POOR ROBIN'S PLANTAIN 93 



Tommy says he has found these leaves a deep 

 wine-color and very brilliant quite as often as 

 white-spotted, but this would not be before mid- 

 summer, or in the autumn when strange changes 

 pass over all the flowers and leaves. 



It makes me sad even now in May to think that 

 flowers and leaves must all fade, and the earth -' 

 again grow bare and cold. So far, since we have 

 lived in the country, and since Hepaticas bloomed, 

 just as soon as some pretty wild flowers were gone, 

 others unfolded to take their places. We see 

 Wild Geranium much more now than Spring 

 Beauty, whose head is heavy with seeds ; and other 

 flowers have come with Wild Geranium which 

 were not here with Rue-anemones, or Bellworts, or 

 the Wood Betony. The Geranium is friendly with 

 Rock Pinks, and often I see the two growing in the 

 same places. 



I think that if we saw fewer Wild Geraniums 

 we would care more for them. They are not a 

 bit shy and hiding like the Orchids, nor wild and 

 fearless like Columbine. They just seem to want 

 to grow everywhere as though they were weeds. 



Tommy chatted and chatted one day about 

 Black Snakeroot until Grandmother asked him 

 what kind of a plant it was. Then we found out 

 it was Wild Geranium, and that this is simply 

 another one of its names. It has many names, 

 just as it loves to grow in many places. 



Grandmother told us also that in the south there 



