10 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDBiSr. 



color in delicate pencilings, are readily distinguished 

 from the surrounding green. But we may find some 

 specimens without the 

 slightest trace of this 

 mottled color ; so we 

 must remember that 

 JSTature, frequently ec- 

 centric, refuses to fol- 

 low a rule unless it is 

 connected with some 

 great underlying prin- 

 ciple of creation. This 

 dainty little lily grows 

 as cheerfully on the 

 slopes of Mount "Wash- 

 ington, at an altitude 

 of over two thousand 

 feet, as it does in some of the wooded 

 dells of Staten Island. It is an early 

 flower, and may be looked for in 

 April. 



Pansy. That the pansy is a 



nola tricolor. g^.^^^. f^^orite in our 

 country is demonstrated by the fact that a seedsman] 

 tells me he alone sells over two hundred thousand 

 packages of the seed in a year ! The flower is really 

 a large party-colored variety of the violet, and it 



Dog's tooth Violet. 



