They grow on the side of the stem toward the north.

Each of the leaves appears to be covered with little crystals of snow.

The flower, when it opens, is star-shaped, its petals being of the same length as the leaves, and about half an inch in width.

On the third day the extremities of the anthers show minute glistening specks, like diamonds, which are the seeds of this wonderful flower.
Is not this strange snow-flower an illustration of many Christian lives?
God seems to plant them in the ice and snow; yet they live and grow up out of the wintry cold into fair and wondrous beauty.

We should say that the loveliest lives of earth would be those that are reared amid the gentlest, kindliest influences, under summer skies, in the warm atmosphere of ease and comfort.