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Trillium thus characterized provokes a smile. 

 A strange flower it certainly is its leaves, calyx, 

 and corolla a triangle. In the same volume I 

 find the bloodroot described as " curious and 

 pretty " a distinction with a difference. The 

 Trillium may be raised from seed a much 

 more tedious process than obtaining plants from 

 the woods. It likes rich, deep leaf-soil and 

 shade, requiring at least two years to become 

 thoroughly established. Where T. grandiflo- 

 rum is well grown, it often attains a height of 

 nearly two feet. Not the least charm of this 

 variety is its change to a soft rose-color revers- 

 ing the order of numerous flowers when they 

 begin to fade. Indeed, variety and change of 

 color in individual species is a characteristic of 

 numerous spring flowers. 



If the majority of our native violets have little 

 odor, many of the very abundant species possess 

 at least a faint scent, just enough to suggest an 

 odor. The large-leaved Viola cucullata, and 

 many of the tiny-flowered species, belong to this 

 class. The bird's-foot violet ( V. pedatd) is less 

 common than we would wish, more especially its 

 variety bicolor, both species and variety having 

 a rich, pansy-like fragrance, and velvety, pansy- 

 like petals. 



I do not think Bryant open to criticism for 



