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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ars ago, fromsome cultivated or roadside tree. At the present time, there are many fine examples ofC. speciosa on Bird Haven, planted by me in 1907, and already larger than trees in a groveof C. catalpa on the adjoining farm, which were planted more than twenty years ago. Bird Life in Southern Illinois 413 from a distance, the hills seemed covered with a light snowfall, is yet fresh inour memories. On the lower grounds grow, very thickly in places, blue andwhite violets, purplish white and yellow erythroniums, Dutchmans breeches,bloodroot, and dwarf larkspur, with two wild flags (Iris hexagona and /.versicolor), the fragrant lizards tail, and many other semi-aquatic species inthe wetter spots. On the hills, the most abimdant spring flowers (next to thespring beauty) are the blue phlox (P. divaricata), short-stemmed spiderwort(Tradescantia brevicaulis, decidedly a finer plant than T. virginica, its relativelylarge flower var>ang from intense \aolet to pale mauve, rose-pink, magenta,
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THE MEADOW JUST AFTER MOWING(The creek hidden by trees and shrubs extending across middle distance) rhodamine purple or, occasionally, almost tyrian purple—a range of colorvery unusual among wild plants but a characteristic feature of this); otherplants of more or less striking appearance being the May apple (Podophyllum)Trillium recurvatum, Indian turnip or Jack-in-the-pulpit, and its more con-spicuous (as well as more abundant) relative, the dragon-root (Ariscema dra-contium), and the stately columbo (Erasera carollnensis). In summer there areblack-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia), monardas, and other flowers, and in autumn aconsiderable variety of goldenrods, asters, sunflowers, and other compositae,and, in moister or more shaded spots, the blue lobelia, the cardinal flower, asthe purple-flowered turtle head (Chelone ohliqua). The native flora has, since our ownership of the place, been greatly aug-mented by the planting of many trees, shrubs, and vines, chiefly those of a 414 Bird-Lore s

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