MARCH AND APRIL. 



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crimson is a blue-red, and this color will not apply in 

 any respect to blood-root. If a bit of the stem of a 

 leaf is squeezed, it will 

 exude an orange-col- 

 ored juice, which stains 

 everything it comes in 

 contact with. The 



blood-root leaf grows 

 circling about the ris- 

 ing flower stem, and 

 does not attain its full 

 size of about five inches 

 across until the flower 

 is quite gone. Alas ! 

 it goes quickly enough. 

 This is the reason why 

 some of our most beau- 

 tiful wild flowers are 

 not cultivated by the 

 florists ; it does not pay 

 to spend much time 

 over such ephemeral 

 lives. The blood-root 

 is like a butterfly; it 

 comes and goes in a day, like the poppy, to which 

 it is related. The blossom is as lovely and white 

 as a lily, and has a golden center. 



Blood-root. 



