Wild flowers and where they grow . e soughtwith expectation for the hare-bell, the pure white the white cardinal-flower, and even for the walking might there not be a rhodora ? At first it was morethan doubtful. It was like the chance of there being a holly,or a magnolia, or a pink water-lily. But when we heard of a certain scra^odv bush covered with red flowers. before _ _ the leaves blooming in June, which somebody remembered tohave seen in a far-off rocky pasture, while another somebodytried to describe something similar in another lonesome pasturemiles in the opposite
Wild flowers and where they grow . e soughtwith expectation for the hare-bell, the pure white the white cardinal-flower, and even for the walking might there not be a rhodora ? At first it was morethan doubtful. It was like the chance of there being a holly,or a magnolia, or a pink water-lily. But when we heard of a certain scra^odv bush covered with red flowers. before _ _ the leaves blooming in June, which somebody remembered tohave seen in a far-off rocky pasture, while another somebodytried to describe something similar in another lonesome pasturemiles in the opposite direction, our enthusiasm was at thehighest pitch, and we felt the stimulus of assured the rhodora it was and is . Flowers from one of thosebushes are here before me this moment as I write. Whatrapture when we saw them for the first time ! My companionof so many jaunts clapped her hands for joy. To think,too. that all those year- it had been blossoming almostunknown, awav back in those solitudes, amidst the sweet-fern. RHODORA A]STD FRINGED POLYGALA. THE PITCHER PLANTS. 121
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