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These Gentians must be seen where they grow, to 

 win the admiration their beauty deserves. The Pitcher 

 Plant and many of our wild flowers which are sold in 

 the market, are poor, dried, withered specimens com- 

 pared with the same as seen growing in their own 

 localities. 



The flowers which especially characterize the flora of 

 this part of North America are now in full bloom. The 

 Yellow Solidagos or Golden rod, may be seen on 

 Mountain Hill and every hedge-row and way-side. 



The Michaelmas Daisy with its blue, white, and 

 tinted flowers crowds every vacant place ; these look 

 very beautiful in the fields, but they baffle every effort 

 to group them into an elegant bouquet ; they are loose 

 and untidy, and yet they are very beautiful as they 

 grow. We have many varieties both of Golden Eod 

 and Michaelmas Daisy. 



The Spirardhes or Ladies' Tresses, is a very sweet 

 scented Orchis, with white flowers placed as a spiral 

 round the flower stalk; I have found them near New 

 Liverpool (Etchemin) and the outskirts of the Gomin 

 Wood, but this is one of those plants which is apt to, 

 change its habit from year to year. 



The purple Eupatorium is a coarse, strong-growing 

 plant, two or three feet high ; in low wet grounds its 

 composite flowers form large purple heads that are more 

 remarkable than beautiful. A white Eupatorium (Eupa- 

 torium perfoliatum) may be found in the same locality 

 a little later in the season ; this is a more slender plant 

 than the last. 



The Snake's Head is a strong growing plant ; the 

 flowers are white, slightly tinted ; they are almost closed 

 and inflated, the inside is very woolly ; the flowers are- 

 very closely crowded together. 



In some parts of the Island (of Orleans) the bushes. 

 are richly ornamented with the Bracted Bindweed, a 

 beautiful climbing plant of the convolvulus family ; the 

 flowers are large, very delicate and beautifully tinted : 



