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many species, but how much my feeling for 
this lily is due to the beauty of the mariposa 
itself, and how much to an association with 
the flower begun in childhood, it would be 
difficult to say. Of the genus Calochortus 
none are more beautiful than the yellow 
globe tulip and the orange-red mariposa. 
The cyclamen is a flower with which I have 
less association and which therefore may stand 
more on its own merits with me, and truly 
it is a plant of great individual charm. 
Eschscholtzias, wonderful in mass, are no 
less beautiful in the individual, for this poppy 
is a distinctive plant and few flowers are of 
richer, more glowing hue. To me the cas- 
tilleia is more than a splash of splendid colour 
—it is the spirit of the West, of the mesas 
and the arid ranges, rising from the desert 
like phantom islands in an opal sea, of the 
uninhabited miles, of the Wild. In Cali- 
fornia and Arizona grows a little plant of the 
poppy family called cream-cups which is one 
of the daintiest of American wild flowers. 
Its buds droop in graceful curves while the 
expanded blossom raises its cream-coloured 
petals to the sky, but it would be impossible 
to say why the plant is more attractive than 
a hundred others; it is simply that it has a 
