WILD FLOWERS PINK 



one pistil. The spurred end of the flower is deep 

 pink in colour, fading nearly to white toward the 

 yellow-tipped end. The lovely plant, with its delicate 

 shadings of pink, pale green, and yellow is especially 

 pleasing. After the flowers perish, the seed pods 

 become prominent, and when matured, they meas- 

 ure an inch or two in length. They are slender, 

 flattened, and erect. 



HARDHACK. STEEPLE BUSH 



Spiraea tomentosa. Rose Family. 



This lovely rose-coloured perennial is similar to the 

 Meadow Sweet, and often found near it, but the Hard- 

 hack has smaller flowers arranged in slender, long- 

 pointed, floral steeples, and woolly stalks of a peculiar 

 light brown colour. The under surface of the pointed 

 oval, dark green leaves is also very woolly, and varies 

 from a whitish to the same brownish colour of the 

 stalk. The latter is erect, very leafy, usually 

 unbranched, and grows two or three feet high. The 

 leaf has a strong midrib, and an unequally toothed 

 margin. The leaves have short stems that curve 

 smartly upward as they join the stalk, and which give 

 a nifty set to the foliage and charming perkiness 

 to the handsome plant. The pretty little flowers and 

 their tiny stamens are deep rosy-pink in colour, and 

 are densely arranged in rather stiff terminal spikes. 

 They blossom from the apex downward, and before 

 the lower ones begin to open, the forerunners have 

 faded to a light brown. The Hardback blooms from 



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