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sunlight soon work a change in the shy flower, and 

 we need not throw it away as hopelessly withei'ed. 

 I have found the flower on Long Island, and in 

 New Jersey, in April and May. It is quite com- 

 mon in moist places in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 



The pretty little plant called 

 Dutchman's Breeches. -r% ^^ i 11 1 



„. , ,, „ . Dutchman's breeches is common 



about New York and Brooklyn, 

 and its dainty white flower tipped with yellow may 

 be found in the leaf-mold localities of thin woods, 

 where shade and sunlight are evenly distributed. 

 From its similarity in structure to the familiar Bleed- 

 ing Heart of the garden (Bicentra sj>ectdbilis), it 

 will at once show its near relationship with the lat- 

 ter flower. I have never found the Dutchman's 

 breeches in the woods of New Hampshire. It 

 blooms in April and May, and is a low-growing, 

 ornamental-leaved plant of a rather delicate appear- 

 ance. 



Early Saxifrage. '^^'^ early saxifrage which flowers in 

 Saxifraga April and May is not by any means 



a conspicuous plant. We will nnd it 

 nestling among the rocks in the pastures and in 

 shady places beside the wood. The singularly orna- 

 mental arrangement of the fresh leaves when the 

 plant is young can not fail to attract notice; they 

 spread around in an even circle like a rosette. But 



