Flowers and Gardens 



flowering it is bespotted here and there 

 with little scarlet lady-birds, whose bright 

 tints add most conspicuously to the beauty 

 of the plant, and seem absolutely to belong 

 to it. I do not know what they are doing 

 there, probably in search of insects or 

 of other food, but they furnish in their 

 scarlet and black the very colour that is 

 needed to set off the green by contrast. 

 The plant is almost incomplete without 

 them. I wonder if they are attached to 

 it in its native country. 



