AN ARCADIAN CALENDAR 



a solitary bird gave an Irishman all his sport every 

 season for years. 



SEPTEMBER'S FLOWERS 



AMONG the surprising flowers which choose to bloom in 

 September is the dainty orchis, the autumnal 

 Lady's lady's tresses, a new arrival on the downs, 

 Tresses among the harebells, the eyeb rights, and 

 other remnants of Summer's flora. A 

 peculiarity of the plant is that its leaves do not appear 

 until the flowers begin to expand. In the evening, the 

 minute, white, waxy flowers, but a fraction of an inch 

 in diameter, are fragrant. The plant takes its name 

 from the way the flowers rise spirally up the stem (the 

 direction of the spiral varying in different specimens), 

 and suggest the flowing waves of plaited hair. 



WHERE there were anemones in April, giant teazels now 

 rear their flower-heads six feet high, and 

 The the moats formed by their splendid leaves 



Teazel's catch and drown the flies and caterpillars, 

 Trap that have ventured into the trap. The least 



showers, and dews in time of drought, 

 fill the cups which the leaves form as they clasp 

 the stem, and they have a fatal attraction for insects. 

 The teazel is as bold and defiant as the anemones 

 were lowly and humble, and bristles with spines which 

 defend the stems, and make a terrible array along the 

 midribs of the lance-shaped leaves, while the spiny 

 fine-pointed bracts curve gracefully upwards until they 

 overtop the flower-head they guard, with its curious 

 circular bands of lilac blossoms. This plant is Venus 's 

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