Show A handsome milkweed j travelers to the seacoast Bea coast of douthe southern M I 1 1 new jersey from philadelphia cannot have failed to notice the bright patches of orange colored flowers which so delight the eye as s tho the train it passes asses through the meadows mead aws it Is is the as tu tubo be rosa one of tho milkweed family still and one of tile the most easily transplanted plants there is it has fleshy roots which penetrate to a great depth making it suitable for rather dry places furthermore these roots w when helf broken to pieces form new plants sa so that a largo large number of plants can easily be propagated the common name of this superb wild flower is butterfly weed among the beds beda of flowering plants exhibited at the centennial ex hibi tion was nas brought by a gardener from holland one composed of these plants and it i excited as much attention as any bed there phila delphia press |