26 VIOLET MYSTERIES 



After finding the Early Blue Violet, I held in 

 my hand four different kinds of these flowers. 

 Then Grandmother reminded me there was still 

 the yellow one which should be in bloom. She 

 found it first. The pale yellow blossom was 

 small and looked, with its fine brown lines, some- 

 thing like the Sweet White Violet. It had no 

 fragrance. One thing about it that I could not 

 help noticing was that its leaves grew out from 

 the sides of the tall stem which held the flowers. 

 They did not come up straight from the ground 

 as did those of all the others we had found except 

 the Canada Violet. These leaves, besides, were 

 covered with a thick down, and I wondered if 

 the plant was chilly and needed something to keep 

 It warm, as the Hepaticas need their fuzz. Its 

 name is Downy Yellow Violet. 



It seemed strange to me that all these Violets 

 should look enough alike for any child to know 

 they were Violets, and still be so different. Yet 

 Grandmother says there are many more kinds of 

 them, and that I must be sharp-eyed to learn the 

 names of all those even that grow about our home. 

 In the book that I am soon to have for pressing 

 flowers, I shall put in one of each sort that I find. 

 Perhaps I will do this on rainy days and holidays, 

 when Tommy pastes stamps in his album. 



While Grandmother and I looked at the Downy 

 Yellow Violet, I thought I should like to dig one 

 up from the ground and plant it at home. So I 



