THE AMERICAN BOTANIST, 
Asters and golden rod hold festival later. Buttercups 
were rather too numerous on our lawn, so I filled a space 
about a 3-ard square wath roots of them and all summer 
long there is a pretty show of their golden cups, as several 
varieties are among them. June 17 1 brought home roots 
of yellow-eyed grass and so far they have borne trans- 
Not all wild tlowcrs take kindly to a back yard, as for 
inst,'ince wind flower and houstonia. Treat them ever so 
tenderly they droop and die— homesick for their "very 
own place." I feel a little impatient with houstonia and 
want to say, " Von go romping all over the fields. Why 
It'is so easy to make a^ wild-tiower garden, I do ho'^c 
some of your readers will have one another season. Now 
is a good time to commence collecting. All that is ncces- 
sar}' is to notice the conditions surrounding the plants as 
you dig them up, and give them as nearly the same in 
your yard as possible. I am associated with teachers 
and it gives me delight when lean furnish them specimens 
for school work, or when anyone asks about a flower to 
step out into m\^ yard and show one. 
1 have several kinds of ferns, also. A ])eautiful maiden 
hair is under the shade of a tree. Polvpodv is at the edge 
of a concrete walk, as nearlv a rock formation as I could 
find. Crested ferns, hay ferns, osmundas, and Christmas 
ferns are growing very well, though 1 can never hope for 
the luxuriant growth of the woods. 
You who have children or younger brothers and 
'iisters, what better way to remind them of holidays in 
the woods than by transplanting some of iticsc plants 
Chelsea. A/a-s, 
White Flowkks.-TIw bri-ht white of flowers ot thi^ 
'..r is due principally to the fact that the tissues of the 
' .ds r.rtr fdled with air. By immersing them in water the 
■.- :> gradually driven out and the petals lose their white 
■ .1'. .r and become nearly transparent. 
