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to four inches deep ; flowers bright golden-yellow, sometimes 

 two inches across; buy plants; blossoms in spring and on to 

 June. 



*2 Cypripedium spectabile: showy lady's slipper (a native 

 orchid); two feet high; flowers white and rose-purple; 

 buy plants; blossoms in June. 



3 Calopogon pulchellus: native orchid; twelve to eighteen 

 inches high; at edge of bog; flowers pink-purple, at ends 

 of leafless stems ; buy plants [ blossoms in June and July. 



4 Veratrum viride: Indian poke or native white hellebore; 

 two to five feet ; moist or wet black peat soil ; flowers small, 

 yellowish-green; foliage effect is its especial feature; buy 

 plants ; blossoms in July. 



5 Habeneriaciliaris: yellow fringed orchid; eighteen to twenty- 

 four inches high; spike of brilliant yellow flowers, borne 

 at the top; buy plants; blossoms in August. 



*6 Gentiana Andrewsii: closed or bottle gentian; eighteen 

 to twenty-four inches high ; rich, deep, stony soil, along the 

 banks of stream or pool; flowers bright blue, closed; buy 

 plants; blossoms in August or September. 



SHRUBS 



i Pyrus arbutifolia (or Sorbus arbutifolia): red chokeberry; 

 four feet high and up; damp thickets and swamps; flowers 

 white, tinged with red, in corymbs; red and ornamental 

 fruits follow; buy plants; blossoms in April and May. 



*2 Ledum latifolium: Labrador tea; two to three feet high; 

 swampy places, sandy and peaty soil, sun or part shade; 

 clusters of white flowers; evergreen the leaves are said 

 to have been used during the Revolutionary War for tea, 

 hence the name ; buy plants ; blossoms in May and June. 



