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Show DANDELIONS AND f I ICEBERGS POINT TO EARLY SPRING EOSTON, Jan. 4 Dande-lions Dande-lions and pansies were reported I in bloom today as markers of a, late and mild winter, simultaneously simultan-eously with word iceberg3 had appeared on the trans-Atlantic steamer lanes as harbingers of an early spring. With the mercury at the temperate tem-perate stage, a pansy in full bloom was plucked from a gar-1: ; den in Natcik that had been un-! der a light snow several days ' ago. In Hingham dandelions i were found Mayflowers have j jbeen reported from several I places. The iceberg indication hjof approaching spring has been fairly dependable, old salts say. |