Early August 



rot is one of the most beautiful of our 

 naturalized plants. There is a delicacy 

 and symmetry in the feathery clusters sug- 

 gestive of cobwebs, of magnified snow- 

 flakes, of the finest of laces (one of its 

 common names is Queen Anne's lace), of 

 the daintiest creations in the worlds of 

 both art and nature. 



Perhaps the most omnipresent flower just 

 now is the yarrow. Its finely dissected 

 leaves and close white clusters border every 

 roadside. Indeed, when passing through 

 New York a short time ago it showed its 

 familiar face in a Fifth Avenue door-yard. 

 Despite what seems to me an obvious un- 

 likeness, it is confused frequently with the 

 wild carrot. Five minutes' study of the two 

 plants with a common magnifying glass will 

 fix firmly in the mind the difference be- 

 tween them. It requires little botanical 

 knowledge to recognize at once that the 

 wild carrot is a member of the umbellifer- 

 ous Parsley family. But the small heads 

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