Meadow and Mountain 



THE WILD SILVER SAGE 



The lance-shaped leaves are dark-green. This five-petaled 

 flower announces that spring has come again and that it is 

 safe for the bluebird to spill his welcome warble on the wind. 



The wild-sage is a conspicuous product of the prairies. 

 More and more, as autumn comes, this plant looks as if 

 it had been sprinkled with dust of silver. Its frosty features 

 are prominent in the midst of the brown bunch-grass, and you 

 will see it rods before you reach it. Only dull eyes would 

 not be charmed by this beautiful silver-gray among the 

 grasses. Tea brewed from this sage is as bitter as the leaves 

 are beautiful. Though, if you chew the leaves a little, and 

 then free your lips of them, a pleasant sweet will be the last 

 taste they will leave on your tongue. The seed-pods of this 

 sage are as pungent as those of the old-fashioned garden sage. 



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