" Froebel calls activity of sense and limb "the first germ," and "play-building and modelling the tender blossoms of the constructive impulse"; and this, he says, is "the moment when man is to be prepared for future industry, diligence and productive activity."

When its fragrance steals into your senses, you will stoop and put the blossom in your bosom.

That little child had never seen the beautiful spring blossoms on the fruit trees.

As the Oklahoma steams nearer, the town blossoms into flags; a great murmur increases to a clamour; people come swarming down to the water-front, waving Union Jacks and Stars and Stripes as wellWhat does it all mean?

Show me the two so closely bound As we, by the red bond of blood, By friendship, blossoming from mud, By Death: we faced him, and we found Beauty in Death, In dead men breath.

" Stoddard continued to examine the pink blossom with interest.

Then comes the snow, for the clouds are ripe, the meadows of the sky are in bloom, and shed their radiant blossoms like an orchard in the spring.

" It was also erroneously said, like the sun-flower, to turn its blossoms to the sun, the latter being thus described by Thomson: "The lofty follower of the sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night, and, when he warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray.

The march of civilization has crossed a continent of more than three thousand miles, sweeping away forests, spreading out green fields, planting cities and towns, making the old wilderness to blossom as the rose, scattering life, activity, progress, all along the road it has travelled.

The Wallachians, "have a superstition that every flower has a soul, and that the water-lily is the sinless and scentless flower of the lake, which blossoms at the gates of Paradise to judge the rest, and that she will inquire strictly what they have done with their odours."

Many a gardener will cut you a bouquet of his choicest blossoms for small fee, but he does not love to let the seeds of his rarest varieties go out of his own hands.

In Persia we read of: "The basil-tuft that waves Its fragrant blossoms over graves;" And among the Chinese, roses, the anemone, and a species of lycoris are planted over graves.

And thus she learned that though the new may take the place of the old, and many things may blossom out of it like flowers, yet that the old is never done away.

CHAPTER V A PLACARD FOR THE PRESS 1 March wore through, and April came, and warm winds healed winter's scars, and the 1920 budget shocked every one, and the industrial revolution predicted as usual didn't come off, and Mr. Wells's History of the World completed its tenth part, and blossom by blossom the spring began.

There is the kormbhe, a very tough wood with a red stringy bark, of which the jungle men make a kind of touchwood for their matchlocks, and the parass, whose peculiarity is that at times it bursts into a wondrous wealth of bright crimson blossom without a leaf being on the tree.

" Perhaps almost any girl, situated as Myrtle Dean was, would have blossomed under similar influences.

Another child took the place of the first born, and the dead, and hope and joy began to blossom around Jeanette's path.

The habit of this tree closely resembles that of a Hawthorn, and although the flowers are only half the size of those of the Common Medlar, they are produced in greater profusion, so that the round-headed tree becomes a sheet of white blossom during May and June.

The winter of 1822 was so remarkably mild throughout Europe, that primroses came generally into flower by the end of December,rye was in ear by the middle of March, and vines, in sheltered situations, blossomed about the end of that month,so that an assured and unchecked spring was established at least four or five weeks earlier than usual;yet neither the cuckoo nor the swallow arrived a single day before their accustomed periods.

No man can hide anything long from a woman" Reaching over she jerked a spray of tiny roses from the rambler at the window near which they were standing; tapping the blossoms against her lips, beginning to smile whimsically, she continued: "Why, I can almost read your own thoughts right now!

When the dread shadow of sickness is o'er me, I see thee, a lassie all brightness and bloom; Still, still through thy tears strewing blossoms before me, Still watching beside me through silence and gloom.

The river is high now, and it is a fair sight to see the white blossoms along the banks.

They did not put in many of them because they learned that they would not blossom until the second year.

Its heart warms with noble patriotism and philanthropy, connecting individual profit with the development of natural resources and of national welfare; so that it spreads over the multitudes like a dew of Heaven upon the earth, which blossoms through it with the flower of prosperity.

And all this while Sir Launcelot slept beneath the apple-tree upon the hillside, for he was greatly soothed by the melodious humming of the bees in the blossoms above where he lay.