Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 109
left the train and came in mydirection, plucking the flowers right and left asshe came. But they were all unknown to her;she did not know the names of one of them,and she wished to send them home to herfather, too. With what satisfaction she heardthe names ; the words seemed to be full of mean-ing… … CARDINAL-FLOWER AND JEWEL-WEED. That orange-colored flower whichyou just plucked from the edge of thewater, that is our jewel-weed. I said. It looks like a jewel, she replied. You have nothing like it in Eng-land, or did not have till lately; but Ihear it is now appearing along certainEnglish…
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