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boles, flecking the hill-sides, dotting the slopes 

 the chaste, pure triangles of the white wood-lily 

 (Trillium grandiflorum). Individual among 

 flowers, the Trillium is scentless lovely enough 

 without perfume. To enjoy its full beauty, you 

 should come suddenly upon it in its wild-wood 

 home, or naturalize it with the bloodroot by the 

 hundreds, under trees or in shady spots in the 

 garden. It will hardly bear the shortest journey 

 after cutting. If you would have it in the 

 house, you should grow it in large potfuls, 

 treating it like the narcissus. The English pro- 

 nounce it one of the most beautiful of hardy 

 plants, and I exchange it every year, with 

 friends in Cheshire and Kent, for Horsfieldt 

 daffodils. The purple variety (T. erectum) often 

 keeps it company. It is a jaunty flower at 

 home, but somehow appears out of place under 

 cultivation. T. erythrocarpum is a very pretty 

 species, fluttering a small white corolla with a 

 lively carmine eye. I found it swarming in the 

 Adirondacks with the large white and purple 

 varieties. 



In " Les Fleurs de Pleine Terre," which I 

 opened by accident on page 1151, it is amusing 

 to read, under " Trillium grandiflorum" "The 

 Trilliums are curious rather than pretty plants, 

 and rather delicate, perhaps." To have the 



