NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
nine soft grayish silky leaflets set round the central axis 
of the stalk in a horizontal circle. The whole plant is soft 
and velvety in appearance. The pods are long and some- 
what broad. The seeds are ivory white when fully ripe, and 
are the food of squirrels, partridges, field-mice and other 
wild denizens of the wilderness. The Lupine can be readily 
grown from seed, and blooms well in our garden plots, 
abiding with us year after year. The ivory white seeds are 
often introduced into those pretty, fanciful wreaths fre- 
quently exhibited at our township shows, and known as the 
“Farmer’s Wreath,” being composed of different varieties 
of grain and seeds arranged so as to form flowers, leaves, 
fruits, ete. 
Before the plain-lands above Rice Lake were enclosed and 
cultivated, the extensive grassy flats were brilliant with the 
azure hues of the Lupine in the months of June and July; 
but the progress of civilization swept these fair ornaments 
from the soil. What the lover of the country loses of the 
beautiful is gained by the farmer in the increase of the 
useful, and so it must be; but nevertheless we mourn for 
the beautiful things which gladdened our eyes. 
‘* Oh, wail for the forest, its glories are o’er.” 
TWINFLOWER—Linnea borealis (Gronov.). - 
“Nestled at its roots is beauty 
Such as blooms not in the glare 
Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower 
With scented breath, and look so like a smile, 
Seems, as it issues from the shapeless mould, 
An emanation from the indwelling life.” 
— Bryant. 
«« And there Linnzea weaves her rosy wreath.” 
This delicate and graceful little evergreen is widely 
diffused through most of the northern countries of Europe 
and America. It is found within the limits of the Arctic 
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