Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 226
casionally antici-pates the spring in ordinarywinter weather. I have be-fore me a letter from an au-thority who picked themunder a foot of snow on December 9, and this,too, in a winter not notably mild. The same writer tells us of two other winterflowers : The dandelion occasionally continuesin… … THE DANDELION SOMETIMES BLOOMS INSHELTERED PLACES IN MIDWINTER. sunny nook, youmay dig away the snowand pick its white starry blos-soms, larger and fuller now thanthose of summer.John Burroughs, in writing of Spring at theCapital (Washington), says: Though the mer-cury occasionally sinks to zero,…
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