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and sweet-scented rose* that grows about six inches 

 high ; the purple aster ; the Philadelphian Hly that -- 

 colours acre after acre in orange-red ; anemones of 

 many kinds ; purple £entstemqn — these are a few of - 

 the plants that flourish in the open. A low scrub 

 and bush grows here and there in patches ; and just 

 as here in our own New Forest we read the different 

 growths as a book because they show the nature 

 of the ground, so there one learns very quickly the 

 different kinds of scrub and what each can tell us 

 as we go to hunt. The low-bush cranberries! and - 

 tamarac warn us of peat bogs ; the wild strawberry 

 tells that the forest is near ; the silver berry bush t "- 

 is a sure find for prairie chicken ; the buffalo berry § 

 and the wild raspberry are beloved by the bear. 



Wherever there is a large tract of land lying at 

 a level the springs and drainage go to form a 

 shallow lake. Not far from Winnipeg there is 

 such a lake, some fifteen miles long, perhaps, by ten 

 miles across, and of this I have something to say. 



* R. hlanda. 



t Vaccinium oxycoccus and V. macrocarpon. • . • ■• 



J Elagnus argentea. 

 § Shepherdia argentea. 



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