Mission Bells ^ Chocolate Lily 



This fritillary is one of the oddest and most 

 beautiful of flowers. It is grace and elegance 

 itself. It grows in the bushes of the hillside, 

 coming up a solitary scape with leaves and 

 buds. One is said to have been found three 

 feet high with nineteen bells. They are not as 

 plentiful as the red fritillaria — so that one 

 must be very observant if he would gather 

 a stalk of these bells. 



Soundless thou art, but, as the breezes swing 

 Thy tiny chimes, the fairies hear their call 



And troop to dance within their mystic ring 



When day is done and twilight shadows fall. 

 F. L. w. 



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