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 28 AUGirST WILD FLOWERS. - ' 



In the bogs we may now find the Sundew.. 



I owe no grudge to any one unless it be to 

 the gentleman who tries to drain the Gomin. 

 bog, for if he succeeds all my flowers are gone \^ 

 I do not wish him any ill, but I often wish in 

 my heart he may be baffled in all his attempt* 

 to drain that precious bog. The Sundew is a. 

 singular little flower; the leaves are of brown - 

 'ish green, hairy and covered with a secretion 

 like dew ; the naked scape bears a one-sided 

 raceme of flowers. 



The Labelia Cardinalis, one of our most 

 splendid flowers, is now in full bloom near 

 I^ake St. Charles : it grows from two to four 

 feet high ; the leaves are lanceolate oblong,, 

 the flowers are of a deep-red, very showy. In 

 England I regarded them in the fall as the 

 pride of my garden, having them planted in 

 my centre bed opposite the arbour, where we 

 often spent many pleasant hours. 



Of all the flowers of the Fall, the fringed 

 Gentian is the most lovely. I shall never for- 

 get the first time I saw a large bed of it fully 

 open in the sunshine, at the Isle of Orleans : 

 the soft bright azure blue, the beautiful fringe, 

 the immense mass of flowers and the unex- 

 *pected way in which I suddenly came upon 

 them, filled me with surprise and delight ; I 

 was not aware of my ecstacies till they were 

 commented upon. « 



