30 The Eagle's Song. 
spikes of flowers is worthy of all the praise it has received. It 
has immense flowers of a glowing scarlet, with occasionally yel- 
low edges; it is very dwarf. 
New Canna Anacapa. Very tall, 5 to 7 feet; foliage and 
stems a beautiful pea green; spikes of orange-colored flowers 
spotted scarlet, petals very long and beautifuliy curved at the 
edges. A magnificent and strong variety, a great improvement 
on Emile Le Clair. 
THE EAGLE’S SONG. 
On the mountain crest 
I have built my nest, 
To greet the sun in the morning; 
And my eaglets there, 
Shall ne’er learn despair, 
Or the need of humble fawning. 
Now upward I soar, 
And want nothing more, 
Than my beak and talons supply; 
My eaglets shall learn 
Their meat to discern, 
And follow in liberty’s sky. 
Now away, away, 
In the light of day, 
In the glow of the morning breeze, 
Afar from the earth 
And its noisy mirth, 
My own skyward nature to please. 
Oh, if there’s a power 
That bringeth this hour, 
Beyond all the gifts that I know; 
The joy that I feel, 
His praise must reveal, 
Accepted as homage I owe. 
Mrs. E. £. Orcutt. 
