FEINBERG/WHITMAN NOTES and NOTEBOOKS NOTES--Misc. 1881 Spring Flowers -- marginalia Box 40 Folder 66 Includes partial verso letter from R.E. Laban, n.d.277 1881 Spring Flowers: prose. A.MS. (1p. 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 cm.) Written in ink on the back of a discarded letter, first part missing, from R.E. Laban [?] ('not conflict, or must not deter you from bringing other friends. Truly R. E. Laban.'), to which has been pasted a clipping of a newspaper, listing 17 spring flowers with their scientific names, 17 words: earliest spring wild flowers bloodroot, arbutus, pepaticas, violets, [the g] [-h] cultivated hyacinths, calls, azaleas, roses. [On side of clipping:] Spring flowers '81earliest spring wild flowers bloodroot, arbutus, pepaticas, violets, [the g] [-h] cultivated hyacinths, callas, azaleas, roses. [*Spring flowers '81*] For the benefit of those who are studying Botany, we publish through the kindness of Prof. Groff, the following list of spring flowers with their scientific names: 1. Swamp Cabbage, Symplocarpus fœtidus. 2. Water Carpet, Chrysoplenium Americanum. 3. Candle Alder Alnus serrulata. 4. Wild Hazlenut, Corylus Americana. 5. Filbert, Corylus Avellana. 6. Yellow Jasmine, Jasminum fruticans. 7. Dandelion, Taraxacum dens leonis. 8. Chickweed, Stellaria Media. 9. Red Maple, Acer rubrum. 10. False Sycamore, Acer Pseudo-platanus. 11. Liver-Leaf, Hepatica triloba. 12. Rue Anemone, Thalictrum Anemenoides. 13. Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris. 14. Bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadenses. 15. Whitlow Grass, Draba verna. 16. Norway Maple, Acer platanoides. 17. Sugar Maple, Acer Saccharinum. All in the above list can be found within a few days. For localities, consult the Botanies.Not conflict , or must not deter you, from bringing other friends. Truly, R.E. Laban [ ] when please us most were written remembrance of something to which e author refers only as the penniless an refers to the millions he once possessed, or the broken-hearted to scenes of ppier days. The one chief cause of this may be at the ideals of a poet's mind are so far yond what he can ever realize that he bound to meet with disappointment. nd the nearer perfect his ideals the er the disappontment.