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and pink-white flowers, which is found in similar 

 situations. 



Scarlet Prof. Meehan calls the scarlet rose- 



Eose-Mallow. mallow " probably the most gorgeous 



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01 all the plants indigenous to the 

 United States," and I think he is quite right. A 

 glorious red-scarlet flower it certainly is, and scarlet 

 wild flowers are extreme- 

 ly rare — in fact, it would 

 be difiicult for me to 

 think of more than this 

 one. The cardinal flower 

 is not scarlet, but intense 

 red. This scarlet mallow 

 grows in deep marshes 

 near the coast from 

 Carolina southward. It 

 has been cultivated and 

 grows well in the North, 

 if it is placed in the 

 greenhouse during the 

 cold months. The flow- 

 er has five large petals, 

 and measures six or eight 

 inches across. II. Ilosche^itos (Swamp Kose-Mallow) 

 is a similar flower with pale-pink petals, which grows 

 in the North. Both bloom in late summer. II. 



Scarlet Rose-Mallow. 



