Identifier: wildflowerswhere00harr (find matches)
Title: Wild flowers and where they grow
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Harris, Amanda Bartlett, 1824- Humphrey, Lizbeth Bullock, b. 1841
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: Boston : D. Lothrop and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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POND LILIES. OVER V THE POND. 5 Grass grew in it as in a field, and blackberry-bushes almostoverran it. It seemed away off; not lonesome, but separatedfrom the common life. And the pond lay sparkling in themidday sun, down half a mile from the road, half rimmedin green woods ; and the cranberry meadow showed ruddy onthe further shore. Everything was worth remembering. The rough side-hillpasture down which weraced and scrambledwas picturesque witlits boulders of
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iWAY IX FItOM TRAVELLED WAYS. gray granite, its scattering trees and patches of fern. At the margin there were beds of maiden hair; and the triumphal cinnamon ferns, 1 which are so like branches of palm, were the very Titans of their race, each separate one four or five feet long. Wonderful reeds, and the flags where cat-tails are, n6 WILD FLOWERS. made a jungle almost tall enough for the cows to get lost inas they went pressing their way through. Down on the little beach of white sand, standing just inthe water, grew the pretty little speckled heads of pipewort,and the, silvery, begonia-like flowers of the floating-heart.Scarlet cardinal-flowers glowed like fire among the shadowsunder the trees at the waters edge; and there were rodsout on the pond which were blue with pickerel-weed over thewhole area, like the deep blue of the noon sky in midwinter.The lilies were all open; one could gather them by the boat-load. Dripping, white, golden-^fZS stemmed, they gave out fragrance asif cen

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