Wild flowers and where they grow . they shouldall come along in an orderly and timely way: the ladys-slipper and the polygala and rhodora should be earlier inthe ranks; but they are here like the happenings in ourlives, and their story is partly of to-day and yesterday, andpartly of long ago. told in little episodes, often rambling, and always a flower-life which was a veryreal and delightful part of our own. WILD FLOWERS OF AUTUMN. VXfHEN doess u m m e rleave off and au-tumn begin ? Askthe katydids andthe seem to havea good deal to dowith the t
Wild flowers and where they grow . they shouldall come along in an orderly and timely way: the ladys-slipper and the polygala and rhodora should be earlier inthe ranks; but they are here like the happenings in ourlives, and their story is partly of to-day and yesterday, andpartly of long ago. told in little episodes, often rambling, and always a flower-life which was a veryreal and delightful part of our own. WILD FLOWERS OF AUTUMN. VXfHEN doess u m m e rleave off and au-tumn begin ? Askthe katydids andthe seem to havea good deal to dowith the they begin topipe and chirp itis midsummer; bythe time they haveperformed their little part we are far into autumn. Between the dates much has happened, and many flowersthat loved those earlier days are no more. The cardinals flower lingers on. You can find it inabundance in September — I ought to take back that word find as a kind of wrong done to this imperial presence,for be it where it may, to miss it is impossible. It makes. AVHEKE SOME BLACK MILLPOND COMES INTO THEFANORAMA. 124 WILD FLOWERS. itself seen as a jet of fire would, though it is not in huelike fire, but the deeper red of warm red blood; a live color such as pul-sates and burns ina blood-red gem; thecolor likest blood,as the old Saxon writ-ers said of the car-buncle. It is the su-premest expression ofred, its very perfec-tion and have no otherflower that has you should lay abunch of scarlet ger-aniums of the most glowing scarlet known to that flower,or the rich, warm salvia, by the side of it, they wouldlook faded and cheap. Kings fingers is one of the common names, said tobe from a fancied resemblance of the petals (soft as velvet)to the spread fingers of a glove; and kings gloves theyneeds must be. The other, taking it away up in the eccle-siastical world, keeps always in mind the red of the cardi-nals cassock and hat.
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