
Plants Growing in Sandy Soil. 

There are flowers that delight in sandy soil, and they are as 
well adapted to it as the white water-lily is to its home in 
the pond. When they desire moisture they are fashioned so 
as toretain it within themselves, and have succulent, non- 
porous foliage. If itis unpleasant to them their leaves are 
small or thin, and sometimes close at the approach of a 
storm, or when the air ts laden with moisture. This sense 
or instinct that flowers possess seems to be somewhat akin to 
that of the carrier pigeon; or of a dog that will follow a 
trawl over rocks even after they have been washed by the rain. 
We all know that the Indian's senses are much better developed 
than those of civilised man and they are ever in sympathy 
with the flowers. 
SPANISH BAYONET, ADAM’S NEEDLE. (Plate CXX.) 
Yucca filamentosa. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Lily. | White. Scentless. East Virginia southward. Summer. 
Flowers: \arge ; growing in compound panicles on a scape-like flower-stalk. 
Perianth : of six, oblong, pointed divisions, sometimes tipped with purple at the 
ends. Stamens: six. FPistil: one. Leaves: one to two feet long; lanceolate; 
growing from a short trunk. 
This striking plant, whose generic name is taken from the 
name used by the aborigines of America, is perhaps more fa- 
miliar to us of the north in cultivation, than in the state of wild 
freedom it enjoys in the south, It guards our garden paths 
