THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 55 



be most careful in calling uixm the yarrow. It may lose you 

 a lover. It may make incantations go wrong. It may bring 

 on at least temporarily the very disease you dread. Only be 

 sin^e that vou have got the formula right that you use its magic 

 correcth" and the \arrow will gi\e the benefit you cra\e. And 

 for all this the herb is not very different from about a thous- 

 and other okl world and new world plants. For in all veg- 

 etation there is more or less occult utility and magic. 



Always consult what we may call the soul of the yarrow, 

 in arranging it decorati\el\- in a room, never put it with a flow- 

 er that has not the remotest tendency toward affinity with the 

 varrow, lesst the two abash and offend each other. Never 

 with lillies, camilias, orchids nor violets. Blossoming wands 

 of yarrow look well with heavy hanging man-made chrysanthe- 

 mums, with crimson and purple horticulturally doubled zinnias, 

 with the airy painted cosmos, with frilled and fluted dahlias 

 bred to gorgeous hues. 



But companion the yarrow with the i)lumes of golden-rod 

 and wild purple asters and the pink fringy Erigeron in a long 

 black pottery jar such as the llavasupais Indians make and 

 you have a poem in your room, an earth-sung poem. .\nd 

 this .should be in a simple wilderness home, with windows 

 opening out upon the unspoiled gardens of God. 



IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS OF PLANTS 



By John |. Birch 



'T^Hb' movements of plants are far more comi)le.\ and nu- 

 -'• merous than those of animals. Because of the complex- 

 ity and variability of movements, a general outline inclusive 



