Violets Wasting Tlieir Sweetness on the Desert Air 



Violets? Acres and acres of them 

 going to seed in the California 

 autumn. There are sweet vio- 

 lets, marsh violets, hairy violets, 

 dog violets and mountain violets 

 all growing in the same field, 

 which is at Coma, California 



Milady can visit the fields at any 

 time she wishes and pick her own 

 flowers. Violets are prodigious 

 seed-yielders in the autumn, 

 while the more conspicuous 

 spring flowers with which we are 

 familiar yield little or no seed 



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