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beautiful gradation of color according to the latitude of 

 the place and season of the year : in the tropics and 

 during summer-time in temperate climes, red flowers 

 most abound ; in somewhat high latitudes and the 

 colder seasons of temperate climes, yellow predominates, 

 and then in high latitudes and cold climates and seasons, 

 the white. The knowledge of many of these simple laws 

 adds much to the interest of the study of nature, and 

 nature is all beautiful and full of life. Books are lifeless 

 things, dried flowers are only for the botanist ; give me 

 flowers, real living flowers full of life and joy. 



" The month of August, says Mr. Fairchild, is full of promise 

 of our Golden September. Every wayside is bright with vari- 

 colored asters and golden-rods, and along our water-courses 

 the gentians and feathery headed seeds of the clematis vine 

 are pretty to look upon. My August list is as follows : 



Hawk Weed, Golden Kods, (great variety) 



Hog Weed, . Musk Mallow, 



Eattlesnake Eoot. Fringed Gentian, 



White Asters, 1 Closed Gentian, 



Purple Asters, Vgreat variety. Sedges, 



Blue Asters, J Wild Morning Glory. 



In the bogs we may now find the Sundew. 



" I owe no grudge to any one unless it be to the gen- 

 tleman who tries to drain the Gomin bog, for if he 

 succeeds all my flowers are gone ; I do not wish him 

 any ill, but I often wish in my heart he may be baffled 

 in all his attempts to drain that precious bog. The 

 Sundew is a singular little flower ; the leaves are of 

 brownish green, hairy and covered with a secretion 

 like dew ; the naked scape bears a one-sided raceme of 

 flowers. 



The Lobelia Cardinalis, one of our most splendid 

 flowers, is now in full bloom near Lake St. Charles ; it 

 grows from two to four feet high ; the leaves are 

 lanceolate-oblong, the flowers are of a deep-red, very 

 showy. In England I regarded them in the fall as 

 the pride of my garden, having them planted in my 



