massia esculenta (Bear’ 
Grass or Ouamash). 
A Few Exclusive Prairii 
Plants: Habenaria leuco 
phaea (White Prairie Or 
chis); Delphinium tricornt 
(Three-spurred Dwarf Lark 
spur); U1 maria rubn 
( Meadow-sweet Queen of th< 
Prairie); Psoralea Onobry 
chis (variety of Scurfy Pea) 
Steironema quadriflorurr 
(variety of Loosestrife) 
Phlox bifida; Gerardia as- 
pera (variety of False Fox- 
glove); Agoseris cuspidate 
(member of the Chicorj 
Family) ; Solidago ohioensis 
(Ohioan Golden-rod); Cir- 
sium Hillii (variety ol 
Thistle). 
PRAIRIE ROSE 
There is so much competition in the Rose family that this simple “country cousin” will probably 
not be widely accepted by formal gardeners. Rosa setigera has, however, served the hybridizers well 
need the hot sunshine of the open places, and the competition 
of root-filled soil. In many cases they need the support of 
grass and other plants for their flowers. Any one who has seen 
Phlox paniculata, for example, growing at random in the 
grass, realizes at once 
how much of its natural 
grace is lost by more formal 
planting. 
That domestication fre- 
quently diminishes the 
charm of prairie flowers 
does not mean we should 
close our gardens to them, 
but rather suggests it would 
richly repay us to give 
them a space — little or big 
as our acres and inclinations 
warrant — where they may 
grow at will in conditions as 
nearly as possible like those 
of their native plains. Why 
not do for the prairie flower 
what we- have done for 
alpine and water plant? 
Why not a “ prairie gar- 
den” as well as a rock 
garden or a water garden? 
Characteristic Prairie 
Plants Partly Southern: 
Aster sericeus (Silky Star- 
wort); Silphium integri- 
folium; Silphium laciniatum 
(Compass-plant); Silphium 
terebinthinaceum (Prairie 
Dock); Rudbeckia subto- 
mentosa, Brauneria pallida, 
(varieties of Coneflower); 
Helianthus mollis (variety 
of Sunflower.) 
Of course it is necessary; 
for the railroad to keep the right of way clear to prevent danger of 
fires spreading to the grainfields, but might not some sections par- 
ticularly rich in flowers be left? May we ever expect a railroad ad- 
vertisement describing the prairie flowers seen along their route? 
Disappearing Prairie 
Flowers: Castilleja coc- 
cinea (Scarlet Painted Cup) ; 
Dodecatheon Meadia 
(Shooting-star) ; Phlox pani- 
culata; Phlox bifida; Cypri- 
pedium (Lady’s Slipper or 
Moccasin Flower); Ca- 
PRAIRIE CRAB-APPLE 
In spring the prairies touching the forests are fringed with the pink bloom of the Western Crab (Pyrus ioensis) 
