Identifier: birdsnature821900chic (find matches)
Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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nows ? Nell Kimberly McElhotie. 68 TIGER-LILIES. I like not lady-slippers, Nor yet the sweet-pea blossoms, Nor yet the flaky roses, Red, or white as snow;I like the chaliced lilies,The heavy Eastern lilies.The gorgeous tiger-lilies, That in our gardens grow. For they are tall and slender; Their mouths are dashed with carmine; And when the wind sweeps by them, On their emerald stalksThey bend so proud and graceful—They are Circassian women.The favorites of the Sultan, Adown our garden walks! And when the rain is falling, I sit beside the window And watch them glow and glisten, How they burn and glow!O, for the burning lilies,The tender Eastern lilies,The gorgeous tiger-lilies. That in our garden grow! Thomas Bailey Aldrich. FLOWERS IN THE CRANNIED WALL. Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies;Hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower—but if I could understandWhat you are, root and all, and all in all,I should know what God and man is.Alfred Tennyson.
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348 WILD YELLOW OR CANADIAN LILY.iLiliarn Canadense.) FROM NATURES GARDEN. COPYRIGHT 1900, BY OOUeLEDAV, PAGE A COMPAft 71 THE WILD YELLOW LILY. Among our common wild flowers,that quickly attract the attention of theobserver is the Yellow Lily (Lilium cana-dense). Its home is in the swamps, thewet meadows and fields of Canada andthe United States, east of the Missouririver. It is also called the Canada, theField and the Meadow Lily. This plant, with about forty-five sisterspecies—all beautiful, belongs to thegenus Lilium. All are natives of theNorthern Hemisphere and are found dis-tributed around the world. About six-teen species are natives of the UnitedStates. The flowers vary in color. Some are red, others white or yellow and someare more or less mottled. No plants are more frequently men-tioned in Ancient Myths and by the clas-sical poets. Though the white lily(Lilium candidum) was, even before thetime of Homer, known as a gardenflower, yet the earliest descriptions ofthe lilies

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