OUR COUNTRY HOME 



By the middle of May the yellow lady's-slipper is nodding by 

 the woodsy path and lighting up the little hollow where later on 

 the mandrakes hide under their green umbrella leaves. The 

 slunvv orchid in great clumps soon follows her taller sister, and a 

 week later the brilliant yellow lithospermum hirtum appears on 



THE SPIKED LOOSKSTKIKK 



the water's brink. The squaw-root in curious club-like spikes 

 thickly set with tight white flowers, grows in clumps all through 

 the woods, and the wild sarsaparilla is in blossom, for it is not 

 yet June. 



The wild strawberry, the yellow wood sorrel, Robin's plantain, 



and the black-eyed Susan first blossom early in June, but this 



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