WHITE 



This honey is said to have been made from a rhododendron 

 which is still common in Asia Minor, and which is believed to 

 possess intoxicating and poisonous properties. 



Comparatively little attention had been paid to this superb 

 flower until the Centennial Celebration at Philadelphia, when 

 some fine exhibits attracted the admiration of thousands. The 

 shrub has been carefully cultivated in England, having been 

 brought to great perfection on some of the English estates. It is 

 yearly winning more notice in this country. 



The generic name is from the Greek for rose-tree. 



WOOD SORREL. 



Oxalis Acetosella. Geranium Family. 



Scape. — One-flowered; two to five inches high. Leaves. — Divided mto 

 three clover-like leaflets. Flozver. — White, veined with red ; solitary. Calyx. 

 — Of five sepals. Corolla. — Of five petals. Stamens. — Ten. Pistil. — One 

 with five styles. 



Surely nowhere can be found a daintier carpeting than that 

 made by the clover-like foliage of the wood sorrel, when studded 

 with its rose-veined blossoms, in the northern woods of June. 

 At the very name comes a vision of mossy nooks where the sun- 

 light only comes on sufferance, piercing its difficult path through 

 the tent-like foliage of the forest, resting only long enough to be- 

 come a golden memory. 



The early Italian painters availed themselves of its chaste 

 beauty. Mr. Ruskin says : '* Era Angelico's use of the Oxalis 

 Acetosella is as faithful in representation as touching in feeling. 

 The triple leaf of the plant and white flower stained purple prob- 

 ably gave it strange typical interest among the Christian 

 painters." 



Throughout Europe it bears the odd name of '' Hallelujah " 

 on account of its flowering between Easter and Whitsuntide, the 

 season when the Psalms sung in the churches resound with that 

 word. There has been an unfounded theory that this title sprang 

 from St. Patrick's endeavor to prove to his rude audience the 



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