WAKE ROBIN FARM, HOME, PENNSYLVANIA 
Violet, Sweet White (Viola blanda). Small plant, with tiny white flowers, purple veined. 
Scent is uniformly sweet, elusive, and potent in mass. Blooms in April and May. 
Robust, prolific ground cover, fast spreading by seeds and runners. Best in swamps, 
bogs, wet meadows, moist woodlands, and low, damp, shady places. Often found 
in dry soil, too, and improves with cultivation. 25c¢ each; $2.00 for 12. 
Violet, White; Striped Violet (Viola striata). Big violet, 6 to 12 inches high when in 
flower, evergreen, with many large blossoms, white, off-white and cream colored, on 
very long stalks. The side petals are densely bearded and the wide lower petal is 
thickly striped with purple veins. The plant grows lavishly in large crowns, liking 
low shaded places, but it blooms in the hot sun, in baking backyards and sits happily 
under the apple tree. In difficult conditions it grows at some cost to size and 
length of leaves, but at no loss to its very prolific blossoms. The white mantle of 
bloom abounds through April and May, tapering off well into June. Flower struc- 
ture prevents self-fertilization; it is cross-pollinated by little bees. 25c¢ each; 
$2.50 for 12. 
Wake Robin (Trillium erectum). The Wake Robin or Red Trillium has claimed this 
Farm for its very own. The Farm was named in its honor. It abounds on a steep 
wooded hillside by a little stream. It flowers on a reclining stem, 7 to 15 inches 
high. Maroon is the dominant color, with slightly darker and lighter variations. 
Blooms April to June, after which the three leaves grow large to make food for 
root storage. If flower and leaves are plucked, blooming may skip the next year 
or the root may die for lack of nourishment. Red berries in autumn. This Trillium 
is supposed to wake up the robins in the spring, but around here it is days and 
days late, ruddy with confusion. Effective with White Trillium. Like other mem- 
bers of the Trillium genus of the Lily Family, Wake Robin is called Trillium be- 
cause it is distinctively triple in all its parts—-3 leaves, 3 sepals, 3 petals, 3 styles, 
3-celled ovary, twice three stamens, and 3 broadly ovate leaves. Wake Robin's 
special friends include Maidenhair Fern, Bloodroot and Wild Ginger. 25c¢ each; 
$2.50 for 12. 
Water Lily, White; Sweet-Scented Water Lily (Castalia odorata). Queen of the pool. 
Wherever still or sluggish water can be found, these clean white flowers will rest 
upon their wide floating leaves in perfect contentment. They open their petals 
in the morning and, keeping hours all their own, close 
around noon for the day. The flowers are white, some- 
times creamy white, 3 to 5 inches across, with petals which 
seem to merge into the central stamens. True to name, 
they are very sweetly scented. They belong to the small, 
select Nympheza Family, nympha meaning “bride.” The 
black root, big and clubby, placed at the bottom of fish 
pond or sunken wash tub, is uncommonly vigorous and 
winter resistant, sending persistent stems to the surface 
WATER LILY when the ice melts in the spring. 25c each; $2.50 for 12. 

Wintergreen, Aromatic; Checkerberry; Teaberry; Boxberry; Mountain Tea (Gaultheria 
procumbens). Evergreen ground cover, spreading by creeping roots. Once estab- 
lished, the ground becomes matted with a wealth of fleshy, shiny, dark green 
leaves; of nodding little waxy white flowers in July and August; and later of deeply 
cherry-red berries. The berries are extremely aromatic, feed the hungry winter 
birds, and tend to cling through winter, releasing their seeds in spring for additional 
propagation. This compiler as a boy nibbled the leaves in open pastures, along 
railroad embankments and such, knowing it only as Mountain Tea. 25c each; 
$2.50 for 12. 
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