44 COLIK CLOUT'S CALENDAR. 



ous flowers ; and those few generally produce their blos- 

 soms late in the season, after the leaves have had plenty 

 of time to make preparations for feeding them. Even 

 these rare exceptions are very deceptive and papery 

 flowers, like the poppies or the hand-to-mouth convolvu- 

 luses, which manage to make a great deal of show at 

 very little real expense. They spend all they have on a 

 little gaudy color, thinly spread over an extremely large 

 flat surface. 



