XIII. 



MIDSUMMER FLOWERS AND 

 MIDSUMMER VOICES. 



|FTER blossoming profusely throughout 

 latter June and the first half of July, 

 the Japanese honeysuckle, as if to em- 

 phasize its attractions, again bursts into delicious 

 bloom during late August and September. The 

 tiger-lilies have been constant through late July 

 until late August, when most of the species have 

 passed. But the crowning glot^r of the lilies is 

 auratum. which extends its blossoming period 

 throughout August and September, no species of 

 the genus being so continuous to blossom. The 

 odors of Loniccra Halleana and Lilium aura- 

 turn are not unlike, and numerously planted in 

 front of the verandas they flood the whole house 

 with perfume in the evening. A beautiful flower 

 becomes doubly beautiful when it prolongs the 

 usual flowering season, and, judged by this 



