THE LIST. 



The main object of the following list is to help rny young 

 friends, the boys and girls, to get acquainted with our Wild 

 Flowers. 



If you know the name of a plant you can go to your libra- 

 ries, where I have placed botanies, in which you can find the 

 full description of your plant. Before going to hunt wild 

 flowers first refer to the list, and note under the month and 

 day what flowers it says yon are likely to find at that date. 

 In the spring you will not find the flow r ers listed as blooming 

 in September, nor in September will you find names that 

 belong to spring. 



Plants choose particular places to live in. Some live on 

 cliffs, some in the mud marshes, some in open woods where it 

 is pleasant to walk, some on trees, some in dry, open fields in 

 the hot sun. At the end of the flower's name you will gen- 

 erally find some capital letters, which, in the Explanation, 

 show you in what locality the flower has its "habitat" and 

 can be found. Thus, Trailing Arbutus, March 24th, is fol- 

 lowed by the letters " O, O." In the Explanation, O, stands 

 for woods. The Arbute loves half-shady, warm woods with 

 loose, sandy loam covered with a bed of leaves, under which 

 it hides all winter, with its buds ready to burst in the first 

 warm days of spring. The letters are not G, W — "swamps 

 or marshes" ; nor I — "near streams" ; but " O, O" — woods. 

 Every spring I am asked, over and over, "When will the 

 Trailing Arbutus be out?" Still, it stays hid until the sun is 

 warm and bright. So with the "Queen of the spring." It 

 lies under the leaves at the foot of warm cliffs, muffled in soft 

 silk. True, I once saw it in January, but that was unusually 



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