WILD FLOWERS PINK 
one pistil. The spurred end of the flower is deep 
pink in colour, fading nearly to white toward the 
yellow-tipped end. The lovely plant, with its delicate 
shadings of pink, pale green, and yellow is especially 
pleasing. After the flowers perish, the seed pods 
_ become prominent, and when matured, they meas- 
ure an inch or two in length. They are slender, 
flattened, and erect. 
HARDHACK. STEEPLE BUSH 
Spiraéa tomentosa. Rose Family. 
This lovely rose-coloured perennial is similar to the 
Meadow Sweet, and often found near it, but the Hard- 
hack has smaller flowers arranged in slender, long- 
pointed, floral steeples, and woolly stalks of a peculiar 
light brown colour. The under surface of the pointed 
oval, dark green leaves is also very woolly, and varies 
from a whitish to the same brownish colour of the 
stalk. The latter is erect, very leafy, usually 
unbranched, and grows two or three feet high. The 
leaf has a strong midrib, and an unequally toothed 
margin. The leaves have short stems that curve 
smartly upward as they join the stalk, and which give/ 
a nifty set to the foliage and charming perkiness 
to the handsome plant. The pretty little flowers and 
their tiny stamens are deep rosy-pink in colour, and 
are densely arranged in rather stiff terminal spikes. 
They blossom from the apex downward, and before 
the lower ones begin to open, the forerunners have 
faded to a light brown. The Hardhack blooms from 
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