. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. 16i l.''AWILIAll FLOWERS OP FIELD AND Milkweed. hroion, SO we must call it brown, with modifications wliicli fit tlie case. My modification, then, would be pale lavender brown, with a few touches of pale- brown lavender. For the in- dorsement of my statement I must refer to the microscope; under it the colors will show themselves definitely, and the flower will also prove to be exquisitely formed. The milk- weed is in blossom during the early part of the summer; its heavy perfume is cloying-; in other words, it is alto- gether too sweet
. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. 16i l.''AWILIAll FLOWERS OP FIELD AND Milkweed. hroion, SO we must call it brown, with modifications wliicli fit tlie case. My modification, then, would be pale lavender brown, with a few touches of pale- brown lavender. For the in- dorsement of my statement I must refer to the microscope; under it the colors will show themselves definitely, and the flower will also prove to be exquisitely formed. The milk- weed is in blossom during the early part of the summer; its heavy perfume is cloying-; in other words, it is alto- gether too sweet. Butterfly Weed. ^'l'^ butterfly weed is a variety of Asciepias tuherosa. milkweed wliich is very common through New England, particularly in the vicinity of Cape Cod. It grows in dry sandy places, blooms in midsummer, and stains the pas- tures with a brilliant orange-color, which, I should think, would set a colorist of the impressionist school quite wild. The shape of the flow- ers is almost exactly like that of the common milkweed; but, unlike the latter plant, the stems and stalks when broken do not exude a plenti- ful supply of sticky " ; I have drawn the seed. 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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