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The Parties of the May-Day Fairies: May: White

By April begin to bloom the Ohio Buckeyes, Box-Elders, Shadbush, Flowering Dogwood, Blue Ash, Cork-Winged Elm, White, Black, Yellow, and Paper Birches, Beech, Shining Willow, Quaking-Aspen, Long-Toothed Aspen, Pitch, Jersey, and Gray Pines, White and Red Spruces, Hemlock, White and Red Cedars and Juniper. But May is the great flowering month in the forest as elsewhere. Then comes the crowning of the May queens among the Mountain-Magnolias, Tulip Trees, Horse-Chestnuts, Stripped and Sugar Maples, Black and Honey Locusts, Red, Black, and Choke Cherries, Crab-Apple, Mountain-Ash, White Thorn, Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Sour-Gum, Black Spruce, Tamarack, Balsam-Fir, Mountain-Laurel, Persimmon, Red, White, and Black Ash, Black Haw, Sassafras, Hackberry, Red Mulberry, Sycamore, Black Walnut, Butternut, Shellbark Hickory, Mockernut, White, Burr, Post, Chestnut, and Yellow Oaks.

In June come the flower-shows of the Holly, Swamp-Magnolia, Linden, Mountain-Maple, Kentucky Coffee Tree (widely distributed but rare, so that you'll have to look sharp), Rhododendron, Osage Orange, Bitternut, Pignut, and White Pine.