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Updated: June 9, 2025
It came from the bunch of violets, gentians, and hepaticas, already faded, that Mother had placed there days ago on his arrival. And overhead, through plaster, tiles, and rafters he saw the stars. 'We've already been for Jinny, Jimbo informed him; 'but she's gone as usual. She goes the moment she falls asleep. We never can catch her up or find her. 'Come on, cried Monkey.
It is not meant, of course, that plants like these are wholly wanting in Florida. I remember an abundance of violets, blue and white, especially in the flat-woods, where also I often found pretty butterworts of two or three sorts. The smaller blue ones took very acceptably the place of hepaticas, and indeed I heard them called by that name.
In Canada, Spring comes with an all-conquering rush. In one short fortnight she clothes the trees in green, and carpets the ground with blue and white hepaticas. She is also, unfortunately, accompanied by myriads of self-appointed official maids-of-honour in the shape of mosquitoes, anxious to make up for their long winter fast.
"Bloodroot," said Hale, and he scratched the stem and forth issued scarlet drops. "The Indians used to put it on their faces and tomahawks" she knew that word and nodded "and I used to make red ink of it when I was a little boy." "No!" said June. With the next look she found a tiny bunch of fuzzy hepaticas. "Liver-leaf." "Whut's liver?"
Here the leaves were just bursting from their buds. Underfoot the early spring flowers the hepaticas, the anemones, the trilium, the dog-tooth violets, the quaint, early, bright-green undergrowths were just reaching their perfection. Migration was in full tide.
'I'm not very strong in the domestic line, he exclaimed, 'but I think I can help them a bit. They're neighbours at any rate. They're all children too. Daddy's no older than Jimbo, or Mother than Jane Anne! In the spaces of the forest there was moss and sunshine. It was very still. The primroses and anemones had followed the hepaticas and periwinkles.
I look down the flaming crocus throats the imperial purple goblets with powdery gold stamens and at the modest little pink faces of the hepaticas. All over our wood there is a faint yet certain purply shade, forerunner of the summer green, and the loud and sweet-voiced birds are abroad. O Spring!
PURPLE SAXIFRAGE. Perhaps we have few flowers early in the spring that deserve more attention than this. It blooms in the months of February and March, and in that dreary season, in company with the Snow-drop, Crocus, and Hepaticas, will form a most delightful group of Flora's rich production.
I always associate our moving with blue hepaticas, for I carried a great basketful of them, which I had taken up roots and all, in the woods, the morning we set out; and what should I find under papa's study window but a great thicket of wild ferns and cornel bushes growing just the place for my hepaticas, and I set them out before I went into the house.
It is growing too warm for those delicate violets and hepaticas who dare to brave even March winds, and can bear snow better than summer heats.
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