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BIRDS AND FLOWERS. 



road to Garvin Hill where I go every summer to find 

 the blanched specimens. There is another flower asso- 

 ciated with the Plains, the little Hudsonia ericoides, 

 allied to the poverty grass of Cape Cod. On June 7, 

 1905, one of those raw days which sometimes depress 

 the month with a temperature of 45 degrees, we were 

 taking a chilly drive across the Plains when we sud- 

 denly came upon a mass of the vivid yellow of the 

 Hudsonia, which 



"Like the great eye of Heaven shined bright, 

 And made a sunshine in the shady place." 



Its gold fairly penetrated the gray of the sky, and we 

 felt warmer under our fur robes. 



Pink seems so appropriate to June that we must not 

 forget the mountain laurel, which grows on the Bow 

 hills, and the smaller and less lovely species, known 

 as lambkill, which is common among the pines of the 

 Plains. The exquisite sea-shell tint of the azalea, 

 sometimes called river pink, is becoming so rare, alas ! 

 that I dare not specify on what parts of the Contoo- 

 cook and the Merrimack it may be found. 



A rare and curious flower of this month, which 

 honors us by making its home in Concord, is the 

 pitcher plant, whose hollow leaves are admired quite 



