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with scarcely any petiole. They are about one quarter of an inch 

 wide and two and a quarter long ; dark spots inside something like 

 the tiger lily, in fact it resembles it more than the orange lily. 

 Usually only one flower is found on a plant, but sometimes two or 

 even three are found, the flowers being on the top of the stalk. 



The wild rose bushes are a weed out here. They grow in the fields 

 and make such a mass of tough stringy roots that it is hard work to 

 plow where they are. They grow only ten or twelve inches high, 

 but for a good supply of roses and a fine perfume I do not think 

 they can be excelled. While they are in bloom the air is fairly 

 saturated with perfume, and although a person may be in a spot 

 where they can see no roses they will be able to smell the 

 perfume of a bunch of them probably a hundred yards away. 

 We have another plant that rivals it for perfume, but not in 

 looks. It is a low plant not over four inches high, the leaves grow- 

 ing close to its stalk, and its yellowish green flowers looking as 

 though they were part of the leaves. It blossoms before the rose, 

 and no other wild flower is visible at the time. It is a puzzle to 

 strangers where the perfume comes from, — they never think of this 

 little plant, because it does not appear to have any blossoms, and 

 looks as though it had an unpleasant smell instead of a very fragrant 

 one. 



There are three kinds of violets, — two violet ones and a yellow 

 one, The difference in the two violet ones is in the leaves : one has 

 ordinary violet leaves, while the other has a leaf very much cut. 

 We have many other pretty flowers but strange to say the prettiest 

 are very bad smelling, while the humblest looking ones are the ones 

 that have a delicate perfume. For a wild fruit we have a native wild 

 black currant. It is very productive, the fruit being large but 

 slightly bitter until cultivated for two or three years. The saskatoon 

 is very similar to the eastern huckleberry, but under very favorable 

 circumstances they grow ten feet high ; the majority of bushes, how- 

 ever, are only about four feet high. We also have the common wild 

 raspberry, and the strawberry. Our strawberry seems different from 

 the Ontario berry ; the Ontario berry is long and pointed while ours 

 is a short plump berry of good size. Another fruit called the cran- 

 berry grows on trees. It is a red fruit about half an inch long and 

 a quarter of an inch in diameter and has a flat seed about three- 



