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MAY TIME 
also fun for Little Joseph. In fact, I think he 
cares more for these plants than for any others 
in the garden. He feels they are more his own, 
since he has taken care of them so long and watched 
their leaves forming from the time they first ap- 
peared above the earth. In observing them, he 
has learned something about the building of a plant, 
and found out some of the ways of the plant world 
more accurately even than by reading “An Am- 
bitious Boy’s Garden.” 
We have no Weigelia shrubs at the Six Spruces; 
but at nearly all the other places about, the pink 
varieties are coming Into bloom, appearing like 
heavy, coloured clouds. Especially at Miss Wise- 
man’s, I think they will be very beautiful, because 
there the shrubs are all old and large. Nestly 
Heights Is a new place. 
At the edge of our wood-border the dogwood Is 
in bloom, giving the appearance of gay company. 
And to our surprise one of the wild dogwood trees 
Is sending out flowers of salmon, pink. They are not 
merely pinkish from fading, as many white blos- 
soms become, but are really pink and have been so 
since the day they unfolded. Timothy tells us 
that our Aunt Amanda took an interest in this tree 
and felt proud of It, because It was the only one of 
the kind she had seen or heard about in this part of 
the country. 
Our three lilac bushes are also in bloom. When 
Mr. Hayden came to see us on Sunday, he said, not 
