Magenta to Pink 



Damascus Rose (R. Damascena), which blooms twice a year, as 

 well as the Musk Rose (/?. moschata], were cherished by the 

 Semitic or Arabic stock ; while the Turkish-Mongolian people 

 planted by preference the Yellow Rose (R. lutea). Eastern 

 Asia (China and Japan) is the fatherland of the Indian and Tea 

 Roses." 



How fragrant are the pages of Chaucer, Spenser, and Shake- 

 speare with the Eglantine! This delicious plant, known here as 

 Sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa), emits its very aromatic odor from russet 

 glands on the under, downy side of the small leaflets, always a cer- 

 tain means of identification. From eastern Canada to Virginia and 

 Tennessee the plant has happily escaped from man's gardens back 

 to Nature's. 



In spite of its American Indian name, the lovely white Cherokee 

 rose (R. Sinica), that runs wild in the South, climbing, rambling 

 and rioting with a truly Oriental abandon and luxuriance, did in- 

 deed come from China. Would that our northern thickets and 

 roadsides might be decked with its pure flowers and almost 

 equally beautiful dark, glossy, evergreen leaves ! 



Common Red, Purple, Meadow, or Honey- 

 suckle Clover 



(Trifolium pratense) Pea family 



Flowers Magenta, pink, or rarely whitish, sweet-scented, the 

 tubular corollas set in dense round, oval, or egg-shaped heads 

 about i in. long, and seated in a sparingly hairy calyx. Stem : 6 

 in. to 2 ft. high, branching, reclining, or erect, more or less 

 hairy. Leaves: On long petioles, commonly compounded of 

 3, but sometimes of 4 to 1 1 oval or oblong leaflets, marked with 

 white crescent, often dark-spotted near centre; stipules egg- 

 shaped, sharply pointed, strongly veined, over YZ in. long. 



Preferred Habitat Fields, meadows, roadsides. 



Flowering Season April November. 



Distribution Common throughout Canada and United States. 



Meadows bright with clover-heads among the grasses, daisies, 

 and buttercups in June resound with the murmur of unwearying 

 industry and rapturous enjoyment. Bumblebees by the tens of 

 thousands buzzing above acres of the farmer's clover blossoms 

 should be happy in a knowledge of their benefactions, which 

 doubtless concern them not at all. They have never heard the 

 story of the Australians who imported quantities of clover for fod- 

 der, and had glorious fields of it that season, but not a seed to 

 plant next year's crops, simply because the farmers had failed to 

 import the bumblebee. After her immigration the clovers multi- 



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