. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . 64 SHARP EYES sleeve, as we have brought away its flowers from thewoods, while we left its rarest and most importantbloom behind us. For the little polygala found out long ago that somemeans must be adopted to keep its foothold in thewoods, so many were the eager hands that culled it ev-ery year. And so it formed a little plan to anchor itselfin its home beyond the reach of bouquet hunters, offer-ing one posy for the boutonniere, and another for moth-er earth—one playful flower for the world, another fors
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . 64 SHARP EYES sleeve, as we have brought away its flowers from thewoods, while we left its rarest and most importantbloom behind us. For the little polygala found out long ago that somemeans must be adopted to keep its foothold in thewoods, so many were the eager hands that culled it ev-ery year. And so it formed a little plan to anchor itselfin its home beyond the reach of bouquet hunters, offer-ing one posy for the boutonniere, and another for moth-er earth—one playful flower for the world, another forserious use and posterity. But for this cunning resourceI fear our pretty fringed polygala would have been ex-terminated in many of its haunts. Let us lose no timeto seek the purple broods in the woods, and gracefullyacknowledge our humility. These pale, pouch-like un-derground flowers are not beautiful to look at, but theyplant the mould with seeds every year, and thus per-petuate the purple beds of bloom. ws^-. THEGINSENGS SECRET ..: May 26th OW safely buried is the treasureof the small ginseng, that pret-ty little wild plant, with itsfeathery ball of bloom and cir-cle of attendant leaves. Itcarpets many a mossy nook in theopen wood or swamps, its clustersof fragrant white pomponsj^;. often intermingled withthe purple blooms of thefringed poly gala just de-scribed. ^ The ground-nut it is plain- ly called in all our botanies; butI have known an eighty-year-old countryman who hadpicked the blossom in his childhood and had knownthe plant all his life, and its name, too, and yet hadnever suspected why it was called ground-nut. I 9
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