Newark post., 1911-04-19

l HIS naDlt OF Closing III tlLC ohdu~ -
common to many flowers, and should
be remembered by those who bring
home their treasures from the WOODS
ana fields, only 30 discard the MAJOR
ity as hopeles,ly wilted II any such
exhausted blossoms are paced III the
sunlight, with their stems in fresh
water, they will probably regain their
yigor. Should this treatment iall, an
application OF very hot-almost boil
jng water-shoud be tried. This
heroic measure often meets with suc-
cess
LIVERWORT. LIVERLEAF, OR
HEPATICA
These lragiIe- looking, enamel-llke
flowers are sometimes found actually
beneath the snow, and form one of the
many instances which we encounter
among flowers, as among their human
contemporaries, where the frail and
delicate looking withstand storm and
stress far better than their more ro-
bust-appe earing brethren. We wei
come these tiny newcomers with es-
pecial JOY, not alone for their delicate
| beauty, but because they are usually
the first OF all the flowers upon the
scene OF action. If we rule out the
never-tardy skunk cabbage. The
rusty leaves OF last summer are OBJ
liged to suffice for the plants foliage
until some lite time after the bios
SONS have appeared, when the fresh
young leaves bgin to uncurl thn-
| selves"
These leaves a:er. to many, form
I the beautiful part OF the plant. They
are beautifully colored, the under-sde
being deep shade OF red.
The flowers vary in color from a
lovely blue to pink or white. They are
found chiefly in the woods, but occas-
ionally on the sunny hillside as well
COMMON BLUE VIOLET.
perhaps this is the best-belovec
as well as the best known OF the early
wild flowers. Whose heart has not
been g'addened al one time or another
by glimpse ot some fresh green nook
in early May where 49,. purple violets
lurk. With ali the lovely children o
the shade?
1t seems as if no other flower were
so suggestive Of the dawning year, st
| associated with The days when Iii,
4 was rull OF promise. Although be
| lieye that more than hundred spec
5 les of violets have been recorded. on!.
I about thirty are found in our coun
Try; OF these perhaps twenty are ma
' tive to the Northern States. Unfur
tunately we have no strongly sweet
t scented species. Prophets and war
riors as well as poets have favore'
| "a yin OF. al tn a
other flowers, and it was chosen b
the Bonapartes as their emblem
DOG TOOTH VIOLET, OR VEL
LOW ADDERS TONGUE"
One wide awake urchin has alread
found a dog-tooth violet (somctime
called yellow lily.)
When we go to hunt for this howe
we direct our steps toward one {
those hol'ows in the wood which
watered by such a clear gurgin
brook as must appeal to every cour
try-loving heart; and there where tn
pale April sunlight filters through tn
y leatiess branches nod myraids OF thes
h lilies, each one guarded by pair
mOttled, erect, Sentinel-!ike leaves.
d The two English names OF this plai
d are unsatisfactory and inappropriate
g l. the marking OF its leaves resemble
/ the skin OF al adder why name it aftt
its tongue: And there is equally i
W lie reason for calling lily vole
v Mr.. Burroughs has suggested tv
" pretty and significant names. 'Fav
lily he thinks would be appropriat
" because fawn is also mottled ar
L because the two leaves stand up wi
m the alert, startled look o. fawr
v ears. The speckled io'iage and pc
D haps is Towering season are inc
Gated in the title trout-lily which h;
$ spring-like flavor, not without
Id charn. 1t is said that the early Sc
" tiers of Pennsylvania named the flow
rs yellow snowdrop' in memory OF the