Flowers in Colorado. 



In June the kinnikinnick vines are full of little pinkish- 

 white bells, shaped like the wintergreen bell, and as fra- 

 grant as the linnaea blossom. Here are three low-growing 

 varieties of the wild rose, none more than two or three inches 

 from the ground : one pure white, one white with irregular 

 red markings, and one deep pink. The petals are about 

 one-third larger than those of the common wild rose. 



Here are blue violets, and in moist spots the white 

 violet with a purple and yellow centre. Here is the 

 common red field lily of New England, looking inexplicably 

 away from home among pentstemons and gilias, as a coun- 

 try belle might in court circles. Here is the purple 

 clematis ; a half-parasitic plant this seems to be, for you 

 find it wound up and up to the very top of an oak or 

 cherry bush, great lengths of its stem looking as dead as 

 old drift-wood, but whorls of lovely, fringing green leaves 

 and purple, cup-shaped blossoms bursting out at intervals, 

 sometimes a foot apart. How sap reaches them, through 

 the cracked and split stems, it is hard to see ; but it does, 

 for you can carry one home, trellis and all, set it in water, 

 and the clematis will live as long as the oak bush will. 

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