THE WILD GARDEN 



spring flowers jnake a home, among which 

 is the fairy-like wind-flower. 



Upon a shaded bank in the woods, where the 

 soil is of leaf-mold and the rock-ledge gives 

 protection, will be found the Solomon's seal, 

 and such a spot is also the habitat of the 

 lovely trillium, which, in several varieties — 

 white, red and purple — dots the ground. 



In more open and sunny woods there will 

 bloom, in earliest spring, varieties of anem- 

 one, yellow dog-tooth violets, single blue 

 violets, snakeroot, Jack-in-the-pulpit, hepat- 

 ica, and the bloodroot. 



Along old walls and fences are tangles of 

 beautiful wild growth, including clematis, wild 

 grape and Virginia creeper. The open fields 

 and meadows are abloom with wild carrot, 

 daisies, buttercups and wild violets. In a 

 swampy spot where ice lies all the winter and 

 water stands in early spring, the marigold 

 makes a brilliant flame of yellow. 



The old mill-pond, where, perhaps, only 

 the dam and water-run, with the ruin of the 



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