Early August 



in such abundance elsewhere, and cannot 

 but hope that the meadow will guard its 

 secret, lest some wholesale despoiler should 

 contrive to rob it permanently of its 

 greatest beauty. Certain orchids which 

 were abundant formerly in parts of Eng- 

 land can no longer be found in that 

 country, owing to the reckless fashion in 

 which the plants, for various purposes, 

 were uprooted and carried off. It is well, 

 too, to remember that plucking all of its 

 flowers is equivalent to uprooting the plant 

 in the case of annuals and biennials, as 

 the future life of the species depends upon 

 the seeds which the flowers set. 



In clefts of the rocks which skirt the in- 

 let the bright scarlet petals of the pimper- 

 nel, the "poor man's weather-glass" of 

 the English, open in the sunlight and 

 close at the approach of a storm. The 

 sandy bog beyond is yellow with the 

 fragrant helmet-like flowers of the horned 

 bladderwort. 



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