Flowers in Colorado. 



that are pink on the outside when they are folded up. And 

 I believe that there are yet others which I do not recollect, 

 besides some which I remember too vaguely to describe, 

 having seen them perhaps only once from a car window, 

 as I saw a gorgeous plant on the Arkansas meadows, 

 one day. It was a great sheaf of waving feathery spikes 

 of yellow. It is true that a railroad train waited for me 

 while I had this plant taken up and brought on board. I 

 nursed it carefully with water and shade all the way from 

 Pueblo to Colorado Springs, but it was dead when I 

 reached home, and nobody could tell me its name. After- 

 wards a botanist told me that it must have been stanleya 

 pinnatifida, but I liked my name for it better, golden 

 prince's feather. J-ataavM 



If it were ever possible to weary of the flora in the 

 vicinity of Colorado Springs, and to long for some new 

 flowers, one need but go a few hours farther south to 

 Canyon City, and he will strike an almost tropical flora. 

 Here grow twelve different varieties of cactus either in the 

 town itself or on the slopes of the hills around it ; some of 

 these varieties are very rare ; all bear brilliant blossoms, 

 yellow, scarlet, and bright purple. Here grow all the 



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