CHARACTERISTIC FLOWERS OF CONCORD. 



It does no harm to tell where you see a bird, for 

 you never know if you will find him there again ; but 

 the writer has hesitated about disclosing the locality 

 of favorite wild flowers. The flower is defenseless 

 against friends and foes alike, and if it were not that 

 Nature has provided several means for the distribu- 

 tion of seeds, so that the embryonic plant can literally 

 take to itself wings and flee away, more species would 

 be exterminated than already have been. It is such a 

 temptation to seize upon beauty when one finds it 

 growing in profusion, that the person of aesthetic 

 tastes should remember that wild flowers are never so 

 lovely as in their native environment. Nearly all 

 the more delicate kinds are ineffective for house deco- 

 ration, which can best be carried out by those of ro- 

 bust growth like the hobble-bush, daisies, wild carrot, 

 meadow lilies, Joe-Pye-weed, asters, goldenrod and the 

 like. 



The young student, as well as Nature lover, should 

 take to heart Emerson's lines: 



