SUMMER 
The impatient wild flowers have 
come rushing and crowding to 
greet their friends after a pro- 
tracted separation. Spring was 
so long unkind that they grew 
restive under her restraints, and 
now, with the first relaxation, they 
have hurried forth to display the 
profusion of their charms. The 
impressed order and decorum of the debutantes 
has been cast aside in their spontaneous haste 
for recognition. We look for the Hepatica to 
raise its woolly flower stems from among the 
surviving bunches of last season's leaves and dis- 
play its delicate tints of pink, purple, or blue 
long before the single leaf of the Blood-root unfolds 
from the white flower it clasps and guards with 
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