ACCORDING TO SEASON 



Although it may be found during the first part 

 of July, to this month of June belongs, I think, 

 the most regal of our orchids, the showy lady's- 

 slipper. Its favorite home is a somewhat shaded 

 peat- bog. Here the great, leafy-stemmed plants, 

 with their lovely pink and white shell-like flowers, 

 seem to reach their fullest development. There 

 is something almost tropical in their lavish, luxuri- 

 ant beauty. Fortunately their chosen haunts are 

 usually somewhat inaccessible, so, despite the 

 great bunches which are exhibited for sale by 

 energetic farmers' boys at New England inns and 

 country houses, there is still reason to hope that 

 they will not be completely exterminated. 



One of the smallest and loveliest of the wood- 

 loving plants of June is the twin-flowers Linncea 

 borealis, the tiny 



— " monument of the man of flowers." 



Often as I stroll along the wood-path, my body 

 only under the trees, perhaps, my thoughts wander- 

 ing elsewhere, I am recalled to myself by a fresh, 

 penetrating odor, and I see the carpet of small, 

 rounded leaves and thread-like forking stems 

 which are hung with the pink-veined sister-blos- 

 soms. The twin-flower shares the faculty pos- 

 sessed by Moneses of choosing attractive surround- 

 ings. It likes to cover the mossy banks of shaded 



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