Flowers in Colorado. 



of each stem flutters a great ball of fine, feathery seed 

 plumes, of a green or claret color, almost as beautiful 

 as the blossom itself. These anemones grow in great 

 profusion on the foot-hills of the mountains to the west 

 of Colorado Springs. They grow even along the road- 

 sides, at Manitou. They have, apparently, caprices of 

 fondness for certain localities, for you shall find one ridge 

 blue with them, and another, near by, without a single 

 flower. 



About the same time as the anemone, or a little before, 

 comes the low white daisy, harbinger of spring in Colorado, 

 as is the epigaea in New England. This little blossom 

 opens at first, like the anemone, close to the ground, and in 

 thick-set mats, the stems so short, you can get the flower 

 only by uprooting the whole mat. It has a central root 

 like a turnip, from which all the mats radiate, sometimes a 

 dozen from one root. Take five or six of these home, and 

 fill a low dish with them, and the little brown blades of 

 leaves will freshen and grow up like grass, and the daisies 

 will peer up higher and higher, until the dish looks like a 

 bit of a waving field of daisies. 

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