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The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mr. G. B. Emerson, in his late report to the legislature of Massachusetts on the trees and shrubs of that state, thus describes The May Flower. "Often from beneath the edge of a snow bank are seen rising the fragrant, pearly-white or rose-colored flowers of this earliest harbinger of spring. "It abounds in the edges of the woods about Plymouth, as elsewhere, and must have been the first flower to salute the storm-beaten crew of the Mayflower on the conclusion of their first terrible winter. Their descendants have thence piously derived the name, although its bloom is often passed before the coming in of May." No flower could be more appropriately selected as an emblem token by the descendants of the Puritans. Though so fragrant and graceful, it is invariably the product of the hardest and most rocky soils, and seems to draw its ethereal beauty of color and wealth of perfume rather from the air than from the slight hold which its rootlets take of the earth. It may often be found in fullest beauty matting a granite lodge, with scarcely any perceptible soil for its support.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 19, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781547059638 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 348 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 467 g |
Language | English |
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