Chapter 40
section forty of birds and all nature volume seven number five may nineteen hundred recorded for librivox dot org by betty b wild flowers of may president marsh in his report to the commissioners of forest park springfield massachusetts for eighteen ninety nine mentions the following wild flowers as in bloom in the park during the month of may we avoid the use of the botanical names. White Bloom, Starflower, Canada Mayflower, Shepherd's Purse, White Violet, Solomon Seal, False Solomon Seal, Bellwort, White Baneberry, Wild Strawberry. Yellow Bloom, Yellow Violet, Common Sank Foil, Golden Cup, Dandelion,
Watercress. Pink Bloom, Twisted Stalk, Wild Pink, Orange and Red Bloom, Louse Wart. blue and purple bloom blue violet forget-me-not wild geranium ground ivy miscellaneous jack-in-the-pulpit wild ginger wild pink azalea japanese hybrids american rosemary parkman's crab flowering apple thunberg's barberry ashbury japan ashbury bayberry leatherleaf american judas tree golden chain japan weeping cherry siebold's double red flowering cherry weeping wild cherry choke cherry wild plum sweet fern flowering dogwood red flowering dogwood weeping dogwood red osier dogwood siberian red osier sheepberry cranberry tree naked viburnum english wayfarer's tree common snowball white thorn pear-leaved thorn english hawthorn japan quince chinese lilac flowering peach buffalo berry wild rose sweet briar rose weeping willow
bridal wreath tree peony flowering almond shrub yellow root wild red raspberry thimbleberry or black raspberry huckleberry blueberry common high blackberry in the june number of birds and all nature we shall give the flower shrubs which bloom in that month the annual report of the commissioners of parks at springfield is a worthy example for others to follow End of section 40. This recording is in the public domain.
