. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. with four, five xltavnl hporu. hu long testeil and .ippKJveil. In llowers, much that ala first glance looks like idle decoration, on i loser scrutiny reveals itself as service in dis- guise. In penetrating thc'-e disguises and many more of other phases, the student of llowers delights to busy himself He loves, too, to the cousinship of plants through all the (liange of dress and habit due to their rearing under widely dill'ereiit skies and nurture, to their being surrounded by
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. with four, five xltavnl hporu. hu long testeil and .ippKJveil. In llowers, much that ala first glance looks like idle decoration, on i loser scrutiny reveals itself as service in dis- guise. In penetrating thc'-e disguises and many more of other phases, the student of llowers delights to busy himself He loves, too, to the cousinship of plants through all the (liange of dress and habit due to their rearing under widely dill'ereiit skies and nurture, to their being surrounded by contrasted foes and friends. Often he can link two plants together only by going inio partnership with a student of the rocks, by turning back the records of the earth until he comes upon a flower long extinct, a (ilant whi( h ages ago found the struggle for life too severe for it. He ever takes care to observe his llowers ai- and fully, l)ut chiefly that he rise from observation to ex|)lanation. from bare to their , from declaring What to understanding Wlience and How. The Inn-Keeper Turns Slayer. One of the sloi k resources of novelists, now somewhat ^ out of date, was the innkeeper «ho beamed in weUomeof his guest, grasiied his in gladness, and a talile for him in templing array, and all with intent that later in the (or night) he ininht the more securely plunge a dagger into his \ictim's if, indeed, he not already improved an opportunity to offer to that vii tim's lips a poisoned cup. 'I his treachery might well have been suggested by the behaviour of certain alluring plants that so lar fuuii re- pelling thieves, or discouraging pillagers, open their arms to all lomers— with purpose of the ileadliest. (>f these betrayers the chief is the round leaved sundew, whi( h plies its nelanous vocation all the way from Labrador to l-'lorida. Its favorite site is a peat-. Please note that these images ar
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