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A WILD FLOWER GARDEN 



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are a mauve or pink and the lip and its spur are white. If a pencil 

 or other instrument be thrust into the mouth of the spur, where 

 the nectar is secreted, upon being withdrawn there will be found 

 adhering to it two pollen masses which in a few seconds will bend 



Figure 4. — Long-leaved Pink Phlox. (Natural size) 



horizontally in order that the masses will touch the stigma of the 

 next flower. 



The Jack-in-the-Pulpits we procured unintentionally. The 

 first ones were in some Hepaticas. The striped pulpit is so beauti- 

 ful with the various shades of brown on a green background. In 

 the fall the berries make the wild flower garden look more cheery 

 with their crimson hue. 



We have three of the native phloxes, the white phlox, the 

 common blue wood phlox, the long-leaved phlox found in wet 



