STURDY SURVIVORS 



opens her petals to the Hght, but pink is an un- 

 stable color in flower tissues, and soon fades. 

 Sweet Clover blossoms are fragrant, heavy with 

 nectar and loved of the bees. 



Two beauties, the Great Blue Lobelia and the 

 Tall Blue Vervain, are found in low, moist places 

 until driven away by the very touch of winter. 

 Turtle-Head lingers by the little streams and 

 looks at itself in the water until its mirror is 

 clouded by fallen leaves. Polygonums in variety 

 from Persicaria to Pennsylvaniciim stand erect 

 and sturdy, just a little pinker than in mid- 

 summer, because each tiny calyx now protects 

 and enfolds a shining seed. 



Evening Primrose, a tall leafy weed with two 

 or three yellowish buds, two or three faded 

 yellow flowers, and an array of long, brown seed- 

 pods adorning its upright stem, crowds along 

 the highways and fills the neglected fields. 

 Now and then one finds a lusty Primrose with 

 blossoms so wide open, so delicate and fragrant, 

 with leaf and stem so lacking their usual rank- 

 ness that one wonders what wrought the change. 



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