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Arrowhead, Pickerel Weed, Cardinal Flower, then 

 it were best to leave them where they grow." 



"Let us go home the back way by that deserted 

 house we saw the other day, opposite the mill, where 

 we took luncheon," said Flower Hat. "I want to 

 keep a sketch and thought of that just as the old 

 people left it, before it grows blind and deaf, win- 

 dowless, doorless and weird, like the Lilac House. 

 I wonder if there is anything newer to escape from 

 that poor little garden than the other flowers we 

 have found hereabouts!" 



"Here are two plants, in addition to Phlox and 

 Bachelor's Buttons, which, unless I am much mis- 

 taken, will soon be travelling down the roadway 

 and be carried by the river to the fertile fields be- 

 low," I said a little later, as we unhasped the gate 

 and looked at the little array of flowers kept in a 

 tangled line by a row of flat river stones set upright 

 at each side of a path, made also of flat stones. 



"This prickly Mexican Poppy, with its white - 

 striped leaves, has already sown itself below the 

 road bank on the river -side. I noticed it the last 

 time we were here. Then here is yellow Candy- 

 tuft, whose seed has caught far up on that rock 

 ledge yonder, and here is another Orpine, which is 



