SPRING 
SPRING FLOWERS 
Of all the seasons of the year Spring is per¬ 
haps the most charming in a garden. Every¬ 
thing is waking up after the long winter sleep ; 
the buds on all the trees are opening and 
fresh green leaves peeping out, the ferns are 
sending up tender soft fronds, all tightly curled 
and often covered with brown velvety down, 
and from among the ends of the dead stalks of 
last year’s flowers new growth begins to show. 
It is very wonderful to watch how daintily 
all these young leaves come up in the garden, 
and there is the greatest difference amongst 
them. The larkspurs have very pale young 
shoots, the peonies handsome dark red spikes, 
young phloxes appear in varied hues of green 
and brown, and every shade of green from pale 
emerald to a deep olive is to be found among 
other plants. 
In mild winters many flowers begin to make 
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