SPRING FLOWERS OF PRAIRIE WOODS 



T T is probable that nowhere are wildflowers more abundant 

 than in a prairie region. Man}^ people imagine that the 

 warmth and light of the Tropics must make that part of the 

 world especially favored in the matter of bloom, but this is a 

 mistake. It is true there are a great many beautiful and 

 showy flowers in the Tropics, but they are swallowed up and 

 lost or obscured by the all-pervading green. Flowers are most 



One must tread on flowers at every step. 



noticeable, or possibly most abundant, in regions where the con- 

 ditions for vegetation are less favorable — on mountain tops, in 

 alpine valleys, on sand barrens, in the Arctic regions and in sim- 

 ilar places. It may be doubted, however, if the prairie must yield 

 to any of these. Xor are the forests that border the prairies 



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