STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
room and space in this wide world for it and others to find 
some little spot in which to grow. Each has its own 
particular and ordained use. 
“ Nothing lives, or grows, or moves in vain ; 
Thy praise is heard amid her pathless ways, 
And e’en her senseless things in Thee rejoice.” 
—J. Roscoe. 
EVERLASTING FLOWERS. 
‘‘ Bring flowers for the brow of the early dead.” 
It is on the open prairie-like tracts of rolling land known 
in Ontario by the names of oak-openings and plains, where 
the soil is sandy or light loam, that flowers of the Com- 
posite Order abound. All through the hot months of July 
and August, and late into September, the starry-rayed 
blossoms of the sun-loving Sunflowers, Rudbeckias, Asters 
and Goldenrods enliven the open wastes and grassy thickets 
with their gay colors—the more welcome because that the 
more delicate of the early spring and summer flowers have 
long since faded and gone, and we know that we shall see 
them no more. 
Our floral calendar might be likened to four stages of 
life: the tender early flowers of Spring to innocent child- 
life: the gay blossoms of May and June, with all their 
fruitful promises, to advancing youth; the ripening fruit 
of summer’s prime, to mature manhood in its strength and 
perfection; while the white flowers and hoary leaves of 
our Pearly Everlastings and drooping Grasses are not inapt 
emblems of old age, bending earthward yet not destroyed, 
for they have winged seeds that rise and float upwards and 
heavenwards, and we shall again behold them in renewed 
youth and beauty. x 
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