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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



spect to all flowers. Leave all you can in the 

 woods, so other girls and ])ovs can see them 

 when they come out next year! This particu- 

 larly api)lies to the beautiful flowers of the 

 Laurel (Fig. 2) ; you have often seen careless 



THE. CARRION FLOWER 



Fig. 8. As you go along the edge of the woods, ytju cannot 

 possibly mistake this plant if you come across one. It 

 grows up much higher than your head, and has many flower- 

 hunches on it like the one seen here. The top is also 

 shown. In the fall the big berries are purple, and it has 

 a very bad smell. That is how it got its name. 



NEARLY AU, KNOW THIS 



Fig. 9. There is hardly any use in telling you boys and girls 

 what this beautiful flower is. It is of a lovely pink color, and 

 some may be almost white, it is the Pink Azalea of the hill- 

 sides ID the woods. See what dark leaves it has. 



boys, some of whom did not even know the name of this very 

 beautiful flower, break off whole branches of its stems with the 

 blossoms on, to throw them away long before they got home 

 to make any use of them. When you first went out to the 

 marshes in the spring, you may have seen the flower that looks 

 like a sn-.all yellow lily (Fig. 3). Sometimes it grows all over 

 the damp or even muddy places to a height of six or seven 

 inches, or even less. The pale green leaves are often beau- 

 tifully mottled with brown ; and when the seed-pods come, they 

 are shaped like the one you see to the left in the picture. Maybe 

 you will find one of these plants growing all by itself up on a bank 

 by the stream ; it is the Dogtooth Violet, and some people call it 

 the Yellow .Adder's Tongue. It has a number of other names. 

 .\nyway, you will know it by taking a good look at it here, remem- 

 bering i t s curiously 

 marked leaves, and its 

 pretty yellow petals or 

 leaves of the flower it- 

 self. It IS not in any 

 way a violet, and most 

 of you will know bet- 

 ter than that, surely. 



In sandy fields, on 

 dry rocks, and in the 

 l)ine woods, you will 

 meet with fine speci- 

 mens of the Common 

 Cactus in some ])laces. 

 The one here shown 

 (Fig. 4) was growing 

 on the rocks in the ])ine 



timber on top of the 



bifjh cliffs on the 



Maryland side of the 



Potomac River, at 



Great Falls. There 



is plenty of it at 



Piney Point below. 



Nearly everybody 



knows what it is, and 



to this boys and girls 



are no exception. 

 Some plants yon 



will have to hunt 



pretty hard for be- 

 fore you come across 



one. This is the case 



with the Grape Hya- 

 cinth (Fig. 5). The ])icture shows the whole plant, for the 



roots look like onions; and, by the way, whenever you can. it 



is a good plan to study the different kinds of roots of most 



plants. You will be surprised when you pull some of them up. 

 There is another wild flower that you certainly ought to know, 



for it is very pretty and very abundant, especially so this year. 



Loosestrife it is called, and some people call it Crosswort (Fig. 6). 



Some of you boys may know how this name of loosestrife came 



to be applied to this interesting little plant? 



We next have a flower that blooms early in the spring, and 



WHAT LILY IS THIS? 



Hi(i. 10. Sometimes this beautiful lily grows down 

 by the streams, but more often you will see it in 

 big bunches along the country road-sides; it is a 

 deep, yellowish red. Nearly everybody calls it the 

 Day Lily, because it blooms for one day only. See 

 what a lot of buds it has of more flowers coming. 



