STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
trees. Over all these the graceful Willow-herb waves its 
flowery spikes and long willowy leaves. All through the 
months of July, August and September it blooms on, while 
later in the season its silky-plumed seeds fill the air as they 
wing their way to other wild spots equally favorable for 
their growth and development. 
The midribs of the leaves are white or rosy red, as also 
are the wand-like stems and branches. The terminal naked 
buds are of a deep crimson; the seed-pod is long and opens 
lengthwise to allow the seeds to float off on the breeze by 
means of their silky sails. 
The Willow-herb is cultivated in gardens in England, 
where it is known by the name of French Willow. I 
remember seeing it in almost a wild state in a picturesque 
old garden in Suffolk, where it grew to the height of seven 
or eight feet, the long flowery wand-like stems drooping 
over the margin of a fish-pond, where, beneath the shadow 
of a big old willow, I used to sit and feed the silvér-scaled 
carp, which were so fearless that they came and fed upon 
the crumbs that I threw into the water. 
EVENING PRIMROSE—Cnothera biennis (L.), var. grandi- 
flora (Lindl.). 
‘A tuft of Evening Primroses 
O’er which the mind might hover till it dozes, 
But that it’s ever startled by the leap 
Of buds into ripe flowers.” 
— Keats. 
In common with the Northern and Eastern States, 
Canada owns many native flowers of this fine family. Our 
largest variety of G. biennis is deliciously fragrant, with 
large showy flowers of a deep sulphur color—of all the 
shades of yellow the most beautiful and satisfying to the 
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