I3O SOME HUMBLE ORCHIDS 



does the Magician, Heart of Nature, renew his 

 sway, bind together, replant, covering bare rocks 

 with cheerful Polypodies and softening decrepitude 

 and age with a drapery of vines, before he finally 

 yields his kingdom, reluctantly, to Heart of Man. 



The great Hemlocks from which this wood took 

 name had vanished, some by the axe, others blown 

 over, lifting the soil with their roots so that de- 

 pressions, sometimes three feet deep and fifteen 

 feet across, remained to be filled in time with pure 

 leaf-mold. These tree bowls, whether they are 

 found in evergreen or other woods, are always sure 

 to be gardens of odd plants, and two years before, 

 soon after the brush had been burned, I had seen 

 groups of the pairs of strongly -ribbed green le-aves 

 that promised a wealth of pink Moccasin Flowers 

 later on. 



In giving English, or, as the saying is, popular 

 names to plants, it is well to have if possible a 

 fixed code, free from localisms and based upon pri- 

 ority and reason, as in the case of Latin names. 

 Such a code is established by Britton and Brown in 

 their "Illustrated Flora of the Northern United 

 States," and by L. H. Bailey, in the "Cyclopedia of 

 American Horticulture," etc., in adding the most 

 tangible English name to every plant possessing one, 



