A WILD-FLOWER GARDEN. 
BECAFSE I enjoy my wild-tlower -rirdcn 
would like to tell others ;.l)ont if W.- 
ate my plants in the order of their ))loomin-; hlood-root. 
hepatica. wild -in-er. mandrake, violets, meadow l)eautv. 
Solomon's seal (lar-c and small), Jaek-in-the-pulpit, wild 
oats, wild lily-of-the-valley, wild colum]>ine, Snuhicinn 
stt'Hntn, Corydnlis glaucn, herb Robert, wild -eranium. 
red and white l)aneberry, painted trillium, golden rag- 
wort, sweet eieely, black-eyed Susan, false vSolomon's seal, 
I am a very busy woman and fmd little time for 
rambles in the lovelv places of nature. Mv wild Howers 
are my dear friends, and I can greet each one as it comes, 
it takes so little time to run out into my back yard— no 
long trolley ride Ijefore reaching the woodland beauties. 
This spring twenty lovely blossoms opener! their pure 
white petals on my blood -root. My bed of hepaticas, half 
a yard s([uare, was a delight to the eyes. The wild lily-oi- 
the-valley (lisappointed me In- havin- tew tlowers, but the 
look upon. Last •■>crs (*f meadow 
beauty, which I pl;>- cr, and I was 
abundant. ^My wild geranuun, :.irge mas^. was re- 
splendent with its entire top covered with its delicate 
pink-purijle showy flowers. Violets had cast their seeds 
far and wide, so the dear blue things were all through the 
grass. Onlv one yellow one deigned to bloom, and verv" 
few white ones. Jacks, both light green and the striped 
ones, are flourishing. Black-eyed Susan will arrive soon. 
