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passed through the second clump of trees we all 

 shouted out to see so many pinkish-purple flowers. 



They were round looking flowers, and each one 

 had five thin petals. I noticed that they grew at 

 the top of tall, straight stems with many leaves 

 on them, which were long and pointed at their 

 ends. There was a sweet fragrance about these 

 flowers, and I thought they would make a beautiful 

 bouquet for Grandmother. 



" How pretty they are," I said to Tommy. 

 " They look like Herr Wilhelm's flowers." 



" I'd like them better If they had a more wild 

 look," Tommy said. " It's hard sometimes to tell 

 these Wild Phloxes from the ones that do grow in 

 gardens." 



" Is this flower a Phlox? " I asked. 



" Yes, Wild Phlox is its name, and It's related 

 to the Ground Pink that comes in early spring. 

 Those flowers were the same shape, only smaller, 

 and they just lifted themselves a little way from 

 the ground, because the little Ground Pink grows 

 by creeping. Don't you remember we saw them 

 in April on Wild Rose's Highway and that the 

 flowers were either white, or pink, or purple? " 



I said I did remember, and that I had thought 

 it wonderful to see them spreading a carpet of 

 flowers on the ground. I remembered also that 

 they came before Columbine. 



Then I didn't know how different flowers can 

 make the same places In the country look. The 



