Music of the Wild 



so brilliant, however, as the pageant of color 

 marching- adown the old snake-fence. 



To the \\'hites of alder and the pink of wild 

 rose are added the lavender of beard's tongue, 

 Wild the blue of bellflower. nodding plumy heads of 

 Lilies nieadoM' rue, and, scattered here and there, wild 

 tiger lilies. These bear the palm for brilliant color. 

 The flowers are so artistic that decorators almost 

 have A\orn them out for art purposes, and yet no 

 one has reproduced them with all the beauty of 

 one wild l)ed I know. 



These lilies groAv in rather damp, sandy places, 

 sometimes in real swamp, sometimes on land that 

 would seem too high and dry for them. They 

 have brilliant orange-red faces, thickly freckled 

 with brown. The bud is a long ])oint, the half- 

 luifolded bloom a trumpet, the full-blown flower 

 curls its ])etals so far back it almost turns inside 

 out and fully displays the grace of the long sta- 

 mens and pistil. In dam]:) ground the flower color 

 is paler, and the stems and buds longer. They 

 are of deeper red and lower growth in dry loca- 

 tions; l)ut in half moist, half sandj' soil they reach 

 perfection. 



I'or three years from passing railroad trains 



A Moving I had seen the finest bed of these lilies of all my 



Flower-bed experience, on land o^\•ned l)y the company, just 



inside the fence enclosing ratlier deep woods, a 



mile or two below the village of Ceylon, beside the 



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