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I cannot refrain from closing this brief mention of the 

 Rose with a quotation from a poem by Isabella Valancy 

 Crawford, the sweetest singer of songs Canada ever knew : 



" The rose was given to Man for this : 

 He, sudden seeing it in later years, 

 Should swift remember Love's first lingering kiss, 

 And Grief's last lingering tears. 



" Or, being blind, should feel its yearning soul 



Knit all its piercing perfume round his own, 

 Till he should see on Memory's ample scroll 

 All roses he had known." 



Rosa gymnocarpa, or Tiny Rose, has rather weak stems 

 with straight, slender, scattered spines on a prickly rachis, 

 and five to nine toothed leaflets. The pale pink flowers are 

 very tiny and sweet-smelling, and the fruit is oblong and 

 smooth. 



RED CLOVER 



Trifolium pratense. Pea Family 



Stems: ascending, somewhat hairy; pistules broadly lanceolate, mem- 

 branaceous, nerved, setaceously acuminate. Leaves: leaflets obcordate, 

 nearly entire. Flowers: heads ovate, dense, nearly sessile, bracteate; 

 teeth of the calyx setaceous, hairy, the lower one much longer than the 

 other four; petals purple-red, all united into a tube at the base. Not 

 indigenous. 



Thoreau speaks of the fields blushing with Red Clover 

 " as the western sky at evening." Every one knows the 

 Clover. Every one has walked ankle-deep in meadows rich 

 with its red flowers. Some of us are even fortunate enough 

 to " live in clover," but not all ! It is a quaint conceit of 

 the Red Clover to fold its leaves in sleep each night, the two 

 side leaflets drooping downwards together and the terminal 

 one bowed over them. 



