. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. ^ o 1^ LIVE-FOREVER. SEDUM TELEPHIUM. (ORPINE FAMILY.) IVktUphni imtmth antt/leshy: it m etrit, morr or len fiutnckinf, I^i/'v: Ifaivs irsiitr. pMong or tn'Ctf, ohtuif, drntale: inrtoreicencf cymou, deme, terminating the ytem and hnnckttt Jtiiuvis t/iowy, /inrfilr, pelttit fixt in nHmf<er ; stamens ten. /Vrennial. K have no native plant so ncany intiestnictible as garden orpine or live-forever, which our grandmothers nursed and for which they are cursed l)y many a fanner. The fat, tender
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. ^ o 1^ LIVE-FOREVER. SEDUM TELEPHIUM. (ORPINE FAMILY.) IVktUphni imtmth antt/leshy: it m etrit, morr or len fiutnckinf, I^i/'v: Ifaivs irsiitr. pMong or tn'Ctf, ohtuif, drntale: inrtoreicencf cymou, deme, terminating the ytem and hnnckttt Jtiiuvis t/iowy, /inrfilr, pelttit fixt in nHmf<er ; stamens ten. /Vrennial. K have no native plant so ncany intiestnictible as garden orpine or live-forever, which our grandmothers nursed and for which they are cursed l)y many a fanner. The fat, tender, succulent door-yird stripling turned out to l)e a monster that would devour the earth. I have seen acres of meadow-land destroyed by it. The way to drown an amphibious animal is to never allow it to come to the surface to breathe, and this is the way to kill live-forever. It lives by its stalk and leaf, more than by its root, and if cnipned or bruised as soon as it conies to the surlace it will in time perish. It laughs the plough, the hoe, the cultivator to scorn, bui ((razing herds will eventually .scotch ; Mr. Burroughs is writing in an vein unusual to him, when he thus describes the live-forever. It is rare for him to talk of the worst weeds without finding something worthy of admiration to show us. Has this, then, no redeeming trait ? It is, at least, a pretty plant, with its purple flower-clusters. When kept in its projier sphere, it is by no means to be despised. It is a native of Europe and Siberia. With us it flowers in late PIATB as. BRANCHING WOOD-VIOLET, CANADA VIOLET. VIOLA CANADENSIS. (VIOLET FAMILY.) /Is stet. J eiett ot ascentttng from a r<tnlsto,k. bttlnchtng, sometimes tuxi feet high, smooth, leti/v ; teutes htoaillv oitite. cot fate, acute at apex, ci\stset\ dentate-ierrate. the low petiolci. ttie uppeimost atnioit sessile, stipules conspicuous; Jiottrrs on slentler, axillaiy peduncles ; petals white, veined icith blue. ' o
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