THE GARDENS OF THE SEA 57 



phia lily, orange-red, lifts its spotted 

 cups, and straggling toward the lane in 

 dryer soil, the Canada lily hangs its 

 whorls of red or yellow bells, like 

 miniature pagodas. 



In August a wave of orange-yellow 

 covers the ground. On stiff leafy stalks, 

 the yellow-fringed orchid blooms in 

 short, densely clustered spikes. Its 

 rare beauty and tropic colouring attract 

 the fertilizing bees, and allure the girls 

 who revel in the air and sun to search 

 for it in the sea-gardens. Under the 

 hickory shade on the dry knoll you will 

 find the oak-leaved yellow Gerardia, a 

 shy recluse, with half -exotic flowers, 

 that hold their rank with garden 

 pentstemons and tender gloxinias. In 

 August, too, a ruddy glow spreads on 

 the marshes when the great rose-mallow 

 blooms and trails its sheets of pink all 

 up and down, wading deep in ditches 



