Plants Growing in Sandy Soil. 



There are flowers that delight in sandy soil, and they are as 

 well adapted to it as the white water-lily is to its home in 

 the pond. When they desire moisture they are fashioned so 

 as to retain it within themselves, and have succulent, non- 

 porous foliage. If it is unpleasant to them their leaves are 

 small or thin, and sometimes close at the approach of a 

 storm, or when the air is laden with moisture. This sense 

 or instinct that flowers possess seems to be somewhat akin to 

 that of the carrier pigeon ; or of a dog that will follow a 

 trail over rocks even after they have been washed by the rain. 

 We all know t/iat t/ie Indian s senses are much better developed 

 than those of civilised man and they are ever in sympathy 

 with the flowers. 



SPANISH BAYONET. ADAM'S NEEDLE. (Plate CXX.) 



Yucca filamentbsa. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Lily. White. Scentless. East Virginia, southward. Summer. 



Flowers: large ; growing in compound panicles on a scape-like flower-stalk. 

 Perianth : of six, oblong, pointed divisions, sometimes tipped with purple at the 

 ends. Stamens: six. Pistil: one. Leaves : one to two feet long ; lanceolate; 

 growing from a short trunk. 



This striking plant, whose generic name is taken from the 

 name used by the aborigines of America, is perhaps more fa- 

 miliar to us of the north in cultivation, than in the state of wild 

 freedom it enjoys in the south. It guards our garden paths 



