Songs of the Fields 



rection. Because they are accustomed to seeing 

 only open, level meadow it is very difficult to 

 place a camera close or win their confidence suffi- 

 ciently to be able to make studies of them. Every 

 brooding- song-bird sits on the point of the breast, 

 and where an arched cup also raises the long tail 

 the mother has a cramped, spread-out ajjpearance. 

 This one brooded on six eggs and brought off her 

 j^oung safely. 



There is a shade of yellow on the breast of a 

 young lark when it takes wing, that has escaped 

 commerce, and it is infinitely more delicate and Four New 

 beautiful than the nearest approach to it. There Yellows 

 is another exquisite yellow, not yet in use, on the 

 face of a freshly o])ened false foxglove, and an- 

 other on unclosing buckeye buds. An unusual yel- 

 low can be found in the bloom of elecampane. 



This magnificent plant grows from five to six 

 feet high, in big round stems, having long, liairy, 

 blue-green leaves of a frosty appearance, that sur- 

 round the stem at their base and curve off grace- 

 fully to the tip. The flower has a round head, with 

 irregular, straggling petals of beautiful j^ellow 

 that harmonize exquisitely with the leaves. Here 

 is another j^lant that I am sure the artists of Japan 

 do not know, else before this all of us would have 

 become familiar with it in screen decorations. I 

 can recall no statelier growth, no leaf form more 

 impressive. 



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