WILD FLOWERS [240]
shares the name can boast, the cardinal flower proclaims its title to all beholders. Because its vivid beauty cannot be hid, and few withstand the temptation to pick it, its extermination goes on as rapidly as its bird namesake's.
"Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood rose and left it on its stalk?"
The easy cultivation from seed of this peerless wildflower - and it is offered in many trade catalogues - might save it to those regions in Nature's wide garden that now know it no more. The ranks of floral missionaries need recruits.
Curious that the great blue lobelia should be the cardinal flower's twin sister! Why this difference of color? Sir John Lubbock proved by tireless experiment that the bees' favorite color is blue, and the shorter-tubed blue lobelia elected to woo them as her benefactors. Whoever has made a study of the ruby-throated hummingbird's habits must have noticed how red flowers entice him - columbines, painted cups, coral honeysuckle, Oswego tea, trumpet flower, and cardinal in Nature's garden; cannas, salvia, gladioli, pelargoniums, fuchsias, phloxes, verbenas, and nasturtiums among others in ours. How the cardinal flower's wonderful mechanism works to utilize his visits has already been told under great lobelia, in the description of the blue lobelia of similar construction. But with a bird so much greater than the ruby-throat that the jeweled-feathered atom could be concealed under one of its talons is the red lobelia forever associated:
"The cardinal, and the blood-red spots, Its double in the stream As if some wounded eagle's breast, Slow throbbing o'er the plain, Had left its airy path impressed In drops of scarlet rain."
A P P E N D I C E S
FRAGRANT FLOWERS OR LEAVES.
Baby's Breath. Large Purple-fringed Orchis. Smaller Purple-fringed Orchis. Hepatica (occasionally). Purple Marsh Clematis. English Violet. Wild Phlox. Catnip. Pennyroyal. Wild Thyme. Peppermint. Spear Mint. Wild Mint. Pasture Thistle. Pink Moccasin Flower. Showy Orchis. Rose Pogonia. Arethusa. Calopogon. Night-flowering Catchfly. Bouncing Bet. Purple-flowering Raspberry. Queen-of-the-Prairie. Wild Rose. Red Clover. Musk Mallow. Prince's Pine. Bog Wintergreen. Pink Azalea. White Azalea. Trailing Arbutus. Sabbatia. Fly-trap Dogbane. Four-leaved Milkweed. Field Bindweed. Wild Bergamot. Twin-flower. Joe-Pye Weed (slightly). Wild Spikenard (slightly). White-fringed Orchis. Ladies' Tresses. Lizard's Tail. Bladder Campion. White Water Lily. Laurel Magnolia. Squirrel Corn. White Sweet Clover. Wild Grape. Sweet White Violet. Canada Violet. Sweet-Cicely. Sweet Pepperbush. Pyrola. Shin-leaf. Wintergreen. Button-bush. Partridge Vine. Elder. Clammy Everlasting. Bellwort. Adders Tongue. Small Yellow Lady's Slipper. Spice-bush. Yellow Sweet Clover. Yellow Wood-sorrel. Evening Primrose. Horse-balm. Horned Bladderwort. Honeysuckles. Fragrant Goldenrod. Ground-nut. Pine Sap. Oswego Tea.
UNPLEASANTLY SCENTED
Purple Trillium. Black Cohosh. Mandrake. Jamestown Weed. Salt-marsh Fleabane. Camomile. Carrion-flower. Barberry. Skunk Cabbage. Hound's Tongue. Beech-drops.
PLANTS AND SHRUBS CONSPICUOUS IN FRUIT
RED AND REDDISH: Nightshade. Twisted-stalk. American Cranberry. Marsh Calla. Wild Spikenard (pale red speckled berries). Two-leaved Solomon's Seal (pale red speckled). Wake-robins. Red Baneberry. Red Raspberry. Strawberries. Red Choke-berry. June-berry. Shad-bush. Hawthorns. Harmless Sumacs. Hollies. Bittersweet. Winterberry (Black Alder). American Spikenard. Flowering Dogwood. Dwarf Cornel or Bunebberry. Wintergreen. Red Bearberry. Partridge Vine. Hobble-bush. Red-berried Elder. High Bush Cranberry. Barberry. Spice-bush. Ground Cherry. Wild Honeysuckies. Jack-in-the-Pulpit.
BLUISH AND BLACK: Deadly Nightshade. Star-flowered Solomon's Seal. True Solomon's Seal. Large-flowered Wake-robin. Black Raspberry. Bush Blackberry. Dewberry. Black Choke-berry. Wild Grapes. Virginia Creeper. Cornels. Pokeweed. Huckleberry. Blueberries. Elder.
"Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood rose and left it on its stalk?"
The easy cultivation from seed of this peerless wildflower - and it is offered in many trade catalogues - might save it to those regions in Nature's wide garden that now know it no more. The ranks of floral missionaries need recruits.
Curious that the great blue lobelia should be the cardinal flower's twin sister! Why this difference of color? Sir John Lubbock proved by tireless experiment that the bees' favorite color is blue, and the shorter-tubed blue lobelia elected to woo them as her benefactors. Whoever has made a study of the ruby-throated hummingbird's habits must have noticed how red flowers entice him - columbines, painted cups, coral honeysuckle, Oswego tea, trumpet flower, and cardinal in Nature's garden; cannas, salvia, gladioli, pelargoniums, fuchsias, phloxes, verbenas, and nasturtiums among others in ours. How the cardinal flower's wonderful mechanism works to utilize his visits has already been told under great lobelia, in the description of the blue lobelia of similar construction. But with a bird so much greater than the ruby-throat that the jeweled-feathered atom could be concealed under one of its talons is the red lobelia forever associated:
"The cardinal, and the blood-red spots, Its double in the stream As if some wounded eagle's breast, Slow throbbing o'er the plain, Had left its airy path impressed In drops of scarlet rain."
A P P E N D I C E S
FRAGRANT FLOWERS OR LEAVES.
Baby's Breath. Large Purple-fringed Orchis. Smaller Purple-fringed Orchis. Hepatica (occasionally). Purple Marsh Clematis. English Violet. Wild Phlox. Catnip. Pennyroyal. Wild Thyme. Peppermint. Spear Mint. Wild Mint. Pasture Thistle. Pink Moccasin Flower. Showy Orchis. Rose Pogonia. Arethusa. Calopogon. Night-flowering Catchfly. Bouncing Bet. Purple-flowering Raspberry. Queen-of-the-Prairie. Wild Rose. Red Clover. Musk Mallow. Prince's Pine. Bog Wintergreen. Pink Azalea. White Azalea. Trailing Arbutus. Sabbatia. Fly-trap Dogbane. Four-leaved Milkweed. Field Bindweed. Wild Bergamot. Twin-flower. Joe-Pye Weed (slightly). Wild Spikenard (slightly). White-fringed Orchis. Ladies' Tresses. Lizard's Tail. Bladder Campion. White Water Lily. Laurel Magnolia. Squirrel Corn. White Sweet Clover. Wild Grape. Sweet White Violet. Canada Violet. Sweet-Cicely. Sweet Pepperbush. Pyrola. Shin-leaf. Wintergreen. Button-bush. Partridge Vine. Elder. Clammy Everlasting. Bellwort. Adders Tongue. Small Yellow Lady's Slipper. Spice-bush. Yellow Sweet Clover. Yellow Wood-sorrel. Evening Primrose. Horse-balm. Horned Bladderwort. Honeysuckles. Fragrant Goldenrod. Ground-nut. Pine Sap. Oswego Tea.
UNPLEASANTLY SCENTED
Purple Trillium. Black Cohosh. Mandrake. Jamestown Weed. Salt-marsh Fleabane. Camomile. Carrion-flower. Barberry. Skunk Cabbage. Hound's Tongue. Beech-drops.
PLANTS AND SHRUBS CONSPICUOUS IN FRUIT
RED AND REDDISH: Nightshade. Twisted-stalk. American Cranberry. Marsh Calla. Wild Spikenard (pale red speckled berries). Two-leaved Solomon's Seal (pale red speckled). Wake-robins. Red Baneberry. Red Raspberry. Strawberries. Red Choke-berry. June-berry. Shad-bush. Hawthorns. Harmless Sumacs. Hollies. Bittersweet. Winterberry (Black Alder). American Spikenard. Flowering Dogwood. Dwarf Cornel or Bunebberry. Wintergreen. Red Bearberry. Partridge Vine. Hobble-bush. Red-berried Elder. High Bush Cranberry. Barberry. Spice-bush. Ground Cherry. Wild Honeysuckies. Jack-in-the-Pulpit.
BLUISH AND BLACK: Deadly Nightshade. Star-flowered Solomon's Seal. True Solomon's Seal. Large-flowered Wake-robin. Black Raspberry. Bush Blackberry. Dewberry. Black Choke-berry. Wild Grapes. Virginia Creeper. Cornels. Pokeweed. Huckleberry. Blueberries. Elder.