THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



white flowers, in midsummer with blue 

 berries, while in autumn the foliage turns a 

 deep red with tints of bronze, and all through 

 the winter the branches of the bushes are 

 tipped with varying shades of red. 



In woodlands, particularly where the big 

 timber has been cut, will be found wonderful 

 growths of laurel. From the foot of some 

 great ledge of rock a little spring flows forth, 

 sending its tiny trickle down to the bog or 

 brook. Some of these bogs are composed of 

 floating tussocks where grows the swamp 

 maple, the earliest tree to attire itself in 

 autumn coloring. Upon the low meadows are 

 found in luxuriance the flowers of late sum- 

 mer and autumn, the Joe Pye weed and 

 other eupatoriums, starwort and goldenrod. 

 Along the ledges of rock, where there is shade, 

 grow luxuriantly ma'ny mosses and the winter 

 evergreen fern; there, too, can be found the 

 more beautiful lycopodium with its curious 

 tufted stems, and in sunny places in the 

 narrow crevices of the rocks the tiniest 



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