FLOWERS OF THE SUN 235 



With the exception of the orange Butterfly 

 Weed, the Milkweed family use a different color 

 scheme, varying from the white of the Wood Milk- 

 weed through pink to dull purple. 



Here by the cart-track the most conspicuous 

 was the Common Milkweed, of the silk -filled pod, 

 robust habit, and great, almost globe-shaped clusters 

 of flowers of a color difficult to describe, so strangely 

 does pink blend with a dull gray tint. In early 

 morning or toward night this flower exhales a 

 penetrating fragrance, so that in passing along a 

 roadway edged by swamps I have been deceived 

 by it into looking for the Clammy White Azalea. 

 Next in color comes the Swamp Milkweed of low 

 grounds and waterways, which is a decided pink; 

 and deeper yet are the less luxuriant blossoms of 

 the Purple Milkweed, with deep pink flowers dull- 

 ing to carmine -purple, and leaves more sharply 

 pointed than the Silkweed near which it grew 

 along the cart-track and climbed the hillside. 



"Shade, rest, and luncheon! This is indeed 

 Adagio for mind and body," murmured Flower Hat 

 drowsily over a closed book an hour later. Her 

 enjoyment of outdoors was as yet more physical 

 than mental. She was soothed rather than stimu- 



