. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . SHARP EYES sleeve, as we have brought away its flowers from thewoods, while we left its rarest and most importantbloom behind us. For the little polygala found out long ago that somemeans must be adopted to keep its foothold in thewoods, so many were the eager hands that culled it ev-ery year. And so it formed a little plan to anchor itselfin its home beyond the reach of bouquet hunters, offer-ing one posy for the boutonniere, and another for moth-er earth—one playful flower for the world, another forserio
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . SHARP EYES sleeve, as we have brought away its flowers from thewoods, while we left its rarest and most importantbloom behind us. For the little polygala found out long ago that somemeans must be adopted to keep its foothold in thewoods, so many were the eager hands that culled it ev-ery year. And so it formed a little plan to anchor itselfin its home beyond the reach of bouquet hunters, offer-ing one posy for the boutonniere, and another for moth-er earth—one playful flower for the world, another forserious use and posterity. But for this cunning resourceI fear our pretty fringed polygala would have been ex-terminated in many of its haunts. Let us lose no timeto seek the purple broods in the woods, and gracefullyacknowledge our humility. These pale, pouch-like un-derground flowers are not beautiful to look at, but theyplant the mould with seeds every year, and thus per-petuate the purple beds of *•
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