WILD FLOWERS PINK 
Children delight to make pretty little plumes, puff- 
balls or pompons by winding the seed end of ever 
so many tufts together with thread, and allowing the 
free ends to spread. 
POKE, OR TALL MILKWEED 
Asclépias phytolaccotdes. Milkweed Family. 
This really beautiful plant is one of the most deli- 
cately arrayed of its kind.’ It isnot easily confused 
with any of the other Milkweeds that are likely to be 
found in common with it, because its lovely flowers 
are creamy or ivory white, and’ they generally hang 
deliberately downward. The usually smooth, simple, 
leaf stalk is very milky, and grows ftom three to six 
feet high. The large, very thin textured leaves are 
broadly egg-shaped, atid are pointed at both ends. 
They have entire margins and are set on slender stems. 
The surface is smooth or slightly downy underneath, 
and the midrib shows prominently. They are arranged 
in alternate paits on the stalk and become narrower 
as they approach the summit. The numerous large 
flowers form one or more clusters or umbels that hang 
like fringe, nodding loosely on long, slender stems 
which droop prettily from a stout support set in the 
angles of the upper leaves. The corolla lobes are 
greenish, and the short, broad, white hoods have twin 
points. The long, white horns have sharp tips that 
project_and curve toward the centre. The green 
corolla lobes are often stained. with purple, and the 
white crown becomes pinkish. | This Milkweed blooms 
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