Ui JULY WILD FLOWEKS. 



ing put like a little tree and bearing splendid 

 pink flowers"; ''the seed pods of which," 

 says our old friend, "are full of cottony down, 

 which acts as sails to the seeds and enables 

 the wind to bear them far away so that its 

 flower has spread over the whole North tem- 

 perate zone and encircles the earth as a 

 girdle." 



Look out in July for the ' ' poisonous Dog- 

 bane" with its milky juice and tough bark, and 

 its elegant pinkish white bell-shaped corolla. 

 This pretty but redoubtable plant grows in 

 abundance, 'tis said, on the Gomin Road and 

 the Isle of Orleans ; the Daliharda repens — a 

 creeping plant with pretty white flowers. 

 ^' The Succory, a blue composite flower, is 

 now common by road sides and elsewhere ; 

 this plant, known to our peasants as Chicoree, 

 possesses economical value ; the roots wash- 

 ed, roasted, and ground are sold as a substi- 

 tute for coffee ; the young shoots in early 

 spring make good salad, especially when forc- 

 ed like sea kale. 



The true Partridge-berry is a pretty creep- 

 ing evergreen plant growing in the woods ; 

 the leaves are small, thick and shining ;Mt 

 has two pretty white flowers rising from one 

 ovary, so that the two flowers only make one 

 berry, the two eyes of which still show where 

 the flowers were. As the leaf is pretty and it 



