14 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



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Spring This is an insigniticant 



Everlasting. , . , 



, , white, cottony - stemmed 



piantaginifoUa. plant, wliich lacks beauty 

 altogether ; yet it is so common in the 

 meadows and pastures of the hill country 

 that one must know what it is on account 

 of its conspicuousness in early spring. 

 There are great patches of straggling 

 white seen in the meadows through April, 

 and one wonders, from the distance of a 

 car window in the swiftly passing train, 

 what the " white stuff " is — leastwise, I 

 have been asked such a question. But it 

 is only Antennaria, and scarcely merits 

 attention, unless one wishes to examine 

 its peculiar fuzziness through a little mi- 

 croscope. 



The so-called Calla Lilj (it 

 is not a lily, nor a true 

 calla either) is a beautiful, 

 white relative of Jack-in-the-Pulpit. But 

 it is not hardy and must be considered 

 more of a house plant. It comes from 

 Africa, and blooms in spring. The new 

 dwarf variety. Little Gem, is an abundant 

 bloomer. 



.Ethiopian Calla. 



Rlchardla Africana 



