The Rescue of an Old Place 



because they love their beauty and fra- 

 grance. 



The common As to the nomenclature there is this to 

 *flnoersf be said : In older countries the people and 

 the flowers lived together long before the 

 botanist appeared, while here the bota- 

 nists came with the early settlers to an 

 unexplored field, found the new flowers, 

 and named them before the people had 

 become familiarly acquainted with them. 

 The State flower of California was intro- 

 duced to the children of that common- 

 wealth as the Eschscholtzia before they 

 could spell it, but this does not prove 

 any lack of love or admiration for it on 

 their part. They have a pet name for the 

 flower, too ; and in all the older settled 

 parts of the country, wherever a plant or 

 flower is so abundant, or useful, or obtru- 

 sive that there is need to speak of it, a 

 name is found at once. The children of 

 New England call the wild Columbine 

 Meeting-houses, from their shape, no 

 doubt, and with them Viola pedata is the 

 Horse Violet, perhaps from its long face. 

 The Houstonia, which is Bluets in some 

 places, is Innocence in others. In north- 

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