. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. MARCH AND APRIL. 13 crimson is a blue-red, and this color will not apply in any respect to blood-root. If a bit of the stem of a leaf is squeezed, it will exude an orange-col- ored juice, which stains everything it comes in contact with. The blood-root leaf grows circling about the ris- ing flower stem, and does not attain its full size of about five inches across until the flower is quite gone. Alas! it goes quickly enough. This is the reason why some of our most beau- tiful wild flowers are not cultivated by the florists; it does not pay to sp
. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. MARCH AND APRIL. 13 crimson is a blue-red, and this color will not apply in any respect to blood-root. If a bit of the stem of a leaf is squeezed, it will exude an orange-col- ored juice, which stains everything it comes in contact with. The blood-root leaf grows circling about the ris- ing flower stem, and does not attain its full size of about five inches across until the flower is quite gone. Alas! it goes quickly enough. This is the reason why some of our most beau- tiful wild flowers are not cultivated by the florists; it does not pay to spend much time over such ephemeral lives. The blood-root is like a butterfly; it comes and goes in a day, like the poppy, to which it is related. The blossom is as lovely and white as a lily, and has a golden Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Co
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