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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



spect to all rtowers. Leave all you can in the 

 woods, so other skills and hoys can see them 

 when they come out next year! I'his particu- 

 larly ap])lies to the heautiful flowers of the 



L,aun 



iou have often seen carelcs 



TIIK TARRION FLOWER 



I'm. S. — As yull Ko along the edge r)f the wouds. yuu eaiinot 

 possibly mistake tins plant if yuu come across one. It 

 grows up much Ingher tlian your head, and has many tlower- 

 hunches on it like the one seen here. The top is also 

 shown. In the fall the hig herries are purple, and it has 

 a very had >inell. That is how it got its name. 



hiivs, some of whom did not even know the name of this very 

 heautiful flower, l)rc;ik olf whole hranches of its stems with the 

 hlossoms on, to throw tluni away lonjj before they got home 

 to make any use of them. When you first went out to the 

 marshes in the s])riny;, you may have seen the flower that lofiks 

 like a siT.all yelhjw lily ( I'ig. 3). Sometimes it sjrows all over 

 the damp or even muddv places to a height of six or seven 

 inches, or even less. I'he pale green leaves are often beau- 

 tifullv mottled with hrowii ; and wlu-n the seed-pods come, they 

 arc sha])ed like tlic one you see to the left in the picture. Maylie 

 \(iu will find one of these plants growing all hy itself iip on a li;iuk 

 h\' the stream; it is ihe Hogtooth X'iolet, and some people c;ill it 

 the bellow .\dder"s Tongue. il has a number of other names. 

 .\n\\\a\-. \'ou will know it liy taking a good k.iok ;it it here, remem- 

 lieriug i t s curiously 

 marked leaves, and its 

 |)retty yellow petals or 

 leaves of the flower it- 

 self. It IS not in any 

 wa\' a violet, and most 

 of \iiu will know bet- 

 ter tbaii that, surely. 



In sandy fields, on 

 dr\ rocks, and in the 

 pine woods, y o u will 

 meet with fine speci- 

 mens of the t'omnion 

 Cactus in some places. 

 The one here shown 

 (Fig. 4) was growing 

 on the rocks in the |)ine 



timber on top of thi' 



bi^h cliffs on the 



Maryland side of the 



Potomac River, at 



Cireat Falls. There 



is plenty of it .at 



Piney Point below. 



N e a r 1 y everybody 



knows what it is, and 



to this boys and girls 



are no exception. 



.Some plants you 



w ill have to h u n t 



pretty hard for be- 

 fore voii come across 



one. This is the case 



with the Grape Hya- 

 cinth CFig. 5). The 



roots look like onions 



is a good p 



WHAT LILY IS THIS? 



!■ ic. 10. — Sometimes this beautiful lily grows down 

 by the streams, hut more often yovi will see it in 

 hig bunches along the covintry road-sides; it is a 

 deep, yellowish red. Nearly everybody calls it the 

 Day Lily, because it blooms for one day only. See 

 what a lot of buds it has of more flowers coming. 



NEARLY ALL KNOW THIS 



Fig. 9, — There is hardly any use in telliitg you boys attd girls 

 what this beautiful flower is. It is of a lovely pink color, and 

 some may be almost white. It is the Pink Azalea of the hill- 

 sides in the woods. Sec what dark leaves it has. 



])ictm-e shows ihe whole plant, for the 

 and, bv the waw whenever you can. it 

 Ian to study the different kinds of roots of most 

 plants. 'S'ou will be surjirised when you pull some of them up. 



There is another wild flower that you certainly ought to know, 

 for it is very pretty and very abundant, es]iecially so this year. 

 Loosestrife it is called, and some people call it Crossvvort ( Fig. 6). 

 Some of you boys may know how this name of loosestrife came 

 to be aiiplied to this interesting little plant? 



\\\' next have a Mnwer thai likionis early in the spring. ;ind 



