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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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A FUNNY-LOOKING PLANT Fig. 4.—These have prickly, very thick. paJdle- shaped joints, with sharp, needle-like points scatterea over them. It is a true cactus, and the only one found in the Eastern States. The joints correspond to the stems of other plants, and the spines to the leaves. In the summer it has handsome yellow riowers on it. TWO ONIONS? NO Fig. 5.—Some boys might think that we have two onions here; but they will have to guess again. Really, it is a couple of Grape Hyacinths, and some people call it Baby's Breath, because it smells so sweet! It« flowers look like a little bunch of pur pie grapes. that does not matter, for they are to be found over nearly all the eastern parts of the United States, and some of them far to the westward. If you have been scouting lately, that is, during this month, down through the wet places in the meadows, where it is a little shady, or along some of the streams, you may have noticed flowers having the form of the one here shown in Figure 1. They are usuallj of a very red color, and you can see them at quite a distance, for the straight stems that bear them may be nearly five feet high, and the flowers well above the tall grass where they grow. Sometimes you will find this bright red Cardinal flower, or Red Lo- belia, as it is sometimes called, growing all by itself in some shady place in the middle of a swamp or marsh. You must not pick any more of these than you can help, as there are not many of them left: for, for many years, their lovely red color has attracted all beholders, and they ^^^^^ Th^y'l^ ou? T^ :ari7in"?h: have been gathered so mercilessly that now, in our time, they are hard spring, but may last weii into the fail. Sometimes ^ ^ . hundreds of them grow in the meadow, and not to find, as nearly all are gone. Indeed, this should <rnide you with re- very far apart, so you cannot mistake them. THIS IL\S A PECULIAR NAME Fig. 6.—Sometimes, down in the muist places, but more often in the woods or in sandy soil, you will find this curious-look- ing plant, with its yellow flowers. It is the Four-leaved Loosestrife; but where the leaves start there may be as many as six leaves, as in the picture, just below the Dragon-fly.
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THE CORN MUSTARD PLANT

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