Wild flowers and where they grow . ined, pale, most exquisite flower which seems the consum-mate result of greenhouse culture, yet unfolds its spiral of finely-cut petals and sheds its luscioussweetness in a place so remote, so seem-ingly unfit for it. What could have pos-sessed the Dorsetshire people that in theirfolk-lore they should name it giddy-gander ? The flowering shrubs, either in theswamp or bordering on it. were numer-ous, and all except the spice-bush werein white, and the ground was cladin immortal green by reason of theCanada yew. or ground hemlock, as itis sometimes called. How
Wild flowers and where they grow . ined, pale, most exquisite flower which seems the consum-mate result of greenhouse culture, yet unfolds its spiral of finely-cut petals and sheds its luscioussweetness in a place so remote, so seem-ingly unfit for it. What could have pos-sessed the Dorsetshire people that in theirfolk-lore they should name it giddy-gander ? The flowering shrubs, either in theswamp or bordering on it. were numer-ous, and all except the spice-bush werein white, and the ground was cladin immortal green by reason of theCanada yew. or ground hemlock, as itis sometimes called. How beautiful wasthe heavy fringe along the prostratebranches, and what a gem of beautythe wax-like scarlet berry in which wasbedded such a meaty little nut \ Andthere was the greatest abundance of thecreeping snowberry. or chiogones. whichis otherwise known as the mountainpartridge-berry, and by herb-gatherers who find it good forsome ailment, French ivy. Could any thing be moreabsurd ? What a lovely thing it is ! Known only to cool,. THE FUDGED ORCHIS.
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