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Percival Lowell FLAGSTAFF

Flower Chronicle

May 3. First clover; the three-leaved kind blossom pinkish white, leaf with oblong light marking near base.

April 27-May 3. Some time between these dates while I was in California, your first row of sweet peas came up.

May 4. Afternoon second row sweet peas piercing through see plan.

Went out yesterday afternoon to Indian Paintbrush Ridge (overlooking plain west of saw-mill; not the yellow paint-brush ridge north). Looking for the first paint-brushes, but found none in bloom.

Saw one on April 27 near Crookton just this side of Seligman.

The second instalment of gladioli has duly arrived and I shall plant them, I think, today.

The hollyhocks are spreading all over the front of the B. M. and the alfalfa, ditto, where it can. 84