Colour in the flower garden . oxgloves spire up amongthe Bracken. When the Foxglove-seed is ripe, weremember places in the wood where tree-stumps weregrubbed last winter. A little of the seed is scatteredin these places and raked in. Meanwhile one forgetsall about it till two years afterwards there are thestately Foxgloves. It is good to see their strong spikesof solid bloom standing six to seven feet high, andthen to look down again at the lowly Trientalis andto note how the tender little blossom, poised onits thread-like stem, holds its own in interest andimportance. Further up the Fern walk
Colour in the flower garden . oxgloves spire up amongthe Bracken. When the Foxglove-seed is ripe, weremember places in the wood where tree-stumps weregrubbed last winter. A little of the seed is scatteredin these places and raked in. Meanwhile one forgetsall about it till two years afterwards there are thestately Foxgloves. It is good to see their strong spikesof solid bloom standing six to seven feet high, andthen to look down again at the lowly Trientalis andto note how the tender little blossom, poised onits thread-like stem, holds its own in interest andimportance. Further up the Fern walk, near the upper group ofTrillium, are some patches of a plant with roundish,glittering leaves. It is a North American Asarum(A. virginicum); the curious wax-like brown andgreenish flower, after the usual manner of its kind,is short-stalked and hidden at the base of the leaf-stems. Near it, and growing close to the ground in atuft of dark-green moss, is an interesting plant—Goody era rep ens, a terrestrial Orchid. One might. CO% Oco b hi CO o ISh fe; CO ft* OhCJ cob CO
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