FLOWER SHOW AT ORCHARD STREET SCHOOL. 
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Among the conifers were larch, cedars, pine, spruce and hem¬ 
lock. The ‘ swamp table ’ had various equisetums, grasses and 
sedges, marsh marigolds and butter cups, morels and ribbon 
grass, and a group of pitcher plants, which must have been fas¬ 
cinating, for all the flowers soon disappeared. Here, too, was 
a twig with cocoon and the escaped Prometheus moth, several 
turtles and a tent caterpillar in a glass house. On the same table, 
their beauty enhanced by the varied swamp greens, were Orchis 
spectabilis, Cypripedium acaule, the pale lavender cancer-root, and 
the exquisite fringed polygala, well named “ gay wings,” for they 
seem always poised, bird-like, ready for flight. Other wild flowers 
consisted of Trillium grandiiiorum, pure white and rose pink, others 
duller according to their age ; the deep red trillium and the painted 
one. Dutchman’s breeches, squirrel corn and Dutchman’s pipe 
would have given comfort to any visitor of that nationality. The 
pipe was unanimously voted perfect. Beautiful were the white 
blooms of May apple between their umbrella-like leaves, and the 
Indian paint brush lent a bit of vivid color, as did in a lesser 
measure the golden club. Buttercups, sassafras, dwarf ginseng, 
Phlox sublata and the rock pink, geum, bluets, columbine, saxi¬ 
frage, fawn lily, wild geranium, ground ivy, celandine poppy, 
catnip, violets (many purple varieties, V. rostrata being very plen¬ 
tiful, V. blanda, rotundifolia, canadensis and pubescens) , bane- 
berry, azalea, in fact all of our wild flowers were well represented 
if I except spring beauty. Evidently everyone thought there 
would be a surplus, with the result that there were only two or 
three sprays. Ferns of many kinds were there, including the 
Osmundas, maidenhair, aspleniums, Onoclea sensibilis and several 
others. 
The collection of cultivated flowers consisted of sprays of 
bridal wreath, which one boy called pop corn bush, a few sprays 
of the fragrant daphne, geraniums, narcissi, rhododendrons, the 
flaming hardy azaleas, abutilon, immense paeonies, a white lilac 
which bore triple flowers, forget-me-nots with double flowers, 
very large English daisies, single and double kerrias, pansies of 
all shades, roses, purple and white flag, lillies, weigelia, laburnum, 
wall. flowers, stocks, very small tulips, dark rose color, the 
