14 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



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Spring 

 Sverlastiug. 



Spring This is an insignificant 



Everlasting. ^ cottony - Stemmed 



Antennaria 



piantaginifoUa. plant, which lacKS beauty 

 altogether; yet it is so common in the 

 meadows and pastures of the hill country 

 that one must know what it is on account 

 of its conspicuousness in early spring. 

 There are great patches of straggling 

 white seen in the meadows through April, 

 and one wonders, from the distance of a 

 car window in the swiftly passing train, 

 what the " white stufE " is — leastwise, I 

 have been asked such a question. But it 

 is only Antemnaria, and scarcely merits 

 attention, unless one wishes to examine 

 its peculiar fuzziness through a little mi- 

 croscope. 



The so-called Calla Lily (it 

 Ethiopian Calla. 

 „. , ,. , „ . IS not a lily, nor a true 



calla either) is a beautiful, 



white relative of Jack-in-the-Pulpit. But 



it is not hardy and must be considered 



more of a house plant. It comes from 



Africa, and blooms in spring. The new 



dwarf variety. Little Gem, is an abundant 



bloomer. 



