Yellow Field Lily. 



Liiium Canadense, 



CHAPTER IX. 



JUNE, JULY. AND 

 AUGUST. 



Field Lily to Clematis. 



Liiium Canadense. 



The yellow 

 field lily be- 

 gins to hang its golden-yellow 

 buds over the meadows in June, 

 and in July the pretty bells are 

 in their prime. I need not say 

 a word in praise of the grace- 

 ful flower ; several poets have 

 already exhausted upon it a long 

 category of admiring phrases. 

 But we must admit it has a 

 pretty badly freckled face, 

 which perhaps is the reason it 

 hangs its head ; however this 

 may be, the graceful droop 

 adds still another charm to the 

 decorative form, and one ought 



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