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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
GREAT-LEAVED MAGNOLIA. 
A forest tree with large solitary white flowers. Range: Southern 
and Southeastern United States. 
2. Plants 
Wild Flowers and Ferns 
Flower in the crannied wall , 
I pluck you out of the crannies; 
Hold you here , root and all , in my hand, 
Little flower — but if I could understand 
What you are , root and all, and all in all, 
I should know what God and man is. 
— Tennyson. 
Do you know the earliest spring flower in your neigh- 
borhood? In the northern United States it is usually 
found in bloom before all the snow of winter is gone. In 
some swamp or along some stream where the snow has 
melted away in patches it is possible to find the Skunk 
