ALONG THE WATERWAYS 



which, during the past few years, have held out 

 their hands to aid and instruct the novice, which 

 one has mentioned it ? 



Yet, for all this, it is not a land- 

 scape flower that may be overlooked, 

 even though the value is more in the 

 leaf than in the bloom. From Spring 

 to Midsummer its foliage wears succes- 

 sively three shades of green, ranging 

 from sap through clear emerald to verd 

 antique. Its blossoming time runs all 

 through July and August, and even 

 before its flowers drop away a mel- 

 low tint overspreads the foli- 

 age, yellow, pink and deep 

 maroon all flicker and come and 

 go among the bending withes, 

 until, as summer passes, the 

 pond -edges are wreathed in the 

 same colors of flame that Sam- 

 phire spreads over the salt 

 marshes, Low Bush Blackberries 

 bring to the rocky pastures, Sumacs to the hill- 

 sides, and Virginia Creeper, festooning over old 

 walls, trails by the wayside. 



The sun was very bright upon the water, and 



