90 IRambles witb Mature Stufcents 



The illustration is drawn from Trillium erectuin, 

 which is called in America beth-root, Indian balm, 

 and lamb's quarters. It has green bracts striped 

 with purple and reddish-purple perianth leaves. 

 From its root a medicine is prepared which is 

 valued for its curative properties. 



This wood-lily is perfectly hardy, only requiring 

 a light soil and a shady damp situation. It comes 

 up year after year, appearing in April and flowering 

 early in May. 



FLOWERING TREES 



In this month so many different trees produce 

 their flowers or catkins that we must be on the 

 alert to study them before they fall to the ground 

 or are blown away by the wind. 



Nature keeps us breathless in the attempt to over- 

 take her marvellous energy. Every day something 

 fresh appears ; wild flowers are springing up, buds 

 are opening, even early horse-chestnuts are to be 

 met with in full leaf, and growth is so rapid under 

 the increasing warmth of the sun that sprays of 

 opening buds which we may be wishing to paint 

 are expanded into leaves before we have time to 

 record their beauty in an early stage. Amongst 

 other trees we must not fail to notice the hanging 

 sprays of larch with their yellow stamen-bearing 

 flowers, the pollen from which falling upon the 

 delicate crimson blossoms on the same spray will 

 enable them to become the cones of next autumn, 

 the wind being the agent in this process. 



Many years ago, before the cultivation of the larch 

 was understood, two seedling plants were sent to the 



