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The Daf-fo-dil 
P URE gold the daf-fo-dils look like to the but¬ 
terflies which come to sip their nectar,—that 
is, if butterflies know anything about color. 
Probably they think much more about the very sweet 
odor, which, rather than the color, has called the 
insects to them. Many butterflies have wings the 
same color as the daf-fo-dils. The jon-quil is not 
very different from the daf-fo-dil, and “as-pho-del” 
is another name, too, for this flower with the deep 
cup and the saucer-like row of petals. “As-pho-del” 
means “a flower not to be surpassed in beauty,” and 
is the name the people of classic times gave to it. 
The Green-cloak Butterfly 
T HE wings of this butterfly are 
almost twice as long as they are 
broad. Because it is so vividly 
colored, we know it is a tropical butter¬ 
fly. Its upper wings are green, but with 
crossbars of yellow with black rims. 
The lower wings are green with some 
black markings, but all splashed and 
striped with orange or red. Even its 
body is marked with yellow or white 
stripes. It flies over the swamps where are the flowers it likes. 
The Car-na-tion 
H AVE you ever seen in a garden a delicate little 
flower called a “pink,” sometimes called a 
“clove pink”? This flower, the car-na-tion, 
is what that little clove pink amounts to after two 
thousand years of cultivation. The flower was 
called “car-na-tion” for its color, which was at first 
only the delicate pinkish tint of flesh. Now there 
are many colors,—white, pink, scarlet, cardinal, and 
even yellow and green. Some kinds still have the 
clove-like fragrance, because of which they were 
first called “clove pinks,” and many kinds are very 
fragrant indeed, though others seem to have no 
perfume. One of the most unusual kinds is a bril¬ 
liant light green, streaked with pencil lines of white, 
