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grow two to three feet high. Aquilegia vulgar is (Mun- 

 stead giant) is of garden origin, robust, growing three 

 feet high, and producing pure white flowers in abundance. 

 Armeria maritima, one of the sea pinks or thrifts, bears 

 attractive rose-colored flowers and broad foliage about a 

 foot high. 



Asperula odorata is the common woodruff of Northern 

 Europe. It grows six to twelve inches high in dense tufts 

 of slender stems with leaves mostly eight in a whorl, and has 

 flat clusters of small white 

 flowers in summer. When 

 wilted this plant has the odor 

 of new-mown hay. The Cam- 

 panulas or harebells are of 

 course well known for their 

 dainty beauty. They are all 

 summer-flowering, but per- 

 haps Campanula rotundifolia 

 blooms somewhat earlier than 

 some of the others. It is a 

 beautiful native species, with, 

 numerous deep-blue flowers. 

 It grows only six to twelve 

 inches high. To speak of the lily of the valley in praise, 

 or dwell on its charms, would be superfluous, for all the 

 world knows them. The dainty bloom pushes its white 

 bells from the sheathing leaves during the latter part of 

 May into June. 



And the no less dainty maiden's pink (Dianthus del- 

 toides) conies in early summer also. It is an humble 



LILY OF THE VALLEY. 



