Plants Growing in Sandy Soil. 



There are flowers that delight in sandy soil^ and they are as 

 well adapted to it as the white water-lily is to its home in 

 the pond. When they desire moisture they are fashioned so 

 as to retain it within themselves, and have succulent, yion- 

 porous foliage. If it is unpleasant to them their leaves are 

 small or thin, and sofuetimes close at the approach of a 

 storm, or when the air is laden with moisture. This sense 

 or instinct that flowers possess seems to be somezvhat akin to 

 that of the carrier pigeon ; or of a dog that will folloiv a 

 trail over rocks even after they have been washed by the rain. 

 We all know that the Indian s senses are much better developed 

 than those of civilised man and they are ever in sympathy 

 with the flowers, 



SPANISH BAYONET. ADAM'S NEEDLE. {Plate CXX) 

 Yucca filame7itbsa. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Lily. White, Scentless. East Virginia southward. Summer. 



Flowers: large ; growing in compound panicles on a scape-like flower-stalk. 

 Perianth : of six, oblong, pointed divisions, sometimes tipped with purple at the 

 ends. Stamens: six. Pistil: one. Z^flz^<;'J-.' one to two feet long; lanceolate; 

 growing from a short trunk. 



This striking plant, whose generic name is taken from the 

 name used by the aborigines of America, is perhaps more fa- 

 miliar to us of the north in cultivation, than in the state of wild 

 freedom it enjoys in the south. It guards our garden paths 



