Botany; the story of plant life by Wright Julia McNair 1840-1903

Author:Wright, Julia McNair, 1840-1903
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company
Published: 1898-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

mold in jars of preserves that have been kept entirely in the dark. This mold is a vegetable growth.

In the spring one may notice early in the morning a bed of chickory in bloom ; it is of a clear, exquisite blue; by ten o'clock ttue blue will be very pale, by twelve the flowers are white, by one they are all folded up, to open next day as richly blue as ever. The sun plays such tricks on blue cotton cloth. Where it is exposed to the sun the blue vanishes, and when the cloth has been put away in darkness the fled color returns. Other flowers besides chickory grow pale with excess of light, just as some grow pale from darkness. The study of color in the plant world affords opportunity for interesting experiments.

" Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these I" How this rings in our minds when we see the Summer Color Exposition ! Yet June cannot be to us a mere color study in general, for her prodigality of individual blossoms calls us to a closer investigation of particular or peculiar plants.

Bryant calls June "flowery June." Coleridge calls the month "leafy June"—it might also be called fragrant June, for it scorns the natal month of the most fragrant flowers. One may notice sometimes in Scotland, such a rich, almost overwhelming

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