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THE GUIDE T< ) N T ATURE 



LILIES PHOTOGRAPHED ON A MAHOGANY TABLE. 



very small flowers are brought up to 

 fair size. Rounds of glass with holes 

 for the stems used for a few flowers 

 and leaves give the effect of growing 

 plants. Clear glass finger bowls or 

 vases partly filled with water give 

 stems and pleasing lights. 



Sometimes an open book with a 

 poem, such as Whittier's "The May- 

 flowers," makes a good background 

 with arbutus. He wrote also "The 

 Trailing Arbutus." 



Water lilies laid on a mahogany 

 table give a perfect mirror effect. The 

 reproduction from a photograph in 

 The Guide to Nature for May, 1908, 

 page 61, was arranged in that way. 



Sometimes in the woods or fields 

 roots of hepatica and also of other 

 kinds of wild flowers can be lifted and 

 placed at the foot of a white birch or 

 any tree with fine bark, and so ar- 

 ranged as if growing there, making a 

 very pleasing background. 



There is no purer pleasure than the 

 visiting of the haunts of these dainty 

 wild flowers — such a delight to find 

 them, and a double delight to those 

 who use a camera successfully. 



Indian Pipe (Monotropa Uniflora). 



BY GEORGE 0. STODDARD, NEWTONVILLE., 



MASS. 



Fleeing from the burning heat of 

 flower-decked fields on a midsummer's 

 day we seek the cool depths of the pine 

 woods. Here we expect to find no glo- 

 rious tinted blossoms, for we associ- 



ate them with the bright sunshine, but 

 to our overheated orbs the purity of 

 the Indian pipe is as refreshing as the 

 welcome draught from the bubbling 

 spring is to our parched throats. 



This delicate white, practically leaf- 

 less plant, when new born hangs its 

 drooping head, like a shy maiden, but 

 as maturity approaches the bowed 

 head is uplifted and the seed is ripened. 



The plant is parasitic, deriving its 



A (,ooi) STUDY OF INDIAN PiPE. 



