. The natural history of the farm : a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature . Natural history. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FARM. Fig. 81. Hepatica. midsummer, and disappear utterly above ground until spring comes around again; such are adder's tongue and Dutchman's breeches, and others that grow in the deep- est shades of the woods. But, on the other hand, the foliage of hepaticas and moss-pink is evergreen. Fine as are these wild flowers, they are rapidly being exterminated. Their value is esthetic, not commercial. The land they occupy is all being taken from the
. The natural history of the farm : a guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature . Natural history. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FARM. Fig. 81. Hepatica. midsummer, and disappear utterly above ground until spring comes around again; such are adder's tongue and Dutchman's breeches, and others that grow in the deep- est shades of the woods. But, on the other hand, the foliage of hepaticas and moss-pink is evergreen. Fine as are these wild flowers, they are rapidly being exterminated. Their value is esthetic, not commercial. The land they occupy is all being taken from them for fields and stock-pens. Long since, they were driven from our doors. Of late, with the pressure of men for room, with the extension of fields, and especially with the pasturing of every bit of woodland, they are being exterminated in their last retreats. The time is coming when, if we would save them for our posterity, we must get them back about our doors again, where we can propagate them and protect them from utter annihilation. They will grow there as well as in the woods, if planted in suitable places. Of course, they will not grow on a smoothly mown lawn; but possibly the present zeal for leveling everything and having only mown lawns about one's place may yet develop into something better. Far more beautiful than grass as a ground-cover for the moist bank or for the shady place where there is no trampling, is a growth of common blue violets or of bloodroot or of wild ginger. Finer than any grass, for covering a dry sunny bank, is a close gray-green carpet of moss-pink. Why should one drain the low wet spot on his grounds, when he may, by properly planting it, have there, through the season, a. 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 Needham, James G. (James George), 1868-1956. New York :
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