WAKE ROBIN FARM 
shade. Blooms in April and May. Self seeding. 25c 
each. 
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 var- 
iations. 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. Like 
other members of the Trillium Genus of the Lily 
Family, Wake Robin is called Trillium because 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. 
Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum Canadense). Two feet high, 
with three or four large dark leaves. Known to some 
as the Broad-Leaved Waterleaf. Grows in damp, rich 
woods, and on this farm it prefers a deeply shaded 
stream bank and a boggy flat. The flower, nearly 
white, buds off just below one of the leaves, in a 
small cluster. Blooms in June and July. 25c each; 
$2.50 for 12. 
Water Lily, White; Sweet-Scented Water Lily (Castalia 
odorata). Queen of the pool.. Wherever still or slug- 
gish 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, sometimes 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 Nymphea Family, nympha meaning “bride.” 
The black root, big and clubby, placed at the bottom 
of fish pond or sunken wash tub, is uncommonly vig- 
orous and winter resistant, sending persistent stems 
to tbe surface when the ice melts in the spring. 30c 
each. 
Wintergreen, Aromatic; Checkerberry; Teaberry; Box- 
berry; Mountain Tea (Gaultheria procumbens). Ever- 
green ground cover, spreading by creeping roots. 
Once established, 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 ex- 
tremely 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 
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