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The Garden Magazine, October, 1921 



YE LIVING FLOWERS THAT SKIRT THE ETERNAL 

 FROST!" 



Samuel Taylor Coleridge 



Every region has its characteristic beauty; during June 

 and July the feathery tufted bloom of Indian Basket Grass 

 (Xerophyllum tenax) stars the slopes of Paradise Park. 

 This flower has not been cultivated in the East, so far as 

 we know, though a sister species (Xerophyllum asphode- 

 loides, commonly known as Turkey's Beard) is found in the 

 dry, pine barrens from New Jersey to Georgia. 



