42 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



ers are in their prime about the latter end of May 

 in the North. The little spike of translucent, red- 

 dish berries is seen in the latter end of summer. 



Clintonia horealis is a pretty little 



Clintoiiia horealis. 



pale straw-yellow lily whose only 

 fault, it seems to me, lies in its weak and uncertain 

 coloring. Sometimes the half -matured flowers look 

 decidedly green, again the full flower appears a deep 

 cream-color. If the horticulturists could only force 

 it into a good white and increase its size, there might 

 be a future before our dainty Clintoiiia. The flower 

 was named for the Governor of New York, for what 

 reason nobody knows. Its green leaf is smooth and 

 shiny, and about the same in shape, color, and char- 

 acter as that of the lily-of-the-valley. Perlia]:)s the 

 color of the mature flower might more exactly be 

 called a pale, dull Naples yellow. The flower is in 

 bloom about the end of May nortliward, and can be 

 found in moist rich woods. The berries are seen in 

 late August ; they are a beautiful Antwerp-blue color. 



Jack-in-the-pnlpit is a happv-lookinor 

 Jack-in-the-Pulpit, , ^ ^ ^ ' • '^ 



or Indian Turnip, flower — if a flower can be said to look 

 Ariscema happy — and its striped suit reminds 



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one of the conventional, funny circus 

 clown. It is too bad to make such a comparison ; 

 but I must let it stand, because there are few other 

 flowers (at least wild flowers) which are so suggest- 



