Excerpt from This Then Is Upland Pastures: Being Some Out-Door Essays Dealing With the Beautiful Things That the Spring and Summer Bring I was glad to welcome the trillium. How one loves its quaint old name of Wake-robin, fitting title for this first harbinger of spring, that comes to us even before the robin's note is heard! Many of our common wild flowers have several names, but there is none with such invariably pretty ones as all ages have united in bestowing upon Wake-robin. Birth root, our forefathers called it ...
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Excerpt from This Then Is Upland Pastures: Being Some Out-Door Essays Dealing With the Beautiful Things That the Spring and Summer Bring I was glad to welcome the trillium. How one loves its quaint old name of Wake-robin, fitting title for this first harbinger of spring, that comes to us even before the robin's note is heard! Many of our common wild flowers have several names, but there is none with such invariably pretty ones as all ages have united in bestowing upon Wake-robin. Birth root, our forefathers called it, seeing the birth of the new year in its early blossoming, and how many generations have known it as the Trinity-flower! But 'tis best known, I think, as Wake-robin, and the very breath of spring is in the name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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