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Show A COTANICAL POSER. A ttalatallai liLa.,, re,lll lha Daft T..II, .t,. Nature Imicurlou. an 1 hidden wura IntlioteK-iiabIoa.wcll ai'ln tho aid-uial aid-uial world. Tor Imtnnce, that pretty and wry abundant ipring nowcr of ouri, tho ivldcr-i tonguo or tlog't tooth violet, preienu n problem which I haro not ; been , 0 aol, c, Tlili 1 lint you know, li 1, HI,, nd nil tl(( llII(HS 0 far at I know, hat o a Mb that uti on lop of Ui. grouiuL Tlio onion li a Wr tjW of the 111, n t,i, reaiKTb I llutlwreUalJ, with n bulb deep In M10 -ouii.1 How dora It get thcrol Thai li tho problem. 1 V'l'?" l,"k un MmT xiyitho bulb lidcop In Hit grouml, but olten no uplarmtlon. Sow, It It only the bulbi of tho older or llowcrlmi planli lliat are deep In tho ground. Tho bolln of tho young pUniU nre near I ho ti-p 01 tho groun I. Tlio young plaiitl hato ' but ono leaf, tho older or llowerlngonei haro twa If jou Inf, to In hi tlio wou-IintUiotlitlittlMio In early Aril you may aeo tlm M, coinimelly rollol togtther, aerdng tho luatle.1 cimtlng of dry leaici tlut eoreri tlio ground like aotne iharp jlnteil hulni-ment. hulni-ment. They do not bunt their cover lug or lift It up, but plerco through It hkeannwL Hut how doe tho 11 lilb ret o Jeep Into I lie ground I In digging aoiiio of tbeni up In an ol I meadow bottom 1 bid to elenvo tin tnidi, tlbrotii Hal lo a depth of eight Inchc. bourn rmallir oneawrro only two Inehoi llo llio uirfaeo A frlni.1 of lulno tella 1110 ho hat diwoirred how tlw ihlnglidotie 1 Ibi eltlier lo dbpruvo or clto to con (Inn hUobaenatlmi. TIki Held of natural hblory lull licen w cloaely grMUial, to l.ttlo retnalM to In fouml out aliout tho h.ihtli of Mir familiar liinli mi 1 Uowrn. that an mi-lvti.l mi-lvti.l problem I'ke Hilt li aouielhliig lo bo orbed, ll l n tilt tl.at il.l. graceful tlower Imt no good and ajc proprlato eomtnoii natno. II li the MrtM of tlw tnw lllloa. and It ha all tho gnwo and elianu that la-long to thla onlr of llowrra. llrylliMiilmu, lla bjlanleal name, b 1 ot gl, at It li da-riretl da-riretl from a Ureek wonl that iiumivi nl while one tpwk-a of our llowtr U yelkiw and X'.m oilier li white. I How it caim to tjo CHlled Adder'! tongue I do not knowi mlbly from tho ialted cliameler of lira loaf, uhleh might rojnrea 1 a armkv, though It In no 1 wlao reoniibhw n inako'i tonguo. A fawn b iailled, liai, an.1 "fawn Illy" wuuM bo better than addrr'i PnigiM I Tlio "dug ' tooth" may hnvo been aug-geateil aug-geateil by Hit elintwniid color of tiro bud, but how llio 'vlokfcwiiw to bo A Mod It n purxle, at It luw not ono feat-uro feat-uro of thoiloleL ll la only nnothtr Illuatratlou of tho liaphazanl way hi whloti ceir wild Uowort at well at our b'nli hito bivn iiauml. lu my Miliary ipring rniiibloi t hmo torottluieo cuuio upiHi a aotltary a-et-men of tlda yellow Illy crow tin la-alilo ft llley atono where tlw Itlluhlno fell full upon It, airl liava thought It ono of tho moat lieiutifol of tir wild lion era. lti taoleatet italel liphko ft fiwu'a ran, and thlt feature, with lti rccurted lab, aliei It an alert, wklo awako look. Tlio wbltoiprclotl Inn never ecu. John lluiroiclu In St. Miliolat. |