A Good Imagination Gone Wrong Spring had come once more to Green Gables -- the beautiful capricious , reluctant Canadian spring , lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet , fresh , chilly days , with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth . The maples in Lover 's Lane were red budded and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad 's Bubble . Away up in the barrens , behind Mr. Silas Sloane 's place , the Mayflowers blossomed out , pink and white stars of sweetness under their brown leaves . All the school girls and boys had one golden afternoon gathering them , coming home in the clear , echoing twilight with arms and baskets full of flowery spoil . `` I 'm so sorry for people who live in lands where there are no Mayflowers , '' said Anne . `` Diana says perhaps they have something better , but there could n't be anything better than Mayflowers , could there , Marilla ? And Diana says if they do n't know what they are like they do n't miss them . But I think that is the saddest thing of all . I think it would be TRAGIC , Marilla , not to know what Mayflowers are like and NOT to miss them . Do you know what I think Mayflowers are , Marilla ? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer and this is their heaven . But we had a splendid time today , Marilla . We had our lunch down in a big mossy hollow by an old well -- such a ROMANTIC spot . Charlie Sloane dared Arty Gillis to jump over it , and Arty did because he would n't take a dare . Nobody would in school . It is very FASHIONABLE to dare . Mr. Phillips gave all the Mayflowers he found to Prissy Andrews and I heard him to say ` sweets to the sweet . ' He got that out of a book , I know ; but it shows he has some imagination . I was offered some Mayflowers too , but I rejected them with scorn . I ca n't tell you the person 's name because I have vowed never to let it cross my lips .
We made wreaths XXXXX the Mayflowers and put them on our hats ; and when the time came to go home we marched in procession down the road , two by two , with our bouquets and wreaths , singing ` My Home on the Hill . '
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