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wild geraniums of our hedges, especially with herb 

 Eobert,* whose rose-red blossoms peep out so pret- 



FLAX-SEED. (Radiola millegramna.') 



tily, and whose leaves and stems are all tinged 

 with red; and are nearly as ornamental as the 

 flowers ; she also remembered the handsome purple 

 meadow crane's-bill, the largest of all the wild gera- 

 niums ; Bobert asked why mamma called all 

 these plants crane's-bills, and he was told that 

 they are so called from the shape of the seed- 



* Geranium Robert? anum. 



