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in their first freshness. A few days sooner it would have
been too soon. How quickly plants take advantage of a
few hours of favorable weather! The season so far has
been very backward. Early spring flowers all two and
three weeks after their time. Now with our few days of
warm weather they are all here. Showing too, that we
must not think that because the season is backward and
a few of the early flowers are not here on time, that everything
will be correspondently backward. After collecting 
a few specimens of Dicentra for the press, we again took
the road. Not far off we found Nepeta glechoma,
looking very pretty indeed. Maple is still found in
flower & this day we found both staminate and pistillate
flowers of both Acer rubrum and Acer dasycarpum. We noticed
also the delicate perfume of the blossoms and recognized
them as the same which fooled us last Sat. A short
distance up we found an elm in flower. Mr. W. now asked
'what time do you think it is?" I thought about 10.30,
he thought it about 10, looking at his watch he found it
12 o'clock ! We could hardly believe it, but on looking
at my watch we found that both watches were alike

        