QUOTE : After vindictive winter, apple blossoms seem all the more heaven-sent.<br />Among flashing forsythia and budding rose, dogwood and daffodil,<br />The allure of magnolia, azalea and wisteria to lovers’ dreams are lent.<br />Resolve is recompense as seedtime’s blush dispenses with the chill,<br />How sweet-scented is New England now as winter tempests are through.<br />My darling girl, the divinest bloom in cherry blossom time just happens to be you.