LILY FAMILY 



The onion is nutritious, rich in uncrystallizable sugar and a vol- 

 atile, sulphurous oil which is present in all members of the genus. 

 The bulb is biennial, the leaves hollow and tapering, the flower- 

 stem also hollow and swelling at the middle. The flowers are 

 borne in a large, globose, terminal umbel; the lobes of the per- 

 ianth obtuse and hooded, not half so long as the stamens, which 

 protrude and make the globe fuzzy. 



Chives or Gives, Allium schcendprasuni, is a perennial plant 

 whose leaves are used in seasoning soups, salads, and stews. 

 It is also used as a perennial edging plant, well fitted for this use 

 by its habit of growing in close little clumps; also, because it 

 blooms freely in low, violet-colored heads. It rarely seeds in 

 this country, but thrives in any good garden soil and may be 

 cut liberally. 



WHITE TRILLIUM. WAKE ROBIN 



Trillium grandifiorum. 



Named from tres, three; all the parts being in threes. 



The Great White Trillium of northern woods; a favorite wild flower 

 now coming extensively into cultivation. Rich woods from Vermont 

 and Quebec to North Carolina, Missouri, and Minnesota. Perennial, 

 April, May. 



Roolstock. — Short, tuber-like. 



5/ew.— Stout, simple, bearing at the summit a whorl of three ample 

 leaves and one large flower. 



Leaves.— Three, rhombic-ovate, more or less ribbed, net-veined, 

 entire; acute or acuminate. 



Flowers. — White, terminal, large, solitary. 



Sepals.— Three, lanceolate, spreading, herbaceous, persistent. 



Petals.— Three, white, sometimes changing with age to pale-rose. 



Slamens.—Six; anthers linear on short filaments. 



OT^ary.— Three-celled; stigmas three, separate down to the ovary. 



Fruit. — A berry, several-seeded. 



Great White Trillium, Trillium grandiflorum, is one of the very 

 finest of our native flowers. It loves the open woods and is planted 



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