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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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years 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 abundant 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 varying from intense violet 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 (Arisama dra-contium), and the stately columbo (Erasera carolinensis). In summer there areblack-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia), monardas, and other flowers, and in autmnn 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

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