STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
of the succulent and welcome leaves of the Garlic. The 
milk of the cows becomes so strongly flavored with the dis- 
agreeable odor of the oily vegetable that the milk and 
butter are rejected, and can only be used by persons who. 
are indifferent to the nature of their food; the generality of 
people turn away with a feeling of disgust from leeky butter 
and leeky milk. It is, however, a consolation to the thrifty 
farmer to know that, like many other evils, it has its pallia- 
tive. The cows and oxen, that have been brought low in flesh 
and strength during the long, hard winter, are speedily 
-restored to health by feasting upon this otherwise objection- 
able food. 
It is a pleasant plant to the eye, the rich verdure of the 
broad succulent leaves springing so freshly where all was 
barren and unsightly; and, later in the season, the tall 
heads of pretty pale blossoms are not without attraction, 
though not nice to place in a bouquet of sweeter flowers. 
Before so many extensive tracts of forest had been cut 
down the Wild Garlic was to be found in all beech and 
maple woods. But it is becoming very rare, and one hears 
no more complaints of leeky milk and butter. 
PHLOx—Phlox divaricata (L.). 
We have in Canada several species of this family, and 
all are worthy of cultivation. Phlox divaricata is found on 
dry grassy wastes by forest roads, in shady spots. It is a 
plant of slender growth, about twelve or eighteen inches 
high, with slender lanceolate pointed leaves somewhat clasp- 
ing the stem; flowers in a flat spreading head terminal on 
the slightly-stalked branches; corolla salver-shaped, prim- 
rose-like; calyx with slender pointed sepals; color of the 
petals pale lilac, scalloped at the edges. It is an elegant 
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