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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