHARACTERISTIC FLOWERS OF CONCORD. 79 



and its beauty is equalled by its abundance. It grows 

 in masses along the Little Pond Koad, is plentiful 

 near Garvin's Falls, and glows among the star-flow- 

 ers, the bunch-berries and the clintonias, which carpet 

 nearly all our woods. 



By June the more delicate of the spring flowers 

 have passed. Vegetation is at its crescendo. The 

 meadows are sweet with the ripening grass; the 

 maidenhair ferns have unfolded their exquisite fronds 

 of tender green in Paradise; daisies and buttercups 

 bespangle the fields; but the wild rose, the month's 

 birthright, is rare about Concord. The flower of June 

 in this region is the lupine. Acres of this leguminous 

 plant grow on the Plains, and it may be found by the 

 sandy roadsides in Penacook, East Concord and Bow 

 Junction. It is good to see enough of anything so 

 beautiful. In the words of a Concord physician : # 



"The lupine's blue, as it greets the eye, 

 Vies with the blue of the summer sky, 

 Which shuts us in to a world of care 

 Which the lupine's beauty helps us bear." 



Although blue is the prevailing color of the lupine, 

 the blossoms are occasionally a pinkish-lavender or 

 even a pure white. There is a certain spot on the 



* Dr. A. P. Chesley. 



