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TRAILING ARBUTUS 
One of our eailiest spring flowers, usually growing in patches in 
sandy or rocky woods. Range: Eastern United States westward to 
Michigan. Photograph by G. Clyde Fisher. 
Cabbage in bloom very early in the spring. See how 
early you can find it. In the southern United States, one 
of the earliest spring flowers is the yellow Jessamine, 
which twines over bushes and trees thus displaying its 
fragrant, golden bells. 
As the season advances, other flowers appear, and we 
find the Spring Beauty, the Trailing Arbutus, the Blood- 
root, and the Hepatica. What delightful associations 
each of these names brings to our minds ! By the time 
summer is here we have an entirely different flower-pop- 
ulation in the fields and woods — the Cardinal Flower with 
its intense red color and the Pink Lady ? s~Slipper with its 
drooping moccasin-shaped lip are to be found then. In 
the autumn we have a different group of flowers still — 
the Goldenrods, the Asters, and the Fringed Gentian, the 
