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other flowers. The stems are about two feet high, 

 the leaves lance-shaped, and the soft round heads of 

 flower are pale green streaked with darker markings. 



If we have but a few pots on a window-ledge, 

 canary grass can be grown. About a dozen seeds 

 sown in good soil and kept watered and sheltered 

 from frost, will result in our seeing the pretty 

 flower heads in clue time. April or May would be 

 the best time to sow the seed either in a pot or 

 in the ground. 



Canary grass is said to have been cultivated in 

 this country in order to supply singing-birds with 

 food ever since the days of Queen Elizabeth. It 

 was introduced from Central Asia. It is largely 

 grown in Kent and in the Isle of Thanet. 



THE TRINITY FLOWER (Trillium erectuni) 



This plant rejoices in a variety of names. In 

 North America it is known as the wood-lily, three- 

 leaved nightshade, and Indian shamrock ; its Latin 

 name is Trillium, the number three seeming to be 

 the order of its being. It possesses three leaves, 

 three green bracts, which look very much like the 

 sepals of a calyx, and three perianth leaves, 

 differing from petals only in that those terms petal 

 and sepal are never used in describing plants of 

 the lily family. 



I watch for the flowering of my Trilliums each 

 spring with keen interest, not only for their own 

 exquisite beauty, but also on account of the halo 

 of poetic charm woven around this flower by Mrs. 

 Ewing in her sweet legend of The Trinity Floiver. 

 I will not attempt to quote from it, but would 



