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meadows and on higher land. The pink phlox is by far the most 

 beautiful. The leaves are long and slender. The flowers are a 

 delicate pink, with darker markings at the mouth of the corolla. 



Our shooting stars are very prosperous. If I remember rightly 

 last year on one of the plants there were about two dozen blooms; 

 the flowers can be found in any shade from pure white to deep pink, 

 light pink being most common. 



Our blue flag thrives exceedingly well. 

 It was an iris which Louis VII made the 

 national emblem of France, calling it 

 the Flower of Louis or Fleur-de-lis. 



The red and yellow columbine is much 

 to be admired. The ancients thought 

 that the nectaries looked like a group of 

 pigeons around a dish — a favorite device 

 of ancient artists. 



Our much prized yellow lady's slipper 

 has had an eventfiil life since coming to 

 us. I found it in full bloom a nimiber of 

 years ago, but in getting it home the 

 flower stem was broken. We planted 

 it in otir first wild flower garden and 

 but no flowers appeared. 



Figure 5. — Large, yellow 

 Lady's Slipper, 



while there it grew 

 When we moved the bed we decided to 

 take it also although it had ceased to be an object of beauty to 

 us. One morning to our great surprise and unspeakable delight 

 a bud was discovered and soon opened to a beautiful golden slip- 

 per. The next year instead of the flower a second shoot appeared. 

 The following spring came the terrible April freeze and we dis- 

 covered some time after to our sorrow a frozen bud on each shoot. 

 The next year we were disappointed, but last year the older plant 

 yielded for us a beautiful flower and for the first time it produced 

 seed. This year if Jack Frost tries to cut up any pranks with our 

 wild flower garden, we have a covering ready to shut him out. 



The ferny but rough bed-straw grows up after the early flowers 

 have gone. It makes, an excellent green for small bouquets. Its 

 tiny white flowers resemble a square. This plant should be in- 

 cluded in all gardens. The Adam-and-Eve, an orchid, blossoms 

 with the lady's slipper. The flower is inconspicuous. It gets its 

 name from the corms of which there are always two, Adam and 

 Eve, and sometimes more, the children and grandchildren. Peo- 



