New Britain herald., 1915-04-21
SPRING FLOWERS ARE }
 AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
Species Due May lSt New in Full BIO0m- TraiiiRg ATbuiuS Plentiful

Dutchmans brooches or dicentra] cucullaria, it's all the same to thO\ botanist, but the seeker for the flowers, of spring who is not saturated witrw scientific lore prefers the simpler name. 1t seems easier to find blue cohosh than caulophyllum thalictroi- dets, too. It's hard work to become very friendly at first sight toward such long name, exactly as one can give John Smith a heaTtier hand 4 shake than one can bestow upon Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohen- helm. Thco couldn't touch people with a ten foot pole wich such a name and so. being a philosopher, he changed it to Paracclsus, which was short in those days.
 But, speaking Of the flowers that' bloom in the spring. there are many who have gone a-maying in the past who do not realize that spring is upon New Britain full two weeks earlier this year on account of the long drought. The heat of the sun got down to the slumbering seeds Gone must needs use poetic expressions in writing this kind of a story) earlier than usual and hustled them along so that most of the flowers that are due about the first of May have been here for almost a week.
 The arbutus are in full bloom and will not last longer than May -1 Trailing arbutus is not found iin~ mediately around New Britain because it does not flourish in sand stonel and trap rock strata but prefers theI crystalline soil in the back country The Burlington reservoir is the cen ter of a group of large patches ON this wild flower. 1t is worth while to remember the existence of a sta- tute forbidding the uprooting, of trall- ing arbutus plants. There has been danger in the past of the extermina- ton of the flower because of careless gathering.
 One of the rarer spring flowers is squirrel corn, so called because of the little bulbs similar to yellow kernels of corn clinging to the roots. IL is found in only four stations in the state, one of these being Sunset
 Hepatica appeared in New Britain before the last snowstorm and skunk cabbage, or 'symplorcarpus. had made its appearance two weeks before. The species of trillium are now in bloom, the rare white and the common red.
 Other wild flowers that can be be found now are early rue, Anemone, \ dwarf ginseng. and the early yellow violet. The country in the vicinFy of New Britain is unusually favored with rare species of spring flowers and the greatest variety is found al Sunset Clematis Rock at Sunset is named after the purple clematis S found there. This flower has also been found in abundance in Fear Hollow and probably is stin to bo found there this year. '
 Two species Of spring beauty are found here. The claytonia carol \ iniana is very rare and the claytonla virginica would also be regarded as rare were it not for the great patches { to be found along the Mattabesset river. Three species of toothwort and the mitrewort are to be found. A species of early buttercup has made its appearance, as has rock cress, which, like toothwort. is a memhcr \ of the mustard family.
 In about two weeks or a month will come other Varieties of wild flowers, including the orchids. of which there are about forty different Y varieties in the state.
 The signs of early spring are not limited to the flowers. but the shEubsI are displaying their spring raiment. The shrubs now in bloom are they pepperbush, the box elder, and the alders. the latter having pendant cat- kins. The red and silver naples. the elm and the ash are showing spring colors