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pitcher plants and a couple of interrupted ferns were received 

 from Maine. The pitcher plants are kept wet enough by a flower 

 pot kept with water sunk between them. The Western wood lily 

 and wild hyacinth have been started. The Green orchis 

 (Habenaria hracteate) and one of the rattlesnake plantain are two 

 most important additions. 



A large bed of both the large and small-flowered yellow lady's 

 slippers has been very attractive. I have been able to raise the 

 pasque flower {Anemone patens var. Woflgangiana), although it is 

 a plant which greatly resists cultivation. 



A wild flower garden is one of the most important possessions 

 of any Nature-lover. 



Ichabod, Foundling 



S. Louise Patteson 



He was the nursling of a Towhee pair, the only one of a brood 

 of three that survived the pinfeather age. 



Seated one Jtdy morning on the leaf -strewn ground beside his 

 nest, he was the picture of wanderlust. But where were the 

 parents? An hour elapsed, and neither returning, I took him 

 to be deserted or forgotten, and carried him home with me. For 

 he seemed too callow a youngster to brave the world alone. 



A low Buckeye sapling satisfied his idea of a perch, and his 

 periodic demands for food were appeased with berries, flies, ant 

 larvae and grasshoppers. Whenever he had enough he sullenly 

 closed his bill. 



As his call notes grew louder he attracted other birds, notably 

 Kingbirds who are known to go to the help of smaller birds in 

 trouble. At every such attention his little black eyes sparkled 

 with pride, and immediately he tried his wings to ascend. But 

 having as yet made only lateral flights, every upward attempt 

 ended in a flop to the ground. 



When a Kingbird perched in the top of the Buckeye sapling, 

 my portege by easy stages succeeded in getting to him. But 

 presently the Kingbird left him there alone and at the next feeding 

 time he looked down so dejectedly, I held a long handled rake up 

 in front of him on which he perched in all guilelessness and was 

 brought down. Moreover, I had ransacked my brain for a name 



