The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-07-22
What To Do This Summer.

H'N'J '"o VI JVu Gun HhNc sOIlclOW-
ers in summer
Even II You are in a city, with no
garden, you can plant few seeds in
box and set it in the window.
When you 90 out TO walk, you can
find a few daisies and clover, if moth
ing else, a little way out of town, and
when you spend day in the country,
you can bring in great handfuls Of
them.
A book Of pressed flowers is a pleas
ant thing to have.
have seen one that was made more
than fifty years ago, and some of the
flowers in it are still quite fresh.
They were brought from famous places
across the sea, but you will enjoy yours
when you grow old, just as much as if
you had gathered them in England or
Scotland.
II you are in the country even a little
way out OF town, you will find plenty Of
wild and field flowers.
First, don't forget clover, pink, white
and yellow, and if you have it in the
garden or can find il where it has sown
itself and grown wild, the tall meliIot. or
sweet clover that will scent your book
for years.
Daisies are easy TO press, if you take
a little pains in nattenng them so that
they will lie open, with the white rays
all around the yellow centre.
The mullen, with its high stalk, yell
low flowers, and queer, thick gray
leaves, which make English gardeners
raise it in their gardens and call it the
American velvet-leaf, is one of the best
plants for you.
Another good one is the sumach, with
its dark-rcd velvety berries, that pucker
your mouth little when you taste them,
and are good for sore throat OF course
you need only few leaves at the end
of IA branch
You may find if you look in the open
fields, the large red lily that opens at
the top Of straight, stiff stem, and in
the meadows the yellow ones that droop
and nod, three or four at a time, from
a tall stalk. They like to grow near
the white, feathery meadow-rue, and if
| were you, | would put some of that on
the next leaf
BY the side Of old stone walls you will
find both the pink and white bareback
or spirwe, which is prettier name, and
you will not have TO 20 far before you
see at least one Of the yellow flowers
that seem full of summer sunshine
You know golden-rod, don't you,
with its great sprays of tiny flowers?
At first, it all seems alike to you, but
before long, you begin to see that some
plants are taller than others, and some
flowers larger but even then you will
hardly believe me when | tell YOU that
there are nearly forty kinds in this coun-
try, and that you can easily find II or
Is here in New England.
Then ST. Johns wort, not SO tall, but
with larger blossoms; and tansy, whose
flowers are also bright yellow, and var
row, with its fine white bloom and lace
like leaves, are all common in July and
August.
Perhaps some day you will find bright
red cardinal-howers growing near a
brook, and will press them with their
leaves, even though they will not keep
their color very well.
Then you will see in the meaSows
orange-coored flowers, with shiny
dark-brown centres, and hard name
rudbeckia.
White clematis will be running over
the fences, and if you wait until the
blossoms have fallen, and pick the silky
seed-vessels, they will grow gray and
feathery, and you can make pretty
wreaths of them to hang in the house.
The tall milkweeds, that butterflies
love, are in bloom in vacation-time.-
You will find them by the roadside,
some with purplish-pink blossoms, once
in n while red ones, and if YOU live
farther west than New England, you
will see them with bright orange flow
ers.
Watch them when the great seed-ves-
sells burst, and you will find some of the
prettiest winged seeds in the world, that
you can keep all winter if the wind does
not blow on them, or for years under
glass case, - YOUTHS Companion.