GLACIER PARK WILD FLOWERS 95 



dential Range In the White Mountains. And it is 

 worth a trip across the continent to see. 



To lift a wild flower out of its setting is sometimes 

 a foolish thing. But yet the more American flowers we 

 can adapt, and as far as possible adapt some of their 

 natural setting with them, into our gardens, the sooner 

 we shall have a garden style of our own. Many of 

 these Rocky Mountain wild flowers can now be secured 

 from western nurseries. They are all perfectly hardy 

 so far as cold is concerned. Heat, rather, would be their 

 danger. Among the best now being exported to the 

 East are the false dandelion (possibly a dangerous experi- 

 ment); the gay arnica for shady places; the white mari- 

 posa lily; the calypso borealis (a western lady's slipper); 

 delphinium bicolor, or blue-veined larkspur, a low plant 

 for high, dry places; the gay shooting star; the gaillardia 

 aristata, or brown-eyed Susan of the prairies and lower 

 hills, possibly too much like our common garden variety 

 to bother with; northern bedstraw, which bears small 

 white clusters of bloom; and blue pentstemon, which is 

 certainly worth experiment. A bed of it, sown to grow 

 up through a ground cover of sweet alyssum, would be 

 extremely lovely. The eastern varieties, called beard 

 tongue, so far as I have ever observed are not thought 

 enough of to put in a garden. You have to visit the 

 Rockies before you appreciate this flower. 



Of course, I have mentioned but a tiny proportion 

 of the blossoms that greet you when you enter the magic 



