Wild flowers and where they grow . a plebeians. Perhaps,too, the rabbits-foot clover, soft, furry, daintily tinted, but toocommon and in colors too obscure. But certainly the poverty-stricken tribe of mouse-ear everlastings; probably not oneperson in a hundred who walks over them ever notices thesejolly paupers, unless it is in a general way, in early spring, 40 WILD FLOWERS. when their woolly heads, specked with purple, give a fainttino-e to the worn-out pastures and sterile fields which theyinhabit. When every thing is so bare and so gray, before thegrass has started, they assert their perso
Wild flowers and where they grow . a plebeians. Perhaps,too, the rabbits-foot clover, soft, furry, daintily tinted, but toocommon and in colors too obscure. But certainly the poverty-stricken tribe of mouse-ear everlastings; probably not oneperson in a hundred who walks over them ever notices thesejolly paupers, unless it is in a general way, in early spring, 40 WILD FLOWERS. when their woolly heads, specked with purple, give a fainttino-e to the worn-out pastures and sterile fields which theyinhabit. When every thing is so bare and so gray, before thegrass has started, they assert their personality, though it takesa host of them to do it. Then they showthat they are of some use in the world,where, if any thing has gained a right tobe, they surely have; for they look as ifthey had been in it ever since thecreation. There never was anything more distinctive about anyplants than is the case with theseing cheap things; they look ashills; they mighteval with FatherThere is a commonsuitable, of pussysthe cushion-like divi-. class ofunassum-old as thehave been coTime himself,name, quitefoot, from FOLKS, OK FLOWEBS ? sions before the flower expands ; and a local one, not so easilyaccounted for, of ladies-tobacco. SPICE-BUSH AND CASSANDRA. After May has fairly come, and days begin to grow longerand warmer, how fast the flowers press along! One must go SPICE-BUSH AND CASSANDRA. 41 often to their haunts, or something will have bloomed andpassed away. We had been many times to the swamp whereit grows, before we ever saw the fever-bush in blossom. Andthen we did not recognize it till we had bitten the aromaticbark, and tasted the pungent flavor, which gives it its othernames of spice wood and benzoin — making one think of theOrient, and the Old Testament days when caravans wentladen with odoriferous things whereof incense for the templeswas made. It has another name of wild allspice, and is alsoknown as Benjamin-bush. We could not find out the originof this last. Somebody oug
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