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are bright yellow ; the three lower ones have brown 

 veins and the lateral ones are bearded. Viola odorata 

 (the sweet violet) has very fragrant purple flowers. It 

 may be transplanted easily in the spring, and it is often 

 set in flowerpots when the blooms are about to open. It 

 may be taken up with a clump of earth without injury 

 to the flowers at any time during the summer. 



Native violets may be transplanted into almost any 

 kind of soil, from swamps to the driest hilltops, but each 

 plant must have its own needs supplied. Any of them 

 may be made to bloom the first season, but success in 

 establishing and keeping them growing from year to 

 year depends entirely upon giving each, in its new 

 quarters, the conditions under which it lives when 

 selecting its own location. 



