FROM FRANCIS AND SALLIE 149 



ing wild flowers, and it was to give it a good start 

 that she took away Old Adam's earth. 



This garden is in a very green spot back of her 

 house, and away from the ocean. She has not 

 planted very much there yet, because she has spent 

 most of her time getting things ready. But one 

 day in some woods she found a wonderful flower 

 which she now knows to have been a Wild Orchid. 



It was not a bit like the Large Yellow Lady's 

 Slipper, for that had one of its flower leaves in 

 the shape of a balloon, while in Sallie's Orchid 

 the same leaf was quite flat, and all around it there 

 was a tiny fringe. Only one flower grew on the 

 stem, and but one leaf at the stem's middle. 



The name of Sallie's Orchid is Rose Pogonia, 

 or Snake-mouth. It has a very faint, sweet scent, 

 and she writes that it is a dear little thing. She 

 has planted it in her garden, for she remembered 

 how Herr Wilhelm Fritz took up the Yellow 

 Lady's Slipper so that it didn't die, and she was 

 able to do the very same thing. 



Sallie wrote that she didn't know very much 

 about Rose Pogonia, except that it was rare and 

 that it was vanishing. So she thought it a good 

 one to start her garden with. Beside it she 

 planted a clump of ferns, for she is trying to make 

 the garden look like the place in the woods from 

 which she took the Orchid. 



Sallie has quite a long walk from her house to 

 the woods, but she doesn't mind because she goes 



