March 23.—The" springtime always starts everyone (even editors) digging out poems about flowers and birds, and searching for everything from the first snowdrop to the first swallow, For the past few days I have been inundated with records of the "first swallow"—and have in addition had to rack my brains over those recently quoted lines:—.:. Where tthe brook its music hushes, Bright the calopogon blushes Laugh, O murmuring spring."
would first like to say that to the best of ledge the first swallows were here on 1: my usual date is March 22, but in of this I'was able last year to record a swallow in Jessfield Park on March 14—two weeks after I had been looking at a snow man on the same spot! All of which Hi search of the editor had sprung his calopogon theory eye was caught by a small blue -rook—and picking it up I found some fascinatberries such as I had never seen before, The coarse—long-leafed Bw but I hardly dare to bring this theory notice of the editor,—Es.w,
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