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larger and richer, while their cousins, the dainty 

 white, and the branching yellow violets, appear in 

 the cool, damp woods. These wild violets are scent- 

 less, except for the spicy " woods odor" that seems to 

 hang about all wild flowers. 



A much humbler flower than the violet greets us 

 on the roadsides — the bright yellow cinquefoil, its 

 vine, leaves, and blossom bearing resemblance to the 

 strawberry, so that country people call them " yel- 

 low-flowered strawberries." Common as the cinque- 

 foil is, it belongs to a noble, even royal famil}^ among 

 flowers — the rose; it is "a poor cousin " of the garden's 

 queen. 



