44 THE PLAXT WORLD. 



In this section of Europe the althea and the jasmine and 

 oleander compete with the osage as hedo;es to the gardens, even 

 the Trappist monks g-racing their estates with althea hedges. 



In the canons of I'osnia, toward Rjeka. the wild parsnip and 

 the elder, together with a queer red seed-bearing herb, are almost 

 the sole flora, though inside the old fort at this place the meadow 

 land is filled with flowers, blue and yellow aufl white and purple. 

 In the gardens, among the vegetables, phlox and sweet william 

 thrive, and among the forests ferns are p-lentiful. Every home 

 has a little veranda outside its window, and there the Jew-ger- 

 anium and other ])lants grow, so that, on entering a peasant home 

 in this place, the housekeeper may present the guest with a little 

 bouquet of this and the ordinary red geranium, together with a 

 very sweet-smelling native herb. 



At Sarajevo, the capital of I^osnia, the Turkish seminaries have 

 the oleander thriving in their courts, although during Rhamasan 

 the Moslem may smell neither these nor any other flowers. On 

 the Austrian Juiii)eror's birthday each soldier wears in his cap 

 a little sprig of oak leaves. 



In the Elerzegovina, on the trail to Alostar, one sees the chicory 

 and the wild carrot still, but here, as in P"rance. the poppies thrive 

 in the millet fields, and at Hadjiei there are sun-flowers in the 

 gardens. Here, too, theie grows the sun-fern, tall almost as in 

 New Zealand, and actually so high that the browsing cattle in the 

 fields are hidden beneath its fronds. 



The giving of a little floral gift is (|uite the vogue in liosnia. 

 On the Ihma the old hermit gives the occasional visitor a white, 

 velvety herl), really used for heart troubles, Init presented b\- him 

 because of its beauty. At Ilidje the porters of the hotels present 

 favored Iad\- guests with bouquets. So it goes all over the coun- 

 try. There, again, artistic and practical are combined, for at 

 Mostar the city sand filters are placed in a park that banana palms 

 and kohlia, the coxcomb and other ])lants ma\' thrive over the 

 covered reservoirs, and at Ilidje the national fish hatchery likewise 

 is in a park with the dahlia and the sun-flower and the morning 

 glory grouped picturesquely together. 



In northernmost Turkex', be}-ond (lorazda, the fields run riot 



