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‘“Wheresoever the Naturalist turns his eye, life or the germ of life lies spread before hiiu.”--Huinholdt. 
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CHARLES! p, GUELF, 
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VOL. II. 
BROCKPORT, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1886. 
NO. 3. 
THE BUTTERFLY, 
Behold, ye pilgrims of this earth, behold ! 
See all, but man, with unearned pleasure 
gay; 
See her bright robes the butterfly unfold. 
Broke from her wintry tomb in time of 
May. 
What youthful bride could equal her array ? 
Who can with her for easy pleasure vie ? 
From mead to mead with gentle wing to 
stra}^,. 
From flower to flower on balmy gales to 
fly. 
Is all she hath to do beneath the radiant 
sky. 
—Science Series. 
Wild Flowers under Cultivation. 
BY GEO. E. BKIGGS, PEEKSKILL, N. Y. 
Y ERY few cultivators of plants re¬ 
alize the beauty and fragrance of 
some of our native plants. Those who 
have experimented in cultivating* wild 
flowers, universally agree that many 
may be grown!a our gardens or green¬ 
houses, and are as ornamental as some 
of our rare and delicate foreign plants. 
I have spent much time and labor 
in testing the hardiness of many of our 
wild plants, and can give the following 
as some of the results of my investiga¬ 
tions. 
One of the most gorgeous of our late 
swamp plants is the Cardinal flower, 
[Lobelia cardinalis). In August its 
long spikes of beautiful cardinal flow¬ 
ers may be seen in abundance in our 
rich swamps. If some of these plants 
be cut off close to the ground and trans- 
planted with plenty of its native earth 
to a damp spot in one’s garden, it is 
most always sure to live and thrive, 
and the next year ’twill come up and 
bloom in profusion. The best, and 
really the only fit time to transfer it to 
the garden, is in the fall of the jmar. 
Another curious, though not partic¬ 
ularly handsome plant, is the Chelone 
glabra, or snake’s head, sometimes 
called “balmony.” It is one of our 
common swamp inhabitants, and is 
easil_y propogated. 
Many persons become very enthusi¬ 
astic over the numerous grand and 
beautiful fillies that are displayed in 
every conservatory and flower garden. 
They are not aware of the fact that 
our wdld w'oods produce two lillies, 
Liluim canadense, or the 3mllow lillie, 
and Liluim superbum, commonl}" called 
Turk’s cap, which, when brought into 
our gardens, may be easily subjected, 
and forms a fine addition to any col¬ 
lection. I have seen the Turk’s cap in 
its native haunts with fifteen handsome 
drooping flowers that might well adorn 
any garden. 
They flower in June, and travel very 
slowly. The time to remove them is 
in the autumn, when they should be 
cut down to about three inches above 
the root. New stems will appear the 
following ,year. 
The birthroot,or bath flower, Trillium 
