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the spot for several years.  A visit each year finds
many of these beautiful plants in bloom. How showy
the plant is with its beautiful pink shell-like flowers;
And how delightfully fragrant!  This year growing among
a lot of the usually colored variety I found one with
the flowers perfectly white - pure white and as fragrantly
perfumed.  Quite close to Orange Grove in the large
field between the road & the river we found a lot of
Viola <s>rostrata</s> tricolor var the violet which was a perfect stranger
to us till last Saturday.  We crossed the river at
O. G.  We went up the hillside before reaching the ravine.
Here we found our first Cypripedium pubescens
in flower. On our way to the ravine we found another
and in the ravine a third.  Two of these were marked
to see if the will bloom next year.  It was
now quite dark and we were no longer able to
distinguish the varous plants, so we hastened onward
as quickly as possible to the cars.  The <s>day</s> afternoon
was a grand one,  cool but not too cool.  What a 
change in the woods since last week, then Cercis
        